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Vim's Rebirth After the Passing of its Founder

2025-01-24

The death of Bram Moolenaar, Vim's creator, shook the community. However, the project continues under the stewardship of Christian Brabandt. The team tackled website modernization, security updates, and new feature development, including XDG directory support and Wayland support. While controversies, such as Tree-sitter integration, exist, the Vim community remains active and dedicated to the project's future.

(lwn.net)
Development

Supercharging Vector Search with ColBERT Reranking in PostgreSQL

2025-01-24
Supercharging Vector Search with ColBERT Reranking in PostgreSQL

Traditional vector search relies on sentence embeddings, potentially losing fine-grained details. ColBERT overcomes this by representing text as token-level multi-vectors, retaining nuanced information and improving accuracy. However, token-level interaction is computationally expensive. This blog post demonstrates combining sentence-level vector search with ColBERT token-level reranking using the PostgreSQL extensions VectorChord and pgvector. This approach performs a fast initial search using sentence embeddings, followed by reranking with ColBERT for improved results. Significant improvements were observed on several BEIR datasets.

(blog.vectorchord.ai)
Development vector search

Arch Linux Minimalist Setup: Get Up and Running Fast

2025-01-24

This guide provides a series of concise, actionable tutorials to help new Arch Linux users quickly set up a functional work environment. Instead of replicating the extensive ArchWiki, it focuses on a minimalistic i3 window manager setup, guiding users through essential tasks such as internet connectivity, display configuration, USB usage, and copy-pasting. It also covers multimedia controls, wallpaper settings, and other helpful tips, with feedback channels encouraging user participation in improvements.

(ejmastnak.com)
Development Linux setup i3 window manager

Ignore the Hype: AI Won't Kill Software Development

2025-01-24
Ignore the Hype: AI Won't Kill Software Development

Many are claiming AI will replace software developers, but the author argues this is nonsense; the best days of software development are yet to come. AI tools boost developer productivity (Jevons Paradox), unlocking more projects, not fewer jobs. Even if AI handles some tasks, software development involves communication, design, and system architecture – all requiring human input. AI's computational cost and limitations also prevent complete human replacement. Ultimately, AI will accelerate technological progress, driving economic growth and creating more opportunities. Software developers should embrace AI, learn new tools and methods, and continuously upskill.

(dustinewers.com)
Development

Linux 6.14 Adds Support for Microsoft Copilot Key

2025-01-24

The Linux 6.14 kernel introduces support for the Microsoft Copilot key found on new laptops pre-loaded with Windows. This key, used to launch Microsoft's Copilot AI assistant or similar chatbot software, was previously unmapped in Linux. The update modifies the atkbd keyboard driver, mapping the F23 key to the Copilot shortcut (Meta+Shift+F23). Additionally, Linux 6.14 boasts enhanced game controller support and other input subsystem improvements.

(www.phoronix.com)
Development Hardware Support

Saying Goodbye to bcachefs: One User's Reluctant Migration

2025-01-23

After a year of using bcachefs, Steinar Gunderson has migrated to XFS. His reason? A lack of confidence in bcachefs' future. While appreciating its compression and mixed SSD/HDD capabilities, he found the developer's uncompromising attitude, hostility towards distributions like Debian, and numerous unfixed bugs (including catastrophic data loss) unbearable. Reporting bugs proved a frustrating experience, with the developer prioritizing arguments with Debian over bug fixes. He ultimately chose the stability of XFS, sacrificing compression benefits, a trade-off he deems worthwhile.

(blog.sesse.net)
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GitHub: Surface-Stable Fractal Dithering

2025-01-23
GitHub: Surface-Stable Fractal Dithering

Rune Skovbo Johansen invented a novel surface-stable fractal dithering technique. This allows dither patterns in 3D scenes to stick to surfaces while maintaining approximately constant dot size and spacing on screen, even as surfaces move. This GitHub repository provides a Unity example project, shader and texture source files, and details on dither properties and global options like radial compensation and quantized layers. The technique achieves this by dynamically adding or removing dots, and offers 3D textures of varying dot densities. Licensed under MPL-2.0, encouraging community contributions.

(github.com)
Development 3D Graphics Dithering

Polars vs Pandas: A Head-to-Head Comparison

2025-01-23
Polars vs Pandas: A Head-to-Head Comparison

This book provides a detailed comparison of the Polars and Pandas data manipulation libraries, arguing that Polars offers a more intuitive and efficient approach. Through numerous examples, it showcases Polars' advantages across indexing, method chaining, performance, data reshaping, time series, and scalability. Polars consistently outperforms Pandas in speed and readability. The book is aimed at readers with some experience in data manipulation, particularly those familiar with Pandas.

