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RISC OS 3.11 GUI: A Retrospectively Advanced Desktop

2025-05-18

This article delves into the unique graphical user interface (GUI) of RISC OS 3.11, released in 1992 by Acorn Computers. Unlike contemporaries like Apple's System 7, RISC OS 3.11 featured a distinct desktop layout with a Pinboard and Icon Bar, innovative three-button mouse interactions, and a menu system seamlessly integrating dialog boxes. Its unconventional approach to window management, including focus and stacking order, along with its drag-and-drop file handling and custom file type support, stands out. The system's intelligent use of mouse buttons reduced keyboard modifier reliance. RISC OS 3.11's GUI remains a fascinating example of unconventional design that offers valuable lessons even today.

(telcontar.net)
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Rust Model2Vec: 1.7x Faster Inference

2025-05-18
Rust Model2Vec: 1.7x Faster Inference

The `model2vec-rs` crate provides a lightweight Rust implementation for loading and inferencing Model2Vec static embedding models, boasting a 1.7x speedup over the Python version. It supports loading pre-trained models from Hugging Face Hub, offers a command-line interface, and allows for custom encoding arguments. Benchmarks show the Rust version processes 8000 samples per second compared to Python's 4650.

(github.com)
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Bye Bye, Paid Note-Taking Apps: Building My Secure & Private Knowledge Vault

2025-05-18
Bye Bye, Paid Note-Taking Apps: Building My Secure & Private Knowledge Vault

Tired of privacy concerns and high costs associated with commercial note-taking apps, the author decided to build their own secure, private, and lasting Personal Knowledge Management System (PKMS). They share their journey from Obsidian to a self-hosted PKMS, emphasizing data security and control. The system uses the open-source platform Directus and stores notes in Markdown, enabling easy cross-device access and data migration. While seemingly complex, the author argues the process is surprisingly simple and encourages others to build their own knowledge vaults for better knowledge management.

(amberwilliams.io)
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Spaced Repetition: Mastering Memory with the Power of Algorithms

2025-05-18

Spaced repetition systems (SRS) leverage the testing and spacing effects to dramatically improve memorization. SRS, pioneered by Supermemo and popularized by Piotr Wozniak, goes beyond rote learning, facilitating conceptual understanding. These systems make remembering a deliberate process, not just chance, and are proven remarkably effective for retaining vast amounts of information.

(notes.andymatuschak.org)
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Buckaroo: A Modern Data Table for Jupyter

2025-05-18
Buckaroo: A Modern Data Table for Jupyter

Buckaroo is a modern data table for Jupyter that streamlines common exploratory data analysis tasks. It features a high-performance table with sorting, value formatting, and infinite scrolling. Beyond the core table, it offers extra features like summary statistics, histograms, smart sampling, auto-cleaning, and a low-code UI. All functionality has sensible defaults, customizable to your workflow. Buckaroo supports Pandas and Polars DataFrames and works across various environments including JupyterLab and Jupyter Notebook.

(github.com)
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Open Source Lab (OSL) Seeks Long-Term Sustainability

2025-05-18
Open Source Lab (OSL) Seeks Long-Term Sustainability

Following a year of funding, the Oregon State University Open Source Lab (OSL) is actively seeking long-term sustainability. They face two major challenges: finding a cost-effective new data center and hardware to replace their aging 20+ year old infrastructure, and securing multi-year funding commitments to cover operations and future upgrades. OSL is actively seeking data center space and hardware donations, and appealing to corporations and individuals for long-term support to ensure its continued service to the open-source community.

(osuosl.org)
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Break Bad Vim Habits with Hardtime.nvim

2025-05-18
Break Bad Vim Habits with Hardtime.nvim

Tired of relying on hjkl and the mouse? Hardtime.nvim helps you break bad habits and boost your Vim efficiency. It restricts repeated keystrokes, provides hints for faster Vim motions, and generates a report of your most common bad habits. Learn relative jumps, word motions, operator + motion combinations, and more. Customize settings to disable keys, filetypes, and choose your notification method. Upgrade your Vim workflow today!

(github.com)
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Working with Git Patches in Apple Mail: A Surprisingly Simple Workflow

2025-05-18

This guide details how to manage Git email patches within Apple Mail on macOS. First, create a dedicated 'Patches' mailbox. Move emails containing patches into this mailbox and export it to a local folder. Finally, use the `git apply` command in your terminal to apply the patch. While this simplifies the process in Apple Mail, the actual patch application happens via the terminal. Remember to regularly clean up your local 'Patches' folder.

