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This article talks about either the insignificant (startup time, syntax), the fairly straightforward to fix (FFI, documentation), or both (printf performance). The title of the page implies that these…

Sorry, replying to you while responding to the parent because their post is already flagged. Annatar, both the Rust compiler and ripgrep are available as packages in pkgsrc. The number of hoops one ne…

Illumos is also a supported platform (SPARC and x86-64).

And all of them are Zalando. =)

One of the points brought up about the changes being made to content blocking in Chrome is that it was an engine change. So no, switching to Edge or Opera or whatever might not do anything to help. I&…

Logging in to Google Groups has been mandatory forever if you had logged in to a Google account before in that browser. If there are no traces of past login sessions (such as when using Incognito mo…

Since we're sharing anecdotes... I also have a gmail address with a fairly common name. 1) I've received a bunch of Fw: emails from an Australian person over the years that I ignored as spam…

In a perfect world "maintaining discipline" is indeed the correct solution, but my experience tells me that humans cannot be relied upon to do that. Some individual humans can, but not the c…

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nothing_Compares_2_U

I'm pretty sure Jeremy Ashkenas has commented before on how he's satisfied with the role CoffeeScript ended up playing. Don't know if there are full-fledged articles on the topic, and I…

To be fair to CoffeeScript, it introduced and popularized features that eventually made it to the EcmaScript standard. You could make a case for it being the kick that started the wave of improvements…

Same, except I favor the Atom protocol because from previous research (performed a long time ago, to be fair) it was strictly an improvement over RSS in every regard. There is a highly-rated extension…

Casey did mention that Fabian and cbloom know the math behind this and might elaborate on the topic on their own blogs later.

Please note that this guide mostly deals with optimizing for network transfer size. As is almost always the case with optimization, there are multiple axes you should be aware of. In this case, a lot …

The source code is available on GitHub: https://github.com/generative-music/generative.fm …

For pure typing latency, here's a fairly rigorous one from three years ago: https://pavelfatin.com/typing-with-pleasure/ It doesn't include VS Code, but it does describ…

For exactly this reason browsers don’t send a Referer header when an HTTP request is made from an HTTPS page. (Nor for any kind of request made from a local file.)