25 June 2022

20 links · Saturday

[TUHS] Re: forgotten versions - TUHS

The Plan 9 CD-ROM needed about 100MB for the full distribution, if that. We hatched a plan to fill up the rest with encoded music and include the software to decode it. (We wanted to get the encoder out too, but lawyers stood in the way. Keep reading.) Using c…

Episode 428 - Java and Spring Apps

Our resident expert on all things Java on Azure, Asir Vedamuthu Selvasingh, gives us all the latest updates on running your Java workloads on various Azure services. He also dives into the newly renamed Azure Spring Apps service which now has more SKUs to addr…

Martin's Giant Hike

Help Martin Woodward raise money to support Macmillan Cancer Support

Amazon launches CodeWhisperer, a GitHub Copilot-like AI pair programming tool – TechCrunch

At its re:Mars conference, Amazon today announced the launch of CodeWhisperer, an AI pair programming tool similar to GitHub’s Copilot that can autocomplete entire functions based on only a comment or a few keystrokes. The company trained the system, which cur…

rustc_typeck::collect - Rust

“Collection” is the process of determining the type and other external details of each item in Rust. Collection is specifically concerned with inter-procedural things – for example, for a function definition, collection will figure out the type and signature o…

When is a product "done" and what do you do next?

Some teams continue building new features and improvements to products without stepping back and considering whether it makes sense to stop When is a product considered good enough or done? And what should a team do once it’s done? In this post I share a commo…

Why Nobody is Happy with Hybrid

Meetings where people are co-located and streaming on Zoom are the WORST. It sounds terrible, no one who isn't there can understand you, and I have no idea who is talking. Glad the people in the office are having a good time

A journey into the Linux scheduler

Two years ago more or less I started my journey in Linux. I was scared at first and I didn’t know where to start from. But then I decided to buy a book - and what a book! - in order to follow a path. Along the way, I integrated the material with up-to-date doc…