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Sci-Hub and Alexandra Basic Information
I decided to make a quick summary of facts about Sci-Hub and myself, because in our times you cannot fully trust articles published in media, Wikipedia pages. Well, they do present facts about Sci-…
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Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 49,196 posts.
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I Hacked the Magic Mouse
Magic Mouse hack with USB-C charger
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Habits of High-Functioning Teams
I often struggle to explain what it means to be part of a high-functioning software team. Sure, there are mountains of literature, and an entire genre of LinkedIn thought leadership that professes all kinds of guidelines and heuristics about what makes teams work, but in my experience, it’s hard to internalize these…
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A profitable, growing, useful, legal, well-loved... failure
. Not the kind of log I meant.
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Game Engine Black Books Update
I have kept myself busy with the Game Engine Black Books and I have plenty of news. Most importantly, they have been revised. The DOOM book is now in version 1.1 while the WOLF3D book is entering v2.1. And there is more.
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Personal Data Warehouses: Reclaiming Your Data
I gave a talk yesterday about personal data warehouses for GitHub’s OCTO Speaker Series, focusing on my Datasette and Dogsheep projects. The video of the talk is now available, and …
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Patterns for building LLM-based systems and products
Evals, RAG, fine-tuning, caching, guardrails, defensive UX, and collecting user feedback.
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The death of partying in the USA
Young Americans today spend 70 percent less time attending or hosting parties than they did at the beginning of the 21st century. Why?
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iOS 27 is adding a 'Create a Pass' button to Apple Wallet
Apple is letting users build their own Wallet passes in iOS 27. After 14 years of PassKit, the supply-side problem is finally being solved from the demand side.
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A Love Letter to FreeBSD
I’m still the new person here, learning your ways, stumbling over the occasional quirk, smiling when I find the small touches that make you different. You remind me of what computing felt like before the noise. Before hype cycles and performance theatre. Before every tool needed a plugin system and a logo. You are…
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The “mail is hard” myth
TL;DR: - Mail is not hard: people keep repeating that because they read it, not because they tried it - Big Mailer Corps are quite happy with that myth, it keeps their userbase growing - Big Mailer Corps control a large percentage of the e-mail address space which is good for none of us - It's ok that people have…
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The Coming Loop
Loops, harnesses, and why even loop skeptics may end up with them.
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The anatomy of a 2AM mental breakdown
Zarar Siddiqi: engineering leader and consultant in Toronto. Building products with care, and helping teams do the same with AI in the loop.
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Superpowers: How I'm using coding agents in October 2025
I'm Jesse. I make stuff. Software, hardware. Very occasionally, trouble.
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Speech Recognition Is Not Solved
Ever since Deep Learning hit the scene in speech recognition, word error rates have fallen dramatically. But despite articles you may have read, we still don’t have human-level speech recognition. Speech recognizers have many failure modes. Acknowledging these and taking steps towards solving them is critical to…
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Open Source is one person
The Register recently published a story titled Putin on the code: DoD reportedly relies on utility written by Russian dev. They should be ashamed of this story. This poor open source developer is getting beat up now to score some internet points. It’s very upsetting. But anyway, let’s look at some receipts. If you’re…
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Don't re-elect SOPA supporters on Tuesday
As elections draw near, remember that it's not just about the President. We'll vote on a number of Congressional seats too. If you haven't take a second to get a quick read on your senator and...
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SQL Keys in Depth
The internet is full of dogmatic commandments for choosing and using keys in relational databases. At times it verges on a holy war: should you use natural or artificial keys? Auto-incrementing integers, UUIDs?
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Milk Kanban
We ten to consider Kanban as (digital) whiteboards with columns and sticky notes, while its original meaning was just (any) visual signal.
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Thirty years ago today I made the final gold masters for Monkey Island
Ron Gilbert's often incoherent and bitter ramblings about the Game Industry
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Instant database clones with PostgreSQL 18
Learn how to clone PostgreSQL databases instantly using reflinks. Turn slow template copies into milliseconds with PostgreSQL 18's new file copy options.
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I organized a 20-acre game of Capture the Flag
Where an undergraduate at UT Austin writes about almost everything.
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How a lazy bitch like me learned to be productive
Before, I was a train wreck that ate too many cinnamon rolls and watched Netflix while laying in sweats on the couch. Today, I ran 3 miles, did 40 minutes of yoga, meditated, ate steel cut oats with berries for breakfast, then turned on my favorite business podcast while I showered, all before work.
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Simulating the PIN cracking scene in Terminator 2
In the beginning of Terminator 2: Judgement Day, John Connor uses a laptop to crack the PIN of a stolen debit card.
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Pixels and voxels, the long answer
Retronator Do It Yourself
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To be great, be good repeatably
A thought piece on what it takes to truly be great and what that even means in the first place.
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StarCraft: Orcs in space go down in flames
StarCraft was once mocked as 'Orcs in space' and heading for disaster. This is the story of the reboot that saved it.