I was working on a bug in Chocolate Quake netcode. The issue was an edge case where starting two clients on the same machine resulted in the second one zombifying the first one. When the bug occurred there was no disconnection but the client could no longer move. Instead the screen would show an "indicator" looking…
See how GPU drivers work thanks to VkCube in this Rust-based series for the development of Tyr.
The popular book from the "world's most famous living psychiatrist" is riddled with blatant misrepresentations
Some lessons I’ve learned from experience. 1. Install Stuff Indiscriminately From npm Become totally dependent on others , that’s why they call them…
A retrospective on making the switch from React to StimulusJS at Scholarly
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Current recommendations of agentic coding.
A personal account of building HeheStreams, facing the consequences, and going to prison as a startup founder who had a piracy website.
A technical blog about Rust, Linux and other topics.
The unexpected journey of building a multi-petabyte scale search engine
Only the engineers who work on a large software system can meaningfully participate in the design process. That’s because you cannot do good software design…
A cozy little corner of the web.
*if you include word2vec.
By far the most popular npm package I’ve ever written is blob-util, which is ~10 years old and still gets 5+ million weekly downloads. It’s a small collection…
I’ve been seriously traveling for more than 50 years. So now I’ve got a few tips. There are two modes of travel; retreat or engage. People often travel to escape the routines of work, to recharge, relax, reinvigorate, and replenish … Continue reading →
What happens when something we enjoy doing that took effort becomes effortless? And what happens if that original effort was a foundation on which we saw value…
A number of our customers have recently been asking whether we support OpenTelemetry, the observability framework and toolkit.
I got a job!
Don't you love misleading documentation?
Billions of people around the world use Google’s products every day, and they count on those products to work reliably. Behind the scenes, Google’s services have increased dramatically in scale over the last 25 years — and failures have become rarer even as the scale has grown. Google’s SRE team has pioneered methods…
We can argue that we are out-of-scope for the UK’s Online Safety Act.
Designer, builder, and visual storyteller. Now building Huxe. Previously led design on NotebookLM and contributed to Google AI projects like Gemini and Search. Also shoot photo/video for brands like Coachella, GoPro, and Rivian.
Visualizing the internal state of a Transformer model
Which local economies sustain housing? We analyze Charlotte's job boom vs. Austin/Denver slowdowns. High-wage contractions impact for-sale demand.
Why is my $8 burger $23 after fees - An average reddit user
Our future's so bright, we need ISO-approved shades. Find out what's shiny in our new Extended Security Release, Thunderbird 140 "Eclipse."
One of the weirdest “debates” I seem to perpetually have with framework-enthusiastic developers is whether or not a <div> is “just as good” as a <button>. Spoiler: it’s not. Let’s dig in. The problem Among the React crowd, and also among people who seem to enjoy HTMX, I see a lot this… <div onclick="showSignIn()">…
The original promise of personal computing was a new kind of clay. Instead, we got appliances: built far away, sealed, unchangeable. In this essay, we envision malleable software: tools that users can reshape with minimal friction to suit their unique needs.
