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A 2FA app that tells you when you get `314159` (2024)
An indie project for early 2010s internet addicts
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Stoicism's appeal to the rich and powerful (2019)
I was recently interviewed for a piece in the Times on why the philosophy of stoicism has become very popular in the Silicon Valley tech crowd. Only a sliver of my thoughts made it into the article, but the question from Nellie Bowles was very stimulating so I wanted to share more of my thoughts.
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Local-First and Ejectable
An important requirement to ensure you can fully access your data in cloud apps forever is making the backend sync server available for local self-hosting. That's what EJECTABLE apps are about.
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High-performance computing, with much less code
The “Exo 2” language allows programmers to write “schedules” that explicitly control how the compiler generates code. This allows performance engineers to transform simple programs into complex programs that do the same thing as the specification, but faster.
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In S3 simplicity is table stakes
From simple object storage to sophisticated table management, builders have always shaped S3's evolution. Andy Warfield discusses why making complex systems simple remains our north star at AWS.
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Finding Signal in the Noise: Machine Learning and the Markets (Jane Street)
Listen in on Jane Street’s Ron Minsky as he has conversations with engineers working on everything from clock synchronization to reliable multicast, build systems to reconfigurable hardware. Get a peek at how Jane Street approaches problems, and how those ideas relate to tech more broadly.
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Migrating from AWS to a European Cloud – How We Cut Costs by 62%
This post describes how we successfully migrated our serverless offering from AWS US-East to OVHCloud North America, reducing our monthly spend from...
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Building AI agents to query your databases
In the world of AI agents, the ability to understand and analyze structured data is a game-changer. While large language models excel at understanding natural...
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HTTP/3 is everywhere but nowhere
HTTP/3 has been in development since at least 2016, while QUIC (the protocol beneath it) was first introduced by Google way back in 2013. Both are now...
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Hidden Messages in Emojis and Hacking the US Treasury
On December 30th, while most of us were preparing for a New Year’s Eve celebration, the US Treasury was prepping a notice to lawmakers to notify them that their systems, which (obviously) contain highly sensitive, confidential data, had been compromised.
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TinyKVM: Fast sandbox that runs on top of Varnish
TinyKVM can be used to sandbox regular Linux programs or programs with specialized APIs embedded into your servers.
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The Church FAQ
A few years ago, we bought a church building. Since then, every time I mention it online and/or on social media, someone always responds, “wait, you bought a church, what” and then asks…
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Recursion kills: The story behind CVE-2024-8176 in libexpat
libexpat is a fast streaming XML parser. Alongside libxml2, Expat is one of the most widely used software libre XML parsers written in C, specifically C99. It is cross-platform and licensed under the MIT license .
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History of Maths for Beginners
In the comments on my recent post on books on the history of maths Fernando Q. Gouvêa jumped in to draw attention to the book Math Through the Ages: A Gentle History for Teachers and Othe…
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IO Devices and Latency
Take an interactive journey through the history of IO devices, and learn how IO device latency affects performance.
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Did the Particle Go Through the Two Slits, or Did the Wave Function?
In the quantum double-slit experiment, did the particle go through the slits or did the wave function? 1920's quantum physics has a simple answer: "NO".
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Going down the rabbit hole of Git's new bundle-URI
Git's new bundle-uri could help significantly speed up clones, but what bugs lurk within?
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A new Sudoku layout with 81 uniquely shaped cells
My journey making a Sudoku variant that doesn’t have rows or columns
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My teen years: The transputer operating system
History of the evolution of my C compiler and operating system for transputer when I was age 16.
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Something Is Rotten in the State of Cupertino
Who decided these personalized Siri features should go in the WWDC keynote, with a promise they’d arrive in the coming year, when, at the time, they were in such an unfinished state they could not be demoed to the media even in a controlled environment? Three months later, who decided Apple should double down and…
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Practical UX for startups surviving without a designer
How to figure out what the user experience should be when you don’t have time, budget, or a design team.
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Mark Klein, AT&T whistleblower who revealed NSA mass spying, has died
EFF is deeply saddened to learn of the passing of Mark Klein, a bona fide hero who risked civil liability and criminal prosecution to help expose a massive spying program that violated the rights of millions of Americans.Mark didn’t set out to change the world. For 22 years, he was a...
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Iconography of the PuTTY tools
In March 2025 I received an email asking about PuTTY’s “logo” – the icon used by the Windows executable. The sender wanted to know where it had come from, and how it had evolved over time.
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Shenmue (1999) reverse engineering reveals possible sun position oversight
So far, we’ve only really touched on some of the fundamentals of reverse engineering with one game example, but this time we’re looking at something a bit different. Shenmue (1999) is widely known for its pursuit of realism and has remained an influential series to this day, with its third game releasing in 2019. This…
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The cultural divide between mathematics and AI
A reflection on cultural differences observed at the 2025 Joint Mathematics Meeting.
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Experiment with Gemini 2.0 Flash native image generation
Developers can now test experimental image output generation with Gemini 2.0 Flash via the Gemini API in Google AI Studio.
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Gemini Robotics
Introducing Gemini Robotics and Gemini Robotics-ER, AI models designed for robots to understand, act and react to the physical world.
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The DuckDB Local UI
The DuckDB team and MotherDuck are excited to announce the release of a local UI for DuckDB shipped as part of the ui extension.
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The Future Is Niri
The worst "street-cred" I have is that I've been using tiling window managers for thirty-five percent of my life: five years with Sway and two...