(kevinheavey.github.io)
Development data manipulation

Say Goodbye to Hassle: Wake Up Your Devices with One Command – Introducing the 'wol' Tool

2025-01-23
Say Goodbye to Hassle: Wake Up Your Devices with One Command – Introducing the 'wol' Tool

'wol' is a powerful Wake-On-LAN (WOL) tool that lets you easily wake up your network devices via a command-line interface or web interface. It supports configuring multiple machines, providing a simple list view and one-click wake-up functionality. Whether you prefer CLI commands or a graphical interface, you can efficiently manage and wake up your computers or servers. Docker support is also included for easy deployment.

(github.com)
Development

Coding Without Bugs: A Viable Approach for Small Teams and Startups

2025-01-23
Coding Without Bugs: A Viable Approach for Small Teams and Startups

A senior engineer shares their experience of pursuing 'bug-free coding' at Telegram and various projects. While seemingly inefficient, they argue that this approach avoids massive maintenance costs and team burnout in the long run. The author uses personal anecdotes and project examples to demonstrate that focusing on code quality and maintainability alongside product velocity leads to efficient development and high-quality products.

(korshakov.com)
Development Code Quality

Open-Source AI Video Starter Kit for Browser-Based Production

2025-01-23
Open-Source AI Video Starter Kit for Browser-Based Production

The open-source project video-starter-kit offers a browser-based toolkit for AI-powered video creation. Built with Next.js, Remotion, and fal.ai, it integrates AI models like Minimax, Hunyuan, and LTX, enabling browser-native video processing, multi-clip composition, audio track integration, voiceover support, and extended video duration handling. Developers can leverage ready-to-use UI components and TypeScript support for rapid AI video application development.

(github.com)
Development AI video

llama.vim: A Vim Plugin for LLM-Powered Code Completion

2025-01-23
llama.vim: A Vim Plugin for LLM-Powered Code Completion

llama.vim is a powerful Vim plugin offering intelligent code and text completion using a locally running LLM. It supports various LLMs and boasts efficient performance even on low-end hardware thanks to smart context management. Easy to install and configure, the plugin offers customizable completion options, significantly boosting coding productivity.

(github.com)
Development Vim plugin code completion

TMSU: A Tag-Based Virtual Filesystem for Escaping the Hierarchical Filesystem Nightmare

2025-01-23

TMSU is a tool for tagging your files, offering a simple command-line interface for applying tags and a virtual filesystem providing a tag-based view of your files from any program. It doesn't modify your files; instead, it maintains its own database and mounts a tag-based view. You can tag files, query them using logical operators (and, or, not), and mount a virtual filesystem for access from other applications. This VFS allows for tag management by creating and deleting directories.

(tmsu.org)
Development virtual filesystem tags

Filesystems: More Perilous Than You Think

2025-01-23

A Deconstruct 2019 talk revealed shocking truths about filesystems: from the inconsistencies and difficulty of correctly using the file API, to serious bugs within filesystems themselves and the high error rates of disks, data corruption is rampant. The speaker delved into the atomicity issues of file writes and the challenges posed by different filesystem modes (e.g., ext3/ext4's data=journal, ordered, writeback). Even experienced programmers struggle to avoid mistakes leading to data loss or corruption. The talk also analyzed errors in popular databases and version control systems and suggested using databases instead of files to improve data reliability.

(danluu.com)
Development filesystem software reliability

Bunster: Compile Shell Scripts to Static Binaries

2025-01-23
Bunster: Compile Shell Scripts to Static Binaries

Bunster is a project that compiles shell scripts into efficient, static binaries, enhancing portability and security. Instead of simply wrapping scripts, it leverages the Go compiler to translate scripts into native machine code, enabling cross-platform execution (currently Unix only). Bunster primarily supports Bash scripts, with plans to support more shells, and add features like a module system, static asset embedding, password and expiration locks. The project is in its early stages but has already implemented many core features and follows SemVer versioning.

(github.com)
Development Shell Script Static Compilation

libmodulor: An Opinionated TypeScript Library for Business Applications

2025-01-23
libmodulor: An Opinionated TypeScript Library for Business Applications

libmodulor is an opinionated TypeScript library designed to accelerate the creation of high-quality business applications. It employs a layered architecture (UseCase, App, Product, Target), emphasizing type safety and end-to-end testing. Developers are free to use their preferred database, frontend framework, server, and tools; libmodulor provides higher-level primitives to avoid boilerplate code and vendor lock-in. While still under active development, it's already been used in pilot projects.

