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News and insights on the Android platform, developer tools, and events.

News and insights on the Android platform, developer tools, and events.

OpsOrch stitches together telemetry, incident response, and automation so teams can see, decide, and act with confidence.

We audited 30 AI agent projects. 93% use unscoped API keys with no per-agent identity, no consent, and no revocation.

From database BLOBs to object stores — understanding the architecture patterns and when to use each

People assume the interface of an open source project is the API surface. The README. The documentation. The function signatures and the error messages and...

WebAssembly is breaking out of the browser into servers, edge, and plugins. Explore why WASM is becoming the universal runtime for 2026 and beyond.

lshaz is a Clang/LLVM-based static analysis tool that detects microarchitectural latency hazards. That includes false sharing, atomic contention, cache line geometry problems. All at compile time, before code ships.

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Consensus is one of the fundamental problems in distributed systems. In this post, we want to see what is consensus and review the most f...

A system freeze led us deep into Linux spinlock internals, where we helped find not one but three bugs in the kernel's resilient locking code used by eBPF.

I've been trying to write a 'why functional programming' piece for over a year. Here's why it keeps falling apart.

Exploring why GNU Emacs embeds a Lisp interpreter in C -- from TECO marcos to Greenspun's Tenth Rule, with architecture comparisons to Neovim and VSCode

Writing about the big beautiful mess that is making things for the world wide web.

When you think of CI, you probably picture a remote server somewhere: GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Jenkins. You push your code, you wait, and eventually you get a green checkmark or a red X. This is so normal that we don't even question it. But why does CI have to be remote?

Training and running a neural network on a 1982 BBC Micro — first in BBC BASIC, then in 6502 assembly. Fixed-point Q4.11 arithmetic, a sigmoid lookup table, and a shift-and-add multiplier all prove that backpropagation doesn't need a FPU, a GPU, or anything invented after 1985.

Learn how to use Greenmask alongside OpenEverest to automatically anonymize production data and restore it to a staging environment — keeping developers productive without exposing sensitive information.

Lessons about XML from the open source IRS Tax Withholding Estimator.

The network that runs your business is facing a reckoning. For service providers and data center operators, that reckoning isn't abstract, it's existential. In 75 years, networking has gone through two complete transformations. We're in the middle of a third. Most organizations are

A conversation about agent orchestration, AI vampires, and why your bike ride is all hills now

A public model for engineering work in an AI-native world

How eight iterations of a blackjack simulation earned each nine the hard way

The following article originally appeared on Wes McKinney’s blog and is being republished here with the author’s permission.Like a lot of people, I’ve

The year is 2006. A contract web developer who is working from home decides to take his Pomodoro break by walking to a thrift store down…

A holistic introduction to Emacs: how useful it is and how it champions free software.

"Red, green, refactor" promotes premature abstraction. I had all the information to come to this conclusion 20 years ago. I'm embarrassed to admit how long it actually took. What makes me say that? Well, sometime between 2003 and 2005, I met Ward Cunningham at a Seattle Extreme Programming Users Group

I tried to stop web scrapers and bots. My notes on IP blocks, ASNs, fingerprinting, and using CAPTCHAs or Turnstile services.