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- Efficient and Flexible Model-Based Testing
- The insert benchmark on ARM and x86 cloud servers
- Reading Files in Unison
- A comprehensive guide for the fastest possible Docker builds in human existence
- All about sanitizer interceptors
- A dancing space leak
- Abusing Exceptions for Code Execution, Part 2
- Saving Memory Subsystem Bandwidth
- Horizontally Scaling PostgreSQL
- A Practical Guide to fzf: Building a File Explorer
- Writing Code Without Plain Text Files
- 2D Player Collision against Static Geometry
- Work-In-Progress: Studying Ethernet Physical Layer 1
- Guide to Projections and Read Models in Event Driven Architecture
- How we upgraded an old, 3PB large, Elasticsearch cluster without downtime. Part 1 - Introduction
- Over-engineering my TV watching: automating playback via Chromecast
- Devirtualizing Nike.com's Bot Protection (Part 1)
- Reverse Prompt Engineering for Fun and (no) Profit
- Building and delivering frontends at scale
- Git Commands You Probably Do Not Need
- Thoughts on the Python packaging ecosystem
- Mapping Python to LLVM
- Rust concepts I wish I learned earlier
- For your next side project, make a browser extension
- Memory Safety in a Modern Systems Programming Language Part 1
- Taking over a Dead IoT Company
- How to avoid bounds checks in Rust (without unsafe!)
- Performance of WebAssembly runtimes in 2023
- CDN Up and Running
- Setting Up a CI System Part 1: Preparing Your Test Machines
- Faster virtual machines: Speeding up programming language execution
- Nearly Practical Verifiable Computation with a Pinocchio Virtual Machine
- Parallel streaming in Haskell: Part 1 - Fast efficient fun
- Untangle: Solving problems with fuzzy constraints
- HTTP/3 Prioritization Demystified
- How to Optimize a CUDA Matmul Kernel for cuBLAS-like Performance: a Worklog
- A Guide to the Terminal, Console, and Shell
- Production Twitter on One Machine: 100Gbps NICs and NVMe are fast
- Rust vs C++ Formatting
- Reflecting on Transducers
- Turning Google smart speakers into wiretaps for $100k
- Testing Without Mocks: A Pattern Language
- Docker volumes on MacOS are slow and how to fix it
- Data-driven performance optimization with Rust and Miri
- WebAssembly: Docker without containers
- A Look at dyn* Code Generation
- Troubleshooting Kafka for 2000 Microservices at Wix
- TheHole New World - how a small leak will sink a great browser (CVE-2021-38003)
- Deep Learning in Information Retrieval. Part I: Introduction and Sparse Retrieval
- Github Copilot Internals
- The Wavefunction Collapse Algorithm explained very clearly
- Rubbing control theory on the Go scheduler
- GPS
- Rendering like it's 1996 - Baby's first pixel
- Garnet: The Generics Problem
- How to Think About Compiling
- How Might Generative AI Change Programming?
- Interoperability: what's rich is still poor
- Prerender pages in Chrome for instant page navigations
- The Case for Models
- ChatGPT Can Do Astonishing Things. But Is It a Helpful Development Tool?
- Raysterizer, a framework that transforms OpenGL programs to instead use raytracing
- ARM’s Scalable Vector Extensions: A Critical Look at SVE2 For Integer Workloads
- Querying Parquet with Millisecond Latency
- Delimiter-first code
- When to use gRPC vs GraphQL
- Pair Programming with AI: Writing a Distributed, Fault-Tolerant Redis Client using ChatGPT
- Theseus and the Zipper
- Algorithms that search for new algorithms: how AlphaTensor works (walkthrough)
- Scaling Mastodon: The Compendium
- Day 1 (Advent of Code 2022)
- Your soft-core CPU won't boot. Where should you start debugging?
- Behind the Pretty Frames: Death Stranding
- How should we evaluate progress in AI?
