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The Amazing Work By Valve's Timur Kristóf On Improving Old AMD GPUs On Linux

Over the past year Timur Kristóf of Valve's Linux graphics driver team has made multiple very nice improvements to the AMDGPU kernel driver for enhancing support for old (GCN 1.0/1.1 era from a decade ago) graphics cards so that they can better handle Linux gaming and other tasks. This week in Toronto, Kristóf presented on this AMDGPU work that he initially began as a kernel driver development…

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Marketplace Delivery Error Alerting with 429-Aware Metrics API Polling

Short answer: treat each metrics poll as a bounded, idempotent read, and treat HTTP 429 as an inconclusive observation rather than evidence that notification delivery is healthy or broken.

  • Treat each polling window independently in error alerting.
  • Disregard HTTP 429 responses when calculating checkpoint progress.
  • Only update alert states when observations are tied to a closed window.

Stoplight Studio is gone: five OpenAPI editors compared for 2026

If you maintained OpenAPI documents between 2018 and 2023, Stoplight Studio was probably on your machine: a desktop editor that combined a form-based operation view with raw YAML, no account required…

  • Stoplight Studio discontinued in 2023, leaving teams to seek alternatives
  • Five OpenAPI editors compared for performance against real workload
  • Key features: two-way editing, multi-file support, raw YAML alongside form fields

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