May 2016 Blog Posts (4)

Meeting Mycroft: An Open AI Platform You Can Order Around By Voice

Mycroft developer Ryan Sipes, speaking from the show floor of this year's OSCON in Austin,…

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Added by Timothy Lord on May 30, 2016 at 11:00pm — No Comments

The Making of Swampcast

Here's a video documentary about Swampcast called "The Making of Swampcast"

http://bit.ly/1Uk8620

Added by Michael Levin on May 28, 2016 at 9:00am — No Comments

Learning Groovy and Self-publishing

What is Groovy and why should I care?

Hello again, it's me, Adam. Earlier this year, I finished my self-published book, Learning Groovy,…

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Added by Adam Davis on May 25, 2016 at 3:00pm — No Comments

Is Social Networking Over?

Has social networking reached it's peak?

The change from traditional read-only web pages to read write web pages took the world by storm. Web 2.0 gave rise to blogs and social features that gave a voice to the independent. It…

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Added by Michael Levin on May 3, 2016 at 10:30am — No Comments

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Facebook Survey Reveals Growing Adoption of Typed Python for Improved Code Quality and Flexibility

Conducted among over 1,200 respondents, Facebook's 2025 Typed Python Survey highlights how and why Python developers have increasingly adopted the language's type hinting system. The survey also sheds light on what developers value most, as well as their biggest frustrations and wishes.

By Sergio De Simone

Presentation: How to Build a Database Without a Server

Alex Seaton discusses the architecture of ArcticDB, a high-performance Python/C++ library that replaces traditional database servers with a thick-client model. He explains how to achieve atomicity on object storage through bottom-up writes and shares deep insights into conflict-free replicated data types (CRDTs). He also explores the pitfalls of clock drift and distributed locking.

By Alex Seaton

Meta Applies Mutation Testing with LLM to Improve Compliance Coverage

Meta applies large language models to mutation testing through its Automated Compliance Hardening system, generating targeted mutants and tests to improve compliance coverage, reduce overhead, and detect privacy and safety risks. The approach supports scalable, LLM-driven test generation and continuous compliance across Meta’s platforms.

By Leela Kumili

DeepSeek-V3.2 Outperforms GPT-5 on Reasoning Tasks

DeepSeek released DeepSeek-V3.2, a family of open-source reasoning and agentic AI models. The high compute version, DeepSeek-V3.2-Speciale, performs better than GPT-5 and comparably to Gemini-3.0-Pro on several reasoning benchmarks.

By Anthony Alford

Slack Enhances Chef Infrastructure to Improve Safety and Reduce Blast Radius in Deployments

Slack's engineering team has published an in-depth look at recent improvements to its Chef-based configuration management system, aimed at making deployments safer and more resilient without disrupting existing workflows.

By Craig Risi

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