SQLite: QEMU All over Again?

In a trip down memory lane, I recall my experience with QEMU, and how the project changed completely to accommodate a new industry trend… | Continue reading


@glaubercosta-11125.medium.com | 2 years ago

A 5 Watts Charger

Fast charging and a bigger battery is good, for the user and the manufactures who try to hype up even 100 watts of charging for a damn… | Continue reading


@medium.com | 2 years ago

A Drunk Driver Led to the Birth of Russia’s Sputnik 1

In the milieu of the Cold War, a roadside accident three generations ago led to Sputnik 1, and the beginning of a new era: the Space Age. | Continue reading


@medium.com | 2 years ago

HPy (alternative to CPython API): binary compatibility and API evolution

We are going to take a look at the binary compatibility and API evolution while maintaining it, using the Kiwisolver Python package. | Continue reading


@medium.com | 2 years ago

Today I Am 70: Here’s Stupid Advice with Good Intentions

It takes so damn long to figure all this stuff out | Continue reading


@medium.com | 2 years ago

Worldwide Server-Side Cache Poisoning on All Akamai Edge Nodes

Introduction And Context | Continue reading


@medium.com | 2 years ago

Fail Teams by Design

At some moment, I worked with a team in one of my previous companies. First of all, it was hard to get anything out of them (they were… | Continue reading


@medium.com | 2 years ago

Module Federation for distributed front ends – the best of both worlds?

Exploring how we can enable independent release flow in the modern web application | Continue reading


@medium.com | 2 years ago

Open Source Domain Proxy for CBRS

Magma project was initially started by Facebook (under TIP) but is now under the Linux Foundation umbrella and is unarguably one of my… | Continue reading


@medium.com | 2 years ago

The Art of Logging. Are logs for humans? Or machines? Or both?

In order to get the most of the logs, we will try to detail their optimal format and structure while keeping humans and machines in mind. | Continue reading


@medium.com | 2 years ago

Estimation Got Removed from Scrum

#NoEstimates and Scrum | Continue reading


@medium.com | 2 years ago

Understanding and Fixing N+1 Query

In this article, you’ll learn about the famous N+1 query that everybody is talking about, and how to fix and prevent them. | Continue reading


@medium.com | 2 years ago

Write Barrier Optimizations in Regions

This is another blog entry about regions. As I mentioned in my last blog entry, regions on their own will naturally give us some perf… | Continue reading


@maoni0.medium.com | 2 years ago

Lightning Thunders in a Down Market

When the above chart was shown last Monday at the San Francisco Bitcoin Developers’ monthly meetup, the room broke out into spontaneous… | Continue reading


@medium.com | 2 years ago

The Dissolution of the ZA/Um Cultural Association

I, Martin Luiga, a founding member and Secretary of the ZA/UM cultural association, as well as the assembler of most of the core team, am… | Continue reading


@medium.com | 2 years ago

Why SpaceX Is at Risk of Bankruptcy Part 1

And why the future of New Space depends on getting a “Grain Silo” in Boca Chica to fly. | Continue reading


@medium.com | 2 years ago

Technology Vendor Risk – Check the Product Strategy and Roadmap

Every company today most likely has vendors in their technology landscape. There are ways and parameters that technology teams use to… | Continue reading


@medium.com | 2 years ago

The Man Who Left Wall Street, A Hacking Primer, and the Sheer Size of China

Plus, Ray Dalio on inflation and Daring Fireball on the new iPhone | Continue reading


@medium.com | 2 years ago

AI Hyperopia

AI is on a roll, it has surpassed the very best humans at games: chess, go, poker. It can author news stories on sports, business, and… | Continue reading


@mvcalder-01701.medium.com | 2 years ago

Consider Adding Probiotics to Your Dental Routine

Your mouth is full of bacteria, both good and bad. The bacteria in your mouth provide protection against harmful microorganisms that can… | Continue reading


@medium.com | 2 years ago

I Worked with a Newbie Programmer Who Pretended Like a Senior

And I revealed his true color. | Continue reading


@medium.com | 2 years ago

PG&E and Experian exposed partial SSNs through website

I recently discovered PG&E will let you sign up for electricity online without providing your SSN. Their website offered an option for… | Continue reading


@lucky225.medium.com | 2 years ago

ID

In sum, identity can be weaponized. | Continue reading


@medium.com | 2 years ago

House of Cards

My new book, Adrift: America in 100 Charts, is now out. It’s the story of America told through … charts. You can buy it here. | Continue reading


