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Windows Explorer Through the Years
At a glance comparison of every major Explorer release
Top posts
Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 3,290 posts.
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So you want to roll your own crypto?
A coworker of mine asked: How are people supposed to learn (from mistakes) if they don't roll their own crypto? The short answer is do roll ...
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If management isn't a promotion, then engineering isn't a demotion
I wrote a piece this week about what motivates people to become managers (tldr mostly org dysfunction), and Julian Dunn replied with some typically insightful tweets:
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Gocker: Docker implemented in 1.3k lines of Go
They are popular and they are misunderstood. Containers have become the default way applications are packaged and run on servers, initially popularized by Docker. Now, Docker itself is misunderstoo…
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How to identify an immoral maze
Previously in sequence: Moloch Hasn’t Won, Perfect Competition, Imperfect Competition, Does Big Business Hate Your Family?, What is Life in an Immoral Maze?, Stripping Away the Protections, What is…
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Gerät 32620: the machine that powered numerous number stations
A few years ago, I first stumbled over some recordings of number stations and started reading up on their history. For most of them, we have pretty good guesses who ran them and for what purpose. One example is the Gongs and Chimes Station , known for its melody that got increasingly creepy over the years, the more…
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Lessons from Running a Sale That Earned 3 Month's Profit in a Week
Tips on running successful Black Friday sales for creators and Indie Hackers
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Reverse-engineering the problematic tail behavior of Fivethirtyeight forecast
We’ve been writing a bit about some odd tail behavior in the Fivethirtyeight election forecast, for example that it was giving Joe Biden a 3% chance of winning Alabama (which seemed high), it was displaying Trump winning California as in “the range of scenarios our model thinks is possible” (which didn’t seem right)…
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SwiftUI Defaults Considered Harmful
A few notes on SwiftUI and why UI frameworks should not try to be “smart”
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How did software get so reliable without proof?
In 1996, the Turing-award-winning computer scientist C.A.R. Hoare wrote a paper with the title How Did Software Get So Reliable Without Proof? In this paper, Hoare grapples with the observation tha…
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Ennui: How to Overcome Chronic Boredom
Ennui (pronounced on-wee ) is chronic boredom that involves weariness, apathy, dissatisfaction, and lack of fulfillment. Some people experience a general sense of ennui in life, whereas others experience it in a specific domain, like their hobbies or work. For example, someone might experience ennui when it comes to a…
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Multi-Tenant Architectures
Multi-tenancy Application Deployment Architecture could be modeled in 4 broad ways: Separate Apps & Separate Databases Shared ...
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Wirecard – The “German Enron”, and a personal history
For those who just came back from a 15 year space mission: Wirecard is a German company that according to its website is ” one of the world’s fastest-growing digital platforms for fina…
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What is GPT-3? written in layman's terms
Daily, snackable writings to spur changes in thinking. Building a blueprint for a better brain by tinkering with the code.
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Improved vacuum in PostgreSQL 13
Vacuum is one of the sub-systems in PostgreSQL which gets improved with each release. I have checked past five releases and each has qu...
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To listen well, get curious
When I’ve listened the most effectively to people, it’s because I was intensely curious—I was trying to build a detailed, precise understanding of what was going on in their head.
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Io_uring By Example: cat, cp and a web server with io_uring
io_uring is a clever new, high-performance interface for asynchronous I/O for Linux without the drawbacks of the aio set of APIs. In this 3-part article series, we look at how to use io_uring to ge…
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The Abundance of Silicon Valley
Abundance is fragile, it is accidental, and it is the most incredible thing on earth.
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The Black Hole information loss problem is unsolvable
Science News, Physics, Science, Philosophy, Philosophy of Science
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Spotify, Ever the Fans of Openness
Link to: https://songshift.com/blog/spotify_transfers
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Why Bayesian Stats Needs Monte-Carlo Methods
Bayesian statistics rely heavily on Monte-Carlo methods. A common question that arises is “isn’t there an easier, analytical solution?” This post explores a bit more why this is by breaking down the analysis of a Bayesian A/B test and showing how tricky the analytical path is and exploring more of t
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Linear Regression
From zero to linear regression
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