18 August 2022

25 links · Thursday

Shouting in the Datacenter

Brendan Gregg from Sun's Fishworks team makes an interesting discovery about inducing disk latency. For more details, see Brendan's blog entry: http://blogs...

_why's Estate

Hey, welcome to my collection of why the lucky stiff links. Everything _why has published on the internet should be accessible from here. It works sort of like a museum that sells maps. Many of his abandoned writings are mirrored locally here, and everythin…

Scraft

AI-powered writing tool that helps you organize ideas and craft better arguments by asking never-ending questions; like Socrates

The Dark History of Zip Files

The life and death of Phil Katz, inventor of the PKZIP format, as told by Dave Plummer, the creator of ZIPFolders for Windows.

Learn MYOG

Learn to Make Your Own Gear (MYOG). DIY sewing patterns for backpacks, technical apparel, and outdoor adventurers.

Electronic Materials Office®

Electronic Materials Office® is a future oriented consumer hardware corporation.

Emergency Load Reduction Pilot | Tesla Support

Participate in the Emergency Load Reduction Program (ELRP) pilot offered by Pacific Gas and Electric Company (PG&E) and support the grid while also earning compensation and maintaining your energy security.

It wasn't for nothing - Grasping gexps

Several friends and family members have asked me why I spend so much of my free time developing Guix. I don't always have a good answer, but after six years I'm starting to get a sense of it.

.NET Rocks! vNext

.NET Rocks! is a weekly talk show for anyone interested in programming on the Microsoft .NET platform. The shows range from introductory information to hardcore geekiness.

LB Labs: Solving The Pull Request Problem w/ Continuous Merge

Fact: The state of pull requests is broken and we finally have the data to prove it. In our latest LinearB Labs episode we reveal the information that has led us to the inevitable conclusion that pull requests have become a massive source of toil, bottlenecks …