(btxx.org)
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BrowserBee: Your In-Browser AI Assistant

2025-05-18
BrowserBee: Your In-Browser AI Assistant

BrowserBee is a privacy-first, open-source Chrome extension that lets you control your browser using natural language. It combines the power of an LLM for instruction parsing and planning with Playwright for robust browser automation. Running entirely in your browser (except the LLM), it safely interacts with logged-in websites without compromising security or needing backend infrastructure. It supports major LLMs like Anthropic, OpenAI, Gemini, and Ollama, and offers a wide range of browser tools for navigation, interaction, observation, and memory management, learning efficient tool sequences for future tasks.

(github.com)
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Craft Basic 1.7.1: A Retro BASIC Interpreter for Windows

2025-05-18

Craft Basic 1.7.1 is a free BASIC interpreter for Windows 95 and later. Learn programming, create simple games, write interactive code, perform complex calculations, display cool graphics, build forms, write useful scripts, and more. Simple commands let you draw bitmaps and play WAV files; it features form handling for static text and buttons; and plenty of example programs are included to get you started. Supports Win9X, Win2K, WinXP, Win10, and Win11.

(www.lucidapogee.com)
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Kubernetes-Native High-Availability MQTT Broker Setup

2025-05-18

This post details a fully declarative, Kubernetes-native setup for a highly available MQTT broker using Eclipse Mosquitto and Traefik. It leverages core Kubernetes primitives (Deployments, Services, ConfigMaps, and RBAC) to create a primary and secondary broker, ensuring near-zero downtime failover. A custom controller monitors the primary and switches traffic to the secondary within 5 seconds of failure, maintaining message continuity. Internal MQTT bridging ensures seamless message propagation between brokers, even during failover.

(raymii.org)
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A Programmer's Intro to Integer Partitions and Compositions

2025-05-18
A Programmer's Intro to Integer Partitions and Compositions

LeetArxiv's new series, "What Every Programmer Needs to Know about Enumerative Combinatorics," starts with Chapter 1: an introduction to integer partitions and compositions. This article uses an accessible approach, guiding programmers through these concepts via observation and pattern recognition. C code is provided to generate weak compositions, efficiently enumerating them using binomial coefficients and binary search.

(leetarxiv.substack.com)
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Microsoft Finally Fixes Security Update That Broke Dual-Booting

2025-05-18
Microsoft Finally Fixes Security Update That Broke Dual-Booting

Last August, a security update intended to address a GRUB bootloader vulnerability inadvertently broke dual-booting Windows and Linux on Secure Boot-enabled systems. This vulnerability allowed malicious actors to bypass Secure Boot's safety mechanisms. Nine months later, on May 13, 2025, Microsoft quietly released a patch (KB5058385) to fix the issue. The patch mitigates problems by refining how Secure Boot Advanced Targeting (SBAT) interacts with dual-boot systems, preventing legitimate Linux bootloaders from being blocked and avoiding "Security Policy Violation" errors. The fix applies to Windows 11 23H2, 22H2, 21H2; Windows 10 21H2; and Windows Enterprise 2015 LTSB, Windows Server 2022, 2019, 2016, 2012, 2012 R2. The patch is automatically applied via Windows Update.

(news.itsfoss.com)
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Decision Trees: A Divide-and-Conquer Approach to Machine Learning

2025-05-18
Decision Trees: A Divide-and-Conquer Approach to Machine Learning

This is the first in a series exploring decision trees in machine learning. Decision trees recursively partition data into regions based on a series of questions, ultimately leading to a prediction. The article clearly explains the mathematical definition of decision trees, the types of decision trees (classification and regression), common algorithms (ID3, C4.5, and CART), and objective functions (Gini impurity, entropy, and squared loss). It also delves into the pros and cons, bias-variance tradeoff, the "staircase effect," and the greedy algorithm used to build decision trees.

(mathpn.com)
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Supercharge Your Java Projects with Rust: A Practical JNI Integration Guide

2025-05-18
Supercharge Your Java Projects with Rust: A Practical JNI Integration Guide

This article explores integrating Rust code into Java projects to boost performance and efficiency. It details using JNI (Java Native Interface), handling memory management, logging, and asynchronous calls. The open-source project rust-java-demo showcases packaging platform-specific Rust libraries into a single JAR, unifying logs, and mapping Rust errors to Java exceptions. It also explains using CompletableFuture to handle asynchronous Rust function calls, preventing Java thread blocking.

