Nice algorithm for rendering fonts. Turns out it's not patent encumbered anymore, this is good news.

The commentaries and analysis of those unjust laws continues. The motives behind the people pushing for them are getting clearer and it isn't pretty.

Vulkan compute shaders are very much capable nowadays. Exemplified by its use in FFmpeg.

Interesting read on how the CPython JIT effort has been saved.

This is definitely a disturbing result. It indeed makes democracies more fragile, all the more reason to build more democratic resilience.

Let's help them help us. There are a few things to have in place for governments to be able to pay maintainers.

Or why this latest trend in genAI hype is a fool's errand.

Also, it's likely a pessimistic estimate... Indeed, it's mostly based on a list from Kagi, which likely doesn't list many sites which would qualify.

Looks like an interesting ORM which brings advantages of the Django one without all the bagage. It's still young, let's see how it evolves.