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Turns are better than radians
Switching away from radians makes code simpler, faster, and more precise.
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Correctness and composability bugs in the Julia ecosystem
For many years I used the Julia programming language for transforming, cleaning, analyzing, and visualizing data, doing statistics, and performing simulations.
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Amazon sent the FBI to take my family’s bank accounts
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How fast are Linux pipes anyway?
Pipes are ubiquitous in Unix --- but how fast can they go on Linux? In this post we'll iteratively improve a simple pipe-writing benchmark from 3.5GiB/s to 65GiB/s, guided by Linux `perf`.
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Difftastic, the fantastic diff
programming, language design, and human factors
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React I love you, but you're bringing me down
We've come a long, long way together. You changed. Where do we go from here?
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Why is it so hard to give Google money?
I’ve been trying to run search ads on Google for over a month. Due to two unrelated snags, I’ve only had ~12 hours of uptime with those ads in that time. Based on conversations with other startups that run Google Ads, my experience is neither unique nor surprising. Apropos of Google’s earnings day, I wanted to vent a…
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Almost all searches on my independent search engine are now from SEO spam bots
searchmysite.net was designed to be a search engine free from SEO spam, but now almost all traffic comes from SEO spammers.
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Writing by hand is still the best way to retain information
Typing might be faster, but longhand stays with you better.
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Red Light Green Light
I was listening to the Tim Ferriss Show podcast episode #532 with Sheila Heen (Harvard Negotiation Project, co-author of Difficult Conversations: How To Discuss What Matters Most) and a specific story she told during the conversation really resonated with me and I have been thinking alot about it since I heard it…
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SPAs Were a Mistake
For years, a trend in our industry has been to build single-page apps, or SPAs. With an SPA, the entire site or app lives in a single HTML file. After the initial load, everything about the app is handled with JavaScript. This is, in theory, supposed to result in web apps that feel as fast and snappy as native apps…
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Computers as I used to love them
File synchronization can be fun and painless if you don’t have to deal with corporate bullshit.
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The next Google
DuckDuckGo and Bing are not true alternatives – they’re just worse versions of Google.
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UK Government Officials Infected with Pegasus
We confirm that in 2020 and 2021 we observed and notified the government of the United Kingdom of multiple suspected instances of Pegasus spyware infections within official UK networks, including the Prime Minister’s Office and the Foreign and Commonwealth Office.
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Workerd: Open-source Cloudflare workers runtime
workerd is the JavaScript/Wasm runtime code that powers Cloudflare Workers, now open source under the Apache 2.0 license
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I hacked my car
Note: As of 2022/10/25 the information in this series is slightly outdated. See Part 5 for more up to date information. The Car Last summer I bought a 2021 Hyundai Ioniq SEL. It is a nice fuel-efficient hybrid with a decent amount of features like wireless Android Auto/Apple CarPlay, wireless phone charging, heated…
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Slack’s free plan change is causing an exodus
On July 18, 2022, Slack announced that starting September 1, search history for organizations on Slack’s Free plan will be limited to just the past 90 days of message history. Instead of a 10,000-message limit and 5 GB of storage, we are giving full access to the past 90 days of message history and …
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Roblox October Outage Postmortem
Roblox is a global platform where millions of people gather together every day to imagine, create, and share experiences with each other in immersive, user-generated 3D worlds.
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What software engineers can learn from the rapid collapse of Fast
What can software engineers learn from the shutdown of the company? Exclusive details.
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One kitchen, hundreds of internet restaurants
There are a few cloud kitchen restaurants that deliver food that is so shit that I want to know which other brands are being run from the same kitchen so that I can avoid them all.
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Enclave: An Unpickable Lock
Just about every key lock in the world today has the same fundamental flaw. They accept input (a key, or a lockpicking tool) from the outside world, and they test if that input is correct at the same time . This flaw opens up two kinds of vulnerabilities.
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How our free plan stays free
Tailscale’s free plan is free because we keep our scaling costs low relative to typical SaaS companies. I know, it sounds too good to be true. Let’s see some details.
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IBM's Asshole Test
Some years back I applied to join IBM's grad scheme, there was a peculiar stage to the process I've not seen elsewhere. It was during the onsite day, where a batch of 20 or so applicants were put through various tests in an IBM office. They called it the "group test"; around 8 of us were led to a room and asked to…
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The day Steve Jobs dissed me in a keynote (2010)
Derek Sivers official site. Thoughts on philosophy, culture, self-improvement. Author of Useful Not True, How to Live, Hell Yeah or No, Anything You Want.
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Reverse Engineering TikTok's VM Obfuscation
TikTok has a reputation for its aggressive data collection. The platform has implemented various methods to make it difficult for reverse-engineers to understand exactly what data is being collected and how it is being used.
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1Password Has Raised $620M
As our online lives become subject to new and evolving threats, we're doubling down on protecting the digital privacy and peace of mind of everyday people – at home and at work.
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Is the madness ever going to end?
There is something seriously wrong with the IT industry. It's so bad that I haven't managed to find a single industry with the same massive amount of stupidity, with the exception of perhaps the fashion industry.
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Competitive Programming with AlphaCode
Solving novel problems and setting a new milestone in competitive programming.
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I replaced all our blog thumbnails using DALL·E 2
An infinite number of machine monkeys paint an infinite number of blog thumbnails