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Summary: jq rocks for speedy JSON mangling. Use it to make powerful git clean filters, e.g. when stripping out unwanted cached-data from Jupyter notebooks. You can find the documentation of git 'clean' and 'smudge' filters buried in the page on git-attributes , or see my example setup below.
An explanation of the Castlevania III password algorithm, including name hashes, payload encoding, decoding, special names, and all valid passwords.
We talk about querying system wide I/O statistics in Postgres, show several use cases for pg_stat_io, and talk about the future of I/O observability in Postgres.
Take a look at some of the new features in the latest Git release.
A system freeze led us deep into Linux spinlock internals, where we helped find not one but three bugs in the kernel's resilient locking code used by eBPF.
Throughout the planning phases of PyCon 2013, for everything we did, we did it bigger than last year. Attendance? We raised the cap to 250...
Blog for DoltHub, a website hosting databases made with Dolt, an open-source version-controlled SQL database with Git-like semantics.
On the whole, LLVM has a well-designed intermediate representation (IR), which is specified in the language reference . However, there are a number of areas where design mistakes have been made. And while the LLVM project is generally open to addressing such issues, mistakes in core IR design tend to be firmly…
Writing a lisp compiler from scratch in JavaScript: 3. LLVM
Key concepts & much deserved YAML ranting
How much does it really cost to buy more powerful cloud compute resources for development work? A lot less than you think.
In the last two years, code review has gotten much more important. Code is now easy to generate using LLMs, but it’s still just as hard to review. Many software…
Bringing the web up to speed with WebAssembly Haas et al., PLDI 2017 This is a joint paper from authors at Google, Mozilla, Microsoft and Apple describing the motivations for WebAssembly together w…
Learn Go (Golang) by writing real code in this interactive course. Practice structs, interfaces, errors, concurrency, and idiomatic backend patterns.
Follow the first article of a series in which we'll try to summarize our journey with Astro, sharing many cool little tricks and details we found out (or totally came up with) in the process.
Run a cheap model on every PR and escalate to a stronger one: on 50 PRs it found 120 verified bugs for $4.13 versus 108 for GPT-5.6 Sol alone.
Try Nix and don't look back.
Practical development throughout the evolution of Windows.
You're probably reading this page because you've attempted to access some part of my blog (Wandering Thoughts) or CSpace , the wiki thing it's part of. Unfortunately you're using a browser version that my anti-crawler precautions consider suspicious, most often because it's too old (most often this applies to versions…
Every couple of years, the hope surfaces that a simple graphical interface will replace teams of developers. Business people to quickly and easily create beautiful expressions of their ideas and launch them into production seamlessly. A handful of startups in every generation take up this challenge, and they mostly…
A high-minded goal like “expand the boundaries of the medium” doesn’t always mean forging ahead in crazy new unknown directions. Sometimes it means examining lost evolutionary lines in game design – picking up ideas that were abandoned long ago and seeing if there’s any new life in them. The game I keep coming back to…
Automating releases, semantic version bumps, and API calls often involves configuring branch permissions and storing long-lived credentials in pipeline variables. Managing credential rotation adds an ongoing maintenance burden. Today, we’re introducing granular step-level permissions and container tokens in Bitbucket…
…unless you're an expert at assembly, that is. The title of this post was obviously meant to be an attention-grabber, but it is much truer t...
