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Terraform should have remained stateless
For major providers, Terraform does not really need state. My proposal: add a ’none’ backend that uses the provider APIs as state. Here’s how.
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Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 49,204 posts.
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Businesses with ugly AI menu redesigns
I like supporting local businesses but it's so disheartening to see the increasing use of genAI in their branding/marketing/etc. Yuck yuck YUCK!!!
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Writing secure Go code
Security testing starts with understanding vulnerabilities. The CVE website lists known software flaws. The OWASP Top Ten highlights common weaknesses. With this knowledge, we can improve our Go development. This article shows how to put in place robust practices. They are fuzz inputs, verify dependencies, and use…
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Helium is hard to replace
The war in Iran, and the subsequent closure of the Strait of Hormuz, has unfortunately made us all familiar with details of the petroleum supply chain that we could formerly happily ignore.
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Old jokes
That’s what she said, a rabbi resolves a dispute, and six categories in the Philogelos
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“Why Using WhatsApp Is Dangerous“
telegra.ph/why-using-whatsapp-is-dangerous-01-30-42020381 points234 commentscited by 3Security & Privacy details
A few months ago I wrote about a WhatsApp backdoor that allowed hackers to access all data on any phone running WhatsApp [1]. Facebook, its parent company, claimed at the time that they had no proof the flaw had ever been used by attackers [2]. Last week it became clear that this backdoor had been exploited to extract…
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Xee: A Modern XPath and XSLT Engine in Rust
I announce Xee, the implementation of XPath and XSLT in Rust that I've been working on for the last two years.
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Calculus with Julia
This is a set of notes for learning calculus using the Julia language. Julia is an open-source programming language with an easy to learn syntax that is well suited for this task.
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Hello, me. It's been a while
Wow. It’s been over fourteen years since the last time I wrote a post on this blog. In those fourteen years, the world has changed, and so have I. So this isn't going to be a technical post, it's going to be personal. One of those subtle changes that quietly crept into my life over
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Carrier Landing in Top Gun for the NES
Wherein we figure out how to land on the stupid aircraft carrier in Top Gun
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You Have to Feel It
You see a series of checkboxes checked. Schedules met. Requirements satisfied. Demos delivered. It's a good day. Good job, you, good job! A promotion is in sight.
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Shared Cache Is Going Away
Browsers historically have had a single HTTP Cache. This meant that if www.a.example and www.b.example both used cdn.example/jquery-1.2.1.js then JQuery would only be downloaded once. Since it's the same resource regardless of which site initiates the download, a single shared cache is more efficient. [1]…
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The Case Against PGVector
The real limitations of pgvector in production: index choice between IVFFlat and HNSW, why real-time search is hard, pre- vs post-filtering pain, how performance degrades at scale, and when a dedicated vector database is the better call.
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Porting my 1993 Amiga game to Godot, with an LLM reading the 68000 assembly
Babylonian Twins is an Amiga platformer I built in Baghdad in 1993, in 68000 assembly. This summer an LLM ported it to Godot, and this is what I found when I read back through what it did. The original disks are now free on itch.io.
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The “API Mandate” memo at Amazon
The personal website of Christopher Laing.
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The Story Behind “100 Go Mistakes and How to Avoid Them”
The Story Behind 100 Go Mistakes and How to Avoid Them
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Bad numbers in the “gzip beats BERT” paper?
The recent paper, “Low-Resource” Text Classification: A Parameter-Free Classification Method with Compressors by Jiang et al. [ link ] recently received a lot of attention on twitter.
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YouTube puts the final nail in the loudness wars' coffin
This is HUGE.
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Building a full-text search engine in 150 lines of Python code
Full-text search is everywhere. From finding a book on Scribd, a movie on Netflix, toilet paper on Amazon, or anything else on the web through Google (like [how to do your job as a software engineer](https://localghost.dev/2019/09/everything-i-googled-in-a-week-as-a-professional-software-engineer/)), you've searched…
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A Staff Engineer's Guide to Inventing Work
A how-to manual for engineer-led discovery in software platforms
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TL;DR of Deep Dive into LLMs Like ChatGPT by Andrej Karpathy
A TL;DR version of Andrej Karpathy's "Deep dive into LLMs like ChatGPT" video.
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A Practical Guide to SSH Tunnels: Local and Remote Port Forwarding
SSH port forwarding explained in a clean and visual way. How to use local and remote port forwarding. What sshd settings may need to be adjusted. How to memorize the right flags.
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Abusing Go's Infrastructure
I apologize if this information is already known, but I couldn’t find any references about it and I wanted to understand what was going on and share with you because I think there is some value doing it. In case this wasn’t known, I apologize to the Go team for not talking to them first and jumping the full disclosure…
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Elements of Clojure
Daniel: 00:00:00 Hello, welcome to the REPL, a podcast diving into Clojure programs and libraries. This week, I’m talking about Clojure with Zach Tellman, the creator of Manifold and Elements of Clojure, a recent book about Clojure. Welcome to the show, Zach.
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