A Chrome feature is creating enormous load on global root DNS servers

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What happens when you load a URL? (2015)

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I've been hearing this question a lot lately, and when I do, it reminds me how much I don't know. Here are some questions this question brings to mind. How does a keyboard work? Why can’t you press an arbitrary combination of three keys at once, except on…

Building a Home Lab Beginners Guide

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Until recently, and for well over the past decade, my wife and I have been nomads. Moving from the Caribbean to Miami, New York, Las Vegas, Vancouver, and now back home. This has meant that for many of those years, my home office basically comprised of a…

Airbnb Releases Tool to Convert Large Codebases to Typescript

InfoQ - JavaScript

The Airbnb engineering team recently released ts-migrate, a tool to help migrate JavaScript code to TypeScript. While the resulting TypeScript code will compile, manual revision of a few annotations (e.g. any) will still be necessary. An automated process…

TypeScript 4.0 Adds Long-Awaited Variadic Tuple Types

InfoQ - Architecture & Design

The TypeScript team announced the release of TypeScript 4.0, which includes long-awaited variadic tuple type support and other improvements without introducing any major breaking changes. By Dylan Schiemann

Paragon submits 27k-line NTFS driver to Linux kernel

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Paragon Software is trying to get its NTFS driver into the Linux kernel, but has submitted it as a single dump of 27,000 lines of code, sparking complaints that it is too large to review. NTFS is the default file system for Windows XP and later. Microsoft…

Ventoy: A new bootable USB solution

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PHP 8.0.0beta2 Released!

PHP.net news & announcements

The PHP team is pleased to announce the fifth testing release of PHP 8.0.0, Beta 2. This continues the PHP 8.0 release cycle, the rough outline of which is specified in the PHP Wiki. For source downloads of PHP 8.0.0 Beta 2 please visit…

Why we decided against GraphQL for local state management

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Here at OkCupid, we're pretty big fans of using GraphQL. When it comes to fetching data on any of our client platforms, the abstraction that the query language provides grants the flexibility for us to fetch precisely the data that we need in each…

Kotlin 1.4 Brings New Language Features, Improved Compilers and Tools

InfoQ - Development

Kotlin 1.4 focuses on improving performance and tooling. It also contains a number of new language features, including single abstract method (SAM) conversion for interfaces, explicit API mode, and more. By Sergio De Simone