A Firefox security engineer investigates exploit mitigations like Arbitrary Code Guard (ACG) and its feasibility for macOS, focusing on dynamic code generation restrictions.
Practical tips for optimizing Django database interactions, covering aggregation filters, namedtuples, and custom functions.
A technical guide on creating multi-source partitioned tables in Azure Analysis Services, combining cold data from Azure Data Lake Store with hot data from Azure SQL Database.
A retrospective analysis of the .NET framework's open-source journey after 3 years, examining community contributions, key milestones, and project activity.
Essential guide for using Maven with Java 9+, covering version requirements, configuration, and multi-JDK builds.
A guide to building a secure, automated AWS Account Factory using AWS Organizations, IAM, and CloudFormation for scalable account management.
Analyzes line length distributions in popular Python packages, comparing them to Twitter's character limit analysis and exploring PEP8 style guide adherence.
A visual guide explaining Evolution Strategies (ES) as a gradient-free optimization alternative to reinforcement learning for training neural networks.
An introductory guide to the fundamental concepts of object detection, covering image gradients, HOG, and segmentation, as a precursor to deep learning methods.
Explores solutions for using JSR 305 annotations like @Nonnull with Java 9's module system, addressing split package conflicts.
A guide to using SQL Server's SWITCH operation to quickly modify schema on massive, non-partitioned tables with billions of rows.
An exploration of DotNetAnywhere, a lightweight, alternative .NET runtime, its features, limitations, and use in projects like Blazor.
A curated list of the top 20 open-source Swift libraries for iOS development, covering networking, server-side, reactive programming, and more.
A developer shares their journey into public speaking at tech conferences, from local user groups to international events, and reflects on the reality behind the 'glamour'.
A developer shares a story about patience in open source, detailing a 7-month-old pull request to improve documentation for the freeboard dashboard project.
Announces sway 0.15-rc1 and the upcoming 1.0 release, detailing the migration to the new wlroots library for the Wayland compositor.
A developer shares their experience contributing to an open-source dashboard project, highlighting the patience required in open-source development.
A hands-on tutorial on using the Java module system with code-first examples, from Hello World to modularizing an application.
Explains how to use the Promesa library to implement async/await patterns for handling JavaScript promises in ClojureScript.
Part 2 of a series analyzing gender differences in dating dynamics, focusing on challenges and perspectives for nerds.
