Update: U+237C ⍼ &Angzarr;(ionathan.ch)

380 points by g0xA52A2A 3 years ago | 75 comments

A blog post continuing an investigation into the origin of the Unicode character U+237C RIGHT ANGLE WITH DOWNWARDS ZIGZAG ARROW (⍼).

Doing First Grade Math in Rust's Type System(fprasx.github.io)

109 points by lukastyrychtr 2 years ago | 35 comments

A History of IDEs at Google(laurent.le-brun.eu)

441 points by laurentlb 5 months ago | 286 comments

Blog post by Laurent Le Brun recounting the history of IDEs and code editors used internally at Google for its main codebase.

The Hat, the Spectre and SAT Solvers (2024)(nhatcher.com)

98 points by todsacerdoti 1 year ago | 8 comments

I Fought the IRS for Over $12K and won(mikekasberg.com)

33 points by LorenDB 1 year ago | 37 comments

Leaving Neovim for Zed(stevedylan.dev)

289 points by mxstbr 2 years ago | 252 comments

Update: U+237C ⍼ &Angzarr;(ionathan.ch)

380 points by g0xA52A2A 3 years ago | 75 comments

A blog post continuing an investigation into the origin of the Unicode character U+237C RIGHT ANGLE WITH DOWNWARDS ZIGZAG ARROW (⍼).

What every software developer must know about Unicode in 2023(tonsky.me)

851 points by mrzool 3 years ago | 498 comments

Nikita Prokopov's (tonsky) blog post explaining the essentials of Unicode that software developers should know in 2023, updating Joel Spolsky's classic essay.

UTF-8 is a brilliant design(iamvishnu.com)

777 points by vishnuharidas 1 year ago | 305 comments

A blog post explaining how UTF-8 encoding represents millions of characters while remaining backward compatible with ASCII.

Anthropic invests $1.5M in the Python Software Foundation(discuss.python.org)

329 points by ayhanfuat 9 months ago | 151 comments

A Python discussion forum post from PSF staff announcing Anthropic's $1.5 million, two-year donation to the PSF focused on security work.

Reverse engineering a $1B Legal AI tool exposed 100k+ confidential files(alexschapiro.com)

752 points by bearsyankees 10 months ago | 258 comments

A blog post describing how the author found an unauthenticated API flaw in Filevine's legal AI tool exposing 100k+ confidential files, with a disclosure timeline.

Cosmologically Unique IDs(jasonfantl.com)

443 points by jfantl 8 months ago | 140 comments

A blog post by Jason Fantl exploring how to generate IDs that would remain unique across the entire universe, from UUIDs to cosmological scales.