Don't Be Frupid
Frupidity is stupid frugality that wrecks engineering teams. Misguided cost-cutting kills productivity, morale, and innovation. You can fight it.
What's working for YC companies since the AI boom
The goal of this analysis was to understand what’s working for YC companies by looking at which ones have raised Series A rounds.
Model Once, Represent Everywhere: UDA (Unified Data Architecture) at Netflix
Introducing UDA, the knowledge-graph-based architecture that translates conceptual domain models into consistent schemas and data…
US Congress is making more than 250M acres of public lands available for sale
The Senate reconciliation package is a disturbing giveaway that will mandate the “disposal” of public lands across the western United States.
Mad at Meta? Don't Let Them Collect and Monetize Your Personal Data
If you’re fed up with Meta right now, you’re not alone. Meta tracks you across millions of websites and apps and its business model relies on your data. If you want to limit Meta’s ability to collect and profit from your personal data, here’s what you need to know.
The port I couldn't ship
Porting a venerable library on vibes. What started as a quick WebPerl success spiraled into weeks of failed attempts, mangled ASCII diagrams, and a hard lesson about respecting the craft embedded in battle-tested code.
The inevitability of the borrow checker
When defining a type in Inko , it's allocated on the heap by default. For example (using the syntax for the upcoming 0.18.0 release):
The value isn't in the code (2022)
It takes time and a lot of skill to write great code, so surely that code is valuable, right? Wrong. You might love it and nurture it, protecting it from harm, but I’m afraid that code of yours is potentially worthless. Why? Read on.
Is Lovable getting monetization wrong?
The current (and future) monetization strategies of "Shopify for SaaS"
In Zig, what's a writer?
Karl Seguin's Blog - A mix of coding and creative writing
A media company demanded a license fee for an Open Graph image I used
A media company demanded a license fee for an Open Graph image used on my twitter archive. I gave in and paid it, but what does that mean for open graph images and copyright?
Boring work needs tension
We can make our work exciting by chasing the every day tension.
Typed Lisp, a Primer
Exploring Lisp's fine-grained type hierarchy.
Optimizing a Math Expression Parser in Rust
Optimizing a math expression parser for speed and memory.
A Python-first data lakehouse
Prototype in Marimo, deploy in Bauplan. Learn how to build production-grade pipelines from notebooks with a Python-native stack. No handoffs, no rewrites.
The probability of a hash collision (2022)
Exploring the math behind hash collisions.
Benjamin Button Reviews macOS
Benjamin Button Reviews macOS | exotext
Rising young worker despair in the United States
Founded in 1920, the NBER is a private, non-profit, non-partisan organization dedicated to conducting economic research and to disseminating research findings among academics, public policy makers, and business professionals.
How has mathematics gotten so abstract?
What's the meaning of "numbers" and "arithmetic operations"? We consult Georg Cantor's turtles and look at Giuseppe Peano's code.
Ditch your mutex, you deserve better
The Personal blog and musings of Chris Penner, a designer, developer and future opsimath.
No clicks, no content: The unsustainable future of AI search
AI companies are causing a content drought that will eventually starve them.
US Passport Power Falls to Historic Low
For the first time since the Henley Passport Index was created 20 years ago, the United States is no longer ranked amongst the world’s Top 10 most powerful passports.
Matrix Foundation to shut down bridges if it doesn't raise $100K
Matrix, the open protocol for secure decentralised communications
BBC Micro, ancestor to ARM
Meet my BBC Master, plus 5 1/4" floppy disk drive, and three-button mouse
Is Germany on the brink of banning ad blockers?
Across the internet, users rely on browsers and extensions to shape how they experience the web: to protect their privacy, improve accessibility, block harmful or intrusive content, and take control ...
Why OpenAI's $157B valuation misreads AI's future (Oct 2024)
I break down the logic behind the company's towering price tag and why I think the most valuable AI companies have yet to be built.