As you may know, I am leaving Microsoft Research at the end of November. Time for something new! I am going to start a new role as Engineering Fellow at Epic Games in December. Epic is doing all sorts of … Read more
After the defacto abandonment of Play! and Lagom and the big highlighting of “Akka Serverless” I’m wondering what the planned future for Akka itself (and all the other akka-* modules/projects except persistence – which seems to be one of the … Read more
Contributed articles By Sherif Sakr, Angela Bonifati, Hannes Voigt, Alexandru Iosup, Khaled Ammar, Renzo Angles, Walid Aref, Marcelo Arenas, Maciej Besta, Peter A. Boncz, Khuzaima Daudjee, Emanuele Della Valle, Stefania Dumbrava, Olaf Hartig, Bernhard Haslhofer, Tim Hegeman, Jan Hidders, Katja … Read more
If you’re looking for a tl;dr, you can check the FAQ. Greetings. If you don’t know me, I’m Danny. I’m the core (and sole) maintainer of the discord.py library. Contrary to popular belief, I am actually not a Discord employee. … Read more
A future for SQL on the web I discovered something absurd recently and I’m very excited to tell you about it. The end result is absurd-sql, and it’s a persistent backend for SQLite on the web. That means it doesn’t … Read more
I’ve been reflecting of late about the way that our habitual expectations about change blind us to the way that change actually happens. One of the most important of these is the frankly weird but pervasive notion that the future … Read more
Think of the many tasks to which computers are being applied that in the not-so-distant past required human intuition. Computers routinely identify objects in images, transcribe speech, translate between languages, diagnose medical conditions, play complex games, and drive cars. The … Read more
It just so happens that this same reasoning procedure presented above for synthesising swap actually scales quite well, and can be directly used to verify more complex programs like list copy. To illustrate how well this works let’s have a … Read more
(← back) (If you already know RSS, here’s my feed! If not, here’s a 4-minute intro…) What is RSS (Really Simple Syndication)? Imagine an open version of Twitter or Facebook News Feed, with no psy-op ads, owned by no oligopoly, … Read more
So here’s an interesting tweet and its accompanying article The future of games is instant ⏱️ A new generation of instant games is melding the accessibility of Flash games with the performance of native apps. These games are poised to … Read more