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An update on Dart macros and data serialization
We have invested significant time and resources to prototype macros over the past couple years. Unfortunately, each time we solved a major…
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Fifty Shades of OOP
This post talks about the many different aspects under the umbrella term OOP
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WASM GC isn't ready for realtime graphics
Wasm GC is a wonderful thing that is now available in all major web browsers since slowpoke Safari/WebKit finally shipped it in December. It provides a hierarchy of heap allocated reference types and a set of instructions to operate on them. Wasm GC enables managed memory languages to take advantage of the advanced…
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DNS LOC Record (2014)
One little used type of DNS record is the LOC (or location). It allows you to specify a physical location. CloudFlare handles millions of DNS records; of those just 743 are LOCs. Nevertheless, it's possible to set up a LOC record in the CloudFlare DNS editor.
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Sailing from Berkeley to Hawaii in a 19ft Sailboat
As a consulting exploration geologist, my work life tends to consist of periods of intense work punctuated by periods of intense unemployment. True to form, I completed my last work assignment on July 8th and I found myself with a month and a half of enforced leisure before my next gig. Since the coming job was…
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Let's stop pretending that managers and executives care about productivity
Writing at the end of the world, from Hveragerði, Iceland
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Cutting down Rust compile times from 30 to 2 minutes with one thousand crates
How we split Feldera into a thousand crates to use every core rustc can get, cutting compile times from 30 minutes to 2.
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Python Workers redux: fast cold starts, packages, and a uv-first workflow
Recent advancements in Cloudflare Python Workers means fast cold starts, comprehensive package support, and a great developer experience. We explain how they were achieved and show how Python can be used to build serverless applications on Cloudflare.
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Don't tug on that, you never know what it might be attached to (2016)
From the highly eclectic blog of Mark Dominus
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Structured Errors in Go (2022)
Bridge the gap between structured logging and errors in Go
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Implementing a Forth
(Image of "Four-Armed Chuck" programming a PDP-11 is from my giant write-up of Forth .)
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Using Vectorize to build an unreasonably good search engine in 160 lines of code
PartyKit now includes a vector database and access to an embedding model. Here’s a guide on how to use them to build a search engine.
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Migrating from AWS to a European Cloud – How We Cut Costs by 62%
This post describes how we successfully migrated our serverless offering from AWS US-East to OVHCloud North America, reducing our monthly spend from...
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Spaced repetition for efficient learning (2019)
Efficient memorization using the spacing effect: literature review of widespread applicability, tips on use & what it’s good for.
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RediShell: Critical remote code execution vulnerability in Redis
A 13‑year Redis flaw (CVE‑2025‑49844) allows attackers to escape Lua sandbox and run code on hosts. See Wiz Research’s analysis and mitigations.
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The case of the UI thread that hung in a kernel call
I did tell you not to do that.
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Experimental Tauri Verso Integration
The cross-platform app building toolkit
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Compilers: Incrementally and Extensibly (2024)
The materials for the course on compilers: built incrementally and fully in tagless-final style
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Deconstructing the "Whimsical Animations" landing page
I spent the past few weeks packing as many easter eggs as I could into my latest project, and in this blog post, I want to dig into some of the more interesting details! If you’re interested in animations/interactions, you’ll want to check this one out; I share a bunch of my favourite secrets and tricks. 😄
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Guitar chord karaoke with Vamp, Chordino, and FFmpeg (2022)
A proof-of-concept using Vamp, Chordino, ImageSharp and ffmpeg to add live guitar chord charts to karaoke videos
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Flame Graphs vs Tree Maps vs Sunburst (2017)
Flame Graphs vs Tree Maps vs Sunburst explores different hierarchal visualizations by visualizing file system or disk space.
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Bilinear interpolation on a quadrilateral using Barycentric coordinates
A new algebraic method for hardware-accelerated bilinear interpolation on convex quadrilaterals is presented, using the Barycentric coordinate feature of modern GPUs.
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Helmdar: 3D Scanning Brooklyn on Rollerblades
One of my favorite joys is exploring a city late at night on rollerblades. I’ve been doing it fairly regularly for about 10 years now, first in Boston and then in NYC. Every time day turns to night and back again a city takes a breath. At night people flow out or huddle up in buildings, leaving the streets clear for…
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Monte Carlo Crash Course: Quasi-Monte Carlo
We’ve learned how to define and apply Monte Carlo integration—fundamentally, it’s the only tool we need. In the remaining chapters, we’ll explore ways to reduce variance and successfully sample difficult distributions.
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The Unsustainability of Moore's Law
Roughly every two years, the density of transistors that can be fit onto a silicon chip doubles.
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Microservices should form a polytree
Microservices work best as a polytree with clear dependencies and no cycles. Learn how this structure reduces complexity and makes systems easier to scale and maintain.
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Interstellar Mission to a Black Hole
If DM could form a BH at the center of a planet, wouldn’t that then collapse the planet into that BH, consuming it? Wouldn’t the same apply to stars, extinguishing them?
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“You should never build a CMS”
Lee Robinson migrated cursor.com off Sanity. He made good points. Here's what he missed.
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Comparison of C/POSIX standard library implementations for Linux
The table below and notes which follow are a comparison of some of the different standard library implementations available for Linux, with a particular focus on the balance between feature-richness and bloat. I have tried to be fair and objective, but as I am the author of musl , that may have influenced my choice of…