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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.

Composable platforms are a new way of thinking about platforms that allow teams to integrate various components and tailor each to their needs.

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.

Wolfenstein 3D compilation on DosBox

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 [...]

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I have Obsidian in the dock on my iPhone and MacBook Air and …

Let's replace the synchronized keyword to be more virtual threads friendly in a code readable way.

Explanation of the Protobuf Editions and its impact on the wire format and gRPC

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 […]

All error messages are necessarily bad to some degree This is something I feel like enough people don’t a...

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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…

There’s something ‘off’ about the internet lately, and an old internet conspiracy theory might be able to explain it better than I ever could.

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…

When bad management meets bad software, even great hardware is useless

There is a wide gap between the bare statement of a principle and the skill required in recognizing that it applies to a particular problem.

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…

No.309 — A futures library ⊗ The Future of Work is Entering its Synth Era ⊗ AI brings Immanuel Kant back to life

Halt And Catch Fire is a wonderful walk through the early eras of technology and the Internet.

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

Rabbit recently said their AI service can only be accessed on the R1 with its “very bespoke AOSP” firmware, but that isn’t true.

Can things be turned around at Tesla, or is this the beginning of the end?

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

I miss dedicated instant messaging apps

I'm having a blast instant messaging like it is 1998

Why I'm Optimistic about the Tech Recession