The first beta release of Python 3.11 is out, bringing some fascinating features for us to tinker with. This is what you can expect to see in 2022’s release of Python later this year. Even better error messages Python 3.10 … Read more
This course presents an overview of the new features of the latest Ada 2022 standard. This document was written by Maxim Reznik and reviewed by Richard Kenner.
When looking for something, the most logical action is to look for where that thing is most likely to be. However, we have an extremely strong bias to only search where it is easy to search. This is known as … Read more
Created 17 May 2022, last updated 19 May 2022 This is a summary of what features appeared in which versions of Python. Items with a star were introduced with a __future__ import. 10—60% faster than 3.10 exact expression error locations … Read more
April 2022 Neovim 0.7 was just released, bringing with it lots of new features (and of course plenty of bug fixes). You can find the full release notes here, but in this post I’ll cover just a few of the … Read more
« back — written by Brent on April 22, 2022 PHP 8.2 will probably be released at the end of 2022, but there’s no date set yet. In this post, we’ll go through all features, performance improvements, changes and deprecations one … Read more
What’s new in CPUs since the 80s?I’m trying some experimental tiers on Patreon to see if I can get to substack-like levels of financial support for this blog without moving to substack! What’s new in CPUs since the 80s? This … Read more
You have full access to this article via your institution. For more than a decade, molecular biologist Martin Beck and his colleagues have been trying to piece together one of the world’s hardest jigsaw puzzles: a detailed model of the … Read more
The 14th of September Java 17 was released. Time to take a closer look at the changes since the last LTS release, which is Java 11. A short introduction is given about the licensing model and after that, some of … Read more
I found this on a security-related Slack (shared with permission). It launched an entertaining discussion about the risks of taking a potentially fake FIDO token. We all know the risks of taking a free USB drive and shoving it in … Read more