August 6, 2024 We are introducing Structured Outputs in the API—model outputs now reliably adhere to developer-supplied JSON Schemas. Last year at DevDay, we introduced JSON mode—a useful building blo
We’re pleased to announce that, as of version 23, the Puppeteer browser automation library now has first-class support for Firefox. This means that it’s now easy to write automation and perform end-to
When I was a child in the 1950s, my friends and I had two educations. We had school (which was not the big deal it is today), and we also had what I call a hunter-gatherer education. We played in mixe
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I’ll always remember experiencing Canon’s ingenious Eye-control AF for the first time. It blew me away during a hands-on session with the Canon EOS R1 and Canon EOS R5 Mark II – Canon's latest mirrorl
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Introduction Imagine yourself a decade ago, jumping directly into the present shock of conversing naturally with an encyclopedic AI that crafts images, writes code, and debates philosophy. Won’t this
It was supposed to be Trump’s administration in waiting. But Project 2025 was a mirage all along. Paul Dans, director of the Heritage Foundation's 2025 Presidential Transition Project is pictured at t
Twilio has finally killed off its Authy for Desktop application, forcibly logging users out of the desktop application. In January, Twilio announced that the Authy desktop apps for Windows, macOS, and
New scientific understanding and engineering techniques have always impressed and frightened. No doubt they will continue to. OpenAI recently announced that it anticipates “superintelligence” – AI sur
A technology community driven by values, not just profits. I’ve been part of the New York City tech scene for more than 15 years, from back when it was “Silicon Alley” trying to be an imitation of the
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When a startup is first founded, it is nothing but risk. Successfully building a company is the act of slowly eliminating that risk until you have created a reliable cash flow machine. There are five
Recursion is an idea often associated with infinity, a process that repeats ad aeternam. It is perhaps surprising, then, that the origin story of mathematical recursion is grounded in finitism, the re
Yesterday there was some discussion on the Orange Site about whether or not C is Turing complete. The consensus in the StackOverflow question is, no, because the C abstract machine is a (large) finite
Aggregation is the most important operator in ClickHouse and also the most optimized one. This article attempts to analyze the internal implementation of ClickHouse’s aggregation operator, including t
Understanding how search engines crawl, render, and index web pages is crucial for optimizing sites for search engines. Over the years, as search engines like Google change their processes, it’s tough
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A script to analyse 7+ years of my YouTube history Before deleting my YouTube account, I used Google Takeout to get a complete history of all videos I watched. I used this history to analyse how much
More than a million domain names — including many registered by Fortune 100 firms and brand protection companies — are vulnerable to takeover by cybercriminals thanks to authentication weaknesses at a
As of today, I’ve been blogging for 10 years. In this time I’ve written 302,000 words across 343 articles — a rate of one article every week and a half. These articles form a record of my professional progress, touching on both “hard” technical skills and “soft” communication skills. My older…
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“The end of history will be a very sad time.” —Francis Fukuyama As 1992 drew closer, a specter haunted the Republican Party establishment—the white-robed specter of David Duke. The former grand wizard
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In advertisements that have aired during the Olympics and are popping up online, Apple says its Safari is “a browser that’s actually private.” That’s mostly true, with caveats. Apple deserves credit f
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Leander Kahney talks to Bill Atkinson, the programming genius behind MacPaint and much of the original Macintosh operating system, about HyperCard: What Could Have Been: Atkinson, now a successful nat
Home About Projects Posts C Macro Reflection in Zig Zig Has Better C Interop Than C Itself By Jacob Strieb. Published on July 30, 2024. Zig Zig is a nascent programming language with an emphasis on lo
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We’re excited to announce Replit Object Storage, a fast and durable way to persist files and other unstructured data. Object Storage ensures your data is resilient against data loss and usable across
On January 1, 2023, Apple sunsetted (pun intended) the Dark Sky mobile app on iOS. Apple purchased the company behind the popular weather application in early 2020, then announced that it would be shu
FABIEN SANGLARD'S WEBSITE ABOUT CONTACT RSS GIVE July 29, 2024 Carving the Super Nintendo Video System Last time, I explored the inside of the Super Nintendo cartridges. Today I am going through its v
Longtime customers know there are two distinct categories of AWS services. Category 1 contains the gold-plated, inner-circle, first-ballot Hall-of-Fame services like EC2, S3, DynamoDB, etc. These are
Brian Kernighan, a professor of computer science, wants to help everyone, regardless of their math background, navigate the dazzling array of numbers flung around by journalists, advertisers and polit
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