- How the 8086 processor's microcode engine works
- How we diagnosed and resolved Redis latency spikes with BPF and other tools
- Pointer compression in Oilpan
- Optimizing AWS F1 DMA
- Look out! Divergent representations are everywhere
- A technical analysis of Pegasus for Android - Part 1
- Seeing through hardware counters: a journey to threefold performance increase
- A Complete Guide to Lock Convoys
- Simple Refinement of Anonymous Sum Types in Pattern Matches
- Creating a 2D physics engine from scratch in Javascript
- A gentle introduction to Domain Driven Design
- The Origins of Python
- Database optimisation, analytics and burnout
- Porting 58000 lines of D and C++ to jai, Part 0: Why and How
- Migrating to a Multi-Cluster Managed Kafka with 0 Downtime
- kmem_guard_t
- It's about time - Approaching Bitemporality (Part 1)
- Retrofitting null-safety onto Java at Meta
- Building the fastest Lua interpreter.. automatically
- Oracle optimizer Or Expansion Transformations
- linux-insides
- Building a BFT JSON CRDT
- How to create maintainable Lambda functions using custom C# templates
- Building a Dynamic VRChat World
- Reed-Solomon Error Correcting Codes from the Bottom Up
- Assembly interpreter inside of TypeScript's type system
- The one about Lisp interactivity
- Perl is Actually Portable
- More Evidence for Problems in VM Warmup
- How PlanetScale Boost serves your SQL queries instantly
- Build the modular monolith first
- On Coordinated Omission
- Why would anyone need JavaScript generator functions?
- Simple Scalable Unbounded Queue
- Taking off with Nix at FlightAware
- The evolution of scalable CSS
- Meet your new two-factor authenticator: your Commodore 64
- Introduction to Firmware Analysis of a Reolink IP Camera
- Why Lisp
- Time is an illusion, Unix time doubly so...
- Rewriting The Modern Web In Rust
- Why Functional Programming Should Be the Future of Software Development
- A Very Powerful Clipboard: Analysis of a Samsung in-the-wild exploit chain
- Solving common problems with Kubernetes
- Refactoring a checksum until it runs 100 times faster
- Distribution packaging for Linux desktop applications is unsustainable
- Launching an Infrastructure SaaS Product, An Example Walkthrough
- How to leverage HTTP conditional requests to build robust REST APIs
- System Design: Domain Name System (DNS), Load Balancing & Clustering.
- OKLCH in CSS: why we moved from RGB and HSL
- Swift was always going to be part of the OS
- Wii U Architecture
- That Time I Tried Porting Zig to SerenityOS
- JavaScript metaprogramming with the 2022-03 decorators API
- Can Web3 beat public cloud?
- Compilers and IRs: LLVM IR, SPIR-V, and MLIR
- Rapidly Solving Sudoku, N-Queens, Pentomino Placement, and More, With Knuth’s Algorithm X and Dancing Links.
- One-Time Programs
- RAII: Compile-Time Memory Management in C++ and Rust
- Reducing Logging Cost by Two Orders of Magnitude using CLP
- Stop Optimizing for Tutorials
- A Possible Vision for Macros in Swift
- The RISC Deprogrammer
- The HTTP crash course nobody asked for
- [CVE-2022-1786] A Journey To The Dawn
- Attacking Very Weak RC4-Like Ciphers the Hard Way
- Chrome Browser Exploitation, Part 1: Introduction to V8 and JavaScript Internals
- A Few of My Favorite Things About The OpenBSD Packet Filter Tools
- Striped Development
- Real Life TDD Example
- Neural networks and the Unix philosophy
- Ezno: a JavaScript compiler featuring checking, correctness and performance
- Simulating Wind on Procedural Terrain using GPU Accelerated Lattice Boltzmann Method
- Virtual Threads: New Foundations for High-Scale Java Applications
- Localizing a Qt App; Or Anything Else For That Matter
- Hello World under the microscope
- End-to-end Neural Coreference Resolution in spaCy
- Explained from scratch: private information retrieval using homomorphic encryption
- Non-standard containers in C++
- D3Wasm: a port of id Tech 4 / Doom 3 engine to WebAssembly
- Resiliency in Distributed Systems
- Bitcoin and economic nihilism
- Implementing truly safe semaphores in rust, and the costs we pay for safety
- China’s Phytium D2000: Building on A72?