(medium.com)
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Fearless Concurrency in Python: The Lungfish Project

2025-05-18

The Project Verona team is developing Lungfish, a novel ownership model for Python designed to provide safe and efficient memory and concurrency management. They initially prototyped region-based ownership concepts using a toy language, FrankenScript, and shared their findings with the Faster CPython team. Currently, they're incrementally implementing a deep immutability model, including deep immutability in CPython, managing cyclic immutable garbage, and integrating with inter-subinterpreter messaging. This will pave the way for applying the region-based ownership model to Python, ultimately aiming to simplify concurrent programming and avoid concurrency pitfalls. The project draws heavily from languages like Rust but employs dynamic checks to accommodate Python's dynamic typing.

(microsoft.github.io)
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Programming Languages and Their Killer Domains

2025-05-18

An article argues that every programming language needs a killer app to succeed. The author proposes a refinement: instead of a 'killer app', it's more accurate to say a 'killer domain'. Examples include C for kernels, C++ and Rust for low-level systems programming, Java for business applications and Android, Python for scientific computing and machine learning, and JavaScript for web frontends. The author's experience shows that using a language outside its area of expertise is significantly harder and often impractical.

(huijzer.xyz)
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The Surprisingly Messy Smart Home of a Home Assistant Lead Engineer

2025-05-18
The Surprisingly Messy Smart Home of a Home Assistant Lead Engineer

Frenck, lead engineer of Home Assistant, reveals the truth about his smart home: it's not the extravagant setup you might imagine. Instead, it's a chaotic experiment with hundreds of devices, multiple Home Assistant instances, inconsistent automations, and disastrous dashboards. His family has even accepted the flaky nature of the system. He confesses to the mess and vows to improve it, aiming for a truly optimized smart home experience for his family.

(frenck.dev)
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Building the Worst Video Player with Three.js: A Nostalgic Pixel-Perfect Game

2025-05-18
Building the Worst Video Player with Three.js: A Nostalgic Pixel-Perfect Game

This article details the author's journey building a creative video player using Three.js and a physics engine. Instead of a traditional player, it's an arcade-style game where users must insert virtual coins to watch video, earning only three seconds of playback per coin. Players drag and drop coins into a slot, requiring precision to continue watching. This nostalgic and fun design challenges traditional video player design and showcases the limitless possibilities of web development.

(www.mux.com)
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LLRT: Blazing Fast Serverless JavaScript Runtime

2025-05-18
LLRT: Blazing Fast Serverless JavaScript Runtime

AWS Labs introduces LLRT, a lightweight JavaScript runtime built in Rust designed for high-performance serverless applications. Outperforming other JavaScript runtimes on AWS Lambda by over 10x faster startup and up to 2x lower cost, LLRT utilizes QuickJS as its JavaScript engine for efficient memory usage and rapid startup. While experimental, LLRT supports deployment via custom runtimes and container images, includes robust testing tools, and offers excellent compatibility with AWS SDK v3. It's not a Node.js replacement, but rather a complement for performance-critical serverless functions, ideal for tasks like data transformation and real-time processing. Its Node.js-based API ensures easy transition from other solutions.

(github.com)
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Expert vs. Novice: Efficiency in Problem Solving

2025-05-18
Expert vs. Novice: Efficiency in Problem Solving

This essay uses the analogy of a maze to illustrate the stark difference in efficiency between experts and novices in problem-solving. Experts, with their experience and efficient strategies, navigate challenges swiftly. Novices, however, often get bogged down in self-created complexities, wasting time on irrelevant tasks. The author emphasizes that novices aren't inherently less capable but lack experience and a holistic view of the problem. Novices need expert guidance to identify crucial decisions and avoid cascading errors from poor choices. They should actively explore the field, cultivate confidence, and embrace challenges.

(boydkane.com)
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Fortran for C Programmers: A Quick Start Guide

2025-05-18

This concise guide provides essential information for C/C++ programmers to quickly get started with Fortran. It covers key aspects of the language, including its two source forms (fixed-form and free-form), implicit typing rules, built-in functions, modular programming, and input/output operations. The guide highlights differences between Fortran and C/C++ in data types, arrays, pointers, and function calls, and points out potential pitfalls, such as operator precedence and short-circuiting evaluation. This is a great starting point for C/C++ programmers interested in learning Fortran.

