🚨 Breaking news for the two people who care about Varlink: someone made a C library! 🎉 Turns out, you can now send #JSON objects over Unix sockets—truly revolutionary stuff from the 90s! 🚀 Enjoy your riveting read on RPC protocols, because apparently, that's still a thing. 🙄
https://emersion.fr/blog/2025/announcing-vali/ #Varlink #CLibrary #UnixSockets #RPCProtocols #90sTech #HackerNews #ngated

🚀 C-Blosc2 2.18.0 is out now!

✨ What's new:

* Introducing b2nd_concatenate() - now you can easily join b2nd arrays together!

* Fixed mmap files to flush modified pages only in write mode (thanks Jan Sellner!)

Get the full details: https://github.com/Blosc/c-blosc2/blob/main/RELEASE_NOTES.md

#Blosc2 #DataCompression #OpenSource #CLibrary #Performance

On a hunch, I went back and checked some 2000 C source files that I wrote over 30+years for instances of 'abs' that should have been 'fabs'. To my embarrassment, found more than 20 instances.

That could explain quite a few frustrating experiences with numerical software, such as improper stopping of iterations.

They could have been detected with the gcc -Wfloat-conversion switch, but it took me a decade or two to learn about it...

☹️ #Programming #FloatingPoint #CLibrary #LanguageDesign