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Sentry: From the Beginning
I've been trying to invest more and more of my free time interacting with founders. I genuinely feel we've been through a lot with Sentry and I can provide some useful value to others. More so, I believe most people in this industry, most successful people, do others a disservice but not having honest conversations…
How Bear does analytics with CSS
Bear Blog has a few design constraints for speed, efficiency, and stability. There are many great open-source, privacy-focussed analytics platforms out there...
What the Goddamn Hell Is Going on in the Tech Industry?
Sweet merciful Jesus, I woke up this morning and my inbox was flooded with horrific stories about how employers treat people. I knew things were fucked, but this was so much worse than I imagined, and that's not even getting into the comments on Hackernews. I am going to dig into some of those emails, but first...
SQLite 3.44: Interactive release notes
Order by in aggregates, better string concatenation, and thorough date formatting.
Reflections on quitting my job
Programming lessons I’ve learnt over the last 7 years.
Norwegian ban on Meta behavioral advertising extended to entire EU
Det europeiske personvernrådet har nå bestemt at det norske forbudet mot adferdsbasert markedsføring på Facebook og Instagram skal bli permanent og utvides til å gjelde hele EU/EØS.
Rules of schema growth (2017)
The free database designed for immutable values and a time-aware information model.
Upstream Linux support available for Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 Mobile Platform
Effortless upstream Linux integration, powerful performance optimization, running AOSP with Mainline and last but not least continued collaboration
Firefox got faster for real users in 2023
We’ve been working hard on making Firefox even faster and we’re extremely happy to report that this has resulted in an improvement in speed.
Apple’s keynote event shot on iPhone and edited on Mac
Apple goes behind the scenes of Scary Fast, a special event unveiling the all-new MacBook Pro family and iMac.
Reverse-engineering Ethernet backoff on the Intel 82586 network chip's die
Introduced in 1973, Ethernet is the predominant way of wiring computers together. Chips were soon introduced to handle the low-level aspects...
Real-time dreamy Cloudscapes with Volumetric Raymarching
This article is a deep dive into my experimentations with Volumetric rendering and how to leverage it to render beautiful raymarched cloudscapes in React Three Fiber and WebGL. In it, I walk you through everything from the basics of Volumetric Raymarching to the techniques used in video games to render physically…
The beauty of finished software
Let me introduce you to WordStar 4.0, a popular word processor from the early 80s. WordStar 4.0 As old as it seems, George R.R. Martin used it to write “A Song of Ice and Fire”. Why would someone use such an old piece of software to write over 5,000 pages? I love how he puts it: It does everything I want a word…
Apple unveils the new MacBook Pro featuring the M3 family of chips
Apple today announced a new MacBook Pro lineup featuring the all-new family of M3 chips: M3, M3 Pro, and M3 Max.
Apple unveils M3, M3 Pro, and M3 Max
M3, M3 Pro, and M3 Max feature groundbreaking technologies that deliver dramatically increased performance and unleash new capabilities for Mac.
Android and RISC-V: What you need to know to be ready
You can build, test, and run the Android support for RISC-V on your own machine.
RedPajama v2 Open Dataset with 30T Tokens for Training LLMs
RedPajama-Data-v2 is a 30 trillion token open dataset from 84 CommonCrawl dumps across five languages, with over 40 precomputed quality annotations.
Can I remove my personal data from GenAI training datasets?
Short answer: Practically-speaking, probably not.
Gmail, Yahoo announce new 2024 authentication requirements for bulk senders
Today, we’re announcing new requirements for bulk senders that will help keep Gmail safer and more spam-free.
Apple CPU Architecture Through the Ages
Learn how CPUs work, and discover Apple’s underrated competitive advantage.
Approximate Nearest Neighbor Oh Yeah (Annoy)
Discover the capabilities of Annoy, an innovative algorithm revolutionizing approximate nearest neighbor searches for enhanced efficiency and precision.