I see people make the same mistakes over and over again when learning Rust. Here are my thoughts (ordered by importance) on how you can ease the learning process. My goal is to help you save time and frustration. Let Your Guard Down Stop resisting. T…
Our app was mysteriously using 60% CPU and 25% GPU on my M2 MacBook. It turned out this was due to a tiny CSS animation! In this post, I show how to find expensive animations, why some are so expensive, and how to make many animations much cheaper. Along the way, we'll learn how the browser renders CSS animations and…
Here is a realization I made recently. I'm sitting in a room full of smart people. On one side are developers who understand the ins and outs of our microservice architecture. On the other are the fro
When I stopped using Spotify I tried a few different solutions until I found the perfect replacement for me. If you want the tl;dr: I now use Jellyfin. But if you want to know how I got here, follow me through each step of the way.
This isn't innovation, it's tyranny
Privacy is when they promise to protect your data. Anonymity is when they never had your data to begin with.
Majorana 1 from Microsoft is the world’s first Quantum Processing Unit (QPU) built with a topoconductor. Discover more.
This post explains our recent effort to improve JSON.stringify performance
Four months ago I decided to buy a Tesla Model 3. What promised to be an exciting adventure in the world of electric cars, and some of the most advanced technology brought directly from Silicon Valley, ended up becoming a nightmare from which I still have not found my way out.
No amount of tuning the backend service performance helped, and then I learned why. Oh no. Oh no no no no.
40 years ago today, I joined Apple Computer on April 27, 1978. It was a big turning point in my life and I am glad I said "Yes".
About three years ago, I set up a tiny netcat loop on one of my Debian servers to accept arbitrary connections from the Hacker News (HN) community. The loop ran for 24 hours and did exactly three things whenever a client connected:
Memory safety is all the rage these days. But what does the term even mean? That turns out to be harder to nail down than you may think. Typically, people use this term to refer to language...
cw: death dad died this summer, from his first heart attack, barely a week after his 57th birthday. i get the first call at 11:30pm from mom, who lived...
Movies are handmade, and just like any other art form, sometimes the seams that hold movies together become visible to the audience. For mov...
The shameless spin around Stargate UAE
Romance fraud has been growing as an issue for years. It's not uncommon to see news stories with bewildered victims explaining just how deeply they'd been sucked in. After receiving a number of opener
A while back, Google DeepMind unveiled Gemini Diffusion, an experimental language model that generates text using diffusion. Unlike traditional GPT-style models …
SVG gives us many different primitives to work with, but by far the most powerful is the element. Unfortunately, it’s also the most inscrutable, with its compact Regex-style syntax. In this tutorial, we’ll demystify this infamous element and see some of the cool things we can do with it!
Do you register with Google, Amazon or Microsoft to use the web?
Back in my day, we used math for autocomplete.
I'm in the process of rebuilding my homelab from the ground up, moving from a 24U full-size 4-post rack to a mini rack. One of the most difficult devices to downsize (especially economically) is a NAS. But as my needs have changed, I'm bucking the trend of all datahoarders and I need less storage than the 120 TB (80…
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Update: We’ve read your posts and heard your feedback. We’re postponing the announced billing change for self-hosted GitHub Actions to take time to re-evaluate our approach. We are continuing to…
ProblemSolutionAffected GamesWhat Apple could do Problem I’ve submitted the issue described in this post to Apple as FB13375033. This issue has been open since September of 2023. If you game …
An 8-bay DIY NAS with 10GbE networking, TrueNAS 25.10.0.1, an Intel N300 CPU, 32GB of DDR5 RAM, and a smallish form factor that occupies less than 20 liters of your office space.
An overview of what makes modern CSS so awesome.
We’re introducing Ironwood, our seventh-generation Tensor Processing Unit (TPU) designed to power the age of generative AI inference.
Great mentors help, but purposeful tinkering and grit tend to forge the strongest software engineers.
