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Bel is a new LISP-style programming language from Y Combinator founder Paul Graham
Paul Graham is perhaps best known for two things: co-founding Y Combinator, and his tireless advocacy of LISP programming languages. And on Saturday, the legendary investor and essayist released his own LISP dialect, called Bel. дальше »
2019-10-14 12:27
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Free software icon Richard Stallman has some moronic thoughts about pedophilia
The world of academia is in turmoil over the shock discovery that disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein funded several several prestigious science and technology research labs, including MIT’s Media Lab, long after his 2008 conviction for sex crimes involving children. дальше »
2019-9-14 00:22
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Developer forks GIMP image editor over naughty name
One of the world’s biggest photo editors, GIMP, suffers from an image problem (pun absolutely intended). It’s an undeniably sophisticated piece of software, and since 1995 has served millions as a free alternative to Adobe’s photoshop. дальше »
2019-8-29 01:33
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Cloudflare’s Magic Transit lets you push your entire IP traffic through its servers
Cloudflare today announced the launch of its latest network security product, called Magic Transit. This service allows organizations to send their entire network traffic through Cloudflare’s secure and performance-optimized network, offering protections against DDoS attacks, while simultaneously boosting speeds. дальше »
2019-8-13 15:59
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RIP Fernando
Last Friday, legendary MIT computer scientist Fernando development of the Computer Time-Sharing System (CTSS), which is regarded as one of the world’s first operating systems. This allowed multiple people to use a computer at the same time, accelerating the pace in which programmers worked. дальше »
2019-7-13 19:20
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Cloudflare acquired an old Sun Microsystems slogan and I’m feeling nostalgic
Sun Microsystem is a name seldom uttered in 2019. That’s a damned shame, because if it wasn’t for this hugely influential firm, the Internet would be a completely different place. Suffice to say, we owe it a tremendous debt. дальше »
2019-7-11 18:17
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Inside Shopify’s brave API gamble
A platform-as-a-service company is only as good as its APIs, and Shopify has dozens of them. These expose a specific part of the Shopify’s product to third-party developers, who can then incorporate them into their own applications. дальше »
2019-6-26 23:54
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Cloudflare’s new open-source project helps anyone obtain truly random numbers
Randomness sits at the heart of everything we do online. Many encryption algorithms depend upon randomly generated numbers to work, and that’s just one example of many. But how random is random? It’s a fair question. дальше »
2019-6-17 15:59
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This site makes it ridiculously easy to experiment with Apache Kafka
Apache Kafka is a fascinating product that solves a problem that almost nobody has. If the Internet is a series of tubes (RIP Ted Stevens), Apache Kafka is the pipe that connects high-volume applications with their external components, like databases and third-party services. дальше »
2019-6-13 22:57
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Why does macOS Catalina use Zsh instead of Bash? Licensing
Yesterday, at its WWDC developer conference, Apple unveiled the latest version of the MacOS operating system. Codenamed Catalina, it’s a fairly significant update for the platform, not least because of the changes that have taken place under the hood. дальше »
2019-6-4 16:19
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SwiftUI is an expressive UI framework for iOS, MacOS, and more
Apple launched its Swift programming language almost five years ago. It was designed to supplant Objective-C with something that’s powerful, expressive, and crucially, as easy for beginners to grasp as Python. дальше »
2019-6-4 22:48
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Facebook is so insanely big, it had to design a brand new DHCP server
You can tell a lot about the direction of a company by looking at its tech stack. A great example of this comes from Facebook, which today announced the creation of a brand new open-source DHCP server, as it had outgrown the existing products. дальше »
2019-5-28 17:21
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Here’s why I’m genuinely excited about GitHub’s new package registry
Fridays are frequently used by companies to bury bad news. By announcing dismal sales figures and privacy SNAFUs when everyone has left the newsroom (either in body or in mind), they can avoid the attention and scrutiny they’d otherwise get on literally any other day of the working week. дальше »
