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Thousands of tourists flock to see Etna eruption, blocking rescue services
Thousands of tourists flock to see Etna eruption, blocking rescue services
Tourists blocking streets and indulging in ‘dangerous’ behaviour, say officials Thousands of tourists have flocked to witness spectacular eruptions on Mount Etna, blocking streets and preventing rescue services from reaching people in need of assistance,…
www.theguardian.com
February 18, 2025 at 1:32 PM
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Every year, I compile a list of my favorite tech projects, and honor them in a column called the Good Tech Awards.

This year, I was excited to feature LLMs for genomics, AI brain mapping, open-source maintainers, the NASA heroes who saved Voyager 1, and more.

www.nytimes.com/2024/12/30/t...
The 2024 Good Tech Awards (Gift Article)
In a year of continued A.I. progress, “founder mode” drama and a Trump election win, a few tech projects stood out for their clear benefits to humanity.
www.nytimes.com
December 31, 2024 at 4:49 PM
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My article "Wasm for the Java Geek 3: Electric Boogaloo" has been published on Java Advent! featuring @graalvm.org, @extism.bsky.social #chicory #wazero @kotlinlang.org and more!

www.javaadvent.com/2024/12/wasm...
Wasm 4 the Java Geek 3: Electric Boogaloo - JVM Advent
And here we are again. For the third time in a row, we are back to the Java Advent, eager to discover what’s new with WebAssembly from a Java developer perspective. Incidentally, since, as you know, I...
www.javaadvent.com
December 18, 2024 at 1:03 PM
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wrote 'intro to Hedgehog for Scala'

1. Hedgehog for Scala is a property-based testing framework created by Charles O'Farrell.
2. it simplifies the random value creation by just needing Gen (no more Arbitrary), and it automatically minimizes the failing example.
eed3si9n.com/hedgehog-sca... #Scala
intro to Hedgehog for Scala · eed3si9n
eed3si9n.com
November 18, 2024 at 9:53 AM
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Announcing Chicory 1.0.0-M1: a pure-Java #WebAssembly runtime
chicory.dev/blog/chicory...
Announcing Chicory 1.0.0-M1: First Milestone Release | Chicory
It's been a while since our pure-Java WebAssembly runtime released version 0.0.12,
chicory.dev
November 8, 2024 at 1:37 PM