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Today, Internet Explorer has been consigned to the dustbin of history, yet its quirks and peculiar features remain an interesting area of discussion from a historical perspective. There was one particular feature of IE which not only now seems comically naive, but also completely impractical: namely, IE tried to…
A textbook database problem
Game development serves as a vibrant canvas for one's creativity. Especially when focusing on small games, which are simple to create and instantly enjoyable, one can quickly immerse oneself in their allure. Through this article, I aim to delve into the joy of crafting small games.
An inky color scheme for prose and code.
The California Court of Appeal has held that a geofence warrant seeking information on all devices located within several densely-populated areas in Los Angeles violated the Fourth Amendment. This is the first time an appellate court in the United States has reviewed a geofence warrant. The case is...
Since pg_cron 1.5, you can easily schedule jobs that run every 1-59 seconds. And pg_cron 1.6 added support for Postgres 16. This blog post walks you through the benefits of second granularity jobs with the pg_cron open source extension to Postgres.
I wrote a blog post ten years ago. How do I feel about it now?
Recently, I started working on a new LLM-oriented project . It’s currently far from feature-complete and probably filled with bugs, but I’m hoping to use it as a platform for exploring a question I’ve been considering a lot lately: what will LLM-powered software look like in the medium-term future? It seems undeniable…
In February 2022, I left my job at Splunk to take some time first to relax then to focus on finding a fantastic next job . I managed to do both during my three months of funemployment, landing a job at Stripe in the Atlas team in May. I was laid off in November 2022, along with most people who were hired during this…
A good software architecture for a startup looks very different from the one you might build for an enterprise system. Here is what worked for us.
TL;DR: I think that a focus on memory safe languages (MSLs) versus non memory-safe languages is a bit of a red herring. The actual distinction is slightly…
The philosopher Harry Frankfurt defined bullshit as speech that is intended to persuade without regard for the truth. By this measure, OpenAI’s new chatbot ChatGPT is the greatest bullshitter ever. Large Language Models (LLMs) are trained to produce
Yesterday, Sam Altman and Greg Brockman were fired from the Board of Directors of OpenAI.
The story of acquiring and migrating from supertokens.io to supertokens.com
*This post was originally published by Mike McCue.
WASHINGTON — The U.S. Supreme Court today declined to hear Moore v. United States, leaving in place a patchwork of lower court decisions on an...
Today, the Manticore team is thrilled to announce the release of Manticore Search 6.
Cloudflare's cloudflared tunnels are commonly used to 'publish' a web server that runs behind a firewall (e.g. making the webserver accessible from the…
Last month I have been developing a Rust tool to create container images from Conda environments, without going through Docker. It was a wild trip down the rabbit hole of OCI images, so I thought I’d share part of the adventure here. Enjoy! But why? If you are used to building container images, you might be asking…
This year, the YJIT team has been working hard to improve and optimize YJIT. We’re proud to say that the version of YJIT to be included with Ruby 3.3 is leaps and bounds ahead of Ruby 3.2’s. It provides better performance across the board, while also warming up faster and using less memory. The 3.3 release is also…
How the Figma infrastructure team reduced potential instability by scaling to multiple databases
The relentless accumulation (and management) of snow.
By Marc Andreessen
Enhance the Java programming language with string templates . String templates complement Java's existing string literals and text blocks by coupling literal text with embedded expressions and template processors to produce specialized results. This is a preview language feature and API .
Total payments uberfication is a virus, and we need to build resistance to it
MMAP Databases = 💩
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Raylene Yung has spent a decade scaling eng and product teams at Facebook and Stripe. Here's her advice for engineers at every stage of their careers, from IC to org leader.
