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Ruby "Thread Contention" is simply GVL Queuingisland94.org 1,000 words Rated 2025-02-03T10:17:51-0800 - sethherr |
n0rdy - What Okta Bcrypt incident can teach us about designing better APIsn0rdy personal blog 3,000 words Rated 2025-02-05T13:57:15-0800 - sethherr |
minimum effective doseI am still recovering from my failed root canal (and still have one visit to complete the procedure), so I have been hesitant in taking up my regular exercise again because I don't want to distract my immune system from my tooth's healing. So when I went to the gym today for the first time... 2025-02-01T03:50:23-0800 Winnie Lim 1,000 words Rated 2025-02-05T23:19:29-0800 - sethherr |
Car troubleAnd how not to fix it 2025-02-06T09:02:19-0800 Dynomight Internet Newsletter dynomight 2,000 words Rated 2025-02-06T15:45:42-0800 - sethherr |
My stupid noise journeyA tale of bad choices 2023-06-26T17:00:00-0700 DYNOMIGHT dynomight 2,000 words Rated 2025-02-06T15:49:53-0800 - sethherr |
From Cold DM to Owning a Soccer ClubRated 2025-02-06T21:00:43-0800 - sethherr |
How to avoid problems with Turbo morphingA beautiful UI Morphed into existence Suddenly broken 2025-02-04T15:00:00-0800 Radan Skorić’s personal site 1,000 words Rated 2025-02-06T22:03:38-0800 - sethherr |
Against Kathleen Stock On Neil GaimanAnti-kink feminism is surprisingly blase about rape 2025-02-07T08:01:56-0800 Thing of Things Ozy Brennan ($) 1,000 words Rated 2025-02-07T20:30:20-0800 - sethherr |
1DaySooner's Trump II Health Policy Proposals... 2025-02-07T03:40:50-0800 astralcodexten.com Scott Alexander 15,000 words Rated 2025-02-07T20:39:55-0800 - sethherr |
VSCode’s SSH Agent Is BananasDocumentation and guides from the team at Fly.io. Fly 500 words Rated 2025-02-08T00:24:45-0800 - sethherr |
The Anthropic Economic IndexAnnouncement of the new Anthropic Economic Index and description of the new data on AI use in occupations anthropic.com 2,000 words Rated 2025-02-10T12:59:35-0800 - sethherr |
I Tasted Honda's Spicy Rodent-Repelling TapeAnd I will do it again unless someone stops me. 2021-07-30T04:06:12-0700 Haterade Liz Cook 1,000 words Rated 2025-02-11T18:22:27-0800 - sethherr |
Introducing: Barbecue Running GelIt's time to smoke the competition. 2024-02-29T04:02:09-0800 Haterade Liz Cook 1,000 words Rated 2025-02-11T18:26:07-0800 - sethherr |
Tiny JITs for a Faster FFICan we have a faster FFI for CRuby? Yes. 2025-02-11T16:00:00-0800 Rails at Scale Aaron Patterson 2,000 words Rated 2025-02-12T15:26:07-0800 - sethherr |
Leaking the email of any YouTube user for $10,000What could've been the largest data breach in the world - an attack chain on Google services to leak the email address of any YouTube channel brutecat.com 1,000 words Rated 2025-02-12T15:31:59-0800 - sethherr |
Ruby Outperforms C: Breaking the Catch-22YJIT’s ability to improve performance by adapting to run-time behavior can increase the speed of our code in a way that dropping down to C can’t. As such, I think we should reconsider the common wisdom that “rewriting our Ruby in C” is the ideal path to performance optimization and take a serious look at “rewriting our C in Ruby” instead. 2023-08-28T17:00:00-0700 Rails at Scale Aaron Patterson 3,000 words Rated 2025-02-12T21:06:10-0800 - sethherr |
Jia Tolentino on Joan Didion’s “everywoman.com”Didion’s appraisal of Martha Stewart, in which most glosses of the subject could also apply to the author, is an ur-text on contemporary feminine ambition. 2025-02-10T03:00:00-0800 The New Yorker Jia Tolentino 500 words Rated 2025-02-13T06:56:59-0800 - sethherr |
Asdf Has Been Re-Written in Golang - Stratus3DOver the last year I’ve rewritten asdf in Go. I’m excited to announce that the rewrite was released last Wednesday as asdf version 0.16. … stratus3d.com Trevor Brown 1,000 words Rated 2025-02-13T07:37:20-0800 - sethherr |
Do you need permission from the government to do independent research?IRB you kidding me? 2025-02-13T09:00:15-0800 Dynomight Internet Newsletter dynomight 6,000 words Rated 2025-02-13T19:08:48-0800 - sethherr |
We Were Wrong About GPUsDo my tears surprise you? Strong CEOs also cry. Fly 2,000 words Rated 2025-02-14T20:37:14-0800 - sethherr |
My Life in Weeks by Gina Trapaniweeks.ginatrapani.org 1,000 words Rated 2025-02-15T15:43:58-0800 - sethherr |
calculator-appcalculator-app - Chad Nauseam Home Chad Nauseam Home 2,000 words Rated 2025-02-16T17:36:11-0800 - sethherr |
Mike White’s Mischievous Vision for “The White Lotus”Behind the scenes before the Season 3 première with the creator of the HBO series, streaming on Max, who has filmed with casts in Hawaii, Italy, and, most recently, Thailand. Kelefa Sanneh reports. #Profile 2025-02-10T03:00:00-0800 The New Yorker Kelefa Sanneh 6,000 words Rated 2025-02-16T20:56:55-0800 - sethherr |
My Time at MITTwenty years ago, in 2004-2005, I spent a year at MIT’s Computer Science department as a postdoc working with Professor Nancy Lynch. It was ... 2025-02-16T19:47:00-0800 Blogger Murat 2,000 words Rated 2025-02-17T07:46:08-0800 - sethherr |
