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In the coming months Mozilla will launch support for an open ecosystem of extensions on Firefox for Android on addons.mozilla.org (AMO). We’ll announce a definite launch date in early September, ...
Today's adventure: DIY whole hog data exfiltration
After my last blog post about Hurl, someone asked me, and I quote: "... why?" The simple answer is "for the joke." But the longer answer is that useless software [1] is a fantastic way to explore and experience the joy of computing. Play is an important part of exploration and joy.
Chris James, London - Software Engineer
And it only took 21 hours. Linux 6.4 has a bug where it hangs on boot, but probably only 1 in 1000 boots (and rarer if using Intel hardware for some reason). It’s surprising to me that no one…
Code is read more than written, code is run more than read. I think this line of thought can be extended beyond code-writing, and used as a rule of thumb to identify problems and make decisions.
Xe Iaso's personal website.
Anyone who’s spent any amount of time on the Internet has a good idea of how prevalent meme usage has become in online discourse. Finding new memes on the latest happening and sharing them with various friend groups to share in the humor is a long-enjoyed pastime of mine. Working in tech and in the InfoSec field has…
Fire is an interesting graphics problem. Past approaches generally faked it. For example, Lord of the Rings used sprites with lots and lots of smoke (the fluid sim was too expensive at the time, even for movies). Real-time applications like video games have pretty much exclusively used non-physical approaches.
The fundamental problems a database engineer thinks about in the shower
Introduction Postgres queue tech is a thing of beauty, but far from mainstream. Its relative obscurity is partially attributable to the cargo cult of “scale”. The scalability cult has decreed that there are several queue technologies with greater “scalability” than Postgres, and for that reason alone, Postgres isn’t…
A look at what went into building the world's largest public code search index.
The library for web and native user interfaces
Personal website of Phil Booth
Many programming "best practices" taught today are performance disasters waiting to happen.
An homage to Aphyr's Typing the technical interview
The journey Buildkite took from sequential integer primary keys, through randomly generated UUIDs, to adopting time-ordered UUIDv7 — and the database index tradeoffs along the way.
It’s been a little over ten years since the first release of Cap’n Proto, on April 1, 2013. Today I’m releasing version 1.0 of Cap’n Proto’s C++ reference implementation.
I have built a toy Java Virtual Machine in Rust, complete with garbage collection, exception handling, and the ability to run real Java bytecode using OpenJDK's rt.jar.
Automerge 2.0 is here and ready for production.
Yet another programming blog. Thoughts on software and related misadventures.
Context Around a year and a half ago, I’ve asked my former company for some time to work on an issue that was impacting the debugging capabilities in our project: gdbserver couldn’t debug multithreaded applications running on a PowerPC32 architecture. The connection to the gdbserver was broken and it couldn’t control…
Textual is a TUI framework for Python, inspired by modern web development.
WEI? I’m a frayed knotTwo pieces of string walk into a bar.The first piece of string asks for a drink.The bartender says, “Get lost. We don’t serve pieces of string.”The second string ties a knot in his middle and messes up his ends. Then he orders a drink. The bartender says, “Hey, you aren’t a...
Achieving Data Freedom Through Open Source and Rust
If you want to read more of my writing, I have a Substack . Articles will be posted simultaneously to both places.
A deep dive into the text mode editors we had and how they compare to today's
