I think I first heard about the Zstandard compression algorithm at a Mercurial developer sprint in 2015. At one end of a large table a few people were uttering expletives out of sheer excitement. At developer gatherings, that's the universal signal for something is awesome . Long story short, a Facebook engineer…
This post is my attempt to write an easy to understand introduction to the main ideas behind building a real-time col...
[July 21, 2023] There’s a newer version of this post , including an updated calculator . Founder salaries are not a topic I’ve had to spend ...
Using the flame graph visualization to determine where file system or disk space is consumed, and answer where space has gone.
You don't need to be twice as good to get twice the results. You just need to be slightly better. Learn how to use the powerful 1 Percent Rule to get ahead.
[Epistemic status: Total wild speculation] I. The predictive processing model offers compelling accounts of autism and schizophrenia. But Surfing Uncertainty and related sources I’ve read are…
The nation has spoken: weird pointless $400 wi-fi enabled juicer company Juicero is the perfect symbol of Silicon Valley. So says the Washington Post: Juicero Shows What’s Wrong With Silicon …
An awesome tool for software documentation and visualizing graphs
A blog about Rust and embedded stuff
There have been several articles in the press recently about users flocking to DuckDuckGo in the wake of the recent NSA snooping revel...
I'm very excited to share that I've joined LinkedIn as a full-time employee.
programming, philosophy, history, internet, startups
Compilation of my favorite SQL queries after a decade of dealing with relational databases. Today we talk about scanning a table with 100 million records.
With fundamental technology change, we don't so much get our predictions wrong as make predictions about the wrong things.
Learn how to deploy Docker Swarm to create a Raspberry Pi cluster then turn it into a serverless super-computer with the OpenFaaS framework for Docker.
In the last 6 months, my wife and I traveled to Europe and Asia on 2 separate occasions. I saw people riding bikes everywhere. That by itself is not surprising. What did surprise me however, was th…
Introducing the Dice-O-Matic mark II, now generating the die rolls on GamesByEmail.com. It is a 7 foot tall, 104 pound, dice-eating monster, capable of generating 1.3 million rolls a day.
macOS is now largely undocumented. It’s time to do the job ourselves: what about an open collaborative project?
Robert O'Callahan. Christian. Kiwi. Software guy. All content human-authored unless otherwise noted.
Porting Yoga (Facebook's CSS flexbox implementation) from C to Go.
Blog about anti-virus software vulnerabilities.
I wrote a Rust crate to demangle C++ symbols: cpp_demangle. Find iton crates.io and github.
