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Successful contributions to open source projects are a kind of currency.

It seems that there is no group of people more divided by the rise of LLMs than developers.

Today, the Matrix protocol is pretty much entirely JSON over HTTP.

Go is a programming language which passes by value, which effectively means that if you give a value as a parameter to a function, the received value within the function is actually a copy of the original.

In a world where so many of our interactions now take place online, it feels strange that we build in so many features into messaging platforms that serve to apply pressure or stress to one user just for the mild convenience of another.

Since starting at New Vector in December 2019, I have been working mostly on Dendrite, a Matrix homeserver written in Go.

I have been a casual iPad user for many years now and I recently made the decision to replace my personal laptop with the iPad Pro.

Goroutines in Go are effectively lightweight threads.

ICMP, or “Internet Control Message Protocol”, is a protocol designed to help computers understand when things go wrong out on a network.

NOTE: As of August 2022, BT will no longer actively support this login method.