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Linus Akesson released the small C64 demo, Nine, at Fjälldata 2025. He is working on a video to explain how it works, but if you can’t wait, you can download the C64 executable or MP3 files for yourself. He also warns users about reporting abuse in the forums and not to feed the trolls. The […]
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The author recounts his five-year journey of developing a minimalist music composition app. Initially struggling with heavy DAW software, he delves into lightweight MIDI sequencers, starting with CoffeeScript and React, eventually transitioning to Riot.js and then ES6. Through multiple tech stack evolutions, including TypeScript and styled-components, the app finally launches in 2021, gaining traction on […]
Zig is a new language with big ambitions aiming to be simpler and safer than most languages, even Rust. It boasts features like arbitrary-sized integers, packed structs, and generic types as functions at the type level. The error handling system with Error Union Types is both loved and disliked, offering global error types but lacking […]
The author delves into the world of Byte Queue Limits (BQL), an ancient yet still relevant technology dating back to 2011. BQL is a feature in the Linux kernel that addresses the problem of bufferbloat, causing delays in sending high priority packets on the Internet. By adjusting the device queue limit dynamically based on real-time […]
Internally at Modal, the team decided to experiment with open-source large language models to see if they could streamline their communication on Slack. By fine-tuning a model on Slack messages, they created @erik-bot, which quickly became an invaluable asset offering advice on various topics. Due to the overwhelming success of @erik-bot, they decided to release […]
The post delves into how mobile push notifications contribute to centralization within decentralized services and offers ways to circumvent this issue, even in mainstream scenarios. Addressing Android apps, the discussion includes various decentralized applications like emails, Mastodon, Nextcloud, Git servers, and more. It reviews how developers often opt for Firebase Cloud Messaging (FCM) by Google […]
Vanguard Group made history by significantly reducing fees for many of its mutual funds and ETFs, which is expected to disrupt the asset management sector. Founded by Jack Bogle, the investment company is cutting costs for 168 share classes in 87 funds and ETFs without delay. This move has brought Vanguard’s average asset-weighted fee down […]
Marijn Haverbe’s JS1K winning entry is a JavaScript platform game in 1024 bytes. The game involves collecting coins and avoiding purple grass. Haverbe presented the game at the Berlin JS user group, highlighting the challenges and fun of programming in limited memory constraints. The clever coding techniques used include abbreviation of canvas context methods and […]
In the South Moravian region of the Czech Republic lies the Dolní Vĕstonice archaeological site, where a unique and surprising find was made in the 1920s – the Dolní Vĕstonice Portrait Head. This small sculpture carved out of mammoth ivory is believed to be the oldest surviving portrait in the world, dating back to around […]
In their paper “Radiant Foam: Real-Time Differentiable Ray Tracing,” Govindarajan, Rebain, Yi, and Tagliasacchi propose a novel scene representation called Radiant Foam that combines efficiency and reconstruction quality. By leveraging a decades-old volumetric mesh ray tracing algorithm based on the Voronoi diagram, the model achieves rendering speeds comparable to Gaussian splatting without the constraints of […]