Everyone is always wondering how to make Postgres faster, more efficient, etc, but nobody ever thinks about how to make Postgres slower. Now, of course, most of those people are being paid to focus on speed, but I am not … Read more
Group: How I made a speedrun timer in D I semi-recently played through the original Deus Ex, and enjoyed my time with it so much that I felt like getting into speedrunning it, which ended up with me having to … Read more
We support open source. And we’ve got the t-shirts to prove it (thanks @github@digitalocean). GDS took part in #Hacktoberfest this year, contributing to open source projects as part of a global community hacktoberfest.digitalocean.com pic.x.com/AkM09LGono
I recently changed jobs and found myself in a position where I would need to do a lot of work over TRAMP. I had used TRAMP before and it tended to be slow. Since I would be using it all … Read more
Actionable Intelligence to Improve How the Ably Team Works The real power emerged when I moved beyond simple data retrieval to analysis and insights. When I asked, “How is developer productivity in the xyz team this month?” Something awesome happened. … Read more
How to Use Python in C 1.0 Introduction Summary of calling Python from C and C from Python LeetArxiv is Leetcode for implementing Arxiv and other research papers. We code lots of research papers and these tend to be in … Read more
*on macOS with an M3 chip*slightly more than 1%, on a specific benchmark, without any new unsafe code A while ago, memorysafety.org announced a contest for improving performance of rav1d, a Rust port of the dav1d AV1 decoder. As this … Read more
It’s 2025 and I am still making video games, which according to archive.org is 20 years since I started making games! That’s a pretty long time to be doing one thing… Screenshot of my website circa 2011 When I share … Read more
Trail of Bits has collaborated with PyPI for several years to add features and improve security defaults across the Python packaging ecosystem. Our previous posts have focused on features like digital attestations and Trusted Publishing, but today we’ll look at … Read more
The company that made my bike went bankrupt a few years ago. It isn’t truly even my bike, it’s my friend’s, who bought it God-knows-where, in a country where this company never operated. This friend is no longer here —in … Read more