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Managing complex C++ projects across multiple platforms often ends up being afrustrating and time-consuming task.However, this common challenge faced also by the most experienced softwaredevelopers doesn’t have to be an inevitable struggle.Imagine a world where cross-compilation is not just feasible, but also efficientand less cumbersome.I have noticed in several past friendly discussions with other engineers thatmany are not at all familiar with the type of Separation of Concerns that Nixdidn’t invent but also uses.

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Taking a simplified look at the costs of running workloads on common AWS compute services. TL;DR? “It depends”.

A deepdive into developer productivity metrics used by Google, LinkedIn, Peloton, Amplitude, Intercom, Notion, Postman, and 10 other tech companies

What if every single read and every single write from your software to your database becomes a standard API purpose-built for your data model?

Locating data and AI models close to the point of interaction is key to developing AI-powered apps that are always fast and always on.

Deeper financial analysis and earlier strategic thinking will result in a hybrid cloud deployment that delivers clearer ROI.

If we don’t have these honest conversations around risk today, tomorrow will have us all focused on the wrong thing.

President Bob Guenser sums up the history of Signature Plastics, creator and manufacturer of keycap profiles like SA and DSA, on occasion of preparing for retirement and searching for buyer candida…

The X-Forwarded-For (XFF) HTTP header provides crucial insight into the origin of web requests. The header works as a mechanism for…

Google appears to hide away an key feature from its search engine—an easily accessible cache of search results. (It’s still there, if you know where to look.)

Overture to our small Lisp to x86-64 compiler

Reading Ben Thompson’s coverage of Google’s earnings call this week,  one thing jumps out, and simply can’t be ignored: Google CEO Sundar Pichai was asked a simple question, and, …

Because moral progress is real (we improve our morality over time) new generations will inevitably see moral deficiencies in previous generations. To some degree we can guess and anticipate what they will find embarrassing about us today, but it will … Continue reading →

How are populations distributed if you roll up zip code regions to just the first two digits? What about just the first digit?

Yet Another Software Engineer's Blog

Microservices might simplify coordination and collaboration at scale, but transform all your hard work into costs that line someone else’s pocket.

The development of trolls appears to be the internet’s version of carcinization.

Will app developers get on board?

Project Tapestry will make a universal, chronological timeline of the public web.

I was introducing a friend to Serial Experiments Lain and when we got to the episode where the Knights of the Eastern Calculus are doing an infodump on MAJIC-12, Vannevar Bush, John Lilly and Ted Nelson, I made a comment about Nelson and my friend said, "Wait, these people are real??" So then I got to tell the story about the time I met him. He came to Netscape to, basically, yell at us for ...

It's not just you – things really are getting worse

I just read two “reviews” of the upcoming Apple Vision Pro, one from John Gruber and another from Nilay Patel. I put “reviews” in quotes because I think these two write ups are very different in how they approached their respective pieces. Nilay’s review is more of a traditional

Hi everyone, Micah here. This week’s paper is one of several papers I’ll be reading from 2023’s Symposium on Operating Systems Principles (SOSP). Enjoy!Just arriving? Join my growing community of engineers to receive 1 email per week with a deep dive into cutting-edge Computer Science research.

In a rare visit back to TwitterX, I fortuitously stumbled across a conversation between the prolific author Steven B. Johnson, now editorial director of Google Labs (who knew?), and This Week in…

aka “New Year, New Philosophies” (via Shop blog) In 2023, I finally got the activation energy to learn and setup Shopify and launch my o...

A headset, a spatial productivity platform, and a personal entertainment device.

Hello, welcome to the new publicinfrastructure.org! I hope you find it colorful and inviting. There’s a lot of information on this site because there’s a lot of different things we do, but my intention is to create a space that rewards curiosity while making it easy to locate just what you came here to find. […]