A practical guide to clustering your nodes and tracking the cluster state for real use cases.

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.

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.

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.

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.

The network is where application code meets uncertainty: latency, retries, timeouts, duplicate side effects, degraded states, and ambiguous outcomes.

Learn how Linux's transparent proxying works by building a toy proxy server in C.

Practical notes on building fast, reliable software systems that scale. Posts are a mirror of my LinkedIn & Blog content.

The following guide to airfreight containers, also called Unit Load Devices (ULD), has been developed from materials supplied by...

In the early 1990s, Don’t Copy That Floppy was an anti-piracy campaign that attempted to connect with computer-savvy youth through the power of hip-hop. While somewhat difficult to imagine gi…

The Modern Data Company produces DataOS, an operating system for data that provides a set of tools a ...

'Idempotent' may be jargon, but the term performs an important job in HTTP as a hall pass that gives ...

Do I have a favorite standard? Silly question. How could I not? There are so many great ones, each with its own weirdly fascinating story. In a previous job, I spent a lot of time getting to know E…

I got tired of using onetimesecret.com so I built my own secret sharing service. It has zero dependencies, only standard Web APIs, and the backend...

Build beautiful, responsive emails using HEEx components and Tailwind. A direct port of react-email, engineered for the Elixir ecosystem.

A glossary of common animation patterns, so you know what to ask for.

economic theory that wealth of resources slows national growth

TL;DR: A good tool is and ought to be invisible—striving to make such tools is the goal of a toolmaker.One habit I see a lot, and have to push back on, is taking a tool's shortcomings and reselling them as a "puzzle game" which is "fun" to solve.I don't want my tools to be "fun". I want my tools to be invisible.Text Editor WarsLet's take vim as an example  This is just an example, and applies to other editors too.. I constantly see some people praise it not for what actually makes it good, but by taking the things ...

What hash function to use? Any of the following: SHAKE256 with a 512-bit output TurboSHAKE256 with a 512-bit output SHA3-512 SHA-512 BLAKE3

Generate production-grade API infrastructure from your OpenAPI spec. SDKs, validators, query hooks, and 20+ plugins across TypeScript and Python. Free and open source.