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Why Standard Math Isn’t Enough: Building a Sub-Millimetre Qibla Compass in Next.js

When building location-based web applications, developers usually default to the Haversine formula to calculate the distance and bearing between two GPS coordinates. For most apps, assuming the Earth is a perfect sphere is "good enough." But what if you are building an application where absolute precision is non-negotiable? While building Quranbookk's Qibla Finder—a web application that helps Muslims worldwide find the exact direction of the Kaaba in Mecca—I quickly realized that standard sphe

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Exploring WebAssembly on the Server: Beyond the Browser Sandbox

For nearly a decade, my mental model for deploying enterprise software has revolved around containers, which are lightweight packages that bundle an application together with all the operating system files it needs to run. Recently, I decided to step outside my comfort zone of C# and traditional cloud environments to explore a technology taking a fundamentally different approach: WebAssembly on the server. Most engineers know WebAssembly, often shortened to Wasm, as a binary instruction format,

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I solved a 5 year old bug

This is a submission for DEV's Summer Bug Smash: Smash Stories powered by Sentry. Let me start by saying I am an Open-source contributor at Mozilla, I am trying to get better as a software engineer. I will be using the words Site or Tile interchangeably, they mean the same thing. The title of the bug report was "Cannot remove amazon.com from top sites list" on Bugzilla and I believe it really captures the pain-point that users experienced because of the bug. In this bug report the user is comp

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CamBridge: giving the iOS Simulator a real, moving camera image

The problem Neither the iOS Simulator nor the Android Emulator has real camera hardware. If you're building anything that touches AVCaptureSession — a QR scanner, a document capture flow, an AR feature — you end up with one of two workflows: Test exclusively on a physical device, every time, for every camera-touching change Stare at a blank/simulated camera feed in the Simulator and hope for the best Neither is great when you're iterating quickly. CamBridge is a small open-source tool with two

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NVIDIA Technical Blog

Run High-Performance Core Math at Scale with NVIDIA nvmath-python

NVIDIA nvmath-python is a library designed to bridge the gap between the Python scientific community and NVIDIA CUDA-X math libraries. It gives Python users... NVIDIA nvmath-python is a library designed to bridge the gap between the Python scientific community and NVIDIA CUDA-X math libraries. It gives Python users access to CUDA-X performance for common math operations without disrupting existing workflows. Depending on the API, operations can run on a CPU, CUDA-enabled GPU, or distributed mult

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The Reliability Roadmap: A 90-Day Plan for New SRE Teams

New SRE team at your company? Here's a 90-day plan I've used twice. It works because it balances 'show immediate value' with 'build for the long term.' Resist the urge to change things. Watch the current system, read existing post-mortems, shadow on-call, talk to engineers about their pain. Output: a list of the top 5 reliability problems ranked by 'engineering time lost per week.' Pick the top 2 from your list. Fix them. Make the fixes visible — announce them in eng all-hands. Good quick wins:

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The Verge Tech

Tim Cook hints at iCloud Plus tier for AI power users

Apple may allow users to pay to increase their AI usage limits. During an earnings call on Thursday, Apple CEO Tim Cook said that he believes people will want to use Apple Intelligence and the upcoming Siri AI "a lot," adding that "we will have some kind of upgrade possibilities on iCloud Plus where people can buy up the stack." This fall, Apple will broadly launch its long-delayed Siri AI with iOS 27, which can do things like answer questions about what's on your screen and take action across y

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