Links - 8th December 2024
C arithmetic, bad code, build times, modern productivity, every uuid, enterprise data tables
Links - 24th November 2024
Traceroute, misery and results, security at scale, C++, Internet dark forest
Links - 17th November 2024
Lisp syntax, tram map in TEX, complexity in organizations
Links - 3rd November 2024
Sprints for game writers, controlling the context, city builder games & violence, cult of the founder
Links - 13th October 2024
Ssh tunelling, debug build in C++, gueering design systems,React & web component, history of Commander in Magic, recalculations, pain zone
Links - 6th October 2024
Reading, game design, unplanned blog post, platform engineering
Links - 22nd September 2024
Unix command line conventions, Gnome UI, IT work visibility, ladders in 3D games, disliked tools, commitment to nonexistent code, maintenance and changing APIs, agile
Links - 25th August 2024
Collaboration & discussion, maintenance and users, vanilla web development, state of JavaScript, trainwreck design, maintenance skills
Links - 28th July 2024
Moral crumple zones, fearless extensibility, values & places, real-time audio programming
Links - 14th July 2024
Incompetent management, benchmarking & stability, files as metadata, more information can leads to worse code
Links - 30th June 2024
Negativity toward changes, front-end development, reality & trust, eulogy for DevOps
Links - 23th June 2024
Poetry & programming, smart quotes, perverse incentives, safety & liveness properties, optics & outcomes, late bugs, tinkering, frustration & engagement, CSS frameworks, WordPress
Links - 9th June 2024
Postman, computers are presumed to be operating correctly, temporary truths, against optimization
Links - 26th May 2024
Team priorities, WordPress, nature of software, monorepo tooling
Links - 29th April 2024
Making sense of the world, warning and errors, agile manifesto, comments in the Google Doc, code comments using ASCII art, game development with Rust
Links - 14th April 2024
Tool proficiency, managers, cookies, developer tooling, hobbyists maintainers
Links - 24th March 2024
Teminals, PostgreSQL high availability, relentless positivity, JS churn, mob programming, SQL & relational algebra
Links - 17th March 2024
Single vendor & open source, digital forgeries, tmux is Turing complete, friction & velocity
Links - 3rd March 2024
Open source and public work, microservices, bad software existing, scheduling internals, leadership
Links - 25th February 2024
Design engineers, Linux kernel core dumps, unexisting message, global design system, going solid, command not found, Linux stable patches
Links - 11th February 2024
Writing a PDF, clowns with snakes for arms, wrong DB decisions, IP fragmentation
Links - 28th January 2024
Management and details, DevEx, theory of fucks
Links - 21st January 2024
Static site generator, Linux binary to WebAssembly compiler, cost of supporting languages, testing network leaks, generic mitigations, database performance, ambiguous problems
Links - 14th January 2024
Text in PostgreSQL, IP adresses in PostgreSQL, not writing, stopping threads, UNIX philosophy, insider & renegades
Links - 7th January 2024
Infrastructure & climate change, code smell, abstraction inversion, cold-blooded software, team dependencies, changing C, TrueType rendering, debating nazis, PostgreSQL sessions, timeout, data quality and medical information systems, storing timezone info
Links - 17th December 2023
Good software, SEO & content generation, discussions and outcomes in open-source
Links - 10th December 2023
Insidious mistakes, Jenkins, macroculture vs microculture, replacing immutable, standardization & integration, Fallen London lore
Links - 3rd December 2023
Duck holding, book of shaders, RFC processes
Links - 26th November 2023
Making tools accessibles, IRL catgirls, computers systems vs medical professionals, writing items descriptions, magic the gathering metagame history, alive systems
Links - 19th November 2023
What executives do, wikis, Kai Krause’s software UI, practice guide for computers
Links - 5th November 2023
Finished software, abyss staring, LinkedIn posts
Links - 29th October 2023
Leadership styles, architectural decision records, solving problems, creating prpgramming languages, journaling in private, mastodon clients, deconstructing browsers
Links - 22nd October 2023
Background jobs, terminology missuse, libraries churn, improving things, zip file format, timezones
Links - 15th October 2023
Design job, wanting simplicity, PowerPoint, bad Windows programs
Links - 8th October 2023
MMO architecture, OLAP query engines, integrating Parquet files, clearing browsers caches, not saying no, io info in PotstgreSQL 16, change data capture
Links - 1st October 2023
WordPress and bloggers, turing completeness from two RISC instructions, align incentives, writing strategies
Links - 24th September 2023
Simplicity fetish, freelancing, fake texts in Apple’s marketing materials, state machines in DB, Rails middlewares
Links - 10th September 2023
State machines, UTC in DB, shipping buggy code, complexiy has to live somewhere, markup languages for typesetting, FIFO queues for cache
Links - 3rd September 2023
Emails, design, normcore, watefall, HTML ordered lists, capital is dead
Links - 13th August 2023
End to end principle, syntax and non-programmers, abstraction & data, functional programming & time, software as haunting, terrible ideas, free long term support for Linux, carrot problem
