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Neovim 0.10 was the longest release cycle since the heady days of the 0.5 release. There are a ton of new features in this release (as well as some breaking changes), so be sure to check the full release notes. … Read more

Prefixes are treacherous little beasts. Just when you think you’ve come to an understanding, prefixes such as in– will come along and carry meanings such as “not,” “in, within,” “into,” “toward,” or “put into or onto.” And to make things … Read more

Full disclosure: My editor asked me to answer this question—“What’s the fastest language in the world?”—because I like writing about both language and strange, global superlatives. Pretty quickly I realized that there’s a basic problem (albeit a fun one!) with … Read more

You are reading some words on the internet. Think about all the things you could do with these words. You could copy and paste this article into ChatGPT and say, “Please rewrite and paraphrase this blog post in such a … Read more

PostgreSQL 16 introduces quite a few improvements to the query planner and makes many SQL queries run faster than they did on previous versions of PostgreSQL. If you look at the PG16 release notes, you’ll see some of these planner … Read more

Discussion on HackerNews and Lobsters. Roughly a year ago I moved into my new apartment. One of the reasons I picked this apartment was age of the building. The construction was finished in 2015, which ensured pretty good thermal isolation … Read more

Dear Cecil: Enclosed are two of the many articles on the death of Gloria Ramirez, who became known as “the toxic lady” because she downed several medical attendants with her fumes. Pesticides, nerve gas, cervical cancer, kidney failure, cardiac arrest, … Read more

Now that Java 21 is features complete (Rampdown Phase Two at the day of writing), it’s time to walk through all the functionalities that bring to us, developers, this new version. This article is part of a series on what’s … Read more

Python without the GIL, for good LPython: a new Python Compiler Pydantic 2 is getting usable PEP 387 defines “Soft Deprecation”, getopt and optparse soft deprecated Cython 3.0 released with better pure Python support PEP 722 – Dependency specification for … Read more