When sudo-rs development started, we added several dependencies using Rust’s crates ecosystem to quickly ramp up development. During development we accrued approximately 135 transitive (direct and ...
How to build and publish an Godot Engine 3.5 game on Flathub, in a nutshell
The binary array set[0] is a very space-efficient data structure that supports adding elements and testing membership reasonably quickly. It basically works as a collection of sorted arrays with power-of-2 sizes.
Before information about Meta’s “Project 92” (which would later become Threads) first surfaced last year, most of the discussion around blocking entire instances on the Fediverse was centered around the nature of member behavior on any given instance. If an in…
Stealth Rocket :: Re-engineering engineering.
In 2019 I stepped down as CEO at Sentry. I remember when talking to our CFO about considering the transition his response (whether considered or not) was that he thought I was capable of doing the job. I hired a CEO not because I didn't think I could do the jo…
Redis is arguably the most well regarded tech of all. But many times you do not need Redis. Here are 3 examples from my last 3 jobs.
Startups love being compared to rocket ships. Let's take that analogy where it has never gone before.
<p>The company I work for has been actively recruiting for a new data science hire since January. During this process I spoke to a lot of candidates with diverse backgrounds and work histories. They each had their own relevant projects to discuss, and in gener…
What follows are some notes about how I use screens, which I am bothering to write because I increasingly notice how my habits diverge from those of people around me. I have not bothered to validate the effectiveness of these practices in any statistical or ot…
Binary Vector Search: The 30x Memory Reduction Revolution with Preserved Accuracy
Recently I have received few random emails attached with calendar invites from random email and unknow email ids in CC. These arrived in my inbox insteas of spam. Though, later I moved them to spam…
I have found a lot of programmers that do not understand the Halting Problem and its implications, so here is my attempt to fix that.
Feature flags are amazing. No, really, did I tell you that feature flags are amazing? They are. But you might be running a thousand applications. When this kind of complexity gets involved you might need to test combinations of feature flags, sometimes - dozen…
When my parents walk my dogs, the neighbors say something like
It's true. If you look up "how to type faster" on Google, you're bound to come across countless articles that typically either suggest changing from QWERTY t...
A common challenge when testing Elixir apps is dealing with shared/global state. When multiple tests modify/access the same piece of state, in order to ensure the tests don’t interfere with each other, we need to serialize the tests using async: false. To isol…
0xFF / ADHD Productivity Fundamentals
Speaking freely is more important than ever, offline and online.
Writing about the big beautiful mess that is making things for the world wide web.
Published on 03/25/2024, 637 words, 3 minutes to read
Tailwind has won
Why TypeSpec is the best way to write OpenAPI
I’ve started to catch myself raising my eyebrows whenever someone mentions “Agile” accompanied by an inner voice loudly protesting, “Oh no, not again—Definition of Done, Story Points, Velocity…”
Swift is well-suited for creating user interfaces thanks to the clean syntax, static typing, and special features making code easier to write. Result builders, combined with Swift’s closure expression syntax, can significantly enhance code readability.
A cargo ship struck the Francis Scott Key Bridge, which collapsed overnight, sending cars and a construction crew into the Patapsco River.
Sitting for long periods can lead to back pain.. In this article, we will discuss 10 essential exercises that programmers can do to prevent back pain.
A tale about exploiting KernelCTF Mitigation, Debian, and Ubuntu instances with a double-free in nf_tables in the Linux kernel, using novel techniques like Dirty Pagedirectory. All without even having to recompile the exploit for different kernel targets once.
Bringing the great successes of financial engineering to Rust.
You did this to yourself.
Packages are the lifeblood of the C# ecosystem, serving as repositories of reusable code that can be effortlessly integrated into projects. They foster a culture of collaboration and code reusability, making the development process more efficient. In the realm…
Looking in more detail at Google's first Tensor Processing Unit
The article introduces two methods, IsEmpty() and IsNotEmpty(), for validating empty strings in Spargine, comparing them to the IsNullOrEmpty() method in .NET and emphasizing their straightforward …
APIs evolve along with changing business needs and the technology landscape. This article provides strategies for navigating change with a practical example.
We’ve just shipped preview support for viewing your GitHub and Azure DevOps pull request comments directly in your working file in Visual Studio in 17.10 Preview 2. As one of the most highly requested Git tooling feature suggestions on Developer Community,
Check out this blog post on implementing one of the most well-known architectural patterns for ASP.NET Core, the onion pattern.
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When adding NuGet packages to your .NET projects, it's important to understand the difference between direct dependencies and transitive de...
A reading of the second Don Box tenet, with some commentary.
Our work shows that it is possible to trigger Rowhammer bit flips on DDR4 devices on AMD Zen 2 and Zen 3 systems despite deployed TRR mitigations. This result proves that AMD systems are equally vulnerable to Rowhammer as Intel systems, which greatly increases…
In this post, I describe how to convert DateTime to the user's time zone with server-side Blazor using the new TimeProvider class.
Using CockroachDb with Entity Framework is easy, here is a simple post showing how.