Links - 6th August 2023
Obtuse software, formal proofs, priority management, difficult games, query engines, static data editor, level editor, whitespaces, abstractions and power
Links - 30th July 2023
Hyrum’s Law is a self-fulfilling prophecy, falsifying ideas, accelerated expertise, complexity, emoji on the web, SEO, window management, esolangs, simpler software, data on disk
Links - 16th July 2023
RRC, writing, engineering leadership, policies, PostgreSQL locking
Links - 2nd July 2023
Dead languages, humans and systems, elements of programming, InfluxDB 3.0, writing a pipeline, dependencies in JavaScript
Links - 18th June 2023
S3 as a message queue, bad software, C is a protocol, experience, new Ruby parser, reducing friction, system design
Links - 4th June 2023
What would you fix next, notes apps, technologizing our way out, building large technical projects
Links - 28th May 2023
Monochrome image dithering, IE’s content rating system, CSS & hiring, CSS crimes
Links - 21st May 2023
99 buttons mouse, high-performance Lua VM, Staff Engineer’s Path, management is prediction, 50 years in filesystems, configurable hallucinations, software design, divergent development workflow, floating-points, industrial hammer complex
Links - 14th May 2023
People and systems, cult of founders, deskilling, code deletion at scale, recruiting contributors, terrible messagin app, early computer art
Links - 7th May 2023
Build Your Own Database, Abstract Machine Models, Prodigal Techbro, rewrite trap, seven programming ur-languages, UX research reckoning, real-time messaging architecture at Slack
Links - 23rd April 2023
VendorOps, technological antisolution, booting modern Intel CPUs, how complex systems fail, Windows file paths
Links - 16th April 2023
Planning as an engineering executive, yearly planning, a frugal functional programming language, system interface complexity
Links - 9th April 2023
Incremental games and work, SQL:2023, dark matter developers, custom game engines, innovation vs stability, grid world
Links - 2nd April 2023
Content negotiation, writing a C Compiler, incompetent but nice, men & data science
Links - 26th March 2023
Languages registers, coding in one hour, digital optimism
Links - 26th February 2023
Crime dial, gardening platforms, unusual uses of DNS, you wrote a database
Links - 12th February 2023
Unknown in horror, frontend frameworks, IA and simulation, machine curation, developer conferences, big data is dead
Links - 5th February 2023
Information herd immunity, combination of technologies, build your own Redis
Links - 22nd January 2023
HTML templating, Python packaging, front-end developpers, coding perverts, VRChat, using the wrong tools, storing data on the web, effective eng organization, meeting efficiency, knowing management
Links - 15th January 2023
Open-source maintainance, dependency injection frameworks, Apache® appropriation, visual guide to ssh tunnels, depth in research
Links - 8th January 2023
HTTP in 2022, OSS supply chain, marketplace of rationalizations, tools for thought, capitalizing engineering costs, Elden Ring ecology, Panasonic Jungle
Links - 1st January 2023
Raspberry Pis, systems thinking, SQLite internals, fast views in pure Ruby, Programming languages application and interpretation, worst-selling Microsoft software, permacomputing, digital garden, sorting things out, weathering software
Links - 11th December 2022
Software & hardware, locality of behaviour, social media management on the fediverse, city building simulations, fuck nuance, antimemetics division
Links - 4th December 2022
Git worktree, Windows 95’s User Interface, playing with Git commits ids, Fungal font, Barnacle Goose Experiment, Git for trunk-based development, a garbage can model of organizational choice
Links - 27th November 2022
Federation, theory-building & employee churn, diagrams, Multics Emacs, little languages
Links - 13th November 2022
Postgres terminology, agency, algorithms for modern hardware, operating systems pieces, history of incident models
Links - 30th October 2022
Comforting work, expertise, inessential weirdness, dark mode, data-oriented design, useless software, joy and crafting, ffmpeg
Links - 9th October 2022
Reasoning from first principles, unsolicited advice, Capcom historical games, edge case poisoning, mystery knowledge, theorycrafting, reject simplicity, code comments, the grind, UML & standardisation
Links - 25th September 2022
Auditing culture, transparency is surveillance, bring your own disaster, software supply chain
Links - 11th September 2022
Cost of opinion, technology adoption curve, low-stakes and high-stakes metrics, Typescript for library developers, deep learning and human disposability, one-on-ones with executives, Untitled Goose Game, hating your tools, type systems
Links - 21st August 2022
We don’t do that here, insidious bugs, implicit practice, TDD, files that change together
Links - 24th July 2022
Estimations, badly scaling algorithms, overfed middlemen, internal writing, educator authorial stance, strategy and PowerPoint
Links - 17th July 2022
Getting to the staff+ level, CSS behind Figma, spacing in CSS, knowledge of organizational operations
Links - 10th July 2022
Learning and teaching practical wisdom, extensible extension mechanisms, tyranny of “what if it changes?”
