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Hello, I am not sure if I'm doing something wrong or this is a bug to be reported, but this is the situation: The following code on its own (as expected) does not compile: trait Trait { const N: usize; fn foo() -> [u8;…
Tool: Seam Cutter I built this weird and very specific cropping tool - it lets you create a horizontal or vertical cut across an image, then slide the two sides relative to each other. Effectively it lets you crop out a…
We're a small co-op building Spare Kit, an open-source (MPL-2.0) geometry kernel in Rust, to power a Revit/CAD alternative that runs natively and in the browser (WASM). Much of the code is written by AI agents working…
Nobody runs a SecurityManager in production. The usual reason given is that it does not survive a load test, and every guarantee in this series was bought with a check: a constraint on each call, an audit before each…
cat prints files. acat plays them. That's the whole idea. I built it today, and I've been smiling about it all afternoon. Why I had a recording of an X Space I'd hosted, sitting in my home directory as an mp4. I wanted…
There's a memecoin named after Requests, and I'm involved with it. I'd rather you hear about it from me, plainly, than from a screenshot. How This Happened I didn't create the token. It launched on pump.fun on October…
Some disappointing, but perhaps not entirely unsurprising news this week out of Denmark — after announcing last year that they would transition away from Microsoft’s proprietary software, the realities of …read more
In nearly every conversation we have about data sovereignty, the first word out of someone’s mouth is residency. Where does the data physically sit? That’s the question executives are trained to ask, and it’s the wrong…
Optimize Images 2.2.0 has just been released, and it makes JPEG files even smaller by default, adds an optional SSIM-based quality check, and now keeps embedded colour profiles such as the Display P3 profile of iPhone…
Rani Chowdary Mandepudi of Arm joins Harbor maintainers to share updates covering registry security, operations, performance, scalability, integrations, governance and contribution opportunities. Join us November 9-12…
Ditch the smart phone and communicate with your buddy by building this set of walkie talkies! A Feather ESP32-S3 Reverse TFT runs Arduino code that uses the ESP-NOW wireless protocol to send and receive I2S audio…
With the topic of marble clocks having been quite well explored at this point, it raises the question of how easy it would be to take the basic principle and …read more
The filesystem server's README has you paste something like this into your config: { "mcpServers": { "filesystem": { "command": "npx", "args": [ "-y", "@modelcontextprotocol/server-filesystem@2.0.1", "/tmp" ] } } } The…
If you pay the same person in USDC or USDT every month, there is a good chance you do it like this: open the wallet, find last month's transfer, copy the address, paste, send. That one step, copying the address from…
TLDR: In this blog post we introduce a brand new open source library called scichart-react (npm, GitHub). This makes it easy to create stunning high-performance charts and data visualizations in React. SciChart-React…
Cross-posted from my blog. The original, with any updates, lives on fabwaseem.com. A ComfyUI custom node is a Python class that ComfyUI loads from a folder in custom_nodes. Most tutorials stop there. The interesting…
How I Built a 60 FPS Real-Time Fractal Explorer in WebGL 2.0 & Vectorized NumPy Library for 27 Complex Systems 🌀⚡ Fractals are infinite mathematical universes generated by deceptively simple rules. Most of us have seen…