- Distributed System Models in the Real World
- The Middle of the Square
- 35 Million Hot Dogs: Benchmarking Caddy vs. Nginx
- The state of Flow-based Programming
- Race Conditions Can Be Useful for Parallelism
- Everything you want to know about the CAP theorem
- goto hell;
- Ed25519 Deep Dive Addendum
- Trade-offs of Using Compilers for Java
- When to use Bazel?
- Wirth Language Evolution
- Performance Improvements in .NET 7
- Untangling Lifetimes: The Arena Allocator
- Game Emulation via Neural Network
- Improving Vulkan graphics state tracking in Mesa
- Notes from kernel hacking in Hare, part 1
- Write-ahead logging and the ARIES crash recovery algorithm
- Developing Error Handling Strategies for Asynchronous Messaging
- Building a Panel out of e-ink Electronic Shelf Labels
- Branch predictor: How many "if"s are too many? Including x86 and M1 benchmarks!
- Git’s database internals I: packed object store
- Bootkitting Windows Sandbox
- Understanding, Detecting and Localizing Partial Failures in Large System Software [pdf]
- Redis Explained
- Parent links in Go ASTs
- malloc() and free() are a bad API
- The GPU Banana Stand
- How SQLite Scales Read Concurrency
- Fixed Partitions
- Technology Deep Dive: Building a Faster ORAM Layer for Enclaves
- How to deal with money in software
- A General Overview of What Happens Before main()
- What Makes a Great Maintainer of Open Source Projects?
- just-in-time code generation within webassembly
- Using :has() as a CSS Parent Selector and much more
- Exploring Shaders with Compiler Explorer
- Clock-Bound Wait
- Understanding transducers
- Hooking Go from Rust - Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Go-laxy
- Dynamic Exception Reporting in Haskell
- JavaScript Visualized: Event Loop
- Adventure game graphics with DALL-E 2
- Adventures in Text Rendering: Kerning and Glyph Atlases
- <article> vs. <section>: How To Choose The Right One
- A Deep Dive Into Laravel Queues
- Spelunking the Deep: Guaranteed Queries on General Neural Implicit Surfaces via Range Analysis [pdf]
- Monad Confusion and the Blurry Line Between Data and Computation
- Efficient Simulation through Linear Algebra
- Certifying Interpreters in Racket
- Ruby Garbage Collection Deep Dive: GC::INTERNAL_CONSTANTS
- The quantum state of Linux kernel garbage collection CVE-2021-0920 (Part I)
- The quick and practical "MSI" hash table
- What happens when you press a key in your terminal?
- How Kubernetes Reinvented Virtual Machines (in a good sense)
- Improving MBA Deobfuscation using Equality Saturation
- “Who Should Write the Terraform?”
- On Turing machines
- Understanding Garbage Collection in JavaScriptCore From Scratch
- CLIPasso: Semantically-Aware Object Sketching [pdf]
- What's the Most Portable Way to Include Binary Blobs in an Executable?
- How and why to do link-time symbol wrapping (or not?)
- Use One Big Server
- The Problem with RISC-V V Mask Bits
- PostgreSQL 14 Internals
- When rustc explodes
- My business card runs Linux, yours can too
- Rust PNG writer from scratch
- Plan B for UUIDs: double AES-128
- Slower Memory Zeroing Through Parallelism
- Cell-Based Architecture
- Visualizing Delaunay Triangulation
- Working in the software industry, circa 1989
- My favorite Erlang Container
- An Overview of Kandria's Development with Lisp
- ZooKeeper: Wait-free coordination for Internet-scale systems [pdf]
- Creating an Aimbot: Reverse Engineering & Source SDK (2/4)
- The difficult problem of managing Java dependencies
- Scaling Causal's Spreadsheet Engine from Thousands to Billions of Cells: From Maps to Arrays
- Order independent transparency, part 1
- An Ubuntu kernel bug causes container crashes
- No, We Don't Have to Choose Batch Sizes As Powers Of 2
- Semantic Bug Seeding: A Learning-Based Approach for Creating Realistic Bugs
- Beigels, software, and why you should control queues instead of cycle times
- No really, why can't we have raw UDP in JavaScript?
