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“The Plumber Problem” is a phrase I coined to describe the experience of watching a movie that touches on some subject area that you know way more about than the average person, and then some inaccuracy in what’s depicted distracts you and takes you out of the movie. (This can occur in any work of fiction, of course…
The original ANSI C standard, C89, introduced the concept of “undefined behavior,” which was used both to describe the effect of outright bugs like accessing memory in a freed object and also to capture the fact that existing implementations differed about handling certain aspects of the language, including use of…
Async Rust is a whole new world of programming. Let's try to understand it by working our way through a series of web servers, learning the details of concurrency and I/O along the way.
The FBI doesn’t believe that either our rights or the limitations that Congress has placed upon them matter when it comes to the vast amount of information about us collected under FISA Section 702. The latest exhibit in this is in yet another newly declassified opinion of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court…
When unreasonable requests are followed up with "but you could have just said no!" Exploring the clashes of ask culture and guess culture, at home and at work.
U.S. adults who routinely say hello to their neighbors have higher wellbeing than those who greet fewer or no neighbors.
Back in the early days of blogging, the tech press bashed RSS out of existence as it was supposedly too complex for ordinary users. To th...
If you’re thinking of migrating to another infrastructure as code tool (and why would you, everything is great in the IaC world now, right?!) you might find yourself asking yourself
The first announcement of MoonBit
Extensible programs like Obsidian have achieved a Holy Grail of software architecture, after decades of failed attempts.
When logged into a web application, the session does not remain valid forever. Typically, the session expires after a fixed time after login, or after the user has been idle for some time. How long should these times be?
The reaction to John Cowan’s resignation as chair of the R 7 RS Large working group has been somewhat wider than I think anyone expected, making it onto general interest programming forums. Scheme may be a small island, but when it has an earthquake, it makes waves through the whole archipelago of programming…
For some of us, the backend vs frontend discussion just doesn’t cut it. What do do, then?
Engineering deep-dives, product updates, and company news from Tembo — the platform for running coding agents across your stack.
Slides and videos explaining a functional approach to error handling
There are two main historical trends when choosing an implementation language for something compiler-shaped.
The Bhyve FreeBSD hypervisor (called/spelled ‘beehive’ usually) was created almost 10 years ago. Right now it offers speed and features that other similar solutions provide – such…
On Sunday, August 6, an undersea landslide in one of the world’s longest submarine canyons knocked out two of the most important submarine cables serving the African internet. The loss of these cables knocked out international internet bandwidth along the west coast of Africa. In this blog post, we review some history…
This is based on an internal quip doc I wrote up about careful communication in the context of rebuilding trust.
EQT Private Equity Announces Voluntary Public Purchase Offer and Intention to Delist SUSE
YOLO-driven development - not for the faint of heart
Fuzz tests have helped us catch many critical bugs. Should your team consider fuzz testing? They're the best thing to happen to our application tests so far.
Email clients have quirks that force you to use <table> elements, inline styles, and follow other bad practices that make development complicated.
These are posters warning of potential hazards on the railway. They were used for public relation relations at various stations to alert passengers and the gene