2019-5-13 11:49
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Windows 10 gets a legit Linux kernel and a souped-up terminal app
Aeons ago, a sweat-drenched Steve Ballmer took to the stage of a Windows 2000 conference and, with the hypnotic repetition of a Gregorian monk on acid, chanted “Developers, developers, developers. дальше »
2019-5-7 03:49
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Stack Overflow survey shows DevOps engineers are really, really content
Stack Overflow today released the results of its 2019 Developer Survey. The report highlights trends across a sample of 90,000 developers, located around the world, and focuses on a variety of subjects, including education, job satisfaction, and preferred technological stack. дальше »
2019-4-9 16:20
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MIT created a new algorithm that’s really, really good at counting
Imagine. You spend your formative high school years with your nose in a weighty textbook, at the same time avoiding parties and dating. Then, clutching a 4. 0 GPA, you head to a top-tier university to study Computer Science. дальше »
2019-4-1 18:44
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HackerRank report shows Gen-Z women are ready for the tech workplace
HackerRank today published its 2019 Women In Tech Report, which looks at developer trends across a sample of 12,000 female developers. The report paints an encouraging picture. It highlights that women developers belonging to the so-called Generation Z group possess the skills employers desperately require. дальше »
2019-3-26 16:12
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GitLab now automatically warns against merging API keys into your codebase
GitLab, the hugely popular devops platform, today announced the introduction of secrets detection with version 11. 9 of the service. This means that should someone inadvertently include an API key or secret in a commit to a shared repository, the service will warn the user. дальше »
2019-3-23 18:06
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Microsoft just open-sourced the iconic Windows Calculator
The source code to the iconic Windows Calculator app is now available to view on GitHub, and I’m ridiculously excited. A bit strange, isn’t it, to be excited to get a poke into the grubby internals of a calculator app? But then again, can you think of a more iconic, instantly-recognizable piece of software? The Windows Calculator has been a part of every version of Windows since Windows 1. дальше »
2019-3-7 01:21
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There’s a documentary about Ember.js and it’s really good
Ember. js is a hugely popular JavaScript framework. Used across web, mobile, and desktop, it powers the likes of LinkedIn, Groupon, and even Apple Music. Behind its thousands of lines of code is a deeply human story of innovation and risk-taking, as portrayed by Ember. дальше »
2019-2-20 19:40
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GitHub launches ‘draft’ pull requests to let developers discuss code before deploying
GitHub has added a new feature to pull requests, allowing developers to mark their requests as a draft. Marking a request as a draft allows the developer to highlight to other collaborators that their code is a work-in-progress and requires feedback before being integrated into the main project. дальше »
2019-2-15 13:37
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Slack gives us an early Valentine with its new visual app-design tool
Slack isn’t just a messaging app. The main factor propelling the rise of this $7. 1 billion platform is that it’s gradually become the nexus of how people work, thanks to integrations with Jira, Trello, and other popular workplace tools. дальше »
2019-2-13 19:03
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Raspberry Pi’s Eben Upton opens up about the future of retail
Retail is dying. The latest figures paint a dismal figure for the UK high street, with shops closing at an average rate of 14 per day. The thing is, I’m not sure anyone’s told the Raspberry Pi Foundation. дальше »
2019-2-7 03:01
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Test your UI design skills with this insanely difficult quiz
If you’ve never thought about how much design work goes into even the tiniest parts of a UI, then you can now play a game which will enlighten you on the subject. The game is called “Can’t Unsee” and it challenges the player to choose between two different pictures of the same design element. дальше »
2019-2-6 00:02
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Politicians don’t have to learn to code, but knowing something about tech would help
The New Statesman just published an interesting piece from political aide Tara Jane O’Reilly which passionately argues that MPs should learn to code. This, she says, would help them understand the societal issues brought about from technology, while simultaneously helping parliamentarians engage with the electorate. дальше »
2019-2-5 21:48
