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Apology
After talking to two team members who recalled our staff meeting at the 2018 Racket Summer School better than I did, I think I can put myself into your shoes now.
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On Depression and Founders
Depression is real in founders. Please be careful.
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Six ways to make async Rust easier
Asynchronous Rust is powerful but has a reputation for being hard to learn. There have been various ideas on how to fix the trickiest aspects, though with my focus being on Tokio 1.0, I had not been able to dedicate much focus to those topics. However, Niko’s async vision effort has recently started the discussion…
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Useful and useless code comments
I’ve been reading John Ousterhout’s A Philosophy of Software Design . At one point in the book, he gives this advice about code comments: Unfortunately, many…
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Io_uring is not an event system
I’ve been hearing about io_uring on and off for the last couple of years. Its a relatively new technology in Linux to allow high-performance IO with very few overheads. Whenever its been mentioned, its usually been presented as a new alternative to select, poll and epoll. This led me to believe that it was just the…
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The collapse of the IRON stable coin
How Polygon’s first billion-dollar protocol unraveled.
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How to Become a Bad Developer
Discover the most efficient way to not succeed as a developer.
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What happens in an IPO? – Part 1
Read time: 23 minutes
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Designing a better strcpy
Saagar Jha's website.
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How to Write a Programming Book
If you read Programming books, then your goal is to learn. If you write Programming books then your goal is to teach. When I wrote my book…
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1931: Kurt Gödel shows limits of math, logic, computing, AI
His famous 1931 paper identified the fundamental limits of math, logics, theorem proving, computing, AI.
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Representing SHA-256 Hashes as Avatars
How to turn 256 bits of entropy into a beautiful, avatar-friendly circular SVG: the Hashvatar.
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Internal competition can often be the most dangerous kind
How internal competition can often be the most dangerous kind
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How to Boost Self Esteem and Stop Procrastinating
Why Affirmations Don't WorkL And What To Use Instead2021279 points155 commentsLife, Learning & Writing details
Cognitive exercises to shift your self-image and overcome procrastination through evidence-based reframing.
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Zero-downtime schema migrations in Postgres using views
Schema migrations are tricky, especially when planned downtime is not an option. Changes need to be carefully designed to stay backwards compatible so that…
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Why I no longer contribute to Racket
Beautiful Racket
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Bear plus snowflake equals polar bear
The correct answer is: 6. Or 7, if you want to be pedantic and include the newline, but let’s not.
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If you think psychological science is bad, imagine how bad it was in 1999
Shane Frederick points us to this article from 1999 , “Stereotype susceptibility: Identity salience and shifts in quantitative performance,” about which he writes:
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How does one get hired by a top cybercrime gang?
The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) last week announced the arrest of a 55-year-old Latvian woman who’s alleged to have worked as a programmer for Trickbot , a malware-as-a-service platform responsible for infecting millions of computers and seeding many of those systems with ransomware.
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I Read the Entire Cybersecurity Executive Order; Here's What You Need to Know
Cybersecurity is hard enough. Doing it across federal agencies is a mammoth task.
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A Visualization of Galactic Settlement
Oh good, Star Wars got it right. The Core will indeed be a nexus of galactic civilization.
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New Machine Learning Gems for Ruby
In August, I set out to improve the machine learning ecosystem for Ruby and wasn’t sure where it would go. Over the next 5 months, I ended up...
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Code in ARM Assembly: Registers Explained
Types of register explained, and which are available to pass arguments of different types. Call by value and call by reference distinguished.
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Unreliability at Scale
Thomas Claiburn's FYI: Today's computer chips are so advanced, they are more 'mercurial' than precise – and here's the proof discusses two ...
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My EC2 Wishlist
While I've made engineers inside Amazon aware of all of these at various times, I think it's time to post my wishlist here — both so that a wider audience inside Amazon can hear more about these, and so that the FreeBSD community (especially the people who are financially supporting my work ) can see what I'm aiming…