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1. Stop syncing everything Total comment counts : 33 Summary The article introduces Graft, an open-source transactional storage engine designed to facilitate lazy, partial replication with strong consistency and scalability, specifically targeting edge environments. Graft aims to combine the simplicity of physical replication with the efficiency of logical replication, addressing challenges faced when syncing data across clients and servers. The author, motivated by the limitations he encountered while developing SQLSync, created Graft to provide a more suitable solution for edge scenarios where clients operate under constraints like unreliable networks and resource limitations....

1. Go Optimization Guide Total comment counts : 19 Summary The Go App Optimization Guide is a series of technical articles designed to help developers enhance the performance of their Go applications. It covers various aspects including building high-throughput APIs, microservices, and distributed systems. Although Go offers fewer performance tuning options compared to languages like C++ or Rust, it still provides effective methods for optimizing applications, focusing on memory reuse, allocation control, networking, and concurrency patterns....

1. The demoscene as a UNESCO heritage in Sweden Total comment counts : 17 Summary The article discusses the recognition of the demoscene as a national UNESCO heritage in Sweden, following an application submitted by the author and Ziphoid. This initiative is part of a broader effort to establish the demoscene as a global UNESCO heritage under the Art of Coding initiative, which highlights the demoscene’s significance as one of the oldest creative digital subcultures....

1. Everyone knows all the apps on your phone Total comment counts : 53 Summary The article discusses the changes in Android’s app visibility policy introduced with Android 11 in 2022, which limits apps’ abilities to detect other installed apps on users’ devices without permission. Developers can only access this information if it is essential to their app’s functionality and must declare the accessed apps in their manifest files. The author investigates a variety of Indian apps, specifically focusing on Swiggy and Zepto, to see how they comply with this policy....

1. Project Aardvark: reimagining AI weather prediction Total comment counts : 18 Summary error Top 1 Comment Summary error Top 2 Comment Summary error 2. 23andMe files for bankruptcy to sell itself Total comment counts : 42 Summary error Top 1 Comment Summary error Top 2 Comment Summary error 3. Quadlet: Running Podman containers under systemd Total comment counts : 23 Summary error Top 1 Comment Summary error Top 2 Comment Summary error...

1. Improving recommendation systems and search in the age of LLMs Total comment counts : 16 Summary error Top 1 Comment Summary error Top 2 Comment Summary error 2. Feral pig meat transmits rare bacteria Total comment counts : 12 Summary error Top 1 Comment Summary error Top 2 Comment Summary error 3. The Vectrex Computer Total comment counts : 14 Summary error Top 1 Comment Summary error Top 2 Comment Summary error...

1. Career Development: What It Means to Be a Manager, Director, or VP (2015) Total comment counts : 48 Summary error Top 1 Comment Summary error Top 2 Comment Summary error 2. The indieweb doesn’t need to “take off” Total comment counts : 33 Summary error Top 1 Comment Summary error Top 2 Comment Summary error 3. Zero-knowledge proofs, encoding Sudoku and Mario speedruns without semantic leak Total comment counts : 8...

1. Bolt3D: Generating 3D Scenes in Seconds Total comment counts : 13 Summary error Top 1 Comment Summary error Top 2 Comment Summary error 2. The Pain That Is GitHub Actions Total comment counts : 76 Summary error Top 1 Comment Summary error Top 2 Comment Summary error 3. How I accepted myself into Canada’s largest AI hackathon Total comment counts : 15 Summary error Top 1 Comment Summary error...

1. Make Ubuntu packages 90% faster by rebuilding them Total comment counts : 58 Summary error Top 1 Comment Summary error Top 2 Comment Summary error 2. Crew-9 Returns to Earth Total comment counts : 41 Summary error Top 1 Comment Summary error Top 2 Comment Summary error 3. The Lost Art of Research as Leisure Total comment counts : 47 Summary error Top 1 Comment Summary error Top 2 Comment Summary error...

1. Block YouTube ads on AppleTV by decrypting and stripping ads from Profobuf (2022) Total comment counts : 37 Summary error Top 1 Comment Summary error Top 2 Comment Summary error 2. Apple restricts Pebble from being awesome with iPhones Total comment counts : 75 Summary error Top 1 Comment Summary error Top 2 Comment Summary error 3. Extracting DNA from the air – DNA evidence of human occupancy in indoor premises Total comment counts : 13...