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At Uber, our MySQL® fleet is the backbone of our data infrastructure, supporting a vast array of operations critical to our platform. Uber operates an extensive MySQL fleet, consisting of over 2,300 independent clusters. Building a control plane to manage this fleet at such a massive scale, while ensuring zero…
Following a routine board meeting that did not present any surprises to the market, TSMC executives, alongside Taiwan’s Deputy Minister of Economic Affairs, are set to engage in negotiations with the U.S.
New court documents shed light on what a 25-year-old DOGE worker named Marko Elez did inside Treasury Department payment systems, including what Treasury staff did to limit his access. The documents indicate that the situation is more nuanced than previously reported.
May 2026 update This post was written at a time of significant turmoil in my life, when multiple correlated events happened in quick succession. What I wrote in the post below is true, but a lot was left unsaid, as some things were still being investigated. At the time when I wrote the post, despite resigning from my…
The Edge team added support for respecting the Windows ClearType Tuner values in Chromium directly, resulting in better text rendering in Chromium-based browsers on Windows.
In the span of just weeks, the US government has experienced what may be the most consequential security breach in its history—not through a sophisticated cyberattack or an act of foreign espionage, but through official orders by a billionaire with a poorly defined government role. And the implications for national…
So a bit under 3 years ago, I made my infamous Wayland rant post that is likely the most read post on this blog by miles. I should really actually write about music again one of these days, but that's a topic for another time. The language was perhaps a bit inflammatory, but I felt the criticisms I made at the time…
Today, when my 1.9-year-old daughter tried to grab and eat an unwashed orange, I asked her to give it to me so I could wash and peel it if she could wait for a moment. She did. It got me thinking about the marshmallow experiment, where the idea was that patience equals success. But … […]
An exploration of the layout models of TeX and Typst.
Discover how Google modernized YouTube's iconic red hue with accessibility and motion design in mind.
Cryptographic schemes are based on the computational difficulty of solving some ‘hard’ problem. For example, RSA (specifically, RSA-2048) is based on the difficulty of a problem like this:
Can we have a faster FFI for CRuby? Yes.
The case for less rigor and more nuance.
GIMP 3.0 is almost out, and I'm thrilled. Not only will this version bring new features and improvements, but it finally modernizes the technology stack in two important ways:
The following guest post from digital humanities scholar Nichole Misako Nomura is part of our Vanishing Culture series, highlighting the power and importance of preservation in our digital age. Read more essays online or download the full report now. Punch cards are a fascinating binary data storage format that aren’t…
What could've been the largest data breach in the world - an attack chain on Google services to leak the email address of any YouTube channel
Personal website for some random tidbits I work on
With ZWJ (Zero Width Joiner) sequences you could in theory encode an unlimited amount of data in a single emoji.
A deep dive into Google Translate (and other browser extensions) interference breaking React and other web apps.
Grief and new motherhood have transformed my brain, my body, and my sense of self.
Apache Iceberg and Parquet now support native geospatial types, connecting Wherobots, PostGIS, Sedona, Databricks, and Snowflake to one table format.
WebAssembly is a true write-once-run-anywhere experience.
I’ve been learning Jujutsu a.k.a. jj , a version control system that’s compatible with git repos. It’s clicked for me in a way that git hasn’t even after many years of use.
Over the past year, three people with paralysis have received Neuralink implants. This blog post explores how each person is using Telepathy in everyday life.
Go 1.24 brings generic type aliases, map performance improvements, FIPS 140 compliance and more.
Prototyping a concept for simpler, physical climate controls
A couple of years ago, we initiated the idea of creating a Kotlin Multiplatform IDE to help facilitate the development of KMP applications. We embarked on this venture, building on the Fleet platform,
And I will do it again unless someone stops me.
The 2024 Year End Drive Stats Report is here. See the the latest annualized failure rates and data insights for the Backblaze drive fleet.
