Your users will do what you make easy
Recently was thinking about Java and reflection and how it actually ended up causing the prolifera…
Replit.com (YC W18) raises $80M Series B
Following our Series A announcement earlier this year, I'm thrilled to announce that we raised Series B financing from new and existing investors. This year alone we've doubled our user base to reach 10m+ users, tripled concurrent containers on our network, and grew traffic to sites and apps on the network by orders…
Highlights from Git 2.34
To celebrate this most recent release, here's GitHub's look at some of the most interesting features and changes introduced since last time.
How to handle difficult clients
If you've never had to wrangle a difficult client, this blog post is your opportunity to prepare. Disagreements happen, some people handle them better than others, how we conduct ourselves in these situations have a profound impact on the trajectory of our careers.
B2B SaaS marketplaces with opportunities for indie hackers
The type of SaaS businesses that interest me the most as an indie hacker and a fan of the Stair Step Approach are the ones that plug into growing B2B platforms.
GTK4 for Graphical User Interfaces
This book gives an introduction to design and creation of graphical user interfaces using the GTK widget tool-kit and the Nim programming language. The book has its focus on the Linux operating system (OS). While the Nim programming language does support all major operating systems, GTK has it main emphasis on the…
Software designers, not engineers: An interview from alternative universe
How very different the world of software is in an alternative universe which has software designers rather than software engineers? In this interview, we look at a range of topics from software design sketching to software designer education, as well as the way in which software designers reshape any problem they are…
A Lisp interpreter written in Lisp (2017)
A Lisp interpreter written in Lisp
The World's current and next Innovations depend on a single country, Taiwan
The world’s current and next innovations depend on a single country: Taiwan. It’s probably one country you might never hear about, or perhaps confuse with its neighbor, Thailand, or even think it’s a part of China. I’ve been living in Taiwan for 3+ years, and am baffled that I never pay attention to semiconductors…
System Design Interview book review
I've come across the book System Design Interview: an Insider's Guide by accident (paperback book [https://www.amazon.com/dp/B08CMF2CQF], and online course [https://bytebytego.com/]). I was looking for good book resources after several people have been asking me how they can get better at building
Spice.ai – Open-source, time series AI for developers
Read blog posts about Spice.ai OSS from the team and community
Collision Detection Is Hard: The Story of Alf
Today we’re talking about ALF. It’s a surprising move for Nicole Express; we do not condone cat-eating. But neither did Alf, eventually. In any case, we’re n...
Frickin' shaders with frickin' laser beams
Solve all your shader problems with this one weird trick.
Seeing Like an SRE: Site Reliability Engineering as High Modernism
I recently spent some time trying to write a set of general guidelines for what to monitor in a software system. I came up with this list:
TensorFlow Graph Neural Networks
Introducing TensorFlow GNN, a library to build Graph Neural Networks on the TensorFlow platform.
Hacking a PC sound card to read temperature and liquid level sensors
Measure with Music: How to Read Analog Sensors Using a PC Sound Card
What's Wrong with Tech Hiring
I went through a lot of interviews after being laid off by RStudio earlier this year. Some really impressed me---in particular, I think Automattic 's hiring process was excellent---but many were haphazard, confusing, or misguided . I'm not alone in feeling this way: Behroozi2019 found that the questions asked in…
Scientists discover a highly potent antibody against SARS-CoV-2
Scientists at Lausanne University Hospital (CHUV) and EPFL have discovered a highly potent monoclonal antibody that targets the SARS-CoV-2 spike protein and is effective at neutralizing all variants of concern identified to date, including the delta variant. Their findings are published in the prestigious journal Cell…
The next generation of AirPods
The third-generation AirPods deliver powerful audio features and a magical wireless headphone experience in a new contoured design.
IPv6-only subnets and EC2 instances
In June 2021, we announced our continued commitment and innovation towards the enablement of IPv6 on AWS. Today, we take a monumental step forward with the ability to create an IPv6-only architecture on AWS. With this launch, Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) now allows you to create IPv6-only subnets in your…
Intermittent fasting in mice improves long-term memory retention
Intermittent Fasting is an effective means of improving long term memory retention and generating new adult hippocampal neurons in mice
What can be learned from studying long gone development practices?
Current ideas about the best way of building a software system are heavily influenced by the ideas that captured the attention of previous generations of developers. Can anything of practical use be learned from studying long gone techniques for building software systems?
The Economics of OnlyFans: Most accounts make less than $145/mo
OnlyFans has become part of the zeitgeist recently. The rise of e-girls and the prospects of making millions make it a fun thing to gawk at in a
Taxes Are for the Little People
If you wanna do crimes, make them incredibly complicated and technical. Like the hustlers that came into the bookstore I worked at and spun these long-ass stories about why they needed money for a Greyhound ticket home.