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We used to learn coding by making games, but now we make calculators
HackerRank released its 2019 Developer Skills report this week. The report, which includes data from over 71,000 coders, paints a picture of stark generational differences. For instance, did you know different generations of coders built completely different things for their first program? Older developers, particularly those in the 38-53 and the 54-72 age brackets, overwhelmingly tended to create games as their first programming project. дальше »
2019-1-31 17:16
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Facebook launches Spectrum to make uploading large images easier
Phones with 48-megapixel cameras are now a thing. In fact, I’ve got one on my desk literally right this second. These handsets are capable of producing bigger and more richer photos. To ensure it’s still easy to upload these humongous pictures to the Internet, Facebook today open-sourced a handy tool called Spectrum. дальше »
2019-1-17 14:30
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Square launches SDK to help mobile developers take in-app payments
Square, the payments app founded by Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey, is making it easier for app developers to charge customers within their mobile experiences. Today, the company launched its new Square In-App Payments Software Development Kit (SDK), which is available for iOS, Android, and Google’s Flutter framework. дальше »
2019-1-9 20:00
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How developers will work in 2019
We’ve got a tradition here at TNW Towers. Every year around Christmas, we reach out to a selected cadre of developers and ask them how they see their craft changing in the year ahead. The insights are always fascinating, and this year is no exception. дальше »
2019-1-2 22:10
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Perhaps 2018 was the fabled ‘year of the Linux desktop’
It’s the year of the Linux desktop. I swear. I promise. Yes, I know you’re probably jaded from hearing that every year since 1998, but this year it’s true. Would I lie to you? But first, a throat-clearing: I’m not talking about desktop dominance. дальше »
2018-12-26 16:00
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6 things to keep in mind when designing voice UI
When we hear the word ‘interface,’ many of us think about graphical user interface (or GUI). The vast majority of digital products available on the market today have this type of interface. Since GUI is the most familiar type of interfaces to us, we used to think of it as the natural way of interaction with digital products. дальше »
2018-12-21 22:00
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10 exciting web design trends you can’t hide from in 2019
The end of the year is near, and that could only mean one thing. It’s time to look ahead at what website design could look like in the year to come. Like every year, I scoured and searched the internet far and wide looking for the new up-and-coming trends that we could start seeing more of on websites launched in 2019. дальше »
2018-12-19 18:30
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Over 65 percent of new developers are self-taught. I’m surprised it’s not 100 percent
HackerRank today published the 2018 edition of its Student Developer Report. The survey, which looks at educational and language trends across over 10,000 students, has some interesting findings, the most fascinating of which is that over 65 percent of students are self-taught. дальше »
2018-12-11 20:00
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DigitalOcean’s Kubernetes container hosting platform is now open to anyone
DigitalOcean today announced the official release of its managed Kubernetes hosting, which it launched in a private beta earlier this year in May. The company, which is best known for its ultra-cheap VPS hosting, says that DigitalOcean Kubernetes is production ready for companies to deploy their critical applications on. дальше »
2018-12-11 19:00
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Already learned DevOps? Great, now it’s time for GitOps
You’ve seen DevOps, and DevSecOps, and maybe even NoOps. But if you haven’t already, you’re going be hearing a whole lot more about GitOps. As an indicator, four of the sessions at the upcoming KubeCon are about GitOps. дальше »
2018-12-8 17:30
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WordPress 5.0 introduces a flexible block-based content editor
Automattic has just released version 5. 0 of its immensely popular WordPress CMS, with a bunch of new features centered around customizable content blocks – catching up at last to its rivals who have offered this for years now. дальше »
2018-12-7 11:00
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Google launches Flutter 1.0 — its fast, powerful cross-platform app UI toolkit
Today, at the Flutter Live event in London, Google announced the first stable release of Flutter, its cross-platform UI toolkit. Flutter is intended to help developers build attractive, native app experiences from a single codebase. дальше »
