Ejabberd 26.04 has been released with several improvements including better support for the Matrix protocol, enhanced MUC (Multi-User Chat) features, and various bug fixes. The update also includes performance optimizations and security enhancements for the XMPP server.
The author developed a cross-platform tool to visualize software builds in real-time, helping identify inefficiencies that slow down compilation processes. The tool is now available for others to try.
The author describes their personal default approach to error reporting, focusing on showing users useful error messages. This follows their previous discussion about Zig's strongly-typed error codes solving error handling.
The author presents a technique for implementing type-safe generic data structures in C using unions to associate type information. The approach is demonstrated through a basic linked list implementation and can be applied to various data structures like maps, arrays, and binary trees.
The article describes a fast, growable array data structure in C that provides constant time indexing and stable pointers. It has been independently discovered by multiple programmers and goes by various names including "Segmented List" in Zig and "levelwise-allocated pile" in academic literature.
Hot reloading allows developers to modify SwiftUI app code while the application is running, without using Xcode. The article demonstrates this technique by creating a Todo app.