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Our efforts, in part, define us
What happens when something we enjoy doing that took effort becomes effortless? And what happens if that original effort was a foundation on which we saw value…
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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 4,109 posts.
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What .NET 10 GC changes mean for developers
.NET 10 GC tuning shows how stack allocations, DATAS, and region sizing cut allocations, improve latency, and reduce your cloud cost.
1143
I only use Google Sheets
To cut things short, always use the easiest solution to solve a particular problem and once that solution does not work for the business anymore reassess wha...
1144
Category Theory Illustrated – Natural Transformations
I didn’t invent categories to study functors; I invented them to study natural transformations. — Saunders Mac Lane
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The Beer Can (2023)
Connecting old and new.
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The gaslit asset class
James Grant invited me to address the annual conference of Grant's Interest Rate Observer . This was an intimidating prospect, the previous...
1147
Mind the encryptionroot: How to save your data when ZFS loses its mind
While ZFS has a well-earned reputation for data integrity and reliability, OpenZFS native encryption has some incredibly sharp edges that will cut you if you don't know where to be careful. Unfortunately, I learned this the hard way, standing in a pool of my own blood and tears after thoroughly lacerating myself…
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Diff Algorithms
How I overcame copying and modifying my own diff library from project to project by diving too deep into diff algorithms and coming out at the other end with new diff library in my hand.
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Organize your Slack channels by "How Often", not "What"
A few weeks ago, I changed my Slack channel sections. I’m now more responsive and engaged, while also feeling less stressed. How? By sorting my Slack channels by urgency, or how often I want to read them. Versus Sorting by “how often” lets me read my most urgent messages first, focusing my energy on what
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Random Attractors – Found using Lyapunov Exponents (2001)
Contribution by Philip Ham: attractor.basic and Python implementation by Johan Bichel Lindegaard.
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Designing agentic loops
Coding agents like Anthropic’s Claude Code and OpenAI’s Codex CLI represent a genuine step change in how useful LLMs can be for producing working code. These agents can now directly …
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Selling Lemons
Personal site of designer Frank Chimero
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Software essays that shaped me
I started reading software blogs before I got my first programming job 20 years ago. At this point, I've read thousands of blog posts and essays, but a small handful stuck in my mind and changed the way I think about software.
1154
An opinionated critique of Duolingo
beyond the green owl, from streaks and potions to pedagogy and politics
1155
Pasta Cooking Time
I generally find the numbers printed on pasta boxes for cooking time far too high: I'll set the timer for a minute below their low-end "al dente" time, and when I taste one it's already getting too mushy. I decided to run a small experiment to get a better sense of how cooked I like pasta. I decided to use Market…
1156
How has mathematics gotten so abstract?
What's the meaning of "numbers" and "arithmetic operations"? We consult Georg Cantor's turtles and look at Giuseppe Peano's code.
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Comprehension debt: A ticking time bomb of LLM-generated code
Psst. If your boss won’t invest in training you in Specification By Example (BDD, ATDD), I’m running out-of-hours workshops on May 12 and 16 specifically for self-funding learners. £99 + UK VAT. An…
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Can you use GDPR to circumvent BlueSky's adult content blocks?
In the battle between the Online Safety Act and GDPR, who will win? FIGHT! I'll start by saying that I'm moderately positive on Online Safety. If services don't want to provide moderation then they shouldn't let their younger users be exposed to harm. The social network BlueSky has taken a pragmatic approach to this…
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I’ve removed Disqus. It was making my blog worse
Disqus turned my clean blog into an ad-riddled mess. Here’s why I pulled the plug—for your privacy and reading sanity
1160
Companies are lying about AI layoffs?
Companies are saying that the economy and AI are causing the large amount of tech layoffs, but Vanessa Wingårdh looked at the H-1B visa data and noticed that the companies are lying. She argues that...
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Heavy codes of conduct are unnecessary for open source projects
The debate surrounding the Codes of Conduct (CoC) adopted by Open Source projects may be reaching a turning point. In September 2025, a controversy erupted over the governance of RubyGems, a corner…
1162
Geolocation and Starlink
"Where are you?" is not an easy question to answer on the Internet. The telephone system's address plan embedded a certain amount of physical location information in the fixed line network, and a full E.164 telephone number indicated your location in terms of your country, and your area within that country. The…
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AI tools I wish existed
The models are powerful as is. But where are the tools?
1164
Safe zero-copy operations in C#
My attempt at talking about one of the most underrated features of C#.
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How I block all 26M of your curl requests
A journey in packet filtering
1167
Don't Become a Scientist (1999)
Don't Become a Scientist!
1168
IP over Lasers
Mike Kohn's music, software, and electronics projects.
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ML on Apple ][+
Success! There is machine learning happening on my Apple ][+.
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Subtleties of SQLite Indexes
Understanding query planner quirks yielded a ~35% speedup.