2 August 2025

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How to Setup Puppy Linux With Ventoy

Like many people in the 2020s, I travel a lot. I work in a different city to the one I live in, and spend a few days in one place and a few days in the other. I don't really mind travelling, but it comes with a few inconveniences. One …

It's not you, it's their bullshit.

LinkedIn reports that "the majority of U.S. professionals (58%) believe they have a wide range of skills that are being underutilized in their current roles." I see you. I know you. I am you. I have felt this in every job I've had in the last ten years. Year…

Valley of Despair

The following is an entry from the project journal for : I’m feeling a little bummed and not particularly motivated to work on my compiler today. ...

Terence Tao (@tao@mathstodon.xyz)

The current administration in the US has, through various funding agencies such as the NSF and NIH, has recently suspended virtually all federal grants to my home university, UCLA (including my own personal grant, although that is far from the most serious im…

I couldn't submit a PR, so I got hired and fixed it myself

After joining Mintlify (which acquired my previous company), I finally fixed a search bug that had bothered me for over a year as a user - the debounced search queries weren't being aborted, causing race conditions and poaor search quality. By adding an AbortC…

Weekly Recap - 2025-08-01

Check out this week from Dev Leader! Here's a list including articles and videos on software engineering, career development, and programming in C#!

Cerebras

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Fingine: Thoughts on Side Projects and Financial Simulation

One ambition of mine is to retire relatively early (around 55) and in the period prior to that to take jobs without consideration for their financial compensation. To achieve that, I pay attention to how my net worth, savings rate, and investments track with m…