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Laravel 13.25 replaces the concurrent process runner in artisan dev with @laravel/multiplex, a terminal UI that isolates output from the development server, queue worker, Pail, and Vite into separate tabs. Three display …
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Laravel 13.25 introduces global pause/resume for all queues across connections via queue:pause --all and Queue::pauseAll(). The artisan dev command now uses @laravel/multiplex for a tabbed terminal interface with per-pro…
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A new developer at a software company discovers her manager has forbidden branching and pull requests, claiming they waste time and violate CI principles. Her teammates quietly ignore this rule and work with branches any…
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TinySol, a hand-written assembly solitaire for DOS, squeezes full gameplay into just 3 KB. The minimal version runs on IBM 5150 hardware with CGA/EGA/VGA support; a 3.5 KB build adds mouse and save features. It fits insi…
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A detailed historical account of how Rust's RangeFrom type evolved from its 2014 introduction through 2026, examining the deliberate overflow behavior, documented boundary quirks, and recent API stabilization via RFC 355…
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In 1954, Eiichi Goto invented the parametron, a ferrite-core resonant circuit that encoded bits in the phase of an oscillation. It powered a whole family of Japanese computers — slow by any measure, but cheap, reliable, …
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Modular has released version 26.5, which marks the first stable release of the Mojo programming language. Mojo 1.0 promises a stable foundation with mostly additive changes during the 1.x cycle, plus new features such as…
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Developer Jggonz has released os8088, a single-floppy OS for 8088 IBM PCs and clones with a slick Macintosh-style GUI, preemptive multitasking, and loadable software. It would have been sensational in 1984; arriving in 2…
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Laravel News introduces Double, a PHP 8.3+ test double library by Laravel Shift creator Jason McCreary. It replaces the mock/spy/partial split with a single object, three behavior modes, readable failure output, PHPUnit …
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The Daily WTF highlights a concurrency API where a Status property carries an XML doc comment solemnly declaring it private so consumers cannot break everything — while the property itself is declared fully public with g…
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Network engineer Anurag Bhatia pieces together the history of transit-free (Tier 1) networks from 1997 to today, combining old Route Views and RIPE RIS BGP dumps with the Wikipedia Tier 1 page's edit history — and docume…
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Dennis Ritchie's page of Unix curiosities explains where 'values of β will give rise to dom!' came from, why 'You are not expected to understand this' was an apology rather than arrogance, and how a missing inverter wire…
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A video dives into the lore of Novell's NE2000, the ubiquitous 1990s network card whose cheap clones made Ethernet affordable and whose register-compatible design haunted driver authors for decades. Retro-hardware nostal…
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Obsolescence Guaranteed, a replica-hardware collective, published a longform history tracing interactive computing from Turing's 1936 universal machine through Whirlwind, the TX-0, DEC's PDP line and the ARPANET. The the…
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Laravel Truss, a package by Alberto Arena, introspects your database structure and renders a zoomable, browser-based ER diagram at /truss. It adds schema diffing, health checks, multi-connection support and exports to DB…
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Laravel 13.16 replaces the composer-based dev script with a first-party php artisan dev command that starts the dev server, queue listener, Pail logs and Vite together. This Laravel News tutorial explains the DevCommands…
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A 1978 excerpt from dolphin-and-ketamine researcher John C. Lilly's metaphysical autobiography has surfaced on Hacker News. In it, Lilly describes a 'solid-state entity' of networked computers that gradually absorbs cont…
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Tim Berners-Lee's 1998 essay 'Cool URIs Don't Change' is back on the Hacker News front page with 112 points. His argument: links rot because people reorganize, not because they must — and a URI revealing your tech stack …
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A video essay revisits the Xerox Alto, the 1973 PARC machine that pioneered the GUI, WYSIWYG editing, networked e-mail and laser printing. Only about 2,000 units were built. Xerox, fearing for its copier business, never …
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Over four decades after Commodore-Amiga, Inc. was founded, Amiga Corporation has signed deals with Commodore International and Hyperion Entertainment that consolidate nearly all Commodore and Amiga era rights. Hyperion k…
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The 1978 short film 'Farewell, Etaoin Shrdlu' by David Loeb Weiss records the final hot-metal typesetting of the New York Times on July 2, 1978 — Linotype machines, molten lead at 535 degrees, and deafening noise — as th…
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An essay retells the John Henry folk tale — a steel-driving man who beat a steam drill and died doing it — as an allegory for AI in software work. The author's twist: winning the duel changes nothing, because the railroa…
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A Laravel News tutorial shows how to validate and convert HEIC photos from iPhones using Laravel 13.24, which now accepts HEIC, HEIF and AVIF inputs, adds toHeic() output, and extends the image validation rule. It covers…
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A runnable Python tour traces quorum replication from Thomas's 1979 majority voting to the ABD linearizable register, then pinpoints exactly where it fails: ABD cannot do compare-and-swap and cannot reconstruct a replica…
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Saga Lara Flow is a Laravel package that turns long-running business processes into plain PHP methods on top of queues, with recorded steps, replay semantics, compensating transactions, signals, parallel blocks, and chil…
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The Daily WTF collects reader-submitted screenshots of date handling gone wrong: a OnePlus order rescheduled for delivery in the past, a car stuck 1024 weeks in the past after a GPS rollover, and parcels apparently deliv…
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A thrift-store copy of Compton's 3D World Atlas Deluxe sent one developer down a rabbit hole: transcoding Indeo videos, mirroring a dead website from the Internet Archive, writing an x86 shim, and shipping a rollback-saf…
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Filament v4.12.6 and v5.7.6 deliver render-time cuts of up to ~92% for forms and ~52% for tables, alongside security patches for several CVEs. The releases also add query-builder limits, CSV injection protection, CSS col…
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Laravel Boost v2.5.0 enables project rules by default: committed Markdown files in .ai/rules that teach AI coding agents your team's conventions, scoped to matching directories. A record-rule MCP tool and an infer-conven…
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The Daily WTF showcases an 'Ancient Development Environment' whose build errors appear as random popups displaying malformed XHTML markup — one source line per tree-view row — in a legacy widget without anti-aliasing. Gr…