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Programming Leftovers
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Jim Nielsen ☛ Successive Prototypes Bridge the Gap Between Idea and Reality
The only way to truly know if an idea works is to test it.
The gap between an idea and reality is the work.
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Linux Handbook ☛ Rethinking DevOps
An unusual series. Here's a theoretical approach to a new model you can adopt that simplifies how those DevOps tools we talk about can be made and managed by the DevOps community.
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Launchpad News: Deprecating CVS and Subversion imports
What are code imports?
Launchpad’s code import service allows users to automatically mirror code from external version control systems into Launchpad. Historically, this has supported imports from CVS, Subversion, Bazaar and Git.
As part of this, Launchpad currently also supports imports into Bazaar branches from: [...]
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Education
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Rlang ☛ Intro to C++ programming for R applications for Econometricians workshop
Description: The session will facilitate attendees in starting programming in C++ for R applications. To learn how to do that, Tomasz has read several books, tens of articles, and taken a few online courses, so you don’t have to 😉😉 The session will focus on [...]
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Rlang ☛ Deploying a Golem Shiny App to ShinyApps.io
Because of delays with my scholarship payment, if this post is useful to you I kindly ask a minimal donation on Buy Me a Coffee. It shall be used to continue my Open Source efforts.
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Hackaday ☛ The Shady School
We can understand why shaderacademy.com chose that name over “the shady school,” but whatever they call it, if you are looking to brush up on graphics programming with GPUs, it might be just what you are looking for.
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Perl / Raku
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Rakulang ☛ Rakudo Weekly 2025.34 Computationally Irreducible
Anton’s Corner This blog post introduces and exemplifies the Raku package “LLM::Graph”, which is used to efficiently schedule and combine multiple LLM generation steps.
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Raku for Prediction ☛ LLM::Graph
This blog post introduces and exemplifies the Raku package “LLM::Graph”, which is used to efficiently schedule and combine multiple LLM generation steps.
The package provides the class LLM::Graph with which computations are orchestrated.
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Python
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LWN ☛ PyCon US 2025 recap and recordings
The PyCon team has announced that all PyCon US 2025 recordings are now available on its YouTube channel.
We had an amazing and diverse group of community members join us for PyCon US 2025, attending from 58 different countries! By the numbers, we welcomed a total attendance of 2,225 Pythonistas to the David L. Lawrence Convention Center.
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Golang
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Miguel Young de la Sota ☛ Default Methods in Go
Because of their structural nature, this also means that you can’t add new methods to an interface without breaking existing code, because there is no way to attach default implementations to interface methods. This results in very silly APIs because someone screwed up an interface.
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