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Gleam is a type-safe and scalable language for the Erlang virtual machine and JavaScript runtimes. Today Gleam v1.19.0 has been published, so let’s go over what’s new. A new compilation target Over the last few months Giacomo Cavalieri has entirely … Read more
The German military intelligence agency MAD has introduced a specially developed AI system for the first time to identify right-wing extremists among applicants for the Federal Armed Forces (Bundeswehr). According to “Spiegel”, the MAD has been scrutinizing the internet activities … Read more
New repository settings for configuring pull request access – GitHub Changelog Table of Contents Menu. Currently selected: Disable pull requests entirely Maintainers now have more control over how repositories accept contributions. Two new settings let you manage pull requests to … Read more
Wood Tape My wife calls me at work, and we have the usual end-of-the-day chat. Then:“Oh, by the way, Guy wants you to take him to the hardware store, he wants to get some tape.”“What kind of tape?”“He says he … Read more
Published on: 2026-09-11 12:36:14 by Chris Jones Updated on: 2026-10-05 20:15:16 • 7 min read Add this to your /etc/hosts file on your old Mac running Leopard or Show Leopard (has not been tested on Tiger or Panther), and iChat … Read more
I made my GitHub account on June 17, 2011. About two minutes later, I opened my first issue: teleporting was broken in TShock, a Terraria server mod, and I wanted to know why. Not as early as some, but early … Read more
I was playing piano for the first time in a while the other day and noticed: I didn’t feel any RSI. Maybe a bit and some tenderness, but not much at all. And no, I don’t mean recursive self improvement … Read more
Would you agree that some programming languages are better than others? If so then one of them must be the best. And it’s actually Common Lisp especially now that LLMs can write code. LLMs write code really fast, and that … Read more
Generative AI has been promoted as the technology that could transform education by providing every student a personal tutor. We provide some of the first large-scale experimental evidence, from a two-year cluster randomized trial in 18 Tennessee middle schools in … Read more
Zen sand gardens are often intended for meditation, whether to look at or while maintaining it by raking the sand into the prescribed patterns which are formed by the tines of the rake yielding parallel lines (like |||). Such a … Read more