2018-12-4 20:20
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Nvidia open sources its PhysX physics simulation engine
Nvidia has made its PhysX GPU-accelerated physics simulation engine open source, which means anyone can integrate into their games, as well as projects involving AI, robotics, and autonomous vehicle systems. дальше »
2018-12-4 09:35
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GitHub Desktop 1.5 makes it easy to resolve frustrating merge conflicts
GitHub today announced a major update to its visual Git client, GitHub Desktop. Version 1. 5 introduces a new way to resolve merge conflicts, which are inevitable when working on a project with a team. дальше »
2018-11-15 17:00
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GitHub now hosts over 100 million repositories
Today, the immensely popular social coding platform GitHub announced it now hosts over 100 million repositories. In addition, the platform announced new information about its userbase. GitHub now supports 31 million developers, who collectively have created over 1. дальше »
2018-11-8 17:00
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Pusher’s Chatkit adds real-time chat to mobile and web applications
Pusher today announced the general availability of its chat API, Chatkit, which allows developers to quickly introduce real-time conversational experiences to their mobile and web applications. дальше »
2018-11-1 21:07
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IBM’s acquisition of Red Hat is huge news for the Linux world
IBM today announced it would be acquiring iconic Linux firm Red Hat in a $34 billion all-cash deal. According to a joint statement issued by both companies, IBM will pay $190 for each share of Red Hat, with Big Blue intending to absorb its latest purchase into its Hybrid Cloud division. дальше »
2018-10-29 01:09
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GitHub launches Suggested Changes to make it easier to collaborate within pull requests
GitHub today announced Suggested Changes: a new feature that promises to make it easier to implement and action changes in pull requests. Here’s how it works. Suppose you’re collaborating on a repository with an active pull request. дальше »
2018-10-17 20:46
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Your business needs a style guide — here’s why
Companies are interesting creatures. In a legal sense, a company is a person, as it has all the rights that you and I do. A company can own property, file lawsuits, pay taxes, and generate profits. дальше »
2018-10-8 17:18
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Pusher’s new Beams API wants to make push notifications suck less
Love them or loathe them, push notifications on smartphones are a thing. Developers use them to increase user engagement with their apps. By sending the user a notification, you can alert them to a breaking news story, or send them a coupon and get them to buy something. дальше »
2018-9-7 20:35
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Mixmax Rules is like IFTTT for email
Many of us live in our inboxes, spending hours composing and forwarding emails, and using the information contained within in other contexts and services, like Slack and Trello. Mixmax hopes to make that last bit easier with Mixmax Rules. дальше »
2018-9-5 22:14
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Origami can make UI/UX designers better
Origami is the art of using precise folding patterns and sequences to create something beautiful out of almost nothing—a piece of paper. UI design is also the outcome of many small, meticulously assembled elements coming together. дальше »
2018-8-26 11:30
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Twitter: ‘We killed our legacy dev tools because nobody used them’
Twitter has deprecated three of its legacy developer APIs. As of today, the Site Streams, User Streams, and its REST Direct Message Endpoints are officially retired. Shakeups are seldom welcome, and bracing itself for an angry developer backlash, Twitter has published a blog post explaining its reasioning behind the cull of its APIs. дальше »
2018-8-16 19:05
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Google’s Firebase adds in-app messaging and new Crashlytics integrations
Firebase, the app development platform acquired by Google in 2014, today saw a major update. In addition to several platform-wide enhancements, the company is introducing an in-app messaging services, as well as several major integrations for the popular crash reporting tool, Crashlyics. дальше »
2018-8-16 19:00
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How ten-year-old Evernote evolved for the current app market
Evernote today rolled out a redesign, in which it swapped out its familiar colors for a refreshed look. It appears to be a relatively simple look, but when the Evernote team pulled back the curtain for us, it was anything but. дальше »
2018-8-14 20:36
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