- Reverse Engineering Dark Souls 3 Networking (#1 - Connection)
- Porting Doom to Helios
- Single Element Loaders: Going 3D!
- Visualizing Nelder-Mead Optimization
- Tutorial: Preparing libraries for CMake FetchContent
- MitM at the Edge: Abusing Cloudflare Workers
- X-ray reverse-engineering a hybrid module from 1960s Apollo test equipment
- Transaction anomalies with SELECT FOR UPDATE
- The Rust borrow checker just got (a little bit) smarter
- SQLite or PostgreSQL? It's Complicated!
- tolower() in bulk at speed
- Hyperstreams – Nesting in Lucid
- Steven Pinker and I debate AI scaling!
- unordered_multiset’s API affects its big-O
- A (Slightly) Improved Approximation Algorithm for Metric TSP [pdf]
- Separate code from data
- Bringing WireGuard to Genode
- Test-induced design damage in Clojure
- A look at search engines with their own indexes
- Maintaining Software Correctness
- Don’t Mock What You Don’t Own in 5 Minutes
- The Grug Brained Developer
- Pulling MikroTik into the Limelight
- Matrix notes
- Attempting to create an aesthetic global line breaking algorithm
- defragmentation
- Synthesizing Object State Transformers for Dynamic Software Updates [pdf]
- Keywords 101: Difficulty, Volume, and Segmentation
- Using web streams on Node.js
- Understanding the Law of Demeter
- (Re) Introducing Jasper as a Command Bus
- The Case for Use.GPU
- Some ways to use ZK-SNARKs for privacy
- Dialogs and shadow DOM: can we make it accessible?
- Uniqueness Types and In-Place Updates
- The race condition that led to Flexcoin bankruptcy
- The strange relationship between objects, functions, generators and coroutines
- Advice for Engineering Managers Who Want to Climb the Ladder
- ngrok for the wicked, or expose your ports comfortably
- Creating Augmented and Virtual Reality Applications: Current Practices, Challenges, and Opportunities [pdf]
- Caches In Rust
- Exploration of the Dirty Pipe Vulnerability (CVE-2022-0847)
- Xbox 360 Architecture
- Cache made consistent: Meta’s cache invalidation solution
- The perils of the “real” client IP
- What Makes a Good Research Proposal?
- What’s the best lossless image format? Comparing PNG, WebP, AVIF, and JPEG XL
- Using Back-Door Adjustment Causal Analysis to Measure Pre-Post Effects
- Practical Uses Of Blockchain Technology
- TypoSquatting, RepoJacking, and Domain Takeover – The Story of the Recent Attacks
- A layered approach to content blocking
- Formal-Methods-Based Bugfinding for LLVM’s AArch64 Backend
- Shipping to Production
- What Happened with FPGA Acceleration?
- A Framework for Adversarially Robust Streaming Algorithms [pdf]
- Reflection Means Hidden Coupling
- The curse of strong typing
- Things to keep in mind when working with POSIX signals
- Code execution 0-day in Windows has been under active exploit for 7 weeks
- Double Debiased Machine Learning (part 1)
- Technique: Recursive variants and boxes
- Branch/cmove and compiler optimizations
- Retrofitting Temporal Memory Safety on C++
- Teleforking a process onto a different computer!
