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macOS Big Sur
macOS Big Sur, the latest version of the world’s most advanced desktop operating system, is now available to Mac users as a free software update.
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Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 80,803 posts.
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Vibe engineering
I feel like vibe coding is pretty well established now as covering the fast, loose and irresponsible way of building software with AI—entirely prompt-driven, and with no attention paid to …
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Resignation Letter
It is with sadness that I write to tell you that I am resigning from The New York Times.
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Soft deletion probably isn't worth it
The traditional soft deletion pattern using <code>deleted_at</code> columns leaks into code, curbs the usefulness of foreign keys, and makes data removal difficult. Luckily, there’s an alternative.
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The Future of Thunderbird
"Why does Thunderbird look so old, and why does it take so long to change?" Let's answer that burning question with some important history.
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Flutter: a Portable UI Framework for Mobile, Web, Embedded, and Desktop
Today marks an important milestone for the Flutter framework , as we expand our focus from mobile to incorporate a broader set of devices and form factors. At I/O, we’re releasing our first technical preview of Flutter for web , announcing that Flutter is powering Google’s smart display platform including the Google…
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Over 80% of Covid-19 patients in a hospital study have Vitamin D deficiency
Over 80 percent of 200 COVID-19 patients in a hospital in Spain have vitamin D deficiency, according to a new study published in the Endocrine Society’s Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism.
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Cloud in a Bottle: making self-hosting accessible to everyone
Your open-source personal cloud: containerized apps, unified auth, good UX. Self-hosting should feel like using a smartphone that serves webapps, not a sysadmin side job.
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We saved millions in SSD costs by upgrading our filesystem
During COVID we experienced rapid growth in the amount of data we ingest. This post details some of the problems this caused us and how we solved them.
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WorldTUI: I trained a 360M model to pretend to be a terminal
A 360M model that pretends to be a terminal, and remembers what you did
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How AirBnB Became a Billion Dollar Company
Detailed breakdown explaining questionable marketing techniques used by AirBnB. By David Gooden, marketing expert & MN luxury realtor.
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First Ever Image of a Multi-Planet System Around a Sun-Like Star Captured by ESO
The European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope (ESO’s VLT) has taken the first ever image of a young, Sun-like star accompanied by two giant exoplanets. Images of systems with multiple exoplanets are extremely rare, and — until now — astronomers had never directly observed more than one planet orbiting a…
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My 2 Year Journey to $10K MRR
Startups are hard, bootstrapping is harder! Here's how I bootstrapped a SaaS product to $10k MRR over the course of 2 years.
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Mining Bitcoin with pencil and paper: 0.67 hashes per day
This article is now available in Japanese: 紙と鉛筆でビットコインをマイニング：1日に0.67ハッシュ and Russian: Майним Bitcoin с помощью бумаги и ручки . I decided...
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You already have a Git server
If you have a git repository on a server with ssh access, you can just clone it:
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Tracking developer build times to decide if the M3 MacBook is worth upgrading
When our CTO said "I'll upgrade your MacBook if you can prove it's worthwhile", we embarked on a journey including (re)building a Go hot-reloader, instrumenting developer builds, analyzing compiler performance, and feeding an AI model the data until we had an answer.
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Raspberry Pi Zero W, with Wi-Fi and Bluetooth, priced at $10
A new member of the Raspberry Pi family: introducing Raspberry Pi Zero W!
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How to Improve a Legacy Codebase
It happens at least once in the lifetime of every programmer, project manager or teamleader. You get handed a steaming pile of manure, if you’re lucky only a few million lines worth, the original programmers have long ago left for sunnier places and the documentation - if there is any to begin with - is hopelessly out…
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Explaining copyright broke the YouTube copyright system
Update 5/6/24: A podcast recording of this same panel discussion has also been targeted multiple times on the Spotify platform. The Engelberg Center’s experiences with these are documented here .
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Attention Media ≠ Social Networks
When web-based social networks started flourishing nearly two decades ago, they were genuinely social networks. You would sign up for a popular service, follow people you knew or liked and read updates from them. When you posted something, your followers would receive your updates as well. Notifications were genuine…
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Google’s Search Preference Menu Eliminates DuckDuckGo
Google's search preference menu auction, as we predicted, has resulted in DuckDuckGo being eliminated, making it harder for people to get simple privacy.
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Typst 0.14
Typst 0.14 is out now. With accessibility by default, PDFs as images, character-level justification, and more, it has everything you need to move from draft to...
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Why GitHub won
How GitHub _actually_ became the dominant force it is today, from one of it's cofounders.
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A sufficiently detailed spec is code
Specifications do not address the limitations of agentic coding
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Kubernetes Is a Surprisingly Affordable Platform for Personal Projects
Hi I'm Caleb Doxsey and welcome to my website. I'm a software developer. If you'd like to contact me, you can email me here: [email protected] .
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Python 3.12
The official home of the Python Programming Language