Calendars cover the entire spectrum of time. Past, present and future. They are the closest thing we have to a time machine. Calendars allow us to travel forward in time and see the future. More importantly, they allow us to change the future.
How do software developers understand which parts of their software are being used and whether they are performing as expected? The modern answer is telemetry , which means software sending data to answer those questions back to a collection server. This post is about why I believe telemetry is important for…
The world’s code is now at your fingertips.
Every day, thousands of developers at Meta are working in repositories with millions of files. Those developers need tools that help them at every stage of the workflow while working at extreme sca…
Updates on innovations and the state of virtual private networks - globally, as well as Tailscale product and company news.
Language models have rapidly improved in recent years, with large language models (LLMs) such as GPT-3 and GPT-4 taking center stage. These models have…
How this one small browser quirk turned into a tool used by countless people for decades.
Emacs 29 introduces tree-sitter support, a powerful parsing library that enhances its understanding of source code. With this integration, Emacs gains features like precise syntax highlighting, accurate indentation and easier extensibility. Here's how you install and configure Emacs with tree-sitter support.
I implemented new --shuffle option for GNU make to simulate non-deterministic build order in parallel makefiles.
This is a technique I’ve used in actual for-pay software, but most recently in my text adventure game editor, Hiss .
Rémy Rakic is helping us enable the adoption of memory safe software through work to improve Rust compile times. We asked him to provide his perspective on the work in this blog post. Thank you for your partnership and contributions, Rémy! Josh Aas, Head of ISRG's Prossimo project Introduction Over the past few months…
I ♥ to /bin/bash and last week I came around the one bash book to rule them all.
I updated the whoami.filippo.io dataset! I explain how it works, and how I fetched the new data.
This guide shows you how to write, structure, visualize and manage software architecture documentation in a lean way using appropriate documentation tools.
Researcher interested in usable security and privacy.
I recently created some “bed sensors” for my smart home that detect if one of us, or both of us, is in bed. I use a couple of pressure mats that detect when weight is applied to them, and stuck then under our mattress at around hip level and these tell my Home Assistant home automation platform if
What's new in Emacs 29.1? I go through every change and annotate the ones I feel are interesting or worth knowing more about.
A Raspberry Pi is great if you have a need for which it excels. GPIO, extremely low power requirements, tight space constraints. But the Pi should not be the first thing you reach for when “U…
What if I'm a left-handed person in the world of right-handed tools?
I used to believe that every book has an objective value. And I used to believe that this value is fixed and universal.
Airplane window seats are great! Not only are they more comfy and easier to take a nap in, but they also have the most quaint form of in-flight entertainment: The outside world!
Many programmers subscribe to the belief that they need large blocks of uninterrupted time to get anything done. Paul Graham wrote about this in Maker’s Schedule, Manager’s Schedule :
An not-for-profit roundup of affordable PCB manufacturers. Originally published in 2023 and last updated January 2026.
Writing drafts via retrieval-augmented generation. Also reflecting on the week's journal entries.
Based on your feedback, we've improved the Automatic Data Conversion settings, and made them also available in Excel for Mac.
Audacity 3.4 adds a musical view, time stretching and a new exporter.
