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The cryptographic world computer We talk about Ethereum as "a blockchain", as though it is fundamentally the same technology as the Bitcoin that Satoshi Nakomoto created back i…

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Vitalik Buterin outlines Ethereum’s cryptographic world computer vision

Vitalik Buterin outlines Ethereum’s cryptographic world computer vision

The cryptographic world computer We talk about Ethereum as "a blockchain", as though it is fundamentally the same technology as the Bitcoin that Satoshi Nakomoto created back in 2009. In many ways it is, and in some ways even the "lean Ethereum" of the future that is being built along the lines of the Strawmap retains the core trappings of a blockchain.…

ONCE Campfire in Rust: one binary, the Rails app's data, 19–44× faster - basecamp/once-campfire-rust

Basecamp Ports Campfire From Rails to Rust

ONCE Campfire in Rust: one binary, the Rails app's data, 19–44× faster - basecamp/once-campfire-rust Campfire in Rust A port of ONCE Campfire from Rails to Rust. It was built to be impossible to tell apart from the Rails app: the same screens pixel for pixel, the same protocols, and the Rails app's existing SQLite database and storage directory.…

Celld Offers Self-Hosted Cloudflare Durable Objects Runtime

Celld Offers Self-Hosted Cloudflare Durable Objects Runtime

Your Cloudflare app runs unchanged: Workers, Durable Objects, KV, Queues, D1, R2, Workflows, Cron, static assets (supported APIs →) Your data lives in a bucket you own Orders of magnitude cheaper at scale Get it Key characteristics Speed and density: one node, trivial cells, an Apple M-series laptop over loopback. The measured 2 vCPU fleet node had a slower activation p50 of 35.9 ms.…

Vite+ 1.0 launches unified web development CLI

Vite+ 1.0 launches unified web development CLI

Vite+ 1.0 is here. One CLI manages your runtime, package manager, and frontend toolchain. Announcing Vite+ 1.0 TL;DR: Vite+ 1.0 is out, stable, MIT licensed, and about to reach two million weekly downloads. A single command, vp , manages your Node.js runtime, package manager, and frontend toolchain .…

Cellule: a Rust framework for durable SQLite-backed Cells with fenced ownership and exact recovery. - crabbuild/cellule

Rust Framework Implements Durable SQLite-Backed Cells

Cellule: a Rust framework for durable SQLite-backed Cells with fenced ownership and exact recovery. - crabbuild/cellule Cellule Cellule is an embedded Rust framework for distributed, SQLite-backed Cells . An application defines typed modules and Cell topology; Cellule runs commands through a fenced owner, publishes durable outcomes, and restores exact state.…

Distributed execution for duckdb queries. Contribute to dentiny/duckdb-distributed-execution development by creating an account on GitHub.

Duckherder Adds Distributed Query Execution to DuckDB

Distributed execution for duckdb queries. Contribute to dentiny/duckdb-distributed-execution development by creating an account on GitHub. Duckherder - DuckDB Remote and Distributed Execution Extension Duckherder is a DuckDB extension built upon storage extension that enables (certain) distributed query execution across multiple worker nodes using Arrow Flight for efficient data transfer.…

Summary card of repository MinBZK/DAWO-NixOS, described as: Digitaal Autonome Werkomgeving Overheid (DAWO) streeft naar een digitaal autonome en interoperabele basis voor overheidswerkplekken.

De repository MinBZK/DAWO-NixOS bevat de code om werkplekken automatisch en identiek op te bouwen via het Linux-besturingssysteem NixOS.

Dutch Government Publishes NixOS Workstation Configuration Repository

Digitaal Autonome Werkomgeving Overheid (DAWO) streeft naar een digitaal autonome en interoperabele basis voor overheidswerkplekken. De repository MinBZK/DAWO-NixOS bevat de code om werkplekken automatisch en identiek op te bouwen via het Linux-besturingssysteem NixOS. Nix 100% DAWO Core Repository This repository contains the core NixOS configurations for the DAWO infrastructure.…