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SCons is listed as a meta build system here, but it is clearly an end-to-end build system. It seems to me SCons even fits all the requirements listed by the author. Plus, you progr…

Rust strings enforce utf-8 encoding, yes. However, it seems Windows (which uses utf-16) allows ill-formed UTF-16, in particular it tolerates unpaired surrogates. You can read more …

I saw this "shortcut" used in code snippets, on online JS/CSS/HTML editors like JSFiddle. It did not even occur to me this was part of JS spec, I thought the editor was generating …

One of my preferred video clip ever was filmed entirely during a parabolic flight: OK Go, Upside Down & Inside Out https://youtu.be/LWGJA9i18Co

These days RhodeCode has a Community edition which is licensed under AGPLv3.

There is a very clever and beautiful algorithm that only uses the xor operation. It's the Luby Transform code, the simplest implementation of a Fountain Code. A Fountain Code lets …