I am on a number of different compiler mailing lists. One of those is the mailing list for the Tiny C Compiler . Imagine my surprise when a recent email mentioned our latest series and suggested trying a similar approach to improve the code generator in TCC. I was interested to see if there were any low-hanging fruit…
The Twelve-factor app methodology turns 10. This blog posts re-evaluates the original factors against a decade of experience with software-as-a-service development and the maturing of serverless development.
The desperation of programming under tight memory constraints.
One year ago, my startup was acquired. Here’s a step-by-step guide on how to run an acquisition process yourself.
This article is part of a series on (European) innovation and capabilities. Feedback is very welcome on bert@hubertnet.nl. I’d also like to thank the many proofreaders, but all mistakes remain mine! In the world of (high) technology, Europe is exceptionally weak at innovating. There are many ways to explain how this…
Curious if company swag still lands? Get the data on gifting misfires and straightforward ways to reward employees with choices they value.
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On looking for alternatives to Slack culture.
I’ve been feeling a certain stagnation in Mac software these past few years. In this piece I try to understand why.
Proponents of Zig claim that it does not have function colors. In this post, I attempt prove that it does.
Many countries ship plastic waste overseas. How much of the world’s waste is traded, and how big is its role in the pollution of our oceans?
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In November 2021, we finished our series A Chemical Hunger, where we argue that the obesity epidemic is the result of environmental contaminants, and that one of those contaminants might be lithium…
You’re reading Age of Invention, my newsletter on the causes of the British Industrial Revolution and the history of innovation.
For the past few weeks, I’ve been thinking about having a time series DB and visualization tool that is easy to use and light on resources, so it can be used locally for development. Tried se…
What would “open sourcing the Twitter algorithm” actually look like? In Part 1 of this series, we focus on understanding how Twitter’s algorithmic feed works under the hood.
For the past several weeks, I've been trying to fix a cranky spec in Karafka integrations suite, which in the end, lead me to become a Ruby on Rails micro-contributor and submitting similar fix to several other high-popularity projects from the Ruby ecosystem. Here's my story of trying to make sense of my specs and […]
Famously, engineers tend to make wrong assumptions about a lot of things: Names and time are two well-known examples. Maps are a rich source of edge cases. Especially when you start dealing with gl…
How long will burned CDs / DVDs / BluRays last?
Most people sense that school today is poor preparation for the world of work. I think there is a fundamental reason why: linearity. School is a
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To help meet growing demand, Apple today launched updated professional training and certifications for IT support and management.
Researchers at TNO have been the first to develop a method that will require 200 times less iridium for electrolysis.
Given a brief description of a scene, Imagen can generate photorealistic, high-resolution images of the scene. Learn everything you need to know about Imagen and how it works in this easy-to-follow guide.
A look at three relics of a not-quite-bygone era. In picture-listicle form.
