Logless Raft The standard use of Raft is for implementing a fault tolerant, replicated state machine by means of a replicated log, maintained at each server within a replication group. Depending on the nature of the state we want to replicate, we can employ a simpler ...
Vibing options for whoever you are My favorite movie is Tommy Boy. I apologize for nothing. You won’t find this flick listed on the top 100 movies of all time, and some people think it’s a dumb movie. That’s ok. Lo…
Only Experts Can Write Good Prompts Everyone talks about prompt engineering as if memorizing templates and adding "think step by step" will suddenly get you amazing AI results. That’s not how it works. Writing good prompts isn’t about…
A Review of Nim 2: The Good & Bad with Example Code I've been using Nim for about 1-2 years now, and I believe the language is undervalued. It's not perfect, of course, but it's pleasant to write and read. My personal website uses Nim.
I'll only buy devices with GrapheneOS Cops say criminals use a Google Pixel with GrapheneOS — I say that’s freedom
ChatGPT and ADHD ChatGPT has mainly learned from people with ADHD, people whom are so tuned to scattered minds, people addicted to their smartphones, people ...
Rupert’s Property You can cut a hole in a cube that’s big enough to slide an identical cube through that hole! Think about that for a minute—it’s kind of weird. Amazingly, nobody could prove any co…
The vulnerability might be in the proof-of-concept The Security Developer-in-Residence role at the Python Software Foundation is funded by Alpha-Omega. Thanks to Alpha-Omega for sponsoring security in the Python ecosystem. I'm on the...
Simple Measures to Make Axios and Express Production Ready On August 21, 2025 PagerDuty alerted me that my Node server is taking way too long to respond.
diamond geezer And that means we're about to enter the longest possible gap between bank holidays. Let's prove that.
Order In Chaos At An Airport 3 min read · A collection of raw, funny, and emotional observations while people-watching at an airport.
Ultra Instinct Visible light occupies a small sliver of the electromagnetic spectrum, which spans radio waves, microwaves, infrared, visible light, ultraviolet, X-rays, and gamma rays.
Bazel Knowledge: dive into unused_deps The Java language implementation for Bazel has a great feature called strict dependencies – the feature enforces that all directly used classes are loaded from jars provided by a target’s direct dependencies.
Big endian and little endian Every time I run into endianness, I have to look it up. Which way do the bytes go, and what does that mean? Something about it breaks my brain, and makes me feel like I can't tell which way is up and down, left and right.
You're probably using uv wrong This is adapted from my "Better developers" newsletter: https://BetterDevelopersWeekly.com. Like many others in the Python world, I've adopted "uv", the do-everything, lightning-fast package manager written in Rust. uv does it all: For people who just
Are OpenAI and Anthropic Really Losing Money on Inference? I keep hearing what a cash incinerator AI is, especially around inference. While it seems reasonable on the surface, I've often been wary of these kind of claims, so I decided to do some digging.
Rendering a Game in Real-Time with AI Discover the process of transforming an ASCII game into real-time AI-rendered graphics with fal.ai
How to Slow Down a Program? And Why it Can Be Useful. Making programs slower can be useful to find...
How to prepare for the Bitnami Changes coming soon After evaluating the impact and community feedback, the Bitnami team has postponed the deletion of the Bitnami public catalog (docker.io/bitnami) until September 29th to give users more time to adapt to the upcoming changes.
Yamanotes Yamanotes (/jamanoʊts/) is a web-based music box for playing the departure melodies of each station on the JR Yamanote Line/山手線!
Neurobiological substrates of altered states of consciousness induced by high ventilation breathwork accompanied by music The popularity of breathwork as a therapeutic tool for psychological distress is rapidly expanding. Breathwork practices that increase ventilatory rate or depth, facilitated by music, can evoke subjective experiential states analogous to altered states of...
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The unexpected productivity boost of Rust Rust is known for having a steep learning curve, but in this post we will be looking at another curve, the one showing developer productivity in relation to the project size.
Enterprise Sales = The Opposite of “Learn by Doing” – PREDATORIALISM.com Startups are motion. Instinct. Compulsion. The ADHD-drive to leap first, discover later. Truth by friction, not by committee. The “plan” is the doing. The feedback loop is the only scripture worth reading.
Thinking in space Where do you get your ideas?I am not asking where the ideas come from, when they get to you.I am rather wondering where you are when ideas, especially bright...
Why Relying on LLMs for Code Can Be a Security Nightmare LLM generated code can ships demo logic with security issues not defenses. Here is a real world example and how it could be abused.
HOW TO RUN LATEST VEGAS PRO 22 IN WINDOWS 7 NO MATTER WHAT ► █▓▒░ Unlisted Retrograde Holdout You know that it is already became some kind of sport for me or maybe a “bad practice” obsession. But i just can’t stop doin’ it, anyway, let’s get on with another dirty-hack.
Dependency Management with uv in Kubeflow Pipelines – Fabrizio Damicelli A simple workflow to manage dependencies of Python Kubeflow components
Can Multisensory Input Hack Your Memory? How to learn I did competitive gymnastics growing up, and the training was chaos…in a good way. You had to be comfortable flying through the air, twisting, flipping, and hanging upside down. Even one skill, like a giant (spinning in full circles around th...
Why I Built My Own EPUB Media Overlay Editor - André Klein Dot Net Take an ebook. Take an audiobook. Smash the two together and you get a “TalkingBook”: synchronized text and audio that highlights what’s being spoken and lets you click phrases to trigger their audio content. In principle, it’s a simple idea. In fact, whe...
How to design a DBMS for Telco requirements My colleague Zhao Song presented a walkthrough of the evolution of the DBMSs and how it relates to Google Spanner, Aurora, PolarDB and MyS...
A retrospective about blogging for a decade Retro Blog von midzer: Entdecke spannende Beiträge zu DJ Sets, Alltagsphilosophie, einfachen Rezepten, nerdigen Tutorials und inspirierenden Zitaten.
PCI Vendor ID rabbit-hole musings I was recently investigating driver issues on my home firewall with Intel network cards, and noticed something that spiked my attention. Intel’s PCI Vendor ID is 0x8086 – which is a nice homage to their glory days.