(github.com)
Development Business Applications

7 Lessons from Building a Small-Scale AI Application

2025-01-23
7 Lessons from Building a Small-Scale AI Application

This article details seven lessons learned from building a small-scale AI assistant over the past year. The author discovered that scalability issues arose earlier than anticipated. AI programming is stochastic, requiring iterative adjustments to prompts, fine-tuning, preference tuning, and hyperparameters. Data quality is crucial, with significant time investment in building and maintaining a high-quality dataset and processing pipeline. Model evaluation is equally important, as simple validation sets often fail to capture real-world edge cases. Trust and quality are paramount, demanding continuous experimentation and evaluation. The training pipeline itself is the core intellectual property, constantly refined through iteration. Finally, the author cautions against over-reliance on AI libraries due to potential incompleteness or poor ecosystem integration; building directly upon lower-level abstractions is often more reliable.

(www.thelis.org)
Development AI Development Model Training Data Quality

Microsoft's Security Scanners Break Single-Use Links: A Shifting Cyber Norm

2025-01-23
Microsoft's Security Scanners Break Single-Use Links: A Shifting Cyber Norm

Bert Hubert reveals that Microsoft and other email security scanners are visiting links in emails and executing JavaScript, including sending POST requests. This violates the long-standing norm that POST requests shouldn't have side effects, breaking single-use login links. The article discusses the impact on web development and calls for greater transparency from large tech companies when changing internet norms.

(berthub.eu)
Development Single-use links

Xcode 16's Local Package Dependency Nightmare: Why I'm Using Two Editors

2025-01-23
Xcode 16's Local Package Dependency Nightmare: Why I'm Using Two Editors

Developer Christian Tietze encountered significant issues with Xcode 16 while working on a Swift Package. Xcode 16's altered approach to local package referencing broke file operations, test running, and more. To overcome this, he's forced to use both Xcode (for compiling and running the app) and Emacs (for editing and testing the package). The post laments Xcode 16's buggy update, Apple's aggressive software upgrade policy, and recommends developers learn a backup editor.

(christiantietze.de)
Development

A Deep Dive into Compression Algorithms: From DEFLATE to ZSTD

2025-01-23

While building MonKafka, a Kafka Broker implementation, the author delved into the four compression algorithms supported by Kafka: GZIP, Snappy, LZ4, and ZSTD. The article provides a detailed explanation of these algorithms, covering lossless and lossy compression, run-length encoding, Lempel-Ziv algorithms, Huffman coding, and a deep dive into the DEFLATE algorithm's implementation, including LZ77, Huffman coding, and hash tables. Furthermore, it compares the performance of Snappy, LZ4, and ZSTD, and briefly introduces arithmetic coding and FSE. The author concludes by summarizing the core concept of compression algorithms: removing data redundancy, reducing entropy, and extracting information.

(cefboud.github.io)
Development compression algorithms

Debugging React Server Components in Next.js with OpenTelemetry

2025-01-23
Debugging React Server Components in Next.js with OpenTelemetry

React Server Components (RSCs) offer performance benefits but introduce debugging challenges. This article demonstrates using OpenTelemetry, a powerful observability framework, to trace RSC activity within Next.js applications. OpenTelemetry allows tracing requests, collecting metrics, and aggregating logs, giving developers insights into server-side component execution, including lifecycle events, data fetching operations, and rendering performance. A real-world case study showcases optimizing a page loading numerous GitHub API calls using OpenTelemetry. The article details installing necessary packages, creating an instrumentation.js file, and configuring data export destinations. It also explains creating custom spans for more granular insights.

(www.dash0.com)
Development

Bun 1.2: A Massive Update to the Full-Stack JavaScript Runtime

2025-01-23

Bun 1.2 is a huge release, significantly improving its full-stack JavaScript and TypeScript toolkit. Key features include enhanced Node.js compatibility (achieved by running the Node.js test suite), built-in S3 object storage (Bun.s3) and Postgres clients (Bun.sql), a text-based lockfile (bun.lock) for faster and safer dependency management, and a 3x speed boost for Express. Bun 1.2 also adds support for crucial Node.js modules like node:http2, node:dgram, node:cluster, and node:zlib, alongside improvements for C++ addons using V8 APIs.

(bun.sh)
Development

RealtimeSanitizer for Rust: A New Open Source Library

2025-01-23

This post introduces `rtsan-standalone-rs`, a new open-source library bringing LLVM's RealtimeSanitizer (RTSan) to Rust. RTSan helps detect hard-to-find real-time violations in your code, such as memory allocations, crucial for applications like audio processing and self-driving cars. The author details the implementation, usage with macros like `nonblocking` and `blocking`, and how to integrate it into your Rust projects. This library offers immediate access to RTSan's capabilities in stable Rust, improving the safety and predictability of real-time applications before its official integration into LLVM20.