- Hash, displace, and compress: Perfect hashing with Java
- A decade of dotfiles
- No, It's Not Always DNS
- Scaling Attributed Network Embedding to Massive Graphs [pdf]
- The Hitchhiker's Guide to Ethereum
- Think Like Git
- Sometimes, it is a compiler bug
- Exploit Development: No Code Execution? No Problem! Living The Age of VBS, HVCI, and Kernel CFG
- Assignment for optional<T>
- Speeding up sort performance in Postgres 15
- interactive analog LED wave array
- css vs webgl cubes
- What is Edge Compute? It’s kind of like knitting dog hats
- Much Ado About Sampling
- Tasks, lists, and promises
- AutoGRD: Model Recommendation Through Graphical Dataset Representation [pdf]
- Postgres Query Optimization: LEFT JOIN vs UNION ALL
- My take on "where's all the code"
- Animating Regular Expressions With Python and Graphviz
- Implicit In-order Forests: Zooming a billion trace events at 60fps
- Four Eras of JavaScript Frameworks
- Xilem: an architecture for UI in Rust
- GDBWave - A Post-Simulation Waveform-Based RISC-V GDB Debugging Server
- A useful, critical taxonomy of decentralization, beyond blockchains
- Remembering Buildtool
- Patching an Embedded OS from 1996 with Ghidra
- An Efficient Data Structure for 3D Multi-Layer Terrain and Erosion Simulation
- “Practical Math” Preview: Collect Sensitive Survey Responses Privately
- A tale of a trailing dot
- The Generals’ Scuttlebutt: Byzantine-Resilient Gossip Protocols [pdf]
- Escaping Groundhog Day
- Visualizing Performance-Critical Dependency Chains.
- Earn $200K by fuzzing for a weekend: Part 1
- Existential optics
- Pine fun - Telephony (Roger, Roger?)
- Breaking Down a Phishing Attempt
- RouterPi - A Compute Module 4 Router
- Making a falling sand simulator
- Exploring how virtual DOM is implemented in React
- Programming Style Influences
- Efficient Module-Level Dynamic Analysis for Dynamic Languages with Module Recontextualization [pdf]
- The Two Generals Problem
- Unix command line conventions over time
- Increasing wave coherence with ray binning
- Criticizing Hare language approach for generic data structures
- Mechanical Watch
- You (Probably) Shouldn't use a Lookup Table
- A faster lexer in Go
- Porting Zelda Classic to the Web
- Depth Comonads
- UA gotta be kidding
- How masscan works
- Why Train When You Can Optimize?
- Informer: Beyond Efficient Transformer for Long Sequence Time-Series Forecasting [pdf]
- Bringing up a new piece of hardware -- what can go wrong?
- I won free load testing
- Luhn algorithm using SWAR and SIMD
- TailwindCSS Tips
- Server-side vs Client-side Analytics
- One Polynomial Approximation to Produce Correctly Rounded Results for Multiple Representations and Rounding Modes
- Learning Docker with Docker - Toying With DinD For Fun And Profit
- The digital ranging system that measured the distance to the Apollo spacecraft
- The nuances of MySQL indexes
- Announcing the Hare programming language
- Why LSP?
- How Democracies Spy on Their Citizens
- Probabilistic Delta Debugging
- Crimes with Go Generics
- Chopping the monolith
- Async and Async Void Event Handling in WPF
- Changing std::sort at Google’s Scale and Beyond
- That is not a number, that is a freed object
- Faster initialization of instances with new class features
- Multi-GPU Programming with Standard Parallel C++, Part 1
- Practising Programming
- A blog that is a single executable binary
- How To Build an Evil Compiler
- Building a WebAssembly-powered serverless platform
- Data-Driven, Descriptor Based Generative C++
- Your pocket-sized cloud with a Raspberry Pi
- Behind the One-Way Mirror: A Deep Dive Into the Technology of Corporate Surveillance
- Zloader 2: The Silent Night
- Errors are constructed, not discovered
- Porting libffi to pure WebAssembly
- How Netflix Content Engineering makes a federated graph searchable
- Software Reverse Engineering: Ripping Apart Bomb Binary
- TypeScript / How the compiler compiles
- Building a Streaming Music Service with Phoenix and Elixir
- Use Git tactically
- Pointers Are Complicated III, or: Pointer-integer casts exposed
- Getting web proxys and certificates working on Linux or "if it's all the same to you, I'd rather take a thousand years of the Sarlacc pit, thankyouverymuch"
- The struggle of using native emoji on the web
- Reverse-engineering the LM185 voltage reference chip and its bandgap reference
- A System-Witch's Package Manager Murder Mystery
- Principles of Object-Oriented Programming in TypeScript
- Teaching optics through conspiracy theories
- SkipList in Go
- Self Modifying Code
- A Primer on Proxies
- How to leverage functional programming in Kotlin to write better, cleaner code
- FORCEDENTRY: Sandbox Escape
- Why Rust mutexes look like they do
- Compressing looping animation clips
- Transformers for software engineers
- Those HTML Attributes You Never Use
- I built a receipt printer for GitHub issues
- Why APL is a language worth knowing
- Eloquent JavaScript
- How Go Mitigates Supply Chain Attacks
- saturating_add vs. saturating_int – new function vs. new type?
