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Retrospection and Learnings from Dgraph Labs
It's been almost nine months since I left Dgraph Labs, a company that I spent 6 years of my life building -- after a layoff followed by a failed Series B round (unsurprisingly, and in that order).
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The Philosophy of Linear Algebra (2021)
Whenever a student wonders why linear algebra, matrices, and vectors are important, the response from teachers usually sounds like this:
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Generate static sites from Markdown files with Caddy (2018)
Caddy can not only serve files fast and safely. It can also generate static files from markdown, so you dont need a generator.
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Laundry at the end of the world
It's pretty much what you'd expect.
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Between Two Lisps (2020)
Out of all Lisps the ones I’ve come to appreciate the most are Scheme and Common Lisp.
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Craft
Thoughts on elevating product quality
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Ethnographic research on Dynamicland
The “Dynamic Medium Group” led by Bret Victor which is developing “Dynamicland” is much admired and closely watched in the interaction design community. Yet the information about their work is closely-guarded and usually only available in a highly moderated form. The work of ethnographer Götz Bachmann, who spent much…
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The Cost of Financialization-Globalization: You Lost $500k and Gained $137.13
Ponder what a clawback of the $50 trillion might entail, and the immense benefits of returning to producing quality goods and services by co...
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Getting a vanity phone number with four consecutive digits
Automating Verizon number searches to find rare phone numbers with repeating digits.
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Security through obscurity is underrated (2020)
Some thoughts about cyber security, technology and life - https://utkusen.com/. Click to read Utku Sen’s Substack, a Substack publication with hundreds of subscribers.
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Where to wait for an elevator (2010)
Where do you stand in order to minimize the expected distance to walk to catch the first elevator that arrives? Maybe not where you think.
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Walking the World: Seoul
Consumption, brutality, and the cute
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The Life of MS-DOS
First released on August 12, 1981, MS-DOS became the foundation for business computing for almost two decades. This article details different versions and releases that all stemmed from Gary Kildall's QDOS.
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The Sheer Terror of PAM
Xe Iaso's personal website.
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Wrong by Default
A few programming languages use a “defer” pattern for resource cleanup. This is a construct such as a defer keyword which schedules cleanup code to run at the end of the enclosing block (or function). This is available in Zig, Go and even in GCC C.
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JavaScript Obfuscation Techniques by Example
Code level discussion of web scraping, gray hat automation, growth hacking and bounty hunting
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Luck Surface Area: How to Get Lucky In Life
You can't force luck. But you can increase your chances (by a lot) to get lucky. Here's how to do it with luck surface area.
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Mysterious Memset
Where did that memset come from?
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Why a Slide Rule Works
Why does lining up two scales of a slide rule let you multiply numbers?
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Flying the Unflyable Plane: The near crash of Air Astana flight 1388
A deeper analysis of the events which caused a Kazakh airliner to go out of control over Portugal in November 2018.
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Arguing Without Warning
We should encourage more public disagreement.
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Building a simple shell in C – Part 3
Implementing the execution functionality of the shell
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Burnout
What do we actually know about burnout? What does the research say? Is burnout preventable? All the research, in one free, updated place.
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6 months of working at a hypergrowth startup
I joined Scale AI late last summer. It’s been a crazy experience — Scale is growing incredibly fast right now, hitting a valuation of over $7 billion last year and recently signing a $250 mil…
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Bill Watterson, Picasso, and self promotion
One of the most interesting pieces I’ve come across lately was Hugh Eakin’s piece on the backstory of one of Picasso’s most prominent works, Guernica. During the creative process for Guernica, Picasso created 45 different sketches before settling on the final direction of the painting: Guernica debuted in 1937 at the…
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Happiness Is Two Scales
The common way to talk about happiness is as a single scale: unhappy at one end, neutral in the middle, happy at the other end. I think that model is wrong.
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Deconstructing Bézier Curves
Graphists, animators, game programmers, font designers, and other graphics professionals and enthusiasts are often working with Bézier curves. They're popular, extensively documented, and used pretty much everywhere. That being said, I find them being explained almost exclusively in 2 or 3 dimensions, which can be a…