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Amazon's AI crawler is making my git server unstable
Please, just stop.
The Shift in Metrics: How Product Engineers Measure Success
Why Metrics Matter More Than Ever
I Bought the Biggest Hard Drive Ever Made For the PDP-11!
Dave locates and sets up the DEC RA 73, the largest hard drive that DEC ever produced for the PDP-11 and installs BSD UNIX and more. Free Sample of my Book on the Spectrum: https://amzn.to/3zBinWM Watch ShopTalk Now on Dave's Attic: https://youtu.be/5Emgx0lh…
C# and Rust Side by Side – Chris Woody Woodruff
When it comes to programming languages, each has its quirks, strengths, and unique ways of looking at the world. Think of them as different superheroes with distinct powers. C# is your reliable, well-rounded champion of object-oriented programming (OOP), while…
AI Replacing Mid-Level Engineers - Dev Leader Weekly 79
Welcome to another issue of Dev Leader Weekly! In this issue, I discuss recent claims about AI replacing mid-level engineers.
I've been advocating for RSS support, and you should too
I've been using Feeder to keep up with the news for awhile now. For a long time, I just checked AllSides. But then I found out NPR in my state supports R...
Brood War Korean Translations
As work slowed down during the last couple of weeks of 2024, I decided to redirect some of my energy to hobbies instead of work. One such hobby is StarCraft: Brood War (or BW for short), a classic, highly competitive RTS from '98 that still has an active commu…
So You Want to Build Your Own Data Center
When it comes to infrastructure engineering, building a data center is probably closer to building a house than to deploying a Terraform stack.
Investigating an "evil" RJ45 dongle
Reverse-engineering hardware can be difficult -- but sometimes, all you need is a comfy armchair and some Google Translate.
Weaponizing Wikipedia against Israel | Aish
How the global information pipeline is being hijacked by digital jihadists.
Story of a Pentester Recruitment 2025
Because we can!
PostgreSQL index creation in production systems
Introduction Managing indexes in a PostgreSQL database, especially in production environments, is crucial for maintaining optimal performance and ensuring data integrity. Indexes can significantly speed up query performance by allowing the database to quickly …
Provisional Guidance for Users of LLM-Based Code Generators
available intuition for avoiding big risks
I Miss Building Computers.
With the technology, economics, and markets for computers having changed so drastically over the last quarter century, individuals now have very few reasons for building their own computers. Will that ever change?
2025 Annual Letter
Venture capital claims to fund innovation. Instead, they're choking it.
A one-on-one template
An agile template for regular 1-on-1 meetings.
Do reasoning LLMs need their own Philosophical Language? :: Giles' blog
Posted on 16 January 2025 in AI
0110.be - The time an HTTP request takes to pass through a proxy, a proxy, a proxy, a proxy, ...
The time an HTTP request takes to pass through a proxy, a proxy, a proxy, a proxy, ...
Scaling Monoliths: A Practical Guide for Growing Systems
A well-designed monolith can scale remarkably well, despite industry trends pushing toward microservices. From database sharding to message queues, learn practical strategies to grow your monolithic system effectively.
Thinking clearly about software
To think clearly, think in slow motion
Vector Databases: A Traditional Database Developer's Perspective
Vector Databases: A Traditional Database Developer’s Perspective As a traditional database developer with machine learning platform experience from my time at Shopee, I’ve recently been exploring vector databases, particularly Pinecone. Rather than providing a…
US$ 30 million to reinvent the wheel
I have been thinking and reading quite a bit about Free Our Feeds, a campaign to “save social media from billionaire capture”.
Private Keys in the Fortigate Leak
A few days ago, a download link for a leak of configuration files for Fortigate/Fortinet devices was posted on an Internet forum. It appears that the data was collected in 2022 due to a security vulnerability known as CVE-2022-40684. According to a blog post b…
Earthstar
Storage for private, distributed, offline-first applications. Earthstar is a specification and JavaScript library for building connected applications owned and run by their users.
Bypassing State app censorship or blockades with PWAs
The Supreme Court’s decision to uphold the Protecting Americans from Foreign Adversary Controlled Applications Act is a significant moment for both technology and geopolitics. Beginning January 19, 2025, TikTok is to be removed from U.S. app stores unless it c…
A Deep Dive into Memorization in Deep Learning
Want to learn more about how, when and why machine learning, particularly deep learning systems memorize data? By studying memorization, you'll learn more about how machine learning systems really function, along with how privacy works from a technical point-o…
Cursor is Anthropic’s Largest Customer (and Maxing Out Their GPUs)
Cursor is Anthropic’s Largest Customer and is apparently hitting the limits of what their GPU infrastructure can handle.
The Process Star Sign Chart
Process star signs can be identified by the psss program found here. example output:
Optimizing Jupyter Notebooks for LLMs
January 15, 2025 · 4 mins · 762 words
A Trillion Points of Failure
This occurred to me while I was walking to my apartment, which had undergone renovations for more than 3 months. I had asked my uncle to oversee the project, and he called to tell me that a plumber broke a pipe. They needed to remove some tiles and cut into th…
20 reasons why Anki isn’t popular
Spaced repetition stuff
What using RSS feeds feels like
gilest.org
Human Altitude
ASP.NET Community Standup - Security & auth .NET 10 planning discussion
Join us for a planning discussion for security and auth in .NET 10 for ASP.NET Core with Dan Roth, Mike Kistler, Stephen Halter, and Maira Wenzel! Featuring: Dan Roth, Mike Kistler, Stephen Halter, Maira Wenzel #dotnet #aspnetcore #security