- The roads not taken
- Make Beautifully Resilient Apps With Progressive Enhancement
- implementing ShadowRealm in WebKit
- Overlooked facts about variables and objects in Python: it's all about pointers
- Interface method calls with the Go register ABI
- APISIX, an API Gateway the Apache way
- What’s up with TimeZoneInfo on .NET 6? (Part 1)
- Technical Solutions Poorly Solve Social Problems
- Abuse Of Some Sum Types In OO Languages
- Towards a Unified Metaverse
- Racing against the clock -- hitting a tiny kernel race window
- Implementing a toy version of TLS 1.3
- How We Discovered Vulnerabilities in CI/CD Pipelines of Popular Open-Source Projects
- Silent Duels—Constructing the Solution part 2
- The mirage of memory
- Detecting pitch with the Web Audio API and autocorrelation
- Neural Network From Scratch
- Penny Wise and Cloud Foolish
- Catenaries, parabolas, and ropes
- DirtyMoe: Worming Modules
- Party time: Injecting code into Teleparty extension
- RPATH, or why lld doesn’t work on NixOS
- A Deep dive into Ed25519 Signatures
- A flexible, lightweight, spin-lock barrier
- On finding the average of two unsigned integers without overflow
- POSIX hardlink heartache
- Why is it so hard to buy things that work well?
- Accumulation of tech debt; experiments and shortcuts are core components
- Review: Generic Parallel Functional Programming
- Unravelling Python's classes
- First look: adding type annotations to JavaScript
- Racing the Hardware: 8-bit Division
- The Internet Was Designed With a Narrow Waist
- If it’s not a number, what is it? Demystifying NaN for the working programmer.
- Finding an Authorization Bypass on my Own Website
- The perils of the “real” client IP
- Design: #noFramework
- ReScript on Deno: Declarative Command Line Tools
- Creating a Static Web Content Project for Publishing with WebDeploy
- procmail considered harmful
- Implicit Bayesian Inference in Large Language Models
- Request coalescing in async Rust
- Hodor: Detecting and addressing overload in LinkedIn microservices
- Sampling in Floating Point (1/3): The Unit Interval
- C Structure Padding Initialization
- How do primitive values get their properties?
- Applicatives should usually implement Semigroup and Monoid
- Some notes on writing parser-based interactive fiction in Python (part 1)
- Getting into the Guts of Berserk
- Don't try this at home: CSS _as_ the backend - introducing Cascading Server Sheets!
- Announcing TypeScript 4.6
- Solid.js feels like what I always wanted React to be
- Encapsulated vs systemic complexity in protocol design
- C++ header files and inter-class connections
- Evolving your RESTful APIs, a step-by-step approach
- piet-gpu progress: clipping
- How I Shaved 187MB Off United Airline's 439mb iOS App
- Can you get pwned with CSS?
- Reversing Games with... Hashcat???
