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Multiplayer games can be a scary concept for indie game developers as it's really hard to design for all the different network conditions with e.g. people playing on terrible 3G connections and across continents.
This blog post discusses the recent CrowdStrike outage, which was caused by a memory safety error in the CSagent driver, and provides technical insights into the root cause. Windows usually has safeguards for the quality of third-party security products. Microsoft discourages the use of kernel drivers by security solutions, but it is forced to allow them due to regulation, which is one of the reasons why the CrowdStrike outage happened.
This article offers a detailed explanation of various rendering strategies. It explores the ideal use cases, advantages, and considerations for each strategy - Static Site Generation (SSG), Server-Side Rendering (SSR), Client-Side Rendering (CSR), and Incremental Static Regeneration (ISR). SSG is good for static content, ISR is great for periodically changing content, and SSR and CSR are the best for real-time data.
SAML is a standard for exchanging security-related messages between different entities, most commonly used for single sign-on (SSO). In SSO, users authenticate with a centralized identity provider (IDP) and then access multiple applications without having to log in to each one individually. The service provider (SP) and IDP communicate via the user's browser, exchanging SAML requests and responses. SAML responses contain assertions about the user's identity, which are digitally signed by the IDP to ensure authenticity and integrity.
Zach Wilson rapidly climbed the engineering ladder from Junior to Staff in five years through strategic job hopping from Meta to Netflix to Airbnb. He would build a strong internal brand by building trust and would communicate his impact well to get promoted quickly.
Perfectionism leads to wasted time, unnecessary stress, and ultimately, hindered progress. Developers should shift their mindset towards "good enough" and making progress. This post highlights the importance of getting feedback early and shipping the smallest unit of value.
It is a common misconception that `emplace_back` in C++ automatically enables move semantics. `emplace_back` is not magic and does not implicitly move objects. Using `std::move` is necessary to explicitly request a move operation. While both `push_back` and `emplace_back` can achieve the same result with `std::move`, `push_back` should be used by default for better compile-time performance, as `emplace_back` involves more complex template instantiation.
Ky is a lightweight HTTP client built on the Fetch API. It offers simplified requests, automatic error handling, and JSON support. Ky provides features like timeouts, retries, URL prefixes, and hooks for advanced customization. It is compatible with modern browsers and Node.js.
react-native-filament is a 3D rendering library for React Native apps. It utilizes Filament for high-quality graphics and Bullet3 for physics simulation. react-native-filament offers a declarative API, GPU acceleration, and multithreading for efficient rendering.
Opslane is a tool that helps make the on-call experience less stressful. It reduces alert fatigue by classifying alerts as actionable or noisy and providing contextual information for handling alerts.
This article explains how Simultaneous Multithreading (SMT) works in modern CPUs. SMT enables a processor to handle instructions from two different threads simultaneously by duplicating certain resources and sharing others. This can improve resource utilization and system throughput, but also introduces potential performance issues due to resource competition and security vulnerabilities.
A technical investigation revealed that a decade ago, Facebook, through its Onavo Protect app, intercepted encrypted mobile traffic from users' devices. This was achieved by exploiting a vulnerability in Android's security controls, which allowed Facebook to install a custom certificate authority (CA) certificate on users' devices, enabling it to decrypt HTTPS traffic. This practice, dubbed "SSL bump," was used to target competitor analytics domains like Snapchat, YouTube, and Amazon, granting Facebook insights into their in-app actions.
This author goes over their procedural game development tools and techniques, such as triplanar mapping, hex tiling, depth pre-passes, and AI-powered texture synthesis. Each offers unique benefits for enhancing visual quality and performance in 3D scenes. The author also discusses his work on procedural mesh processing and manipulation, a pipeline for creating realistic deformations, and modifications to game assets in real-time. Looking ahead, the author intends to explore constructive solid geometry, a method for applying Boolean operations to 3D space.
Python consumes 76 times more energy and is 72 times slower than C.
There are trade-offs between different methods for displaying SVGs on the web - this post goes through the advantages and disadvantages of using img, svg, iframe, and other techniques.
The @property at-rule in CSS allows defining custom properties with specific types, inheritance, and initial values, improving custom property reliability by preventing unexpected behavior caused by invalid values.
AI startups with a focus on compute infrastructure, AI models, content generation, and healthcare applications have received over $18 billion in funding this year.