GitHub releases now support immutability, adding a new layer of supply chain security. With immutable releases, assets and tags are protected from tampering after publication, so the software you publish—and…
For years, startups have been taught to prioritize growth over everything else. Profitability was seen as unambitious or even wrong – something to worry about when you hit scale. Why focus on profits when money and valuations were easy to come by?
Software design is a deliberate process, and requires deliberate effort.
T5Gemma 2 is the next evolution of our encoder-decoder family based on Gemma 3.
The iximiuz Labs origin story: five years of technical blogging followed by six months of active development resulted in an online learning-by-doing platform for DevOps, SRE, and Platform Engineers.
“From a mathematics and trajectory standpoint and with a certain kind of technology, there’s not too many different ways to go to Mars. It’s been pretty well figured out. You can adjust the decimal places here and there, but basically if you're talking about chemical rockets, there's a certain way you're going to go…
This article is about why on-call in it's current state in big-tech is flawed, or how to properly develop software.
Using Apple Watch noise and sleep stages to quantify the effect of noise on sleep
Are speed dating and network effects contradictory?
Could we halve aviation's climate impact at a fraction of the cost of sustainable aviation fuels?
These days, the most common question I get goes something like this: A decade ago, you told people that scalable quantum computing wasn’t imminent. Now, though, you claim it plausibly is immi…
We've opposed the Take It Down Act because it could be easily manipulated to take down lawful content that powerful people simply don't like. Last night, President Trump demonstrated he has a similar view on the bill. He wants to sign the bill into law, then use it to remove content about — him....
With only a handful of commands, tmux can still be your new best friend on the terminal
Major digital labor platforms, also known as gig companies, operating in the United States misclassify gig workers as independent contractors, denying them labor rights.
Introducing Tinker: a flexible API for fine-tuning language models.
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In this post I will make the case for the concept of a “runtime resizable struct” in Zig. I will then design an API by exploiting Zig’s powerful comptime functionality.
It's one of my periodic downsizing cycles, which means checking the hardware inventory (and, intermittently, discovering things that were no...
Problems and Algorithms
The internet has been speculating the past few days on which crypto company spent $65M on Datadog in 2022. I confirmed it was Coinbase, and here are the details of what happened.
Instrument your CI/CD pipelines with OpenTelemetry. A step-by-step guide to capturing GitHub Actions data via the Collector.
In a result of its research investigation efforts, Security Explorations, a research lab of AG Security Research company, conducted security analysis of eSIM technology.
Learn what a semantic layer is, why it matters, and how to build a simple one with DuckDB and Ibis using just YAML and Python | Reading time: 22 min read
If you look for information about the Macintosh Plus and its ROM, you’ll usually find that the ROM has a capacity of 128 KB and that it exists in three revisions . But that’s incorrect: there’s a fourth ROM, 256 KB in size, which includes fonts for kanji (Japanese characters). And I found (and preserved) this ROM. I’m…
My journey from building cricket bots to building “wind tunnels” with my collaborators — and finding the answer hidden in geometry.
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How to self-host a personal archive of web content even if stuff get's taken down
