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Asahi Linux Progress Report: January/February 2021
Porting Linux to Apple Silicon
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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 553 posts.
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Staying Out of TTL Hell
Cache strategies that don't trade-off correctness for speed
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Write libraries instead of services, where possible
For any developer with limited resources, this means a library (where viable) can provide the same functionality to the user, at a lower cost to the developer than a service.
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Best practices can slow your application down
In order to get the most performant site possible when building the codebase for our public Stack Overflow site, we didn’t always follow best practices.
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Qubes-Lite with KVM and Wayland
I've been running QubesOS as my main desktop since 2015. It provides good security, by running applications in different Xen VMs. However, it is also …
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An update on Android's audio latency
News and insights on the Android platform, developer tools, and events.
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Reverse-engineering Rosetta 2 Part 1: Analyzing AoT files and the runtime
Apple announced that it would be moving from Intel processors to Arm-based Apple Silicon CPUs for Macs at WWDC 2020. The Apple Silicon-based Mac Book Air and Pro were released in October 2020 with great fanfare.
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ClickHouse as an alternative to Elasticsearch for log storage and analysis
In 2018, I've written an article about Clickhouse, this piece of content is still pretty popular across the internet, and even was translated a few times. More than two years have passed since, and the pace of Clickhouse development is not slowing down: 800 merged PRs just during last month!
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Speed Is the Killer Feature
Teams consistently overlook speed. Instead, they add more features (which ironically make things slower). Products bloat over time and performance goes downhill.
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Splitting the Ping
Ping is one of the fundamental pillars of networking. It’s simple, universally supported, and is normally one of the few things that is shipped with all network stacks.
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Spectre exploits in the "wild"
Personal blog of Julien (jvoisin) Voisin
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How I cut GTA Online loading times by 70%
GTA Online. Infamous for its slow loading times. Having picked up the game again to finish some of the newer heists I was shocked (/s) to discover that it still loads just as slow as the day it was re
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Users are losing out against Big Sur’s sealed System
macOS 11.2, 11.2.1 and 11.2.2 have come in quick succession. What do they tell us about how difficult it is to update Big Sur’s sealed System volume? Is this the way to go?
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Weird architectures weren't supported to begin with
This post contains my own opinions, not the opinions of my employer or any open source groups I belong or contribute to.
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Foundational Distributed Systems Papers
I talked about the importance of reading foundational papers last week. To followup, here is my compilation of foundational papers in the d...
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Linux Capabilities in a nutshell (2019)
Linux capabilities can be difficult to understand so let's go through them quickly
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Static Executables with SBCL v2
It's taken me much longer than I hoped, but I finally have a second version of my patches to build static executables tested and ready to go! This set of patches vastly improves upon the first by reducing the amount of compilation needed at the cost of sacrificing a little purity. Additionally I have created a system…
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Modules, Monoliths, and Microservices
Learn what are microservices, when are microservices beneficial and how module boundaries impact software design.
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You need to be able to run your system
"Run the unit tests" doesn't count. The complexity of your system is in the interactions between the units.
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Why Discord is switching from Go to Rust (2020)
Discover the latest news and app updates, stories, company insights, and plenty more about Discord, all in one place.
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Cranelift, Part 2: Compiler Efficiency, CFGs, and a Branch Peephole Optimizer
This post is the second in a three-part series about Cranelift . In the first post , I described the context around Cranelift and our project to replace its backend code-generation infrastructure, and detailed the instruction-selection problem and how we solve it. The remaining two posts will be deep-dives into some…
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M1 Macs have another hidden boot mode
Apple has revealed the hidden Fallback Recovery OS mode available on M1 Macs. How to enter and use it, and why it’s another big plus.
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OpenZFS – dRAID, Finally
Learn about dRAID in OpenZFS 2.1. Explore its data protection capabilities, distributed hot spares, faster resilvering, and enhanced performance in this article.