Insights, updates, and technical deep dives on building a high-performance financial transactions database.

Almost a month ago, I created a telegram channel with the goal of reading tech books consistently, and sharing summaries of them.This week, I have finished reading the first book - “A Philosophy of So

Meta has been on a years-long undertaking to translate our entire Android codebase from Java to Kotlin. Today, despite having one of the largest Android codebases in the world, we’re well pas…

I started my programming career in October 1981 at a large defense contractor (GD). At the time, my goal was to work for a couple of years and then continue my education with a Ph.D. in Chemistry (I had already been accepted).

The office I worked in was a

Yakari: an interactive command building tool. Contribute to vlandeiro/yakari development by creating an account on GitHub.

The talking your way out of it simulator

A curious case of O(N^2) behavior which should be O(N) - blender_slow.md

I am thrilled to welcome Cameron Zwarich to the Lean FRO! As the brilliant creator of Rosetta 2 and an exceptional software developer with over 15 years of experience at Apple specializing in low-level systems software, Cameron will focus on enhancing Lean's…

Wuppertal's Suspended Monorail (Schwebebahn) has a long history of incredible highs and soul-crushing lows. These are its stories.
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What did you do at work today? How about last week? I spent a couple of days in quarterly business reviews, and wrapped up yearly planning activities for AWS Data Exchange and AWS Marketplace. I also added some unit tests to a project that I am onboarding…

Aegisub is a free, cross-platform open source tool for creating and modifying subtitles. Aegisub makes it quick and easy to time subtitles to audio, and features many powerful tools for styling them, including a built-in real-time video preview.

First published 2016.

HyperEssays is a project to create a modern and accessible online edition of the Essays of Michel de Montaigne.

Why the kinship between artificial intelligence and the human mind is terrifying.

Why we use our own hardware and what the tradeoffs and costs look like

Established by MacKenzie Scott to share a financial fortune created through the effort of countless people, Yield is named after a belief in adding value by giving up control. To date, our network of…

This is the story of an investigation conducted by Jochen Sprickerhof, Helmut Grohne, and myself. It was true teamwork, and we would have not reached the bottom of the …

The startup has run into problem after problem on its new artificial-intelligence project, code-named Orion.