9 March 2022

31 links · Wednesday

3.1 — blender.org

Blender Foundation and the online developers community are proud to present Blender 3.1, a solid update to an already outstanding release.

Racing the Hardware: 8-bit Division

Occasionally, I like to peruse uops.info. It is a great resource for micro-optimization: benchmark every x86 instruction on every architecture, and compile the results. Every time I look at this table, there is one thing that sticks out to me: the DIV instru…

Optimizing code by understanding usage

During code review, I ran into the following code (simplified): We have some wrapper object for IEnumerable and allow to access it by index. I don&rs...

elementary OS is imploding

elementary founder: "I might take some time off from Linux or join another community maybe"

Bottleneck #01

Accumulation of tech debt; experiments and shortcuts are core components

The Waning of Ruby and Rails

Almost 12 years ago I answered a StackOverflow question is ruby on rails (or at least the community) dying? [closed] with [there is] still [a] very active community around it. Today, 2022, I see this declining more rapidly than before.

Starting a technology business: Part 1 - Full-stack business

Take two pieces of paper. Stack them on top of each other. To make them stick, throw some glue between them. You get a big messy middle of glue. What has a mess of glue got to do with anything with...

Google Cloud Status Dashboard

The issue with Traffic Director has been confirmed to be caused by a recent release; the release has been rolled back and customers can now start using Traffic Director. We have identified a probable root cause and will be publishing an Incident Report within …