Links - 26th June 2022
Accelerate, coding interviews, feature factory, systems thinking, organisational change
Links - 5th June 2022
Behavioral biases, technical dimensions of programming systems, memory models, probabilistic programming language, online collaboration, fairness in video games & meritocracy
Links - 29th May 2022
Game design for virtual events, not my job, Uncurled, data and reality
Links - 22nd May 2022
Standardization & exploration, writing style, different kinds of notes, believability
Links - 8th May 2022
Memory models, beyond libraries and frameworks, agile, errors are constructed, wrong abstraction, PostgreSQL indexes, being glue, house elf management trap, best font for online reading, large PostgreSQL databases
Links - 3rd April 2022
UnreliableFS, middlewares, work standards, forgotten pain, ontological remodeling, carousels, CSS layout algorithms, trust
Links - 6th March 2022
Programming languages features, AI research, web development & despair, projects planning, static languages, feedbacks, mental model, bureaucratic psychosis, performance indicators
Links - 23rd January 2022
Errors and blocking development, team interactions as API, dysfunctional organisations, Warez, software engineering
Links - 9th January 2022
Trauma, cross-platform native desktop applications, JVM features, it’s your problem now, fast kernel headers, micro blogging from iOS notes app, Debian’s approach to Rust, writing
Links - 19th December 2021
Software genres, using emails, integration, design thinking, drawing diagrams, creating point-and-click text adventures
Links - 28th November 2021
Groups behavior, individuals matter, copying decisions, hiring, creating change, UI backwards compatibility, corporate engineering blogs, people can read their manager’s mind
Links - 14th November 2021
Building agreements, terminal emulators, culturally transmitted skills and values, default trial retire, forces of architecture, parallel programming
Links - 31st October 2021
Shamans, moving faster, task switching
Links - 24th October 2021
Cursed knowledge, speed matters, Jira & communication, visual programming tools, what to learn
Links - 10th October 2021
Distributed collaboration, no Scrum in big tech orgs, ISO-C for OS development
Links - 3rd October 2021
In-house expertise, ideas that work, IBM and cloud
Links - 26th September 2021
Single-page-app, build system, note-writing, tool-makers, management, shibboleth
Links - 5th September 2021
Agile as trauma, partitioning in PostgreSQL, technical writing
Links - 29th August 2021
Miracle of the commons, community on a single 1.44MB floppy, long gone development practices, writing a GUI framework, APIs design, software crisis
Links - 8th August 2021
Scaling, tech journalism, open-source software
Links - 25th July 2021
Vocabulary, role of judgment, successful outcomes, benchmarking, functional programming, planning
Links - 11th July 2021
Smart compilers, good examples, broken tools ,UX theatre, scrum
Links - 4th July 2021
Technical skills and poverty, Unix shell, Bitsy games, focus vs coordination
Links - 6th June 2021
Agile methods, CLI, alerts, telnet zine, Schrödinger’s code, unit test
Links - 16th May 2021
Query planning, spellcheck, OLAP cube, UML, engineering delivery metrics
Links - 25th April 2021
Data Mesh, PostgreSQL optimizer, CI
Links - 7th March 2021
PostgreSQL, frameworks, data pipelines, weird architectures
Links - 24th January 2021
Data, update, engineers, PGP
Links - 15th November 2020
Data races, Bugs
Links - 20th September 2020
Processes, security, component-entity-system, C, agile, tabs
Links - 21st June 2020
Systemd, restyling apps, internal platforms, async, modern graphics API
Links - 3rd May 2020
Open source, glitches, software collapse, Spotify
Links - 22nd March 2020
Data center, rewrittings, runnin online services, toolboxes
Links - 23rd February 2020
Understanding computers, dynamic type systems, declarative configuration management, listening for design, command line options
Links - 16th February 2020
Art tools, errror model, weird machines, ops lessons, feminist data manifest-no, software performance
Links - 20th October 2019
Pipes, text rendering, unique IDs, verb-noun vs noun-verb
Links - 11th August 2019
Small social networks, abstract machines, files, monorepos, devops for databases
Links - 8th July 2019
Hypothetical indexes, information maintenance, event sourcing, distributed tracing, designing for coziness
