Mozilla and the burning need for clients for power users
Can the sleeping fox ever wake up?
Modern Operating System and Vertical Space Efficiency
01 Oct 2023
Introducing tweetus-deletus 🐦🪄💀 - a tool to automate deleting your tweets, through the browser · Jamie Tanna | Software Engineer
Announcing the release of tweetus-deletus, a tool to delete all your tweets, driven through the browser with Playwright.
53 Proven Strategies to Increase Average Order Value
Put in place just a few of these 53 proven strategies to increase AOV, and you are almost guaranteed to grow your business and increase profitability.
A case for stacked patches 📚
I’m wondering why you talk about “branches” at all. No such thing should exist.
Nullable Type Performance: Retrieving a Nullable Value
The article discusses performance for the three methods for retrieving nullable values in C#, including using the nullable modifier ‘?’ with HasValue and Value properties, the null coal…
How we built a Streaming SQL Engine | Epsio
Efficient Sidebar Resizing with Preact Signals – Kamil Tomšík
In my recent tweet, I quickly shared a video demonstrating how I implemented sidebar resizing with Preact in a way that is both straightforward and efficient.
A shallow survey of OLAP and HTAP query engines
Focused mostly on data layout and query execution. Query planning seems more or less the same as OLTP systems, and I'm ignoring distribution and transactions for now. Also see my full notes here.
A Reflection on my B.S. in Software Engineering
Earlier this year I graduated with a B.S. in Software Engineering from a University in California. Since then, I’ve been hired as a network programmer for a game company, where I primarily work on multiplayer stuff. Although I’ve had some great experiences mod…
Binary Golfing in Commodore BASIC
This year's Binary Golf Grand Prix recently closed for submissions, and I only just found about it. This article covers a couple of approaches for this particular code golf problem on the Commodore 64.
frontiers, startups, 2023++
Illustration: Shyamal × DALL·E
influxdb officially made the switch from Go => Rust
Looks like [influxdb](https://github.com/influxdata/influxdb) flipped the switch, deleted all the Go code, and is 99.5% Rust now! >InfluxDB is an...
Intercepting and modifying Linux system calls with ptrace
Intercepting and modifying Linux system calls with ptrace
DevOps is terrible 2023
DevOps is terrible
Codebeez
Codebeez zijn wij met zijn allen samen. Wij vormen de cultuur. Op onze eigen manier, die we gezamenlijk bepalen. Alles draait bij Codebeez om onze mensen, hun plezier, hun groei, focus op ons vakgebied en de kwaliteit van wat wij doen. Onze Beez eerst.
Why Your OpenAPI Spec Sucks | liblab Blog
Learn how to improve your OpenAPI spec by avoiding common pitfalls.
Making a Chromecast receiver · random hacks
Project Shanocast
Consecutive coupon collector problem
A variation on the coupon collector problem in which you get consecutive blocks of tickets on each draw.
Don't worry, your Parser is a functor
Ramblings
Excessive intelligence
The arrival of OpenAI’s ChatGPT in November 2022 was the beginning of a new gold rush.
Guide to Timescript
Timescript is a decorative writing system where time (ie. movement) is a critical feature. It encodes the sounds used to say a phrase, rather than the letters used to spell it, in an infinitely looping animation that cannot be read when paused. This guide desc…
Just because it's old, doesn't make it tech debt.
I spent a very long time incorrectly thinking that obsolete abstractions were tech debt.
Machine Learning Mastery Series: Part 1 - Introduction to Machine Learning
Welcome to the Machine Learning Mastery Series, a comprehensive journey into the exciting world of machine learning. In this first installment, we’ll lay the foundation by exploring the fundamentals of machine learning, its types, and the essential concepts th…
Easing tradeoffs with profiles · baby steps
Rust helps you to build reliable programs. One of the ways it does that is by surfacing things to your attention that you really ought to care about. Think of the way we handle errors with Result: if some operation can fail, you can’t, ahem, fail to recognize …
Blazor WASM Error Logging
In this post I will teach you how to log error in your Blazor applications. All with live working demo.
