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What are your company's anti-values?
Musing on what makes effective company values.
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A Square Meal – Foods of the ‘20s and ‘30s
[Content warning: Food, culture shock, milk] They say that the past is a foreign country, and nowhere is this more true than with food. The book is A Square Meal: A Culinary History of the Gr…
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Figma: A Random Walk in Palo Alto
Figma’s first conference, Config 2020. On June 25, 2013, Dylan Field, one of my favorite interns from LinkedIn dropped by Wealthfront headquarters in Palo Alto to catch up and get some advice…
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AOL 3.0 reverse engineered
Your life is the best story! Just start your blog today!
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Surprising result while transpiling C to Go
Experimenting transpiling Uber h3 library with ccgo.
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I over-engineered a Fast Fourier Transform for Arduino
PhD student in Photophysics
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Flutter is the most popular cross-platform mobile SDK
Running a development team for each mobile platform sucks up resources from other work. Flutter is the most popular way for one development team to build on all platforms.
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November 2022 Progress Report
Porting Linux to Apple Silicon
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LTO Tape data storage for Linux nerds
Tape storage is surprisingly not dead! If you are here then you may be considering using LTO tape as part of your backup or your long term archiving strategy. I’m here to mostly talk you out of it, or at best make sure that you are aware of what you are walking into.
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Ruby adds a core class called Data to represent simple immutable value objects
The Data class helps define simple classes for value-alike objects that can be extended with custom methods.
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Shanghai video overwhelms Chinese censor, gets 400M views
A peek behind the curtain into the struggles of the Chinese censorship office
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What a $500k grant proposal looks like
A walkthrough of my NSF CAREER proposal.
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Managing People
I believe almost all first-time founders burn out their first employees – maybe this article helps you avoiding this
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Hacking on a plane: Leaking data of millions and taking over any account
Hacking on a plane, by Midjourney AI
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Systemd service sandboxing and security hardening (2020)
The systemd-analyze security command gives your systemd service units an automated security rating. This is a good starting point for security hardening.
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Salary Transparency
Xe Iaso's personal website.
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My Poor Experience With Azure (or why I'm sticking with AWS)
AWS has a lot of haters. Lots of horror cases where people thought they were on the free account but ended up with a $20,000 bill. We are told Azure has a much better model. You have to manually move to a paid service. No surprise bills. Like AWS,
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Record labels dig their own grave, and the shovel is called TikTok
It's not just the music biz—legacy media outlets everywhere are playing the same dangerous game. Here's how it will play out.
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No-one knows what they are doing
When I was a child I assumed that all the adults running the world knew what they were doing. Now that I am an adult, I am under no such illusions. Just look at the current British government. They…
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Python 3.11 in the Web Browser
Compile CPython to Web Assembly, and run it in web browsers or Node.js.
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Rob Pike's simple C regex matcher in Go
Translating Rob Pike's simple and elegant C regex matcher to Go.
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DevOps is a failure
It’s probably difficult for most people to recall the first time they heard a word, but I remember hearing the word “DevOps” for the first time. I was having a
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The silent majority in software
I was re-reading Nixon’s 1969 “silent majority” speech last week (Smithsonian ran a good breakdown in 2017), mostly because YouTube’s algorithm
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Modern PHP
While I wasn’t paying attention, PHP got quite good