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A principled approach to system design and programming
Technical maxims that define Urbit's approach to engineering.
Quarantine Bread
Bread that's hard to mess up.
Why Adventure Games Suck (1989)
Ron Gilbert's often incoherent and bitter ramblings about the Game Industry
Mathematica v12.1
Biggest .1 release from Wolfram. 182 completely new functions, plus updates and enhancements. Includes full HiDPI support, computation with video, data structures, asymptotic superfunction, mathematical functions, plotting, geometric optimization, vector plotting, cross-hatching, computational topology, tabular data…
Patriarch of Pandemics
In the last article we covered some of the historical pandemics that rocked the world - smallpox, typhoid, and the bubonic plague. We ended on a hopeful note - many of the pandemics that plagued the world in the past have faded, and that modern pandemics have been far less fatal than historical o
We are pausing upcoming Chrome and Chrome OS releases
Cross-posted from the Chrome Releases Blog Due to adjusted work schedules at this time, we are pausing upcoming Chrome and Chrome OS relea...
Crafting Interpreters: Superclasses
You can choose your friends but you sho’ can’t choose your family, an’ they’re still kin to you no matter whether you acknowledge ’em or not, and it makes you look right silly when you don’t.
Anatomy of My Kubernetes Cluster
1 I usually rely on Minikube , though other solutions exist, like Kind , that can actually emulate multiple nodes. Multi-node support may eventually come for Minikube. A year ago, I decided I would build my own Kubernetes cluster. As a software engineer, I either use a local single-node Kubernetes cluster 1 , or a…
PigPaxos: Removing the Scalability Bottlenecks in Paxos
This is our most recent work, started and led by Aleksey Charapko . (This is a joint post with him.) You can get the paper at arxiv.org . Th...
The chronic suffering of the VB.NET community
I’d originally planned to write on this particular topic in response to increasing outreach to me personally, through my blog and other places, unsolicited, and independently from multiple communit…
New MacBook Air released, pricing now starts at $999, features Magic Keyboard
Apple today updated MacBook Air, with faster performance, the new Magic Keyboard and twice the storage. It’s available for just $999.
New iPad Pro with LiDAR Scanner and trackpad support
Apple today unveiled its most advanced iPad Pro, adding an Ultra Wide camera and studio-quality mics, and a breakthrough LiDAR Scanner.
The Troublesome Active Record Pattern
How inappropriate data access patterns massively slow down programs and how the same problems arise with RESTful APIs.
Using Visual Studio Code for Qt Applications
In this short blog series, I will show you how to get up to speed with a Qt project using Visual Studio Code in more detail.
When to Copy Ideas, When to Steal Ideas
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Windows Terminal Preview v0.10 Release
Welcome to the v0.10 release of the Windows Terminal! As always, you can install the Windows Terminal from the Microsoft Store or download the package
The 2,500 year old history of why Python’s all([]) returns True
How a Python function relates to a two thousand year old debate in philosophy
How the brain encodes landmarks that help us navigate
A study from MIT neuroscientists reveals how neurons in the brain’s retrosplenial cortex use both visual information and spatial feedback to encode specific landmarks that are useful for navigation.
How I Teach Classes Remotely
Technology, running tech companies, data science, religion, translation technology, natural language processing, backups, p-adic linguistics, academia
We called it RAID because it kills bugs dead
The history of defect tracking databases in Windows.
Khronos Group Releases Vulkan Ray Tracing
Today, The Khronos Group announces the ratification and public…
The good parts of AWS: a visual summary
A summary of Daniel Vassallo and Josh Pschorr Ebook. Find out about the secrets of DynamoDB, S3, EC2, Lambda and others. A Guide for AWS DevOps enthusiasts.
Curl will now output JSON
This is not a command line option of the week post, but I feel a need to tell you a little about our brand new addition! --write-out [format] This option takes a format string in which there are a number of different "variables" available that let's a user output information from the previous transfer. For … Continue…
GitHub for mobile is now available
Learn more about GitHub for mobile—including highlights of its core features and how to get started.