Tire Dust Makes Up the Majority of Ocean Microplastics, Study Finds
Recent studies have shown tire emissions to be a larger threat to global health than anyone realized—and EVs could make the problem worse.
The Windows Source Code Revealed: Task Manager
The original author of Windows Task Manager takes you on an authorized tour of the Windows source code behind the XP Task Manager. For information on my boo...
Revolutionizing Language Model Integration with LangChain
In today's digital age, language models have become an integral part of various applications, enhancing user experience and streamlining processes. One such groundbreaking framework that stands out is LangChain. LangChain, at its core, is designed to empower…
Lazarus luring employees with trojanized coding challenges: The case of a Spanish aerospace company
ESET researchers uncover a Lazarus attack against an aerospace company in Spain, where the group deployed several tools, including a publicly undocumented backdoor we named LightlessCan.
How MediatR Implements the Strategy Pattern #shorts
📌 Check out my Pragmatic Clean Architecture course: https://bit.ly/3Zn41BK🚀 Support me on Patreon to access the source code: https://www.patreon.com/milanj...
Reorient GitHub Pull Requests Around Changesets
I've had the experience of using GitHub as a maintainer for very large open source projects (1000+ contributors), as an engineer for very large closed source corporate projects, and everything smaller. Through those experiences up to today, GitHub pull request…
How to See Bright, Vivid Images in Your Mind's Eye
Learn to improve the brightness and clarity of images in your mind's eye. Image Streaming is an easy technique to learn. Is it a cure for aphantasia?
QCon San Francisco 2023
We rewind the clock and ask ourselves: what if Infrastructure as Code never existed? What different solutions might we have come up with to the problems we faced? We’ll leave you full of possibilities about the future.
Wifi without internet on a Marabu flight – marx.wtf
Just as james vaughan, I spent a recent flight finding out what I could do with a connection to the flight’s wifi, but without access to the internet. After reading james‘ blogpost, I decided to share my story ‒ I found more data 🙂
Importance of Goal Clarity for Delegation - Byte Tank
Clarity as one of the keys to unlock the delegation formula
Software and Projects
How can we simplify things, to add value as early as possible?
Clinical update about where the cancer is, and what’s happening with treatment:
A lot of doctors have been reading the squamous cell carcinoma saga, and they keep asking for clinical detail about what’s going on. Although they don’t literally say: “The emotio…
Chasing the Myth of Zero-Overhead Memory Safety (plus pictures of mythical birds!)
In my recent article, I showed how Vale's linear types can provide memory safety without a borrow checker, generations, reference counting, or tracing GC.
Database Soft Deletes: How and Why with Custom Prisma Client queries
Soft deletes and hard deletes are two different approaches to deleting data from a database. In this article, we will explore soft delete write and write some custom Prisma client queries to implement soft deletes.
The Art of B2B Differentiation | Lucas Vittor
The place where I share my learnings.
Change - Tim Hårek
Technologist from Norway that cares about creating solutions that respects people in terms of privacy, security and user experience.
Mastering Integration Testing with FastAPI
Integration Testing FastAPI: Harnessing the Power of Mocking Backend Services with MongoMock, MockS3, and More
Layoffs from the founder’s perspective
This isn’t a post about the layoffs in Epic Games this week, there’s been plenty written about that and I’m incredibly sympathetic to those affected (there are some amazing people so if you’re hiri…
Beginning CMake : Quick Getting Started with CMake
CMake is build system intented for organize C/C++ project. Not only saving me from write long compiler command to build program, it also become project definition. Cmake handle dependencies, build, compiler selection, testing and many others. If you familiar w…
Content filtering with CSS :has() selector
Filter content with checkboxes and CSS, no JavaScript.
India Should Switch Off IPv4 Internet
IPv6 migration has been dragging on for a decades now and there’s no end in sight for this migration to complete. Huge software companies like Amazon are buying even more IPv4 addresses to continue to support IPv4 users. Given the current stance of corporation…
An easy-to-implement, arena-friendly hash map
nullprogram.com/blog/2023/09/30/
YAML config file? Pain? Try Lua - The Boston Diaries
YAML config file? Pain? Try Lua