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Bringing the Unix philosophy to the 21st century (2019)
JSON output must become the norm for application pipelining. Until then, jc can help.
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Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 5,820 posts.
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NATO Classified Cloud Platform Compromised
Hackers attempted to use the data in an extortion scheme, joking about altering the source code or sending it to Russian intelligence
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Plan 9 Desktop Guide
Briefly, Plan 9 from Bell Labs is a computer operating system developed by the original UNIX design team. After decades of work on Research UNIX in the late 80's, the team decided to write a new operating system from scratch, Plan 9 was finally released in 1992, and a few years later they released yet another…
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How I motivate myself to write
Since leaving Uber a year ago, in October 2020, I've been making a living from writing - one with comparable income [https://twitter.com/GergelyOrosz/status/1449075825329020932] to when I was employed. None of this would have happened if I did not start to write this blog several years ago.
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Scalable, Resilient Brainfuck
Building Brainf∗ck interpreter for the 21 century, with all the best systems design practices in mind. Think of Brainf∗ck-as-a-service cloud solution!
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Inheritance was invented as a performance hack
It's well known that inheritance was invented by Simula . The History of Programming Languages session on Simula tells us the motivations behind that invention. Let's take a look.
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Trump's new platform and the Affero General Public License of Mastodon
An analysis: Trump's Group has 30 days to remedy the violation, or their rights in the software are permanently terminatedIn 2002, we used phrases like “Web 2.0” and “AJAX” to describe the revolution that was happening in web technology for average consumers. This was just before names like Twitter and Facebook became…
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WSL2 can now mount Linux ext4 disks directly
If you're on a version of Windows 11 that is build 22000 or greater, you can ...
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The Left-NIMBY Canon
Standing athwart urban history, yelling Stop
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The reMarkable as a notebook and eBook reader
The reMarkable is a premium e-ink notebook. Imagine a Kindle, but you can write on it. It has become my daily notebook. I take all my meeting notes on it, dump my ideas and designs, and carry it with me everywhere. As a bonus, it also has replaced
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Two Worlds: So Much Prosperity, So Much Skepticism
The demand for forecasts grows after a surprise.
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Fast Rust Builds
It's common knowledge that Rust code is slow to compile. But I have a strong gut feeling that most Rust code out there compiles much slower than it could.
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RSS as a Facebook alternative
Making the case for RSS feeds and feed readers as the best alternative to big tech news consumption services like Facebook newsfeeds.
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eBPF will help solve service mesh by getting rid of sidecars
eBPF Service Mesh - How we can build an eBPF-based service mesh in the kernel to replace the complex sidecar model
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Julia 1.7 Highlights
Some highlights of the Julia 1.7 release.
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CVE-2021-3011: Key recovery on Google Titan Key
Download the Writeup Illustration made by Romain Flamand Abstract The Google Titan Security Key is a FIDO U2F hardware device proposed by Google (available since July 2018) as a two-factor authentication token to sign in to applications (e.g. your Google account). Our work describes a side-channel attack that targets…
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Software engineering is a learning process, working code is a side effect
I have come to the conclusion that Software Engineering is primarily a learning endeavour, the working code is rather a side effect. This quote is actually not mine but I am paraphrasing Alberto Brandolini who is making this very point in Event Storming (he was actually talking about Software Development, but I do not…
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Bootstrapping a multiplayer server with Elixir
A case study of how Elixir is being used at X-Plane.
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Ruby 3, Concurrency and the Ecosystem
I'm a technologist with a focus in ecommerce, GenAI, and developer productivity. I enjoy building reliable and fast software, and helping others to do the same.
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Data-oriented design or why you might shoot yourself in the foot with OOP (2009)
Picture this: Toward the end of the development cycle, your game crawls, but you don’t see any obvious hotspots in the profiler. The culprit? Random memory access patterns and constant cache misses. In an attempt to improve performance, you try to parallelize parts of the code, but it takes heroic efforts, and, in the…
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Windows 365 Cloud PC
Updated on August 2, 2021: Windows 365 is now generally available to businesses of all sizes. Learn more about Windows 365 and experience it today. As some regions begin to make their way out of the challenges and disruption of the past 18 months, we’re seeing a new world of work emerge.
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Where has all the productivity gone?
Why hasn't new technology made us more productive than it has?
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Spending $5k to learn how database indexes work
At Superwall we’re building an SDK to help App Developers increase their revenue by showing the right offer to the right person at the right time. Follow me on twitter for little tips and articles like this one.