(flang.llvm.org)
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Stream vs. Batch: It's Actually About Push vs. Pull

2025-05-18

The common "Stream vs. Batch" debate is misleading. Many streaming systems internally use batching for performance, but the real distinction lies in data processing semantics: 'push' systems deliver data in real-time, providing a complete, up-to-the-second view; 'pull' systems periodically query data, potentially missing updates and deletes. While 'push' is more complex, its real-time advantage is compelling. Once you experience the magic of second-level data freshness, you won't want to go back. In practice, both approaches complement each other, with batch processing often used for backfilling in otherwise streaming systems.

(www.morling.dev)
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FreeBASIC: A Powerful, Open-Source BASIC Compiler

2025-05-17

FreeBASIC is a free and open-source (GPL) BASIC compiler for Windows, DOS, and Linux. Highly compatible with QuickBASIC, many QuickBASIC programs compile and run with minimal changes in FreeBASIC's 'QB' mode. However, FreeBASIC's default mode offers enhanced features and supports procedural, object-oriented, and meta-programming paradigms. It generates console and GUI executables, dynamic and static libraries, and offers C and partial C++ library support. Its speed rivals mainstream tools like GCC.

(freebasic.net)
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Stack Overflow Rebrands Amidst AI-Driven Traffic Plunge

2025-05-17
Stack Overflow Rebrands Amidst AI-Driven Traffic Plunge

Facing a dramatic 64% drop in traffic due to AI-powered alternatives, Stack Overflow's parent company, Stack Exchange, is undertaking a rebranding initiative. Despite continued profitability, the decline in user engagement presents an existential threat. The company aims to shift from a single Q&A focus to a three-pillar model encompassing community, careers, and Q&A, while also developing AI-assisted tools and improving its recruitment services. This move has sparked user debate, with some arguing that rebranding isn't the solution and the current platform is sufficient.

(devclass.com)
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arXivLabs: Community Collaboration on arXiv Features

2025-05-17
arXivLabs: Community Collaboration on arXiv Features

arXivLabs is a framework for collaborators to develop and share new arXiv features directly on the website. Participants embrace arXiv's values of openness, community, excellence, and user data privacy. Have an idea to enhance the arXiv community? Learn more about arXivLabs.

(arxiv.org)
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Xata: Redefining the PostgreSQL Platform for Scale

2025-05-17
Xata: Redefining the PostgreSQL Platform for Scale

Xata launched a new PostgreSQL platform designed to tackle the challenges teams face when using Postgres at scale. This platform features instant Copy-on-Write branching, data anonymization, cloud-agnostic deployment, and separation of storage and compute, resulting in significant performance and cost improvements. Integrating open-source projects pgstream and pgroll, Xata simplifies the developer workflow and enables zero-downtime schema changes. Whether for development, testing, or production, Xata offers a highly efficient, secure, and compliant solution with a BYOC (Bring Your Own Cloud) deployment model for complete control.

(xata.io)
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Espanso: A Cross-Platform Text Expander in Rust

2025-05-17
Espanso: A Cross-Platform Text Expander in Rust

Espanso is a cross-platform text expander written in Rust. It detects keywords and replaces them with predefined text, boosting productivity. Features include saving typing time, creating system-wide code snippets, executing custom scripts, easy emoji use, and broad compatibility (Windows, macOS, Linux, most applications). It supports images, a powerful search bar, date expansion, custom scripts, shell commands, app-specific configurations, forms, package expansion, a built-in package manager, file-based configuration, regex triggers, and experimental Wayland support. This free, open-source project, created by Federico Terzi, is licensed under GPL-3.0.

(github.com)
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arXivLabs: Experimental Projects with Community Collaborators

2025-05-17
arXivLabs: Experimental Projects with Community Collaborators

arXivLabs is a framework enabling collaborators to develop and share new arXiv features directly on the arXiv website. Individuals and organizations working with arXivLabs embrace our values of openness, community, excellence, and user data privacy. arXiv is committed to these values and only partners with those who share them. Have an idea for a project that will benefit the arXiv community? Learn more about arXivLabs.

(arxiv.org)
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Racket v8.17 Released: Performance Boosts and New Features

2025-05-17

Racket programming language version 8.17 is now available! This release boasts numerous improvements, including a slimmed-down DrRacket core package, Typed Racket support for treelists, an enhanced package manager, increased precision for numeric functions, and Windows terminal mouse event support. Additionally, the HTTP client, JSON handling, and Redex library have received optimizations. This update is a testament to the vibrant Racket community, with contributions from many developers.

(blog.racket-lang.org)
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