@medium.com | 2 years ago

Tidy Data with Java and Jupyter

Exercising Tidy Data concepts and practices using Java on Google Colab (Jupyter) | Continue reading


@medium.com | 2 years ago

I Switched from Neovim to Emacs, Here’s Why

Github repo with my dotfiles. | Continue reading


@medium.com | 2 years ago

The world I worked into no longer exists

A Memoir of Remote Work During COVID-19 | Continue reading


@medium.com | 2 years ago

Cloudrun’s Fall 2022 Update: Faster and More Reliable with Simpler Pricing

It’s been a while and I’ve been quietly working on several important updates to Cloudrun’s internals. No UI changes or new features this… | Continue reading


@medium.com | 2 years ago

Getting the Linux IP address without any package (ifconfig, ip, etc.)

bash: ip: command not foundbash: ifconfig: command not found | Continue reading


@medium.com | 2 years ago

Using ZK Proofs to Fight Disinformation in Digital Photography

By Trisha Datta and Dan Boneh | Continue reading


@medium.com | 2 years ago

The Easiest Way to Create QR Menus in 2022

Step-by-step guide to easily build professional looking digital menus. | Continue reading


@medium.com | 2 years ago

Zoom Out: The missing feature of IDEs

“Zoom Out” is such a necessity for all creative apps that it rarely even appears on the list of features — yet IDEs have nothing of the… | Continue reading


@medium.com | 2 years ago

I would never subscribe to Google Stadia (2019)

Google stadia is due for release soon and having been a gamer for 20 years I was really interested in it. But the more I read about Stadia… | Continue reading


@medium.com | 2 years ago

Introduction to Copulas (Part 2)

In this article I’m going to describe several more advanced copula functions (compared to the ones described in the previous part). I will… | Continue reading


@medium.com | 2 years ago

Skiff – Private, Web3 Email

Skiff is privacy-first, end-to-end encrypted email powered by your wallet. Skiff is a completely new take on the consumer application stack… | Continue reading


@medium.com | 2 years ago

The Comfort Food Cut

Some movies have the same function as comfort food, we’ve seen them a thousand times and we will see them a thousand times more, they are… | Continue reading


@medium.com | 2 years ago

Sound Money and Proof of Stake

A different perspective on the tokenomics of Proof of Stake | Continue reading


@medium.com | 2 years ago

Hello world performance: Bun (express) vs. Python (fast API)

Find out how Bun/express compares with Python/FastAPI for a simple hello world use case | Continue reading


@medium.com | 2 years ago

Picsart launches Developer Fund valued at $1M

At Picsart, we’re on a mission to empower creativity everywhere. And we often think of achieving this through two paths: 1) our advanced… | Continue reading


@medium.com | 2 years ago

An update on our hosting setup

In October 2020, we published a blogpost on why we decided to use AWS as a hosting provider. | Continue reading


@medium.com | 2 years ago

The Confusing Lifetimes of AWS IAM Identity Center Access Tokens

Every week, almost without fail, I come across one thing that confuses, entertains, or most commonly infuriates me. I’ve decided to keep a… | Continue reading


@medium.com | 2 years ago

Better Software Engineering teams – Structures, roles, responsibilities

Software engineering teams can be complicated, and finding a solid approach to structure them for success is not easy. Some answers are… | Continue reading


@medium.com | 2 years ago

Building a Standalone Offline Maps on Apple Watch

TL;DR Recently we’ve launched an offline maps application for Apple Watch. This project has taken more than two years and the full… | Continue reading


@medium.com | 2 years ago

Rate Limiting Nullifier: A spam-protection mechanism for anonymous environments

tl;dr: In this post we describe a mechanism that can be used to prevent spam in anonymous environments. We provide a technical overview… | Continue reading


@medium.com | 2 years ago

Modern Vim (The Complete Book)

“Table of Contents” is published by The Pragmatic Programmers in The Pragmatic Programmers. | Continue reading


@medium.com | 2 years ago

Why “organics on Mars” is meaningless for life

Yes, NASA’s Perseverance rover found organics on Mars. So did Curiosity. Unfortunately, that doesn’t mean anything in the search for life. | Continue reading


@medium.com | 2 years ago

The Situation, Target, Proposal for pull requests, and beyond

One of my co-workers (Michael Mileusnich) introduced a new practice in our company. It’s simple, but I completely love it. | Continue reading


@medium.com | 2 years ago

Mapping a Path to Data-Driven Autonomy

By Luca del Pero and Ro Gupta | Continue reading


@medium.com | 2 years ago