10 October 2024

25 links · Thursday

Tenno

Tenno is an app that lets you create powerful dynamic documents where you can easily add and orchestrate computational elements. You can think of it as a mix between Word and Excel with a sprinkle of Javascript. You could also think of it as a more…

My negative views on Rust

2023-10-13: Edited based on feedback, but preserves the same content.

When single threaded Node.js becomes a trouble

As you know (as it is posted a dozen times a day), Javascript is a single-threaded language. Thus, we will have a single thread serving all of our requests in our Node.js server unless we specifically play around this. This can cause some troubles that you wou…

How much did Dawnmaker really cost?

About a year ago, I wrote a piece explaining how much we estimated making Dawnmaker would cost. Well, Dawnmaker is finished, so as promised, I'm going to revisit that and show you

Clowning in Pennsylvania — Sabrina J. Mielke

Hi. I'm a PhD student at Johns Hopkins University Center for Language and Speech Processing (JHU CLSP). Machine learning and natural language are fascinating.

Leaving WordPress (.org or WPF, still unsure which one) - Megabyte

I’ve decided that I want to prioritize my mental (and physical) health and will no longer contribute to the WordPress open source project. The constant worry about the stability of the project and never-ending influx of WordPress-related news has contributed t…

Thomas Hansen - Developer, Engineer

In 2017, Luke Smith started making YouTube videos. He was a Linguistics PhD student who made linux tutorials while talking about open source software and digital sovereignty. While he was never explicitly political, he was by no means left wing. He distrusted …

my pocketchip experience in 2024 | mavica's corner!

i got a next thing co pocketchip sometime around 2017 second-hand from a friend who had ordered and (luckily, seeing as the company went under before fulfilling all orders) receiv...

Designing A Fast Concurrent Hash Table

I recently released papaya, a fast and feature-complete concurrent hash table for Rust. In this post I want to dive into the design and research that went into creating it, as well as why you might consider using it over existing solutions.

Taste and Tradeoffs

All meaningful code used to be written by humans, but not anymore. What does that mean for software engineers in a few years? Is it still worth learning how to code?

Do what you want mirrored

As someone with any sort of influence in a company, whether you’re a founder, executive, manager, influential employee, or anything in between, all your actions have a second order effect: reinforcing what's culturally acceptable. Whenever you do something, yo…

Ollie Chapman

Blog of thoughts & ideas by Ollie Chapman

Why we’re helping more wikis move away from Fandom

Hi! You may have seen that Weird Gloop is now hosting the official League of Legends Wiki. We’ve spent the last couple months working with the Riot folks and the League wiki editors to move it off of Fandom, and turn it into something the players will (hopeful…