How Mega-Codebases Produce Massive ELF Binaries and the 2GiB Relocation Barrier
TL;DR Large, statically linked codebases can produce ELF binaries that grow well beyond several gigabytes, exposing a practical limit caused…
Z80-μLM: Conversational AI Shrunk to a 40KB CP/M .COM Binary
TL;DR Z80-μLM is a tiny character-level 'conversational' model engineered to run on a 4MHz Z80 with 64KB RAM, packaged as…
Mockito maintainer to step down after a decade over agent, Kotlin issues
TL;DR The long-time Mockito maintainer announced he will resign in March 2026 after ten years, citing exhaustion from a JVM…
Slaughtering Competition Problems Using Quantifier Elimination in SageMath
TL;DR A blog post demonstrates using quantifier elimination — via the Tarski–Seidenberg theorem and QEPCAD through SageMath — to automate…
fcvvdp: a compact, high-performance C implementation of the CVVDP metric
TL;DR Halide Compression released fcvvdp, a C implementation of the University of Cambridge CVVDP perceptual metric. Benchmarks on a Core…
Slaughtering Competition Problems with Quantifier Elimination in Sage
TL;DR A 2021 blog post demonstrates using quantifier elimination (via the Tarski–Seidenberg theorem and QEPCAD through SageMath) to mechanically settle…
Unity’s Mono runtime falls behind modern .NET — why your C# runs much slower
TL;DR A developer benchmark found that C# code running under Unity’s Mono can be multiple times slower than the same…
Parsing IP Addresses Quickly and Portably – Without SIMD Magic Techniques
TL;DR The source is a blog post titled about fast, portable IP address parsing that avoids SIMD-based optimizations. The page…
Mockito maintainer announces stepping down after a decade of service
TL;DR Tim van der Lippe (TimvdLippe) plans to step down as Mockito maintainer in March 2026 after ten years. He…
Handling Rust Errors Without External Crates: Patterns Using std Only
TL;DR A Rust developer outlines a method for building error types using only the standard library, avoiding popular crates like…