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Monday November 18, 2024. 10:00 AM
“Nobody cares if you contribute.” That’s what a Postgres friend said to me during lunch at KubeCon when I suggested that hiring Postgres contributors could be a selling point for customers. His comment surprised me because for years I’ve believed the open source...
As much as we love them, programming languages can often feel like straitjackets. They’re a complex bundle of syntactic rules, and if we break them—even once—the compiler starts screaming out error messages. There are conventions to define every little thing, such as...
In the last decade, every web application developer has become an API designer. But most organizations do not think of developers as API designers, nor do they think about APIs as a product of design — to the detriment of their developers’ productivity. With the rise of...
Fermyon has released Spin 3.0, a major update to its open source developer tool for building serverless WebAssembly applications. The new release introduces polyglot programming to ease development. The update to Fermyon’s Spin framework was introduced November 11....
For fans of debloating Windows, Tiny11 has been a godsend. The free utility has made it possible to debloat Windows 11 and shrink the installation footprint of the operating system far beyond what many people thought possible. Now there is a new version of the decrapifier...
Linus Torvalds has officially released Linux 6.12, confirming that the last week of development went as planned, allowing the project to stick to its typical release schedule. Torvalds mentioned that the merge window for the next development phase is opening, and he...
TL;DR: Sobero can help make sobriety fun, and a lifetime subscription is only $59.99 (reg. $149). Holidays are tricky when you're trying to skip the booze. Between the holiday parties, family gatherings, and toasts all around, it can feel like everyone's celebrating with a...
While the relationship between election results and adult site traffic may seem unrelated at first glance, the data from Pornhub’s 2024 Election Day statistics does provide an interesting lens through which to theorize voter behavior. Could these traffic patterns offer...
Sunday November 17, 2024. 11:33 PM
Linus has released the 6.12 kernel. 'No strange surprises this last week, so we're sticking to the regular release schedule, and that obviously means that the merge window opens tomorrow.'. Headline features in this release include: support for the Arm permission overlay...
Every night, something knocks over my trash cans. I don't know if it's a raccoon, a weird neighbor, or some sort of Bigfoot situation, but I'm going to find out. Here's how. These Mini Digital Night Vision Binoculars are my new favorite nighttime surveillance system. — Read t...
TL;DR: If you need a computer that can keep up, this Lenovo IdeaPad 5i with 16GB RAM is just $579.99 (reg. $1,069). I'm the type of person who has, at any given moment, at least 20 Google Chrome tabs open. Don't judge me—each one is important, okay? — Read the rest The...
Happy birthday, Half-Life 2! While a remaster was announced yesterday, the 20th anniversary celebrations for one of the benchmarks of PC gaming are evidently far from over. Hours ago, Valve revealed their birthday gift for Half-Life 2: the 20th Anniversary Update, which...
The 6.11.9, 6.6.62, 6.1.118, 5.15.173, 5.10.230, 5.4.286, and 4.19.324 stable kernels have all been released; each contains another set of important fixes.
The OpenWrt router-oriented distribution has long used its own opkg package manager. The project has just announced, though, that future releases will use the apk package manager from Alpine Linux instead. 'This new package manager offers a number of advantages over the...
A few weeks ago I linked to a story by Misty De Meo, in which they explored what happened to the various eccentric Japanese PC platforms. One of the platforms mentioned was FM Towns, made by Fujitsu, which came with its own graphical operating system from the era of Windows...
This option is for users that want to create a Windows 11 on Arm virtual machine on supported hardware using an ISO file or to install Windows 11 on Arm directly without a DVD or USB flash drive. The ISO file can also be used to manually create bootable installation media...
Saturday November 16, 2024. 11:00 PM
TL;DR: The Kinhank Super Console X2 Pro Retro Gaming Emulator and Streaming Console and delivers 70,000+ retro games for $99.99 and ships free. Just plug it in, pick a classic, and play. Looking for the perfect gift for the gamer in your life who still talks about the 'good...
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TL;DR: Head to checkout now to save 30% on this retro-inspired transparent power bank with 20,000mAh capacity. Is time travel real? One self-proclaimed 'tech whiz kid' seems to think so. Our thoughts? It's possible…but more likely, the kid's obsessed with '90s nostalgia,...
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