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Today, it’s my great pleasure to announce the first public release of Hardwood, a new parser for the Apache Parquet file format, optimized for minimal dependencies and great performance. Hardwood is …
When a codebase is large and complex, it's risky to big changes. Here's a structured way to approach
Google spent over a decade telling developers that Google API keys (like those used in Maps, Firebase, etc.) are not secrets. But that's no longer true.
AI agent misbehavior isn't a sandbox problem—it's a permissions problem.
Hello Windows Insiders, today we are beginning to roll out updates for Notepad and Paint apps to Windows Insiders in the Canary and Dev Channels on Windows 11. Notepad (version 11.2512.10.0) In this update, we’re introduci
_posted by Stephen De Gabrielle and John Clements_ We are pleased to announce Racket v9.1 is now available from https://download.racket-lang.org/. As of this release:: Documentation organization and navigation can be specialized by language family, to...
confusable-vision renders every TR39 confusable pair across 230 macOS system fonts and measures visual similarity with SSIM. 96.5% of confusables.txt is not high-risk, but 82 pairs are pixel-identical in at least one font.
From COBOL in the 1960s to AI in the 2020s, every generation promises to eliminate programmers. Explore the recurring cycles of software simplification hype.
An interactive exploration of quadtrees. Start with brute-force spatial search, build recursive space partitioning step by step, then use it for point lookups, range queries, nearest-neighbor search, collision detection, and image compression.
I'm building an 80386-compatible core in SystemVerilog and blogging the process. In the previous post , we looked at how the 386 reuses one barrel shifter for all shift and rotate instructions. This time we move from real mode to protected and talk about protection .
The author of Java 26's MemoryMXBean.getTotalGcCpuTime() analyzes the CPU-memory trade-off and why pause times fail to capture explicit GC cost.
Wolfram's Foundation Tool supplements LLM foundation models with deep computation and precise knowledge. CAG (computation-augmented generation) underlies multiple access methods.
Writing code is cheap now - Agentic Engineering Patterns
Righty-ho, I’m back from Rust Nation, and busily horrifying my teenage daughter with my (admittedly atrocious) attempts at doing an English accent 1 . It was a great trip with a lot of good conversations and some interesting observations. I am going to try to blog about some of them, starting with some thoughts…
We trained a model on our 11-million-hour video dataset. Our model can explore complex websites, complete multi-action CAD modeling sequences, and drive a car in the real world, all at 30 FPS.
We're adopting Rust as our C++ successor language, and using AI agents to accelerate the transition.
Most linux software just work on FreeBSD
Last week I had to diagnose a bug in an open source library I maintain. The issue was gnarly enough that I couldn’t find it right away, but then I thought: if I set a breakpoint here and fire up the debugger, I will likely find the root cause very soon… and then proceed to mercilessly destroy it! So I rolled up my…
Magic files and where to find them: .gitignore, .gitattributes, .mailmap, .git-blame-ignore-revs, .lfsconfig, and more.
What are database transactions and how do SQL databases isolate one transaction from another?
This essay explores the cost of multitasking through computer science concepts like context switching and advocates for the focus found in single-threaded moments.
Applying the type-driven mindset to rust via the "Parse, don't Validate" pattern
AI agents are good at doing one thing at a time. Give Claude a focused task and it performs. But real work isn’t one task. It’s a tree of tasks with dependencies, parallelism, and context that needs to flow between them.
Git only tracks files, not directories. It will only create a directory if it contains a tracked file. But sometimes you need to “track” a directory, to ensure it exists for fresh clones of a repository. For example, you might need an output directory called build.
a pungent monad odor that attracts mathochists
How to delete all merged git branches locally with a single command. This one-liner has been in my zshrc since 2017 — I found it buried in the CIA's Vault7 l...
Minions are Stripe’s homegrown coding agents, responsible for more than a thousand pull requests merged each week. Though humans review the code, minions write it from start to finish. Learn how they work, and how we built them.
Understanding large codebase can be incredibly difficult. In this post I walk through how I learn a codebase use turbopack as my case study.
Modern browsers support reactive web interfaces without React, Vue, or Angular. Web components and shadow DOM make frameworks optional.
