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Gmail E2E is as terrible as expected
Recently, Google introduced E2E encryption in Gmail. It went bad.
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Knowing where your engineer salary comes from
How tech companies make money and why it's important
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MonkeysPaw – A prompt-driven web framework in Ruby
Be careful what you wish for...
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The Insanity of Being a Software Engineer
Is something I think about often because I can’t help but wonder if most other jobs are like this.
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Deleting multiplayer from the Unreal engine can save memory
Although the title of this article might suggest otherwise, I don’t dislike Unreal’s multiplayer features. As someone who has worked on two different multiplayer games in Unreal, I enjo…
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The “S” in MCP Stands for Security
Spoiler: it doesn’t. But it should.
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SeedLM: Compressing LLM Weights into Seeds of Pseudo-Random Generators
Large Language Models (LLMs) have transformed natural language processing, but face significant challenges in widespread deployment due to…
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My Browser WASM't Prepared for This. Using DuckDB, Apache Arrow and Web Workers
by Przemyslaw Maciolek
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Apple’s Darwin OS and XNU Kernel Deep Dive
A deep dive into Apple’s Darwin OS and XNU kernel architecture, tracing its evolution from Mach and BSD roots to powering macOS, iOS, and Apple Silicon. This post explores the hybrid kernel’s design, its adaptation to new hardware and security paradigms, and why XNU remains a uniquely resilient and scalable foundation…
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The ADHD body double: A unique tool for getting things done
Body doubling is a productivity technique where an individual works on their tasks alongside someone else. Find out how ADHDers can use this strategy to their advantage.
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Rules for Negotiating a Job Offer (2016)
When the story of how I landed a job at Airbnb went viral, I was surprised at how infatuated people were with my negotiations. Media stories portrayed me as some kind of master negotiator—a wily ex...
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We are still using 88x31 buttons
introduction If you surf the modern "small web" to any extent you've encountered 88x31 buttons - a staple of late 90s and early 2000's websites under…
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North America Is Dripping from Below, Geoscientists Discover
A figure from the study showing rock dripping from the craton. The researchers hypothesize that the dripping is caused by…
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A year of Rust in ClickHouse
This story is about how ClickHouse supports Rust components in the C++ code base and the challenges we had to overcome.
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The Llama 4 herd
We’re introducing Llama 4 Scout and Llama 4 Maverick, the first open-weight natively multimodal models with unprecedented context support and our first built using a mixture-of-experts (MoE) architecture.
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Faster interpreters in Go: Catching up with C++
A novel technique for implementing dynamic language interpreters in Go, applied to the Vitess SQL evaluation engine
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What if we made advertising illegal?
What if we banned all advertising? Not regulate it—abolish it. This proposal would transform manipulation machines, and maybe save democracy itself. A thought experiment worth considering.
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Sweetener saccharin shows surprise power against antibiotic resistance
Sweeteners can kill drug resistant bacteria
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Database Protocols Are Underwhelming
If you’ve been in this trade for a while, you have probably seen dozens of debates on the merits and problems of SQL as a relational database query language. As an ORM maintainer, I have a few gripes with SQL, but overall it is workable, and anyway, it has so much inertia that there’s no point fantasizing about a…
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Compilers: Incrementally and Extensibly (2024)
The materials for the course on compilers: built incrementally and fully in tagless-final style
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Europe needs its own social media platforms to safeguard sovereignty
The EU can support the development of homegrown social media platforms to ensure European Union's digital sovereignty and shield it from foreign interference
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Emulating an iPhone in QEMU
From black screens and boot issues to rendering quirks and PAC puzzles, here’s what we learned getting iOS to finally say hello.
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Recreating Daft Punk's Something About Us
An in-depth, personal journey recreating Daft Punk’s “Something About Us” in Ableton Live 12 — track by track. From synths to talkbox guitars, a nostalgic dive into French Touch culture, sound design, and the joys of music production.
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No elephants: Breakthroughs in image generation
When Language Models Learn to See and Create
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Learn electricity and electronics fundamentals without taking a formal course
A website supporting the books of author Simon Monk.
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AT&T Email-to-Text Gateway Service Ending June 17
Effective June 17, 2025, you can no longer send or receive texts using email.