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Thunderbird ☛ Thunderbird Monthly Release 142 Recap - The Thunderbird Blog
We’re back with another exciting Monthly Release recap! Thunderbird 142.0 brings a host of user-requested features and important bug fixes that make your email experience smoother and more reliable. From better folder management to smarter PDF handling, this release focuses on the details that matter most to your daily workflow.
A quick reminder – these updates are for users on our monthly Thunderbird Release channel. For our users still on the ESR (Extended Standard Release) channel, these updates won’t land until next July 2026. For more information on the differences between the channels and how to make the switch: [...]
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University of Toronto ☛ You can only customize GNU Emacs so far due to primitives
This is a perfectly fair and logical decision by the GNU Emacs developers. To put it one way, GNU Emacs is opinionated. It and its developers have a certain model of how it works and how things should behave, what it means for the program to be 'GNU Emacs' as opposed to a hypothetical editor construction kit, and what the C code does is a reflection of that. To the Emacs developers, 'make a frame visible' is a sensible thing to do and is best done in C, so they did it that way.
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SaaS/Back End/Databases
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Jane Street ☛ Jane Street Blog - What the interns have wrought, 2025 edition
We use a lot of SQL at Jane Street, both in standard Postgres (or similar) databases floating around, and for accessing our own homegrown analytics-oriented data warehouse software.
Over time, we came to realize that SQL was sufficiently well-known internally that we wanted to use it beyond the context of databases, as a general language for filtering and transforming tabular data. This could be useful in all sorts of contexts: web UIs, data visualization tools, trading-systems configuration tools, etc.
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PostgreSQL ☛ pgmoneta 0.19
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Content Management Systems (CMS) / Static Site Generators (SSG)
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Kiwi TCMS: Enterprise Subscription Explained
Hello testers, this page explains what the Enterprise subscription is and how it brings more value beyond the Kiwi TCMS application itself.
What is Kiwi TCMS Enterprise
This is a distribution of the Kiwi TCMS application with multiple add-ons suitable for enterprise customers. Popular examples include various login backends, e.g. LDAP and multi-tenancy architecture. See the features page for more details.
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Standards/Consortia
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Hackaday ☛ Receiving Radio Signals From Space Like It’s 1994
For certain situations, older hardware is preferred or even needed to accomplish a task. This is common in industrial applications where old machinery might not be supported by modern hardware or software. Even in these situations though, we have the benefit of modern technology and the Internet to get these systems up and running again. [Old Computers Sucked] is not only building a mid-90s system to receive NOAA satellite imagery, he’s doing it only with tools and equipment available to someone from this era.
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