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Four Kinds of Optimisation
Premature optimisation might be the root of all evil, but overdue optimisation is the root of all frustration. No matter how fast hardware becomes, we find it easy to write programs which run too slow. Often this is not immediately apparent. Users can go for years without considering a program’s performance to be an…
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A decade of developing a programming language
In 2013, I had an idea: "what if I were to build my programming language?". Back then my idea came down to "an interpreted language that mixes elements from Ruby and Smalltalk", and not much more.
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The Linux kernel has been accidentally hardcoded to a maximum of 8 cores
TL;DR This doesn’t mean that the scheduler can’t use more than 8 cores. The scheduler controls how to allocate tasks to available cores. How to schedule particular workloads efficiently…
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I accidentally a scheme
wingolog: article: i accidentally a scheme
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The laptop that won't die
My $200, 12-year-old Thinkpad has outlasted two high-end Macbooks
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My favorite coding question to give candidates
A coding question, from the viewpoint of an Google/Amazon/Microsoft interviewer
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Infinite Context LLMs: Going Beyond RAG with Extended Minds
In this blog we discuss how the transformer architecture naturally extends over external memories, and share empirical results which leverage this capability. These methods are innate (don't require fine tuning) and outperform popular retrieval augmented generation methods.
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We've learned nothing from the SolarWinds hack
Mac's Tech Blog
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Designing a programming language to speedrun Advent of Code
“shouldn’t this have been published a few months ago?” yeah, probably. I even considered submitting it to the AoC contest. time is a real beast. The title is clickbait. I did not design and implement a programming language for the sole or even primary purpose of leaderboarding on Advent of Code. It just turned out…
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Discouraging the use of web application firewalls
Mac's Tech Blog
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Reauthorizing mass surveillance shouldn't be tied to funding the government
Section 702 is the controversial and much-abused mass surveillance authority that expires in December unless Congress renews it. EFF and others have been working hard to get real reforms into the law and have opposed a renewal, and now, we’re hearing about a rushed attempt to tie renewal to funding...
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Ubuntu Pro Shenanigans
10/18/2026: Drive Specifications Matter (Complete) 10/09/2026: Gear Review: XTEINK X4 Pro 10/09/2026: Gear Review: OLYVUE V78 Dash Cam 10/01/2026: UNREDACTED Magazine Issue 013 09/21/2026: Updated OSINT Scripts 09/20/2026: New Socials 08/29/2026: Blog Archive 08/20/2026: Free PDF Self-Publishing Guide 08/19/2026: OS…
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Building an occupancy sensor with a $5 ESP32 and a serverless DB
How I built an occupancy sensor with an ESP32C3, Cloudflare Workers/D1, and Grafana
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Hacking Google Bard – From Prompt Injection to Data Exfiltration
Recently Google Bard got some powerful updates, including Extensions. Extensions allow Bard to access YouTube, search for flights and hotels, and also to access …
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HTML Web Components
I think the word “component” in “web components” confused a lot of people — at least it did me. “Web components” sounded like the web platform’s equivalent to…
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Tragedy of return to hostile offices
Don't suffer and merely survive, aided by your noise cancelling headphones. Optimising for individual happiness can result in less of the joy that people find in teams that achieve great things together.
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Reasons to Prefer Blake3 over Sha256
This post is a copy of tweets by Zooko Wilcox-O'Hearn . SHA256 was designed by the NSA. BLAKE (the original) and BLAKE3 were designed by Jean-Philippe Aumasson
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Ship Shape
How Canva does hand-drawn shape recognition in the browser
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Loro: Reimagine state management with CRDTs
Loro, our high-performance CRDTs library, is now open source. In this article, we share our vision for the local-first software development paradigm, why we're excited about it, and the current status of Loro.
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Maxar's Open Satellite Feed
Benchmarks & Tips for Big Data, Hadoop, AWS, Google Cloud, PostgreSQL, Spark, Python & More...
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Don't waste money on a math coprocessor they said
Well it’s been no secret, but OS/2 6.123 on my PS/2 model 80, is insanely unstable running simple MS-DOS based games (large EXE’s)