We conduct a randomized controlled trial to understand how early-2025 AI tools affect the productivity of experienced open-source developers working on their own repositories. Surprisingly, we find that when developers use AI tools, they take 19% longer than…

How to Fight Big Tech's Hype and Create the Future We Want

A couple of weeks ago I fixed a nasty bug in this function in OpenZFS:

Postgres LISTEN/NOTIFY can cause severe performance issues under high write concurrency due to a global lock during commit. Learn why it doesn't scale and how to avoid outages.

The HTTP Integrity-Policy response header allows website administrators to ensure that all resources the user agent loads (of a certain type) have Subresource Integrity guarantees.

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Long-time Perl legend and gadfly Matt Trout has passed.

Hey all!

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The following post will talk about the design of the first version of the Intermediate Representation of Kunai, the design decisions and how it was implemented.

Since the end of 2023, we also provide Voice-over-LTE / IMS services for our customers.

Study Shows That Even Experienced Developers Dramatically Overestimate Gains

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C3 is a programming language that builds on the syntax and semantics of the C language, with the goal of evolving it while still retaining familiarity for C programmers.

When implementing an optimization for derived clause lookup myself, Amit Langote and David Rowley argued about the initial size of hash tabl...

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With the new EU legislation Cyber Resiliency Act (CRA), there are new responsibilities and requirements put on manufacturers of digital products and services in Europe. Going forward these manufacturers must be able to know and report the exact contents of…