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Programming Leftovers
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Sandor Dargo ☛ C++26: the new debugging header
If you’ve ever needed to hit a breakpoint programmatically in C++, you’ve probably written something like this: [...]
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R / R-Script
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Dirk Eddelbuettel ☛ Dirk Eddelbuettel: RcppFastFloat 0.0.6 on CRAN: New Upstream
A new release of RcppFastFloat just arrived on CRAN, and has The package wraps fast_float, another nice library by Daniel Lemire.
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Dirk Eddelbuettel ☛ Dirk Eddelbuettel: myman 0.1.0 on CRAN: New (fabulous !!) Package
Thrilled to share that our new package myman reached CRAN a few days ago. The package offers sixteen hundred ninety four “My man …” posts by Kevin Kruse made on bsky during the summer of 2026. Each wave picked at one particular public persona. This package wrapse these up in the style of packages like fortunes or gaussfacts.
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ThinkR ☛ My first attempt at porting a Shiny app failed, and not for a technical reason - Rtask
Translating your code line by line is the surest way to get it all wrong…
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R Works ☛ August 2026 Top 40 New CRAN Packages – R Works
Three hundred twenty-nine new packages were submitted to CRAN in July. Here are my Top 40 picks in nineteen categories: Agriculture, Artificial Intelligence, Climate Studies, Computational Methods, Ecology, Epidemiology, Genomics, Machine Learning, Medical Statistics, Meta-Analysis, Networks, Process control, Programming, Public Transit, Statistics, Surveys, Time Series, Utilities, and Visualization.
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Python
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LWN ☛ Reports from the 2026 Python Language Summit
The 2026 Python Language Summit was held on July 14 in Kraków, Poland;
there is now a
series of reports available on the topics that were discussed there.
They include the memory buffer protocol, garbage collection, free-threaded
Python, and "Spicycrab".
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Seth Michael Larson ☛ Blogging for the Python Language Summit
It is useful to have some knowledge about the Python development process, ongoing concerns for the project, governance, and some history about "how we got to this moment" to be able to write about the Python Language Summit. You can prepare in-depth by looking at the topics that will be spoken about and reading the past few years of Python Language Summit blog posts, are there returning faces or themes? What have those people been up to in the meantime?
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Adam Johnson ☛ Django: serve a security.txt file
security.txt is a web standard to fix this problem. It’s a small text file, served at the reserved path /.well-known/security.txt, that says how to report security issues to your organization. It was standardized in April 2022 as RFC 9116.
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Shell/Bash/Zsh/Ksh
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Adam Johnson ☛ Zsh: sort globs in natural order with the (n) glob qualifier
Globs sort filenames character by character, so numbered files often come out in a surprising order, with 10 before 2. Zsh has a neat fix for this: the n glob qualifier, which applies a “natural” sort, treating any run of digits as a number rather than a string of characters.
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Perl / Raku
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Raku Weekly News ☛ 2026.39 Mainstreamed – Raku Weekly News
A major step towards releasing the next language level of the Raku Programming Language (tentatively called “6.e”) has been achieved with the 2026.09 release of Rakudo: it makes the new Raku grammar/actions (based on RakuAST) the default when running Raku programs. Love it when a plan comes together!
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Rust
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Rust Weekly Updates ☛ This Week In Rust: This Week in Rust 671
Hello and welcome to another issue of This Week in Rust!
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