My Experience of building Bytebeat player in Zig
I graduated last month, and my GSoC project along with my startup work finally wrapped up. To take a proper break and enjoy some deliberate...
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I graduated last month, and my GSoC project along with my startup work finally wrapped up. To take a proper break and enjoy some deliberate...
IntroductionI’ve recently been researching Pixel kernel exploitation and as part of this research...
Transducer: Composition, Abstraction, Performance
Jonathan Arns's personal blog
Some time ago, I played around with decompiling Java class files in a more efficient manner than traditional solutions like Vineflower allow. Eventually, I wrote an article on my approach to decompiling control flow, which was a great performance boost for my prototype. At the time, I believed that this method can be…
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The Baumol Effect and Jevons paradox are related
Building a state machine for travel - tracking Schengen days, the 183-day rule for tax residency across countries, and visa thresholds when governments won't expose state.
Paying homage to the component we usually don't think about.
A deep dive into how Linux manages process memory, page tables, and virtual address spaces
Technical blog by Stephan Berger (@malmoeb)
It is 1995.
You know, technically, I never said anything about a version *four*
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The neuroscience of why we make million dollar decisions based on identity, not data.
November seems to be a ripe month for challenges. Some people grow facial hair. Some people write many words daily hoping to come out with a novel on the other...
Why we rewrote our backend from Python/Django to Node.js one week after launching Skald.
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On each of the last two Fridays, Google has suspended SSLMate 's Google Cloud access without notification, having previously suspended it in 2024 without notification. But this isn't just another cautionary tale about using Google Cloud Platform; it's also a story about usable security and how Google's capriciousness…
No amount of tuning the backend service performance helped, and then I learned why. Oh no. Oh no no no no.
Last Updated: June 17, 2026What impact is AI having on the job market? Everyone has an opinion, but…
The real limitations of pgvector in production: index choice between IVFFlat and HNSW, why real-time search is hard, pre- vs post-filtering pain, how performance degrades at scale, and when a dedicated vector database is the better call.
You’ll learn why AWK doesn’t have a GC and understand some peculiarities in its syntax
Durable execution with just postgres.