Making Linux C++ Crashes Less Chaotic
Fear the dreaded “Segmentation fault (core dumped)”? Here’s how I stopped worrying and learned to love the crash.
Who is the fastest? Node.js, Bun.js, or Deno.js | Trevor Indrek Lasn
A detailed comparison of Node.js, Bun.js, and Deno.js runtime performance
A Few Thoughts On the Selloff
Everybody Be Cool
Announcing Official Puppeteer Support for Firefox – Mozilla Hacks - the Web developer blog
Puppeteer 23 now supports Firefox, simplifying browser automation and testing across both Chrome and Firefox.
Dual-Boot NetBSD And Archlinux
This is the method I use to dual-boot Archlinux and NetBSD in my laptop. I’ve written this with a virtual machine, to reproduce and test every step. But, at least in theory, it should work in any UEFI AMD64 machine.
I made a worse search engine than Elasticsearch
Integrating my BM25 pandas search library, SearchArray, into BEIR, in order to embarass myself in public.
Demystifying Postgres Schema Migrations: Building it from Scratch
Database schema migrations are rarely taught in universities, and if you’re a self-taught developer, migrations are not something you would naturally pick up.
“Why aren’t the designers and engineers sitting together?” — featherless software design
Aug 1, 2024
From Simple to Ornate and Back Again
Art history shows us that we tend to move between adding “unnecessary” elaborate decorations to clean styles and back again. It’s almost an endless cycle repeated over and over. This cycle happens in the different arts and other fields where design is involved…
First impressions of Gleam: lots of joys and some rough edges
My friend Erika is a big fan of Gleam, and her enthusiasm (and explicit encouragement) finally got me to learn the language. It's a functional programming language which targets both the BEAM (Erlang's VM) and JavaScript. This makes it appealing as a language …
An update on our general capability evaluations
Since releasing our autonomy evaluation resources, METR has primarily focused on developing better measures of AI capabilities. We are currently developing evaluations for AI R&D capabilities that may serve as “red lines”,1 as well as a continuous measure of a…
Part Assholes are Awesome
Examples of left and right inverses
From the highly eclectic blog of Mark Dominus
Tony Hawk's Pro Strcpy
Tony Hawk's Pro Strcpy: A game save and RCE exploit for the Tony Hawk game series that can be used to hack Xbox, Playstation 2, Gamecube, and Xbox 360 consoles.
Adding .NET Aspire to your existing .NET apps - .NET Blog
.NET Aspire can really simplify local development for your existing apps, large or small. In this post, we'll look at how easy it is to make your current solutions better with just a few lines of code.
How do I know when the user has finished interacting with the AccountsSettingsPane? - The Old New Thing
You can use the version that runs an asynchronous operation.
Vice President First Names
Full Text Search over Postgres: Elasticsearch vs. Alternatives - ParadeDB
Written by Ming Ying on July 31, 2024
The Actual Wolf of Wall Street Sales Script
If you can look past the $200M they defrauded from 1,500 investors… they were actually a pretty successful sales team.
EP–1320 medieval
hurdy gurdys, lutes, gregorian chants, thundering drums andpercussive foley fx, all at the press of a button. the EP–1320 is the first of its kind:featuring a large library of phrases, play ready instruments and one-shot samplesfrom the darkest of ages, the in…
Tracking supermarket prices with playwright
Back in Dec 2022, when inflation was running high, I built a website for tracking price changes in the three largest supermarkets of my home country, Greece.
Y'all are sleeping on HTTP/3
Wake up call This post is about HTTP/3 and QUIC. If you don’t know what that is, there are many, many, many, many, many, many, many good resources that will get you up to speed. I’m writing this post to enlighten people on what has been happening in the last f…
1fps.video - Hassle-free Screen Sharing
You need Golang installed for this command to work. If you don't have Golang, you can install it using one of these methods:
kubernetes/pkg/controller/volume/persistentvolume/pv_controller.go at 60c4c2b2521fb454ce69dee737e3eb91a25e0535 · kubernetes/kubernetes
Production-Grade Container Scheduling and Management - kubernetes/kubernetes
Submitting conference abstracts that get accepted
Let's talk about the conference CFP process and how to write an abstract that represents your ideas well and just might get accepted.