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Reverse engineering Ticketmaster's rotating barcodes
"Screenshots won't get you in", but Chrome DevTools will.
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Anyone can access deleted and private repository data on GitHub
You can access data from deleted forks, deleted repositories and even private repositories on GitHub. And it is available forever. This is known by GitHub, and intentionally designed that way.
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Cognitive load is what matters
There are so many buzzwords and best practices out there, but let's focus on something more fundamental. What matters is the amount of confusion developers feel when going through the code.
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"We ran out of columns"
Oh the merchants2 table? Yeah, we ran out of columns on merchants, so we made merchants2
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Zed, a collaborative code editor, is now open source
From the Zed Blog: We hope you'll join us in our mission to fundamentally advance software collaboration.
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Leaving Rust gamedev after 3 years
Disclaimer: This post is a very long collection of thoughts and problems I've had over the years, and also addresses some of the arguments I've been repeatedly told. This post expresses my opinion the has been formed over using Rust for gamedev for many thousands of hours over many years, and multiple finished games…
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How I ship projects at big tech companies
What I think about when I'm lead engineer on a project
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An NFC movie library for my kids
When I was a kid, my sister and I had a tower of VHS tapes we watched endlessly. Fast-forward to today, and my children's movie collection is vastly different. It's completely digital and dispersed across services. I wanted to recreate the tangibl...
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After 6 years, I'm over GraphQL
GraphQL is an incredible piece of technology that has captured a lot of mindshare since I first started slinging it in production in 2018. You won’t have to ...
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Greppability is an underrated code metric
Keeping your codebase searchable will make your maintenance life easier in the long run. A collection of guidelines to keep your code base greppable
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Is something bugging you?
At first glance, Antithesis couldn’t be more different from FoundationDB (our last company), but it’s a continuation of that story in a funny sort of way.
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We need visual programming. No, not like that
Why do we keep building visual programming environments? Why do we never use them? What should we do instead?
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Python 3.13 Gets a JIT
Reviewing the JIT in Python 3.13
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An app can be a home-cooked meal (2020)
I made a messaging app for my family and my family only.
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Xkcd 1425 (Tasks) turns ten years old today
One of the all-time great XKCDs. It's amazing that "check whether the photo is of a bird" has gone from PhD-level to trivially easy to solve (with a vision LLM, …
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Building LLMs from the Ground Up: A 3-Hour Coding Workshop
If your weekend plans include catching up on AI developments and understanding Large Language Models (LLMs), I've prepared a 1-hour presentation on the development cycle of LLMs, covering everything from architectural implementation to the finetuning stages.
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OpenAI is good at unminifying code
I was curious about how a component was implemented in a minified JavaScript file and used ChatGPT to reverse engineer the component.
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Fine tune a 70B language model at home
We’re releasing an open source system, based on FSDP and QLoRA, that can train a 70b model on two 24GB GPUs.
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Fish 4.0: The Fish of Theseus
A smart and user-friendly command line shell
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Programming Is Mostly Thinking (2014)
Pretend you have a really great programming day. You only have to attend a few meetings, have only a few off-topic conversations, don'...
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We're forking Flutter
The Flutter team has a labor shortage. We're forking Flutter so that the community can accelerate Flutter's development.
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Coding My Handwriting
Coding my handwriting in Javascript - how I did it and what I’m doing with it.
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Rider is now free for non-commercial use
Develop .NET, ASP.NET, MAUI, Blazor, and Azure applications – as well as games with Unity, Unreal Engine, and Godot – on Windows, macOS, and Linux.
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RFC 35140: HTTP Do-Not-Stab (2023)
Date: March 7, 2111
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How I write HTTP services in Go after 13 years
Mat Ryer, principal engineer at Grafana Labs and host of the Go Time podcast, shares what he’s learned from more than a dozen years of writing HTTP services in Go.
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Why SQLite Uses Bytecode
Every SQL database engine works in roughly the same way: It first translates the input SQL text into a "prepared statement". Then it "executes" the prepared statement to generate a result.