My Life in Weeks by Gina Trapani
👋 Hi, I’m Gina. This is a map of my life, where each week I’ve been alive is a little box. Tap a box to see what I was doing where that week.
Why I Dislike PowerPoint (At Least How It's Used in Some Large Companies)
PowerPoint is everywhere in corporate life. Meetings begin with it, discussions revolve around it, and after everything is said and done, the slide deck is all that remains. But this is the problem: PowerPoint was never meant to be the presentation, it was mea…
6 ways the new FDA can turbocharge drug development
The website all about a clueless guy named Alex Kesin.
Efficient CSV Parsing - On the Complexity of Simple Things (2024)
SQLite-on-the-Server Is Misunderstood: Better At Hyper-Scale Than Micro-Scale
We're Rivet, a new open-source, self-hostable serverless platform. We've been in the weeds with SQLite-on-the-server recently and – boy – do we have a lot of thoughts to share. Give us a star on GitHub, we'll be sharing a lot more about SQLite soon!
Why You Should Not Parse Localized Strings
As a programmer, it is natural to think of data as a series of one-to-one relationships between string identifiers and objects in a computer. Many standard libraries in programming languages allow for round-tripping between strings and objects, including JSON…
Bridging the Management Disconnect
Leadership is more than serving teams. It’s about results. Learn to balance servant leadership, business goals, and executive expectations.
Deterministic signatures are not your friends
Paul Miller. I make projects which help developers to build awesome things
Django in government
I have this list of 50k Django projects I put together, and thought it might be more interesting to share specific verticals rather than the whole thing. Tod...
Routine Complications
In A Life-Saving Checklist, author Atul Gawande describes a patient suffering from an infection introduced by medical equipment. These “line infections” are so common, they’re said to be a routine complication. In medical practice, a routine complication refer…
Everyday project isolation for developers on Linux
The problem As a developer, you likely run a lot of code you can’t or don’t have time to verify. Many modern projects have lots of dependencies, and none of the package managers I know provide any isolation from the rest of your system. For example, create-rea…
Weight sharing is the inverse of MoE.
Blog post of Samsja
High cohesion, low coupling
The terms ‘high cohesion’ and ‘low coupling’ cause quite a bit of confusion among developers. Here is an ELI13 version.
[v0.12.2] Deepseek R1 Distill 8B Q40 on 4 x Raspberry Pi 5 8GB · b4rtaz/distributed-llama · Discussion #162
Model: deepseek_r1_distill_llama_8b_q40 Version: 0.12.2 Evaluation Prediction 2 x Raspberry Pi 5 8GB 7.70 tok/s 3.54 tok/s 4 x Raspberry Pi 5 8GB 11.68 tok/s 6.43 tok/s 2 x Raspberry Pi 5 8GB ... 🔶...
Is Small Caps More Difficult?
What we notice from Small Caps Market Sentiment data.
the personal homepage of NT!
the personal homepage of NT - Nabraj covering tech world, sports, philosophy and random musings.
The Irrational Drive to Create, Suffer, and Persist
Machines are safe in their passivity; humans aren't.
Lessons on thinking from large language models
How LLMs approach problems, and what we can learn from it
Stop writing code
The best code is code that doesn't need to be written.
Nature loves patterns
February 12, 2025
No, your GenAI model isn't going to replace me
... Hopefully
Play Figgie at Jane Street
Jane Street's fast-paced Figgie game simulates exciting elements of markets and trading
Stop Letting External Events Control Your System (Do This Instead)
Hi, I'm James. And ordinarily, I don't like dealing in absolutes. With a title like "you should ALWAYS", you might struggle to believe that. But it's honestly that important. In this video you'll learn the importance of an anti-corruption layer, or at the ver…
On Jujutsu and Magit · Antoine Martin
I’m writing this post after having used Jujutsu1 for a few weeks. This is some kind of “experience report”, as well as yet another2 love letter to Magit.
Temporal Tables in EF Core: Bringing Time Travel to Your Data - Chris Woody Woodruff
What if you could go back in time and see exactly what your database looked like yesterday, last week, or even last year? Sounds like something out of a sci-fi movie, right? Well, Temporal Tables in SQL Server let you do exactly that!
The 20 year old PSP can now connect to WPA2 Wifi Networks - Wololo.net
Acid_Snake and the ARK Development team have released a significant update to the ARK custom Firmware for the Sony PSP. Custom Firmware now allows the Playstation Portable to connect to WPA2 encrypted Wifi networks....
M: Grab Bag 6 (Category Compilation) #29～#31
In Category M: Grab Bag, you never know what you're going to get. Here, we delve into topics that don't quite fit neatly into the other categories—though the conversations still largely revolve around games. Check it out and see what you think! [Index] 0:00 O…
Impact As A Developer: Visibility To Your Manager - Principal Software Engineering Manager AMA
It's unfortunate, but there's often a rift between developers and their managers. Is there enough visibility into the impact that's being delivered? How can we improve it? And what if my manager is new?! As with all livestreams, I'm looking forward to answer…
Hardwood
Is the New GitHub Copilot Agent, the Future of Coding?
Let's find out about the new features of GitHub Copilot Agent and how it will transform the AI coding landscape.
We Were Wrong About GPUs
Do my tears surprise you? Strong CEOs also cry.
Understanding Cursor Pagination and Why It's So Fast (Deep Dive)
While offset pagination is widely used, cursor-based pagination offers significant performance advantages - my tests show a 17x speedup when paginating through a million-record dataset in PostgreSQL. Let's take a deep dive into cursor pagination, compare it wi…