Serverless WebAssembly: Security, Speed ... and Startup Times
A panel of experts from Microsoft and Fermyon showed how WebAssembly can beat Kubernetes, VMs, micro-VMs and even containers in startup times, and Rust can get the code size down to a few kilobytes in some cases.
BASIC at 60: How This Simpler Language Impacted Programming
The BASIC programming language democratized computing — giving almost anyone the tools and skills to write a computer program for school, work, or for their own use.
In this post, I want to talk about a dynamic that I’ve seen play itself over and over again in the software world. In fact, I would venture a guess that this kind of situation probably happen…
Today's Apple event has come and gone, and in its wake are some new iPads, a slightly saner iPad lineup, and some questions. The biggest one for me is this: Does Apple know what the iPad actually needs? Right before debuting new iPad Pros, John Ternus said that Apple was "gonna crush the limits of [...]
Stop chasing your tail: A practical guide to maintaining complex systems - Swimm
Some context The Swimm Editor enables developers to create truly useful technical documentation. It’s a central, and arguably, one of the most important parts of the platform. If you’re new here, Swimm is a devtool that makes all code easy to understand. And one of the ways we do that is through technical documentation. One […]
After more than four decades in space and having traveled a combined 44 billion kilometers, it’s no secret that the Voyager spacecraft are closing in on the end of their extended interstellar…
Here are a few anecdotes about safety from the past few years. In 2020, the world was struck by the COVID-19 pandemic. The U.S. response was… not great. Earlier in 2019, before the pandemic s…
Umbrella design is an interesting conundrum. Sure, it could be better, but nobody's come up with a successful new design in hundreds of years. Why is that?
Imagine you wanted to understand how to get better at playing the lottery. You strike upon a research approach: study previous lottery winners! You collect a list of winners, look them up, intervie…
If I’m being totally honest, I don’t understand the Rabbit R1 at all. As a piece of hardware, it looks cool, so I understand if you want to spend $200 on a thing that will look cool on your shelf, but take away the cool physical design and
Now bear with me. The title may be a little provocative to everyone who already knows about Ash.
I'm a software engineer at heart and I love to write code. As such, I found it a little awkward, even daunting to see all the low-code or no-code tools emerging over