Featured post what's this? ✨ Analysis paralysis: folders Hierarchy in file system was a great invention, popularized by Unix. Files in directory, directory in directory. Creating a tree. Files get designated place in ...
Notes on incidents Incidents are boring. Most of what you actually do during an incident is wait: for some other team to investigate, or for a deploy to finish, or for the result of some change to become apparent, or for someone else who’s been paged to come online. It’s st...
Building For The Future This afternoon, we sent the following email to our global team. One of our core values at Cloudflare is transparency, and we believe it's important that you hear this directly from us because it’s a major moment at Cloudflare.
Honey, I shrunk the circuits! Low-rank circuit conditioning makes an existing dense-model capability recoverable as a compact causal mask.
I bought an analog watch and I love it I recently bought a new watch. It's the Casio MQ24-9B. I got it for ~20€. Here are some picture of it: I didn't expect much from the watch. It's ext...
The four horsemen behind thousands of Postgres outages - malisper.me Postgres is great, but there are some very common problems that people have that can pretty easily lead to outages with Postgres. These aren’t just theoretical issues. From talking to a lot of startups, these are the things that actually cause outages in ...
Why Don’t Lowercase Letters Come Right After Uppercase Letters in ASCII? – Tyler Hillery Something finally clicked for me. When looking at an ASCII table, you will notice that after the uppercase Z, there are a few other characters before lowercase a:
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The Serial TTL connector we deserve Goodbye dangling Dupont pins, hello Julet E-Bike connector. I have them now everywhere, from my router to my servers.
How to Choose Good Chocolate (Without Being Fooled) | Chof How to choose good chocolate: read the wrapper, decode ingredients, fats, origin, and what cocoa percentage really means. By a certified taster and chocolate awards judge.
Plastic Flowers to Protect the Hive - phildini.dev Pre-register hallucinated package names. Fill them with guardrails. The devastating spell becomes homework.
Distractions | Ankshilp Our age is age of distractions. Instant messages, notifications, breaking news, endless stories, cute pet videos, random comments on social media are all distractions of one form or other. These distractions are dividing our attention which is already in ...
How I Spent Half a Day Fixing a WordPress Charset Problem (and What I Learned) | Kruno Golubić A WooCommerce site with an ERP integration in progress. The external developer reported a mixed encoding in the database: latin1, utf8mb3, and utf8mb4. ALTER TABLE looked like the right move. But it wasn't so.
Why Architecture Matters in Rails Applications This is an adapted excerpt from Chapter 1 of Modular Rails: Architecture for the Long Game, my book on building maintainable Ruby on Rails applications using...
Lessons From 6 Years of Local Advocacy Five lessons from 6 years of safe-streets, transit, and housing advocacy in my city — from why slow streets beat bike lanes to who actually shows up.
Idempotency Is Easy Until the Second Request Is Different | Dochia CLI Blog Idempotency is not just an HTTP header or a key lookup. This article covers the failure cases that bite real APIs: different requests with the same key, concurrent retries, partial success, downstream uncertainty, response replay, expiry, and duplicate me...
Have you smiled at somebody today? A smile is the prettiest thing a person could ever wear. When you smile you are sharing positive energy, Love and it’s infectious. Have you smiled at somebody today? Nothing is more precious …
agents need control flow, not more prompts Thesis: reliable agents tackling complex tasks need deterministic control flow encoded in software, not increasingly elaborate prompt chains If you’ve eve...
Chrome removes claim of On-device Al not sending data to Google Servers. Posted in r/chrome by u/RaufLegend • 39 points and 11 comments
Marriage of adolescent girls in Nigeria reduced by 80% by ‘big push’ intervention A locally tailored, big-push intervention to educate unmarried adolescent girls in 18 communities in northern Nigeria reduced rates of marriage from 86% to just 21%. Interventions that address complex, entrenched social problems from various angles simult...
The map that keeps Burning Man honest The event's Leave No Trace principle isn't just a promise — it's measured, mapped, and made public.
Why hasn't longer-horizon training slowed AI progress? Dwarkesh Patel1 recently posted an award for the best answers to four key questions about AI. It’s partly a challenge and partly a job interview, since some of the winners will get offered a role as a “research collaborator”. I don’t want the job, but I d...
