2011
The silent majority of experts (2012)
It's not about technology for its own sake. It's about being able to implement your ideas.
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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 3,821 posts.
2012
No, QuestDB is not Faster than ClickHouse
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QuestDB created a minor stir in the small but active world of analytics database benchmarking with this blog article: https://questdb.io/blog/2022/05/26/query-benchmark-questdb-versus-clickhouse-timescale. This is the money quote: “QuestDB is an order of magnitude faster than both TimescaleDB and ClickHouse in this…
2013
Safari on iOS can overlap multiple full-screen videos
I just discovered an annoying behavior of Safari on iOS: full-screen videos can overlap each other and make it hard to close them without force closing Safari.
2014
I'm making drugs for cats
For all the new readers who’ve joined since my post about effective altruism and elections, welcome!
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Tolkien’s Little-Known Original Drawings for the First Edition of “The Hobbit”
A lively new look at one of the most beloved fantasy stories of all time.
2018
Interview with Marc Andreessen on learning to love the humanities, and RSS
The real challenge to building on the frontier? Figuring out human behavior.
2019
2020
What happened to proper tail calls in JavaScript? (2021)
ECMAScript supports proper tail calls. How come browser don't support it?
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2023
PC Engine / TurboGrafx-16 Architecture
An in-depth analysis that explains how this console works internally
2024
2025
Clarus returns home in macOS Ventura
Did you know Clarus the Dogcow is hiding in the macOS Ventura beta?
2026
Writing Is Hard
Writing is hard. Especially if you start thinking. Never stop to think about what to write (unless you must), it will ruin the flow. Never stop to correct yourself, to judge or run a spellcheck. Don’t do that; that’s what editing is for. I’ve read the same tips again and again: Write first, edit later. […]
2027
Building a web application with Rust and WebAssembly
Whether it be with React, VueJS, Angular, or in Rust, modern web applications are composed of 3 kinds of pieces: Components Pages Service Components are reusable pieces and UI elements. An input field, or a button, for example. Pages are assemblies of components. They match routes (URLs). For example, the
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2029
Fork() without exec() is dangerous in large programs (2016)
The UNIX fork() system call seems like an elegant way to process tasks in parallel. It creates a copy of the current process, allowing tasks to read the same memory, without needing fine-grained synchronization. Unfortunately, you need to use it extremely carefully in large programs because fork in a multi-threaded…
2030
Luck Surface Area: How to Get Lucky In Life
You can't force luck. But you can increase your chances (by a lot) to get lucky. Here's how to do it with luck surface area.
2031
If it isn't going to work, just shut it down
Don’t build the startup ship of Theseus.
2032
2033
“Downthem” DDoS-for-hire boss gets 2 years in prison
A 33-year-old Illinois man was sentenced to two years in prison today following his conviction last year for operating services that allowed paying customers to launch powerful distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks against hundreds of thousands of Internet users and websites.
2034
Human attention has become a commodity
Fake news. Misinformation. Mental health crises. Election meddling. Extremism. Partisanship. Eating Disorders. Body Dysmorphia. Vulnerability porn.
2035
The Floppotron 3.0
After a long time it’s time for a big upgrade of my computer hardware orchestra. Here it is! The bigger and better Floppotron 3.0. 512 floppy disk drives, 4 scanners and 16 hard disk drives.
2036
2037
Twenty years of my blog
I started this blog on June 12th 2002—twenty years ago today! To celebrate two decades of blogging, I decided to pull together some highlights and dive down a self-indulgent nostalgia …
2038
We don't know what makes things sentient–so let's stop acting like we do
Sentience is a neuroscience question, not a machine learning one.
2039
We will never have enough software developers (2020)
Developers are dropping out of the profession in large numbers despite efforts to grow the number of computer science graduates and software engineers.
2040
How Trustpilot Extorts Businesses
Trustpilot promises to be “free and open” — in reality, they are the exact opposite, holding companies at ransom, and outright violating…