The Git source-code management system is at the core of development processes worldwide, so changes, especially incompatible changes, are of great interest to the developers involved. The Git 2.56 release, which can be expected around the end of September, is … Read more
Postgres also adds UPDATE and DELETE FOR PORTION OF, continuing work around temporal use cases. Time is one of the most common dimensions in real applications, and better temporal syntax in core SQL is a welcome direction. Expanded RANDOM() temporal … Read more
Recently, a new type of question has entered the database arena: what did this data look like last Tuesday? Maybe it’s the price of a product before the holiday sale kicked in, or which department an employee belonged to before … Read more
An unexpected development over the past few weeks is xAI’s new partnerships with Anthropic and Google, providing them with a huge amount of capacity. It’s worth remembering that xAI is now part of SpaceX, after the two merged back in … Read more
Well, the world has officially ended. Peter Venkman from Ghostbusters was right all along, and we’ll soon be experiencing “human sacrifice, dogs and cats living together, mass hysteria!” Pack it in everybody; we had a great run. The feature freeze … Read more
In 2007, Nobel laureates Kenneth Arrow, Daniel Kahneman, and other notable scholars published a statement arguing that prediction markets could “substantially improve public and private decision-making.” The theoretical foundations were deep. Friedrich Hayek had argued in 1945 that markets aggregate … Read more
20 Mar 2026 on C++, Game development I had seen many talks about coroutines but it never really clicked where I could use them outisde of async IO. Until I looked at how Unity uses them in C#. Coroutines have … Read more
If you have fond memories of misspending entirely too much of your youth on web-based message boards, or you would like to misspend more of your nights and weekends on them now, Google has you covered. Simply add inurl:viewtopic.php to … Read more
Recently I was asked to do some homework to prepare for an interview on Linux kernel internals, and I was given the following to analyse: Specifically, we would like you to study and be able to discuss the code path … Read more
Intel’s foray into high performance graphics has enjoyed impressive progress over the past few years, and the company is not letting up on the gas. Tom Peterson from Intel has indicated that Xe3 hardware design is complete, and software work … Read more