Bloom filters: the niche trick behind a 16× faster API | Blog | incident.io
This post is a deep dive into how we improved the P95 latency of an API endpoint from 5s to 0.3s using a niche little computer science trick called a bloom filter.
His Legal Name Is One Letter—The Airline Rejects It And Says 'Just Call Yourself AA,' Creating Chaos - View from the Wing
His legal first name is literally one letter: "A." But the airline won't accept it, forcing him to use "AA" instead. What might seem like a small detail is creating serious travel chaos—risking issues with passports, points transfers, security checks, and inte…
GitHub - p-e-w/heretic: Fully automatic censorship removal for language models
Fully automatic censorship removal for language models - p-e-w/heretic
Maybe you’re not Actually Trying
On selective agency in capable people
IDEmacs
Making Emacs beginner-friendly, via configurations that emulate mainstream IDEs
GitHub - kavishdevar/librepods: AirPods liberated from Apple's ecosystem.
AirPods liberated from Apple's ecosystem. Contribute to kavishdevar/librepods development by creating an account on GitHub.
Teaching LLaMa to write for $0.08
fine-tuning llama 3.1 8b on 650 prose snippets in 75 seconds for $0.08
Referential transparency
I am currently looking for a job! If you're hiring a new grad in 2026 for for Rust, TypeScript, or React, feel free to shoot me an email at serena (at) quamserena.com.
Web Dev Has Never Been This Easy
Web development today is nothing like it used to be: With the rise of web apps, frameworks, and developer tools have matured massively.
The Life of a Packet in the Linux kernel
A practical, plain-English tour of how Linux moves packets from write() to the wire and back
3manuek - Upgrading Postgres Major, and Django model with Logical Replication.
How should we peer review software?
Why peer reviewing software isn't as easy as running the code.
EyesOff: How I Built A Screen Contact Detection Model
I trained a model for my app EyesOff, which detects when people are looking at your screen to protect you from shoulder surfing. With no existing dataset for this task, I hand-labelled 20k+ images for training and created synthetic gaze labels for pre-training…
512-Byte Boot Sector Pong Game
written by - Akshat Joshi Sometime back, I set myself a crazy constraint: Load only one thing at boot - A Pong game that fits in one floppy disk sector — 512 bytes. Why would I build this? I have played with Operating Systems and their workings by c…
Auto-vectorizing operations on buffers of unknown length
GCC isn’t yet capable of auto-vectorizing even simple search operations on buffers for which the length isn’t explicitly specified1.
Make Your Own Spotify, With Blackjack And Hookers
[drop_cap]E[/drop_cap]arlier this year I found myself at a crossroads. Spotify's recommendation algorithms hadn't been what they used to be for a long time. I noticed they kept serving up the...
Forward-deployed engineer, the new full-stack frontier
A grim but motivational piece on the new frontier of the 10x can-do-it-all developer and the overall AI wave.
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GitHub - davidfowl/aspire-13-samples: A repo showing micro samples with aspire 13
A repo showing micro samples with aspire 13. Contribute to davidfowl/aspire-13-samples development by creating an account on GitHub.