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In early 1982, the Lisa software team aimed to measure engineer progress through lines of code. Bill Atkinson, the main implementer, disagreed with this metric, believing in writing efficient code over quantity. He optimized Quickdraw, making it six times faster and saving 2,000 lines of code. When asked to report his lines of code, he […]
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FXYT is a tiny canvas colouring language with 36 simple stack-based commands. By evaluating input code for each cell of a 256×256 canvas, FXYT determines the color of each cell. Inspired by Martin Kleppe’s Tixy project, FXYT offers its own language and a larger canvas size. Users can experiment by writing their own code, with […]
In his book, ‘Feel-Good Productivity,’ Ali Abdaal explores the idea that mind-wandering and doing nothing can actually result in increased productivity. He discusses the power of the brain’s default mode network, which activates during moments of mindless recharging. Abdaal suggests actively scheduling time for ‘nothingness’ in our lives to allow for creative solutions to emerge. […]
Zhang Chunyuan came from a rural background and joined the Chinese Communist Party in search of a better life. Disillusioned by the lack of resources and poor teaching at Lanzhou University, he became a key figure in a group of exiled students in Tianshui. They created a journal called Spark, aiming to challenge the oppressive […]
Bertie is a minimal, high-assurance implementation of TLS 1.3 written in a subset of Rust called hacspec. It is purely functional, verification-friendly, and designed to be succinct and minimal. Authored by Karthikeyan Bhargavan, Bertie is not yet ready for public use but offers an example HTTPS client and server for testing purposes. Working on Bertie […]
Discover a world of feeds with feedle! This innovative platform offers a better way to send money, a search engine for blogs and podcasts, and the ability to subscribe to RSS feeds for each search. Find new content creators based on your interests, all from one convenient feed. Plus, feedle is looking for friends – […]
Introduction Pack is a cutting-edge container format focused on safety, speed, and reliability for the future. It aims to revolutionize data packing with enhanced features like random access, improved security, and a seamless user experience. While traditional solutions like Zip and gzip have been around for decades, Pack offers significant improvements in performance and efficiency. […]
Approximately 7,000 years ago, advanced seafaring technology was utilized in the Mediterranean Sea, as evidenced by canoes found at the Neolithic lakeshore village of La Marmotta near Rome, Italy. Excavated by Juan F. Gibaja and colleagues, these canoes date back to 5700-5100 BC and are built from four types of wood, showcasing sophisticated construction techniques […]
Fundamentals magick.css is a magical and minimalistic CSS framework inspired by wizardly notes and old-school TTRPG rulebooks. The framework aims for an elegant yet whimsical look, designed for easy use and maximum readability across all devices without JavaScript. Users can easily add magick.css to their projects through CDNs or by downloading the file. The framework […]
The transformative DenseFormer modification to the standard transformer architecture proposed by Vaswani et al. in 2017 improves model perplexity without increased size, only requiring the addition of a few thousand parameters for large-scale models. The Depth-Weighted-Average (DWA) operation, which computes a weighted average of current and past representations after each transformer block, leads to a […]