This year
Perfection kills » Profiling CSS for fun and profit. Optimization notes.
Fortunately, just few days before, Opera folks came out with an experimental “style profiler” (followed by WebKit’s ticket+patch shortly after). The profiler was meant to reveal the performance of CSS selector matching, document reflow, repaint, and even document and css parsing times.
2011
Sitepatching - YouTube, Twitter, more Hotmail
PATCH-444, Make Twitter hashtags visible. Twitter does some script magic and ends up with broken element nesting: <span><strong>foo</span></strong> in turn causing Opera's layout engine to be upset. This will be fixed with the new parser so we'll just patch it meanwhile.
2010
LINUX - Un patch qui boost les performances des Linux Desktop - Korben
Pascal Marcou - OSXvnc avec clavier francais
Pruned: Displaced Pasture
Displaced Pasture
Job Koelewijn
Job Koelewijn
Jump (Adam) by Dutch artist Job Koelewijjn. Watch him and a companion surgically remove the patch of Dutch countryside — soil, ditch, worms and all — from its quaint surroundings.
NASA - First-of-its-Kind Map Depicts Global Forest Heights
The new map shows the world’s tallest forests clustered in the Pacific Northwest of North America and portions of Southeast Asia, while shorter forests are found in broad swaths across northern Canada and Eurasia. The map depicts average height over 5 square kilometers (1.9 square miles) regions), not the maximum heights that any one tree or small patch of trees might attain.
qemu and virtio | Carfax
Renting Out Tokyo's Tight Spaces - WSJ.com
In Tokyo, where every sliver of land is at a premium, a few feet of unused private property near the front entrance of an apartment building can be used to sell muffins. A patch of storefront space transforms into an ad hoc vegetable stand for a farmer or a consulting space for a fortune-teller.
3D Mandelbulb Fractal Ray Tracer • subblue
BBC News - Microsoft to patch 17-year-old computer bug
2009
Faille PHP dans les versions inférieures à la 5.3.1
Un advisory concernant les releases PHP antérieures à la version 5.3.1 a été publié ce vendredi. En effet, la 5.3.1 contient un patch pour un DoS ayant été reporté le 27 Octobre 2009. Le problème concerne le support de la RFC 1867 dans PHP (Formulaire d’upload HTML).









