A week ago I finished up at Westpac NZ. I was fortunate to spend the last few years there as a Distinguished Engineer, a role with an unusually wide and undefined remit. It was the perfect playground …
Incremental Codebase Indexing With Merkle Trees and Tree-sitter — MonkeysCode Blog
The constraint was easy to state and annoying to satisfy: semantic search over a whole codebase, with nothing leaving the machine. No cloud indexing service, no
Google PageRank Explained and Its Relevance in 2025
Discover how Google PageRank still influences SEO strategies today, the importance of backlinks, and how to ensure your website gains optimal visibility.
Welcome to the official site of ASD Simplified Technical English (ASD-STE100). Learn about the STEMG, official trainers, training opportunities, and resources to apply STE in technical documentation.
Decision Records, Playbooks, and Other Acts of Kindness
You've opened a project you didn't write, hit a wall, and found no one left to ask. The code is there but the why is gone. Here are the small habits that spare the next developer that moment.
A window into how I track work: issue statuses, types, and pull request conventions, with sample PR templates you can copy. Take a look around and keep what's useful.
AMD Pensando™ Networking Solutions for the Modern Data Center
From front-end DPUs to scale-out AI NICs, AMD Pensando™ delivers programmable, open networking engineered for the performance and low latency that modern AI workloads demand.
WireGuard Is Fast, But You're Leaving Performance on the Table | SumGuy's Ramblings
Squeeze every MB/s from WireGuard: MTU sizing, GSO/GRO CPU offloading, AllowedIPs routing, PersistentKeepalive tradeoffs, and iperf3 benchmarks included.
Introduction Hashtables are one of the building blocks of computer science, and deservedly get a lot of attention - but less so within the JVM ecosystem. Part of this may simply be that most JVM code is not written with performance top of mind, or that the default JRE implementation is all-around reasonable - fast, efficient, resistant against attacks, why fix it if it ain’t broke? Today we’re looking at libraries that are interested in squeezing out every last byte and cycle of performance however, and we’ll be focusing specifically on primitive hashtables.
A tutorial on building a merkle tree AIR script in Plonky3 - HashCloak
Build a Merkle tree AIR script in Plonky3 with Poseidon2, SubAirBuilder, constraints, trace generation, and Merkle proof verification for STARK ZK developers.
Time is where application code meets uncertainty: clock skew, wall-clock corrections, ambiguous ordering, late schedulers, and business-calendar boundaries.