- C++ exceptions are becoming more and more problematic
- Architecture Patterns: Caching (Part-1)
- Made of Bugs
- The wild west of Windows command line parsing
- Making A Cross Platform Mobile & Desktop App with Qt 6.2
- Diagnosing an ASP.NET Core hard crash
- Internals of Go's new fuzzing system
- DeepETA: How Uber Predicts Arrival Times Using Deep Learning
- Implementing the FLIP algorithm
- Off-The-Record Messaging part 1: the problem with PGP
- Code specialization for the MIR lightweight JIT compiler
- The FreeBSD Boot Process
- CUPID—for joyful coding
- Why You Should (or Shouldn't) Be Using JAX in 2022
- My thoughts on writing a Minecraft server from scratch (in Bash)
- Server-Sent Events: the alternative to WebSockets you should be using
- Go’s Version Control History
- Advanced TypeScript: The ultimate Tailwind typings
- The First Bite on etcd Code
- Implementing A Svelte Store In Rust
- A decade of major cache incidents at Twitter
- How Postgres Stores Rows
- Writing my own build system: Coupling gulp concepts with modern JavaScript
- EBNF As a Mental Model to Learn Programming Languages
- React - The Missing Parts
- Fitting Code Driven Displacement
- Working with Strings in Embedded C++
- Tricking Postgres into using an insane – but 200x faster – query plan
- Improving Output Iterators
- Destroy All Values: Designing Deinitialization in Programming Languages
- Dumpster diving the Go garbage collector
- Diving Deep: implied bounds and variance
- Measuring Technical Debt
- Pay attention to WebAssembly
- Street Fighter II, Sound System internals
- The specs behind the specs part 1
- When Should You Use DESC in Indexes?
- Building Setf
- Simulating the IBM 360/50 mainframe from its microcode
- A pipe operator for JavaScript: introduction and use cases
- Implementing a MIME database in XXXX
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- Writing a toy traceroute from scratch
- The baseline for web development in 2022
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- Zooming in on Zero-click Exploits
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- How do you visualize code?
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- Optimizing Content Migrations With Edge Compute
- Review: Clowns to the Left of Me, Jokers to the Right
- How I run my servers
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- What’s the diff?
- Accelerating Queries over Unstructured Data with ML, Part 5 (Semantic Indexes for Machine Learning-based Queries over Unstructured Data)
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- An extremely casual code review of MetaMask’s crypto
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- Form Validation Using JavaScript's Constraint Validation API
- Penny Codes
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- Benchmarking Non-shared Locks in Java
- Desired state systems
- The Third Web
- Saving a Third of Our Memory by Re-ordering Go Struct Fields
- Contexts and capabilities in Rust
- Containers 101: attach vs. exec - what's the difference?
- A challenger to the throne of vector graphics. SVG is dead, long live TinyVG!
- Performant A/B Testing with Cloudflare Workers
- Yes, fun browser extensions can have vulnerabilities too!
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- On the potential of Transformers in Reinforcement Learning
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- COLODEBUG: a simple way to improve bash script debugging
- Implementing RSA in Python from Scratch (Part 1)
- Async vs. Threads
- Postgres HA: roles are dynamic
- New tool: Mess with DNS!
- A deep dive into an NSO zero-click iMessage exploit: Remote Code Execution
- T* makes for a poor optional<T&>
- The bit-twiddling magic of two's complement, explained
- Circuit Scaling for Analog Computing
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- Everything You Never Wanted To Know About Linker Script
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- Implementing TLS Encrypted Client Hello
- Why General Inheritance is Flawed and How to Finally Fix it
- Creating and morphing Lego faces with neural networks
- Cache the directionality of the HTML element
- Writing a simple 16 bit VM in less than 125 lines of C
- Generate All the Things
- Why your multiprocessing Pool is stuck (it’s full of sharks!)
- Fast CSV processing with SIMD
- Compiling The Machinery with Emscripten: Part 2 — Graphics
- What is Better, Recursion or Iteration?
- Scaling the Practice of Architecture, Conversationally
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- Loop Fission
- Conditional Members
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- Abstract Clojure
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- Faulty Logic
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- My Own Private Binary
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