Energy Cheat SheetBuilding an intuition about energy 2024-12-20T05:01:09-0800 Construction Physics Brian Potter 4,000 words Rated 2025-02-17T14:27:31-0800 - sethherr |
Maximizing resume SNRThis is a brief note about resumes and hiring. At Terraform Industries, I've been doing a lot of recruiting recently and it's helped me crystallize a few ideas I've had in this area. This blog will change over time. Terraform Industries is hiring! Join us as we decarbonize our industrial economy by getting carbon from… 2022-03-22T01:09:33-0700 Casey Handmer's blog 3,000 words Rated 2025-02-17T14:57:24-0800 - sethherr |
Moving on from 18F.I had a wonderful job, until I didn’t. This is about what happened—and what is happening. ethanmarcotte.com 2,000 words Rated 2025-02-18T14:37:50-0800 - sethherr |
When Imperfect Systems are Good, Actually: Bluesky’s Lossy TimelinesBy examining the limits of reasonable user behavior and embracing imperfection for users who go beyond it, we can continue to provide service that meets the expectations of users without sacrificing scalability of the system. 2025-02-18T16:00:00-0800 Jaz’s Blog Jaz 2,000 words Rated 2025-02-20T07:50:18-0800 - sethherr |
The first RCT for GLP-1 drugs and alcoholism isn't what we hopedor what people seem to think 2025-02-20T09:02:32-0800 Dynomight Internet Newsletter dynomight 2,000 words Rated 2025-02-22T19:57:07-0800 - sethherr |
The True Costs of Being on YouTubewhat I spent, what I earned, and why I'm walking away 2025-02-13T07:29:54-0800 Food Processing carla lalli music 4,000 words Rated 2025-02-22T21:37:43-0800 - sethherr |
Why does target=”_blank” have an underscore in front?Ever wondered why you need the underscore in target="_blank" to open a link in a new tab? 2024-10-25T03:00:00-0700 Kyrylo Silin 200 words Rated 2025-02-24T08:33:39-0800 - sethherr |
Notes from Carrierwave to Active Storageisland94.org 1,000 words Rated 2025-02-24T19:20:42-0800 - sethherr |
Texas’s Barbecue SchismRated 2025-02-25T14:47:37-0800 - sethherr |
I Went To SQL Injection Court — Quarrelsomesockpuppet.org Quarrelsome 3,000 words Rated 2025-02-25T19:19:24-0800 - sethherr |
Meet the journalists training AI models for Meta and OpenAIThe gig work platform Outlier is one of several companies courting journalists to train large language models (LLMs). Nieman Lab 2,000 words Rated 2025-02-26T17:25:32-0800 - sethherr |
The secret to perfectly calculate Rails database connection pool sizeisland94.org 1,000 words Rated 2025-02-27T13:21:05-0800 - sethherr |
The world's most unhinged video wall (made out of Chromebooks)Web developer and cybersecurity researcher varun.ch 3,000 words Rated 2025-03-02T06:41:12-0800 - sethherr |
The Smith v. Substack sagaA tale of lawsuits, impersonation and alter egos. 2025-01-12T17:30:17-0800 Ghost of Lomax 10,000 words Rated 2025-03-03T13:06:20-0800 - sethherr |
How I'm thinking about AI (LLMs)island94.org 2,000 words Rated 2025-03-04T13:09:40-0800 - sethherr |
The Man Who Spent Forty-two Years at the Beverly Hills Hotel PoolFrom 1993: Nearly every day for decades, Irving V. Link tanned by the luxury pool, Adam Gopnik writes. Then his idyllic life style came under threat from the hotel’s owner, the Sultan of Brunei. 1993-02-14T16:00:00-0800 The New Yorker Adam Gopnik 8,000 words Rated 2025-03-06T07:09:58-0800 - sethherr |
Two Americas, one bank branch, and $50,000 cashEver wondered what happens if you try to take $50,000 in cash out of a bank? Answer: a year of investigative journalism. 2025-03-05T09:36:15-0800 Bits about Money Patrick McKenzie (patio11) 7,000 words Rated 2025-03-07T19:58:18-0800 - sethherr |
SFF community reeling after Marion Zimmer Bradley's daughter accuses her of abuseMoira Greyland's claims that she was molested by the late fantasy author have horrified readers and writers who had been inspired by her work 2014-06-27T01:08:26-0700 The Guardian Alison Flood 1,000 words Rated 2025-03-08T19:04:25-0800 - sethherr |
Opinion | I Loved ‘Anora,’ but I Still Hope It Loses at the Oscars“Anora” is neither pro-Russian nor anti-Russian. But its Oscar nominations have been portrayed as a national victory in Russia. #Donald Trump #Movies 2025-02-27T02:03:45-0800 The New York Times Michael Idov ($) 2,000 words Rated 2025-03-09T21:13:13-0700 - sethherr |
The Pitchfork StoryA bit more than two years ago, as part of my work in Shopify’s Ruby and Rails Infrastructure team, I released a new Ruby HTTP server called Pitchfork. 2025-03-04T02:03:51-0800 byroot’s blog 10,000 words Rated 2025-03-11T10:07:07-0700 - sethherr |
U.S. DOT Orders Review of All Grants Related to Green Infrastructure, Bikes — Streetsblog USANow U.S. Department of Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy is coming for our bike lanes! 2025-03-11T21:00:00-0700 usa.streetsblog.org 1,000 words Rated 2025-03-13T10:32:33-0700 - sethherr |