Links - 16th June 2019
City guide to open source, leverage in engineering organisations, playful
Links - 19th May 2019
Game development, DSL, 2D graphics, UML, architectural relic, Arkanoid
Links - 5th May 2019
Declarative logic programming language, post-apocalypse, institutional dependencies
Links - 21st April 2019
Debugging asynchronous, optimizing inefficiency, inconsistent code and comments, stand-up meetings, cybersecurity holes
Links - 14th April 2019
XML web services, PostgreSQL load tester, transactions, security maturity, separating use and reuse, operating systems
Links - 7th April 2019
Little languages, GDPR, hidden compiler optimization opportunities, web services
Links - 24th March 2019
Purely functional software deployment model, layers, on-call, reindexing
Links - 10th March 2019
Identifiers, data-centric programming for distributed systems, platform security
Links - 10th February 2019
Monadic morass, AWS Autoscale
Links - 3rd February 2019
HTTPS certificates for localhost, developer experience, state of software security in 2019, abstraction tiers, dataflow engines, second system effect
Links - 21st October 2018
Labyrinths synthesis
Links - 23rd September 2018
Multi-cloud, name resolution
Links - 3rd September 2018
Partitioning data in PostgreSQL, staging environment
Links - 8th July 2018
Voodoo software, state management
Links - 1st July 2018
Consistency models
Links - 24th June 2018
Scriptable audio, not being a jerk in open source, DNS lookup, MySQL 8.0
Links - 3rd June 2018
Don’t dump on your users
Links - 27th May 2018
Data on the outside versus data on the inside
Links - 20th May 2018
Storage systems algorithms, adopting microservices?
Links - 29th April 2018
Asset management, Redis Cluster
Links - 15th April 2018
Serverless
Links - 8th April 2018
Expected output vs. seniority
Links - 25th March 2018
Secure containers on Kubernetes, compliance under the GDPR, IMGUI, databases are global mutable state
Links - 11th March 2018
Fennel, alignment
Links - 4th March 2018
Crafting interpreters, OSS tool for parsing and analyzing SQL
Links - 25th February 2018
Postgres query plans, testing database changes
Links - 18th February 2018
Containers vs culture, cat chirality, packaging complex applications
Links - 11th February 2018
microservices, continuous integration, cloud native monitoring, distributed system design, Iain M. Banks
Links - 28th January 2018
Service boundaries
Links - 7th January 2018
Learning Prolog, data classes, Java 9 modularization, PCID
Links - 31st December 2017
Haskell, syscalls, agile, optimizations, ARM emulator, big suite enterprise software
Links - 10th December 2017
Design thinking, startup frauds, computer architecture for network engineers
Links - 2nd December 2017
ThoughtWorks Technology Radar
Links - 26th November 2017
Profiling and data analysis, machine-translated video game, Dark Souls II
Links - 12th November 2017
Gender roles, OS design, versionning
Links - 5th November 2017
Software design, cost center trap
Links - 29th October 2017
Staging, paperclips, Linux kernel development, interfaces and OSes
Links - 22nd October 2017
Let’s build a simple database, convert AsciiDoc to EPUB3, playing god in a strange universe
Links - 15th October 2017
Java at Alibaba, Cloud Native monitoring
Links - 8th October 2017
JVM monitoring with BPF, Jepsen Hazelcast, level design in Breath of the Wild
Links - 1st October 2017
Voodoo software
Links - 24th September 2017
Reverse Design: Half-Life
Links - 17th September 2017
Cost-to-fix, message delivery, code duplication, microservice
Links - 10th September 2017
First 1:1, Kafka at the NYT, C, rewritable software
Links - 3rd September 2017
Cache, database isolation, late projects
Links - 27th August 2017
Size and complexity, technical RFCs, designing data-intensive applications
Links - 20th August 2017
LaTeX, distributed systems, pain-driven development, microarchitecture, microkernels, SimCities, Lovecraft and Ballard
Links - 13th August 2017
New agile framework, CAP theorem & organizations, ascii art, electrical engineering, and programming, Linux load averages, font-size, I/O-free (Sans-I/O) protocol implementations
Links - 6th August 2017
Reactive systems, joining data from multiple Postgres databases, unikernel for C++ applications, networks all the way down, cultural obsession with dystopias, Dishonored’s party level