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Struggling with TDD in chaotic projects? Stop starting with the setup. Flip the script and write your Assertions first to create executable specifications.

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When requirements are unclear, traditional TDD stalls at setup. By reversing Arrange-Act-Assert and starting with the assertion, developers can clarify intent, design cleaner APIs, and let tests drive architecture—even in chaotic projects.

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From PDFs to proof pipelines: how we cut audit pack assembly from 2 months to 2 weeks with baselines, traceability, access control, and impact analysis.

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In regulated deep-tech, people argue about paper vs. 3D models, spreadsheets vs. metadata report, PDFs vs. PLM. That argument misses the point. Regulators don’t want paper. They want proof with properties that survive scrutiny.

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One of the oldest and most persistent complaints about Go concerns the verbosity of error handling.

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Go has a built-in error handling function called 'try' It is used to augment errors before returning them. Go users have long complained about the verbosity of error handling. The Go team has tried to come up with a solution for this problem for years.

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Rust has long had an inconsistency with C regarding the alignment of 128-bit integers on the x86-32 and x86-64 architectures.

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Rust has long had an inconsistency with C regarding the alignment of 128-bit integers. This problem has recently been resolved, but the fix comes with some effects that are worth being aware of. As a user, you most likely do not need to worry about these changes unless you are. Ignoring the `improper_ctypes*` lints and using these types in FFI.

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The web is still single-threaded, but modern apps aren’t. A practical guide to multithreaded rendering using workers, canvas, and DOM strategies.

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The DOM is single-threaded, but modern web apps demand parallelism. This article breaks down practical multithreaded rendering strategies—Web Workers, SharedArrayBuffer, Offscreen Canvas, server-side DOM creation, and parallel DOM approaches—highlighting where each works, where it fails, and how frontend engineers can combine them to push performance beyond main-thread limits.