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What I tell people new to on-call | nicole@web

ntietz.com

Monday, September 23, 2024The first time I went on call as a software engineer, it was...
Monday, September 23, 2024The first time I went on call as a software engineer, it was exciting—and ultimately traumatic. Since then, I've had on-call experiences at multiple other jobs and have grown to really appreciate it as part of the role. As I've progressed through my career, I've gotten to help establish on-...

practices
2
Git push unexpectedly freezes my system · ThangQT

thangqt.com

Disclaimer: This blog post has been rewritten with the assistance of AI to improve clarity and...
Disclaimer: This blog post has been rewritten with the assistance of AI to improve clarity and readability. If you wish to read the original version, you can find it here Yesterday, while making a small update to my website, I encountered an unusual problem: my laptop completely froze when I ran git push. At first, ...

linux
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463 - The Oximeter Query Language / RFD / Oxide

oxide.computer

databases
2
Tagged Union Subsets with Comptime in Zig

mitchellh.com

This is part of a series on Zig comptime usecases. Zig supports tagged unions1 and the...
This is part of a series on Zig comptime usecases. Zig supports tagged unions1 and the Zig compiler will error if you switch on a tagged union without handling all possible cases. This is a great feature because it helps you avoid bugs when new cases are added to the union. Many languages support similar functionali...

zig
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Redirecting…

matklad.github.io

linux
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http:, ftp:, and ... dict:?

shkspr.mobi

web
2
Time spent programming is often time well spent - Stan Bright

stanbright.com

“p.s. I will be building an RSS reader/platform in the coming weeks” - the RSS reader...
“p.s. I will be building an RSS reader/platform in the coming weeks” - the RSS reader was actually built. And it’s been actively used and public since then: https://lenns.io/. Comments

programming
3
The Python Package Index Should Get Rid Of Its Training Wheels

kristoff.it

python zig
2
BBQvec: A scalable vector search library

daxe.ai

One of the more popular techniques in AI today is vector search: creating embedding vectors from...
One of the more popular techniques in AI today is vector search: creating embedding vectors from models and storing them; then, given a user query, finding the most related stored vectors – either in the set, such as similar products, or not, as in similar text. Getting the truly closest vectors, without incurring a...

ai go release rust
2
Stop Making Kubernetes Auth Hard – kty

kty.dev

devops distributed
1
Ghost in the Shell – Part 8 – Use vi(1) Editor

wordpress.com

The famous UNIX vi(1) editor that so many are not able to quit … some of...
The famous UNIX vi(1) editor that so many are not able to quit … some of them literally 🙂 You may want to check other articles in the Ghost in the Shell series on the Ghost in the Shell – Global Page where you will find links to all episodes of the series along with table of contents for each episode’s contents. Whe...

freebsd illumos linux netbsd openbsd
1
My Asus eeePC still rocks in 2024 (with MX Linux)

dedoimedo.com

My Asus eeePC still rocks in 2024 (with MX Linux) Updated: September 23, 2024 Long long...
My Asus eeePC still rocks in 2024 (with MX Linux) Updated: September 23, 2024 Long long ago, in a galaxy far ... Nah. Back in 2010, I got myself a netbook. It was an Asus eeePC thing, small, robust, lovely, and reasonably priced. Fast forward a good decade, I've used it everywhere. Inside and outside, in rough outdo...

hardware linux
1
No Data Lasts Forever - The Cool Blog

lilysthings.org

No matter what you do, no data will last forever. You hard drive will fail. Your...
No matter what you do, no data will last forever. You hard drive will fail. Your backup drives will fail. Tech companies will go under and sell off their assets. Optical Discs will rot. Books will decompose. Even if none of these things happen, a natural or manmade disaster could come by and destroy it all anyway. N...

philosophy rant
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Simple event broker: data serialization is expensive

vbang.dk

databases performance
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The kind of websites, I like | Lobsters

lobste.rs

I am not talking about content now, but about form. This is my wish list: links...
I am not talking about content now, but about form. This is my wish list: links resources only from the same domain (same tld) no CDN / Captchas / geographical restrictions does not require JavaScript for main functions (including e.g. writing comments, registration or placing orders) works in text browsers like Lynx screenshots of whole page can be saved (no weird scrolling, fixed panels...

web
1
Some Notes on Adversarial Attacks on LLMs

cybernetist.com

ai
1
RFC 9446: Reflections on Ten Years Past the Snowden Revelations

rfc-editor.org

RFC 9446 Ten Years After July 2023 Farrell, et al. Informational [Page] This memo contains the...
RFC 9446 Ten Years After July 2023 Farrell, et al. Informational [Page] This memo contains the thoughts and recountings of events that transpired during and after the release of information about the United States National Security Agency (NSA) by Edward Snowden in 2013. There are four perspectives: that of someone ...

historical privacy
1
Make your Next.JS Docker images microscopic!

xeiaso.net

devops javascript
1
Overview of cross-architecture portability problems

gentoo.org

api
2
What are you doing this week? | Lobsters

lobste.rs

What are you doing this week? Feel free to share! Keep in mind it’s OK to...
What are you doing this week? Feel free to share! Keep in mind it’s OK to do nothing at all, too.

ask programming
1
Pea Bee | peabee | Substack

substack.com

security
2
Waiting for many things at once with `io_uring`

mazzo.li

When doing systems programming we often need to wait for something to happen. Common examples might...
When doing systems programming we often need to wait for something to happen. Common examples might be waiting for some data to come through a socket or waiting on a lock. We also often want to wait on any of several conditions to become true. A web server might be handling many sockets at once, waiting for any numb...

linux performance
2
Rust panics under the hood, and implementing them in .NET

fractalfir.github.io

compilers dotnet rust
2
Erik's Blog - A Case for Using Neovim Without Plugins

erikwastaken.dev

practices vim
1