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Programming is Art
When I started programming, my whole day revolved around development. I’d wake up, write code, and go to sleep. And that’s how it was day in and day out. My entire social circle consisted of people who also wrote code. I studied frameworks, libraries, and various programming languages.
Learnings from 100K lines of Rust with AI (2025)
In the past few months, I’ve been stress-testing how far AI coding agents can take us when building real, production-grade distributed systems. The result: a Rust-based multi-Paxos consensus engine that not only implements all the features of Azure’s Replicated State Library (RSL) [1] — which underpins most major…
Stop Advertising in Your Commits
Co-authored-by: ur mom
Losing faith in testing
Or: Losing Faith
Oxy is Cloudflare's Rust-based next generation proxy framework (2023)
In this blog post, we are proud to introduce Oxy - our modern proxy framework, developed using the Rust programming language
Your C# App on 66 Million Macs: Announcing Xamarin.Mac
Use an agent skill to prepare your existing .NET MAUI app for Xcode 27, with the scene lifecycle changes and manual migration steps explained.
Meli email client, pre-alpha release
meli.delivery is a short 4-character .delivery domain available for buy. Listed at $100 — secure it before someone else does.
Generics facilitators in Go
Go 1.18 is going to be released with generics support . Adding generics to Go was a multi-year effort and was a difficult one. Go type system is not a traditional type system and it was not possible just to bring an existing generics implementation from other language and be done. The current proposal was accepted…
The Rise of SQL-Based Data Modeling
The resurgence of SQL-based data modeling is a something we should all be interested in. Here's why it's important.
GitHub merge queue is generally available
Supercharge pull request merges on your busiest branches by enabling your team to queue.
MCP Apps: Extending servers with interactive user interfaces
Introducing the MCP Apps Extension proposal (SEP-1865) to standardize interactive user interfaces in MCP, developed with the MCP-UI creators and maintainers from OpenAI and Anthropic.
Coding tricks I learnt at Apple
When I worked at the Apple Online Store , we would never load test the live website. There was rarely a need. However, it was always an inte...
The problem with Go’s default HTTP handlers
Explicit > Implicit
Performance Improvements in .NET 10
Take a tour through hundreds of performance improvements in .NET 10.
Why composition is often better than inheritance
An important question in code structure is whether to make classes work together through composition or inheritance. The "has a" relationshi...
Updates to the H2O.ai db-benchmark
The H2O.ai db-benchmark has been updated with new results. In addition, the AWS EC2 instance used for benchmarking has been changed to a c6id.metal for improved repeatability and fairness across libraries. DuckDB is the fastest library for both join and group by queries at almost every data size.
Rust for Windows 0.9
Rust for Windows v0.9 has recently been released and includes full consumption support, along with several other updates! With completed consumption support, you can now call any Windows APIs (past, present, and futur
A regular expression to check for prime numbers
Regular expressions are extremely powerful. This is something I read at least once or twice every day while reading articles and blogs on the Web.