Everything About Bitflags
Comprehensive walkthrough bitflags - how to store up to 32 booleans in one value? Including visualizations, database considerations, code examples and benchmarks.
Automating configuration updates with rcl patch
Configuration formats that humans can read and maintain, are hard for scripts to edit safely. With the new patch feature, RCL now has a principled way to enable safe, automated edits.
How My Hobby Project Got a Cease and Desist
How a side project to earn myself free flights became a legal headache with Avios.
Scale-to-Zero: Wake VMs in 200ms with Light Sleep, eBPF, and Snapshots - Koyeb
Discover how we built Scale-to-Zero to automatically wake VMs in 200ms with eBPF, light sleep, and snapshots.
Building Spectre: A CLI Coding Agent
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Accurate text lengths with `Intl.Segmenter` API
How many characters is 👨👩👧👦?
C tooling
One of my favorite past-time activities I’ve been getting into lately is looking into various tools I can use to make my C development experience better on the daily. This ranges from formatters to memory leak detection to debuggers. This blog isn’t a tutorial…
make cool stuff
this article focuses on breaking free from repetitive programming projects, but its ideas can be applied to any creative field, like film making, music, or a...
Casual Productivity with LLMs - k-hole
Using LLMs to implement workflow enhancements you wouldn't have attempted otherwise
Configuration vs Composition
Remember that one time you were building a frontend with MUI, and the designer requested a design refresh? How much did you have to…
perfectionism is a form of shame
Perfectionism often wears the mask of , , It parades itself as virtue, a propriety. In reality, it is rarely about the pursuit of excellence but the terror ...
You're Not Interviewing for the Job. You're Auditioning for the Job Title
I once had a job interview for a backend position. Their stack was Node.js, MySQL, nothing exotic. The interviewer asked: "If you have an array containing a million entries, how would you sort the dat
‘Labs’ teams, Skunkworks, and Special Projects: Beware
In a previous post, I talked about balancing ‘creating work’ and ‘destroying work’ such that the backlog does not become a huge mental burden on everyone to the point that it gives the impression that “the dev team is slow” or “we’re not making enough progress…
Is It Bias or Noise – Breakout Baseline #6
Ladies and gentlemen… today you’ll see the matchup of a lifetime. All the way from RL Canon, you know it, you love it. It’s entropy bonus!!! If you let them, they’ll make yo…
Gregor Riegler · Augmented Coding
Gregor Riegler, Software Development Coach.
Superman Is Less • Ninjas and Robots
I’ve written about this before. Who hasn’t. But sometimes it just feels like everything’s already been done. How can I possibly make another thing about… anything? It took me 45 minutes, but I finally got my phone streaming to the TV at the Airbnb... | Ninjas …
How big are our embeddings now and why?
Embedding sizes and architectures have changed remarkably over the past 5 years
Choosing the Right Path : dylanbeattie.net
An article from dylanbeattie.net
A Reader’s Guide to Economic Headlines
With the media posting sensational economic stats daily, filtering out the noise becomes crucial.
Why Are You Telling Me This?
I. I have always depended rather heavily on conversational scripts. For me, this is not a specific list of things to say in a conversation, but rather a thematic approach to the interaction. The th…
Microlearning is the new way to learn
How I use microlearning to keep up with fast-moving tech trends through short, daily doses of content across social media and YouTube.
Anthropic raises $13B Series F at $183B post-money valuation
Anthropic has completed a Series F fundraising of $13 billion led by ICONIQ. This financing values Anthropic at $183 billion post-money. Along with ICONIQ, the round was co-led by Fidelity Management & Research Company and Lightspeed Venture Partners. The inve…
HomeGrown at Gamescom Part 1 - The Final Preparations
Wishlist HomeGrown on Steam: https://store.steampowered.com/app/1894560/HomeGrown/ Support the channel on Patreon and get access to the game & code for Homegrown, the city-builder, and Equilinox: https://www.patreon.com/thinmatrix Play my previous game "Equi…
No, you don't want to hire "the best engineers" - Otherbranch
I think this might be the meanest thing I've ever written.
GitHub - woheller69/FreeDroidWarn
Contribute to woheller69/FreeDroidWarn development by creating an account on GitHub.
Beware clever devs, says Laravel inventor Taylor Otwell
: Taylor Otwell says skip the clever code, keep it simple
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How to Speak
MIT How to Speak, IAP 2018 Instructor: Patrick Winston View the complete course: https://ocw.mit.edu/how_to_speak Patrick Winston's How to Speak talk has been an MIT tradition for over 40 years. Offered every January, the talk is intended to improve your publ…
Two PCs, One Stereo: How to connect multiple PCs to a single audio source
Dave explains a range of options for connecting mulitple computers to a single audio system. Free Sample of my Book on the Spectrum: https://amzn.to/3zBinWM Check out my new merch store at: http://davesgaragemerch.com/ Check out ShopTalk, our weekly podcas…
Trapped in the Infinite Honey Pot
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Vibe doodling – Jimmy's blog
As a kid, I spent a lot of time doodling in my notebooks. I imagine myself scribbling away in class when I should have been taking notes. This may seem frivolous, but I recently made the connection between these squiggles and the Dutch notion of niksen, which …
A Brief Look at the Mathematics of Structure Packing
Mathematically analyzing when structures in programming languages (such as C or Rust) have their size minimized.
The Barbell of Software Value | Mehmet
Why platforms and private leverage are the future of software, while generic SaaS gets squeezed.
Where are all the trillion dollar biotechs? — lada nuzhna
Of the many trends people chase in biotech, the only one that proves sure and consistent is declining returns. Even after adjusting for inflation, the number of new drugs approved per $1 billion of R&D spending has halved approximately every nine years sin…
I Should Have Loved Electrical Engineering · Tony Tong
Sorry, We Deprecated Your Friend
With the release of GPT-5, OpenAI killed off a bunch of older models being used by millions of people around the globe. They did this while sneaking in a new underlying model and routing system into every existing ChatGPT conversation thread.
The quiet software tooling renaissance • pdx.su
A quiet renaissance has been happening in software tooling. New projects are cropping up that do things far better than the tools they replace, and in many ways, they carry the ideals of older unix tools into the 21st century…
Tripping around REPL
In which I’m talking round-tripping, syntax highlighting, and even switching namespaces
Keyboard-First Outlining | Andreas Flakstad
For as long as I’ve had to manage projects, I’ve disliked the tools built for the job. Notion, Asana, Trello, Jira, ..all powerful, but also bloated, complicated, and designed around the mouse. Basecamp is a nice breath of fresh air with it’s relative simplici…
Money Mistakes You Didn’t Know You’re Making
Here is a list of money mistakes I have made at some point in my life. I’m pretty sure you’re making some of them too.
The Immutable Linux Paradox
Immutable Linux distributions are gaining popularity due to their resilience and security, with mainstream operating systems adopting similar principles. This post explores how different Linux distributions achieve immutability, the trade-offs, and why you sho…