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Don't use Kubernetes yet
Early-stage startups shouldn't run on Kubernetes yet.
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The web starts on page four
After 25 years of working for, on and with the web, I am looking at the current state of it and I don’t like it. There is still a lot of beautiful, creative and amazing work out there, but on the whole, we lost an amazing opportunity. In its place we have a consumption machine that creates bubbles and assumes new…
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Privacy is ok
I hate to write a piece just saying Someone Is Wrong On The Internet. But Reid Blackman’s The Signal App and the Danger of Privacy at All Costs (in the NYTimes , forsooth) is not just wrong but dangerously misleading. I haven’t seen a compact explainer on why, so here goes.
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SwiftUI in 2022
Even if you already know a bit (or a lot) of SwiftUI, Stanford’s course is incredible, amazing, wonderful, AND FREE!
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Cache invalidation really is one of the hardest problems in computer science
My colleagues recently wrote a great post on the Netflix tech blog about a tough performance issue they wrestled with. They ultimately diagnosed the problem as false sharing, which is a performance…
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Seven Levels of Busy
Level 1: NOT BUSY My schedule is wide open. I can choose infinite paths. Zero commitments. The weekend. I sleep like a baby. Life is good, but am I living my be
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Static B-Trees: A data structure for faster binary search
This section is a follow-up to the previous one , where we optimized binary search by the means of removing branching and improving the memory layout. Here, we will also be searching in sorted arrays, but this time we are not limited to fetching and comparing only one element at a time.
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What would a “good” WebMD look like?
And what would a "good" WebMD look like?
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Why babies cry in the first three months, how to tell them apart, and what to do
I have twin daughters that just turned three months old. I decided to write up the list that I wish I had before they were born. Just reasons why they cry, how to tell the cries apart, and what to …
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Instagram, TikTok, and the Three Trends
Trends in medium, AI, and user interaction underpin Instagram’s response to TikTok, and will determine Meta’s long-term moat.
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Stable Diffusion Is the Most Important AI Art Model Ever
A state-of-the-art AI model available for everyone through a safety-centric open-source license is unheard of.
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Binance caught commingling funds between US and international exchanges
Billions in customer funds transferred directly from Binance.US to offshore Binance exchange. Is this just a ploy to trick regulators?
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Masterclass on mathematical thinking
About a year ago, I was contacted by Masterclass (a subscription-based online education company) on the possibility of producing a series of classes with the premise of explaining mathematical ways…
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Why I'm still using Python
16 years and counting...
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The availability of text generators will force positive changes to education
Teachers adapted to the calculator. They can certainly adapt to language models.
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Thoughts on OKRs
OKRs are one of those business ideas that are just simple enough to be dangerous. You think you understand it in a day, and you can see where your company is falling short: lacking focus and underdelivering. You see how clear, measurable goals could improve the situation. Here’s the one sentence version: You set…
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AI Data Laundering
Tech companies working with AI are outsourcing data collection and training to academic/nonprofit research groups, shielding them from potential accountability and legal liability.
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Experimenting a new syntax to write SVG
It's been a while since I introduced a new syntax to the css-doodle project to solve my own problems. While I'm not sure it would be useful elsewhere, I need to make some notes before I forget the details.
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The unreasonable effectiveness of f-strings and re.verbose
... in which we look at one or two ways to make life easier when working with Python regular expressions.
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Online art communities begin banning AI-generated images
Online art communities have started banning AI-generated art, while others are facing public pressure from their own members to take a stand.
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Programming in the Apocalypse
A climate change what-if Over a few beers... Growing up, I was obsessed with space. Like many tech workers, I consumed everything I could find about space and space travel. Young me was convinced we were on the verge of space travel, imagining I would live to see colonies
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Why Is the Web So Monotonous? Google
Does it ever feel like the internet is getting worse? That’s been my impression for the last decade. The internet feels now like it consists of ten big sites, plus fifty auxiliary sites that come up whenever you search for something outside of the everyday ten. It feels like it’s harder to find amateur opinions on…
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FTX Contagion
Charting the FTX collapse.
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Zig Is Self-Hosted Now, What's Next?
Why self-host Zig?<br> For great justice, of course… and also a few more reasons actually.
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Action Plan for a New CTO
This post previously appeared in Fast Company. How does a newly hired Chief Technology Officer (CTO) find and grow the islands of innovation inside a large company? How not to waste your first six …
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Why hasn't Middle Earth had an Industrial Revolution?
Part I of Why hasn't Middle Earth had an Industrial Revolution?