Programming Leftovers

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Jun 07, 2023

• Solid earnings beat and strong forecast send GitLab’s stock soaring [Ed: Fails to mention mass layoffs in the company this year]

  GitLab Inc.’s stock was riding high in extended trading today after the DevOps company posted strong first-quarter results that topped expectations, offered a strong forecast for the coming quarter and raised its full-year guidance.

• Mike Blumenkrantz: Blogs

  I’ve been monitoring the issues everyone’s been reporting for GAMES THAT DON’T RENDER GOOD, and before I got sucked into doing this (huge) thing that I’m totally gonna talk about at some point, I was actually organizing some of the reports into tables and such. And investigating them. And one of the ones I was looking at was some broken sampling in Wolfenstein:

  Some weird grid lines being rendered there. And so I took out my trusty chainsaw renderdoc, and I looked at the shaders, and, well, I’m not about to bore you with the details, but they were totally unreadable. It turns out that all the “free” bitcasting zink does during SPIRV translation isn’t actually free when you gotta read it.

• Henrik Skupin: My 20th Bugzilla account anniversary

  It’s somewhat scary how fast the time flies by. I can remember that I wrote a post for my 15th Bugzilla anniversary (as it feels not that long ago). But now the next mark has been reached with using Bugzilla for 20 years! A lot has happened in those last 5 years, and I’m sure that the 25th anniversary will come as well.

• Hull: Headless Next.js Starter for Shopify and Headless CMS with Sanity.io

  Hull is a free open-source Next.js starter for anyone who is interested in building a content rich eCommerce shop with full SEO support. It is easy to deploy on Vercel platform, and simple to setup. Developers can also deploy it on Sanity or their own servers.

• Mastering file download in shiny

  You can read the original post in its original format on Rtask website by ThinkR here: Mastering file download in shiny
  

• Next.js Enterprise Boilerplate For Serious Developers

  The Next.js Enterprise Boilerplate is an incredible open-source template designed specifically for enterprise projects. This powerful template is packed with amazing features and functionalities, carefully selected and curated to help you build high-performance, maintainable, and enjoyable applications that are both scalable and efficient. Whether you're a seasoned developer or

• Stan class at NYR Conference in July (in person and virtual)

  I (Jonah) am excited to be teaching a 2-day Stan workshop preceding the NYR Conference in July. The workshop will be July 11-12 and the conference July 13-14.