The first rule of distributed systems is 'Don’t distribute your system'. Designing distributed systems right is infamously hard for multiple reasons. The idempotency concept For example, a call to a function can succeed or fail in non-distributed systems. …
Lattice is a high-performance visual scripting system targeting Unity ECS. Read more here . I’ve tried several times to write blog posts about Lattice, and each time I’ve gotten lost in the weeds. It’s hard to pick a point to start. So instead, I’ve res…
Patchutils is a small collection of programs that operate on patch files.
Chasing shiny new toys, as always ;)
I try to avoid editor advocacy as a rule but when I do see people using vi/vim, I am an advocate of squeezing out some of its potential.
I recently shifted roles at FusionAuth. Where I was previously head of developer relation (devrel), I’ve relinquished this role to Tony Blank, who is now leading that team. I can’t wait to see what Tony and the team do to help developers build on and learn abo…
A few days ago, my school released 5,000+ images from my graduation ceremony that were incredibly difficult to search. So, I created a tool to search them with facial recognition.
RDF data model, its virtues, vices, and applications.
A short reflection on the use of internal and why it probably shouldn't be the standard
Preface Over my last several years as a product engineer, I've navigated roles across several software products, ranging from full-stack to purely mobile/front-end. I have used tools ranging from Vercel to AWS, Supabase to Firebase, and EKS/Terraform...
I'm hestitant to even write this post. The Internet Archive does society an immense service by archiving digital content that might otherwise be lost to history. It does this at a non-profit, run by a small group of passionate people and volunteers. How could …
Most of the time, optimizing a Rails application requires repeating the same techniques. For example, at the database layer, it's about creating the proper indexes, preventing 1+N queries, etc. Could we do that automatically?
29 Feb 2024
If you like fast CI builds, hate having to wait for an eternity for CI to complete a build after you open a PR, and love reducing infra costs, read on.
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QR codes reverse the usual order: decimal works better than base64 for encoding binary data, despite it requiring many more digits.
In 2017, I opted to skip the crowds and the drive and settle for a 94% solar eclipse. I fully regret that decision.
Discover the power of Modin in overcoming the performance bottlenecks of Pandas. We'll walk you through how a simple switch can reduce your waiting times and make your workflow smooth and speedy, all without leaving the comfort of Pandas behind.
This article explores which scientific problems are suited for machine learning, and why.
Growing lettuce indoors with the power of hydroponics!
Personal experiences of growing up poor
In this post I describe how I’m hosting my own music streaming service with NixOS and Jellyfin on Hetzner for €6 / month.
It’s a common occurrence: You’re sitting at your desk, lost in thought, trying to solve a problem that’s been blocking your work all week. Deep in your brain you’re building a structure of thoughts and possibilities undreamed of in anyone’s philosophy:…
The strangest hardware problem I've ever had to debug.
notes, honeypot, and exploit demo for the xz backdoor (CVE-2024-3094) - amlweems/xzbot
A lot of computing got done even before we had stacks and heaps.
Learnings from Ben Holmes: YouTuber, Software Engineer at Astro, and Web Framework creator
Classic MacOS & GS/OS widget library for linux (and other?) - buserror/libmui
A proposal to add signals to JavaScript. Contribute to proposal-signals/proposal-signals development by creating an account on GitHub.
Some timezone observations on the recently discovered backdoor hidden in an xz tarball.
Pattern matching is a powerful feature in C#. It allows you to match a value against a pattern and extract information from the value. The compiler does the magic for you - and sometimes it struckles with that.
The post explains two methods to confirm if an object is a string. It provides code examples for both methods and states that the first method is 1.17 times more efficient than pattern matching.
On type inference as an academic computer science lab leak.
Apr 1, 2024
I wrote 84 new matmul kernels to improve llamafile CPU performance.