(steck.tech)
Development Real-time programming Memory safety

Tech's Misuse of the Pareto Principle: 80% Effort, 20% Product?

2025-01-23
Tech's Misuse of the Pareto Principle: 80% Effort, 20% Product?

In game development, the concept of a 'vertical slice' emphasizes completeness, while the tech industry's prevalent 'Minimum Viable Product' (MVP) prioritizes rapid iteration. The author argues that overemphasis on the Pareto Principle (80% of results from 20% effort) leads to many tech products remaining rough MVPs, lacking final polish and leaving users dissatisfied. This isn't just seen in apps and software but also impacts AI, like self-driving cars and image generation; these are promising but far from practical. The author calls for a shift in mindset, valuing completeness and user experience over rapid iteration and funding.

(bobbylox.com)
Development Pareto Principle

Python Library for Microsoft Edge's Text-to-Speech Service (No Edge or API Key Needed)

2025-01-23
Python Library for Microsoft Edge's Text-to-Speech Service (No Edge or API Key Needed)

edge-tts is a Python library that lets you use Microsoft Edge's online text-to-speech service directly from your Python code or via command-line tools (`edge-tts` and `edge-playback`). No need for Microsoft Edge, Windows, or an API key. It supports multiple languages and voices, offering customization of speed, volume, and pitch. Install via pip and use simple command-line arguments or the Python API.

(github.com)
Development Microsoft Edge

System Informer: Your System Resource Monitoring and Debugging Swiss Army Knife

2025-01-23

System Informer is a free, powerful, multi-purpose tool that helps you monitor system resources, debug software, and detect malware. It provides graphs and statistics for quickly identifying resource-hogging processes, searches for file handles and DLLs, displays detailed system activity overviews, and shows real-time disk and network usage. Furthermore, it allows you to create, edit, and control services, monitors GPU usage, provides detailed stack traces, and offers light and dark theme support. A must-have for system administrators and developers.

(systeminformer.com)
Development system monitoring software debugging malware detection

Tailwind CSS v4.0: Blazing Fast and Incredibly Flexible

2025-01-23
Tailwind CSS v4.0: Blazing Fast and Incredibly Flexible

Tailwind CSS v4.0 has arrived! This release is a complete overhaul of the framework, boasting massive performance improvements and increased flexibility. Full builds are up to 5x faster, and incremental builds are over 100x faster. Leveraging cutting-edge CSS features like cascade layers, custom properties, and `color-mix()`, v4.0 is designed for the modern web. Setup is simplified with fewer dependencies, zero configuration, and a single line of CSS. A new CSS-first configuration allows customization directly within your CSS, along with CSS theme variables, dynamic utility values, and variants. Other significant additions include a modernized P3 color palette, container queries, new 3D transform utilities, expanded gradient APIs, and `@starting-style` support. This release significantly enhances developer efficiency and user experience.

(tailwindcss.com)
Development CSS Framework

F-Droid 2024 Recap: Decentralization and Ecosystem Growth

2025-01-23
F-Droid 2024 Recap: Decentralization and Ecosystem Growth

F-Droid made significant strides in 2024, focusing on decentralizing app distribution and expanding its ecosystem. Funded by grants from the Filecoin Foundation and EU Horizon Europe, F-Droid improved core client logic, added support for IPFS and Filecoin, and upgraded the Repomaker tool for easier repository creation. The community also shone, adding over 402 new apps and updating over 7205 apps. In 2025, F-Droid will continue its work on the Mobifree project and welcomes two new team members to further strengthen its infrastructure and enhance user experience.

(f-droid.org)
Development Open-Source Apps

gRPC vs REST: Choosing the Right API Design Model

2025-01-23
gRPC vs REST: Choosing the Right API Design Model

This article delves into gRPC and REST, two primary API design models, and the role of OpenAPI. gRPC, based on the RPC model, hides data details, while REST, based on HTTP, is resource-oriented. Many APIs cleverly combine the strengths of both, using an entity-oriented approach but implemented with gRPC. The article compares three ways to use HTTP for APIs: REST, gRPC, and OpenAPI, outlining their advantages and disadvantages, ultimately suggesting choosing the best approach based on specific needs. gRPC offers superior performance but requires special software; OpenAPI is flexible but complex to design; REST is simple and straightforward but less commonly used. The choice involves weighing project requirements, team technology stack, and maintainability.

(cloud.google.com)
Development
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