Distributed systems built on object storage all have one common problem: removing files that have been logically deleted either due to data expiry or compaction. We review the pros and cons of five ways to solve this problem.

The company’s sudden emergence illustrates how China’s industry is thriving despite Washington’s efforts to slow it down.

Introducing the IoT device Tabajara: “I’m in a meeting.”

A place for me to vent about my current obsessions.

Learn more about Material 3 Expressive, the new design for Android and Wear OS devices coming later this year to Pixel devices first.

A new crowd-sourced transit platform allows riders to propose, vote on, and activate new bus lines in as little as three days.

Bring your stories and ideas to life! RPG in a Box lets you create games and other interactive experiences in a fun and simple way!

Wise has stolen more than $60,000 AUD from us, and refuses to let us access it.
We’ve had a Wise account for around 5 years (since they were called TransferWise). It’s been a really useful way to transact in foreign currencies, and pay for things when we’re…

Replicube is an open-ended programming puzzle game/toy about writing code to replicate 3D voxel-based objects.  Solve puzzles, pursue leaderboard glory, or just make art to share with the in-game community.

Every so often I come across a paper, blog post, or (occasionally) video that completely changes how I think about a topic in programming languages and compilers. For some of these posts, I can’t even remember how I thought about the idea before reading it—it…

Contribute to em-llm/EM-LLM-model development by creating an account on GitHub.

Model your domain, derive the rest.

In this post, I want to shed some light on something I’ve been wondering about for a while: How exactly are mipmap levels selected when sampling textures on the GPU? If you already know what mipmapping is, why we use it, and what pixel derivatives (ddx()…

In a recent post, I talked about a proof of concept tool to verify estimates automatically. Since that post, I have overhauled the tool twice: first to turn it into a rudimentary proof assistant th…

Discover why Nextcloud file uploads for Android app are not working properly, and how Google’s app store rules are hurting Nextcloud users.

In March of 2023 we announced that we were starting work on a safer high performance AV1 decoder called rav1d, written in Rust. We partnered with Immunant to do the engineering work. By September of 2024 rav1d was basically complete and we learned a lot during…