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oceansprint.org
oceansprint.org
A week of Nix hacking near the ocean
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oceansprint.org
Kots.io
Kots.io
·kots.io·
Kots.io
daedalOS
daedalOS
Desktop environment in the browser
·dustinbrett.com·
daedalOS
Embrace the Kinda
Embrace the Kinda
A blog by sunfishcode
·blog.sunfishcode.online·
Embrace the Kinda
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Customer Obsession is the Only Winning Strategy
Customer Obsession is the Only Winning Strategy
Customer obsession is the only winning strategy. Pretending to be customer obsessed is easy when the times are good. It’s easy to lose track of customer obsession when there’s plenty of funding, when you have decades-long network effects, or when you operate a monopoly. A few examples:
·blog.matt-rickard.com·
Customer Obsession is the Only Winning Strategy
Where AI Fits in Engineering Organizations
Where AI Fits in Engineering Organizations
Suspend disbelief and assume there will be an “AI Engineer” in the future. Where does this role fit in? What organization does it become part of? R&D (Competition centers on training the best or biggest model.) Traditionally this is where AI has been in the organization. Labs experimenting with foundational model research. Examples are Google Brain/DeepMind and some of the earlier foundational model companies — OpenAI and Anthropic. Of course, the number of qualified PhDs in this position is small (but growing).
·blog.matt-rickard.com·
Where AI Fits in Engineering Organizations
Myths About ORMs
Myths About ORMs
Object-relational mapping (ORM) libraries are scattered about millions of code repositories. They promise to bridge the gap between a relational database and an object-oriented programming language. Instead of writing a SQL query like `SELECT * from users where id = 1`, you would define a User type with some special annotations and then write something like `user = users.select().where(“id = ?”, id)`. Some other features they might provide: type safety, connection management, or a migration framework.
·blog.matt-rickard.com·
Myths About ORMs
Story: Redis and its creator antirez
Story: Redis and its creator antirez
繁體中文版請按這裡This article is translated from the original Chinese edition. In the world of databases, Redis stands out as unique. Instead of the usual tables or documents that are the central focus of most databases, with Redis, you interact directly wi...
When creating Redis, antirez was an amateur in the database field. But perhaps it was this lack of experience that allowed him to bring fresh ideas to the industry.
As he grew older, antirez continued programming. However, by the age of 14, typical teenage interests like motorcycles and girls began to take over, and programming took a back seat. It wasn't until he was 18 or 19 that he rediscovered his passion for computers, playing with 3D modeling and games, and writing simple programs.
They aimed to create a tool for bloggers that would allow them to monitor their visitors' real-time behavior. For example, a visitor clicks on an article from Google, returns to the homepage, and then navigates to a specific page. This information could help bloggers improve the design and navigation of their websites. This tool was called LLOOGG, and its home page contained a few lines that highlighted how it differed from Google Analytics
Another startup, Instagram, began to get in touch with antirez in 2010. In those emails, one of its co-founders, Mike Krieger, discussed how to use Redis to build Instagram. Both Instagram and Redis were just getting started, and Mike and antirez didn't know each other. Instagram was entirely built on Redis in its early years, so without Redis, Instagram might not have existed, or at least would have been delayed.
For antirez, programming was a way to express himself, a form of art. Every character and line break had to be meticulously crafted, akin to the art form of writing. Software development was like writing a book — it had to be beautiful, elegant, and easy to comprehend. If that software happened to be useful to others, that was just a side effect.
·blog.brachiosoft.com·
Story: Redis and its creator antirez
Jean G3nie
Jean G3nie
o change this by creating a version of std that is freestanding from libc. They have mostly come to nothing because there hasn't been enough community interest to sustain a project of that magnitude. I find this kind of sad. I also want
·jeang3nie.codeberg.page·
Jean G3nie
Why You Believe The Things You Do
Why You Believe The Things You Do
I remember reading an article years ago about a father in Yemen who lost a son to starvation, only to…
·collabfund.com·
Why You Believe The Things You Do
Focusing on developers
Focusing on developers
Developers face an onslaught of marketing and an unrelenting velocity of releases to keep up with. This is why we started Console.
·davidmytton.blog·
Focusing on developers
Fostering a culture that values stability and reliability
Fostering a culture that values stability and reliability
There’s an idea which encounters a bizarre level of resistance from the broader software community: that software can be completed. This resistance manifests in several forms, perhaps the most common being the notion that a git repository which doesn’t receive many commits is abandoned or less worthwhile. For my part, I consider software that aims to be completed to be more worthwhile most of the time.
·drewdevault.com·
Fostering a culture that values stability and reliability
[Public] Founding Product Engineer
[Public] Founding Product Engineer
Arcjet is a tier-1 VC backed startup hiring several founding engineers to help build the future of developer security in the age of the developer.
goal is to make their lives easier and earn their trust by solving their security problems without forcing them to conform to "the security way." To achieve this, we need to meet developers where they are: in code, in their preferred editors, through self-service options, and directly integrated with their frameworks.
If you’ve deployed code in seconds to Vercel or Netlify, launched containers around the world with Fly.io, branched your database in Planetscale, easily created your own private network with Tailscale, or optimized your workflow with Raycast, you’ll know the kind of experience we’re aiming for.
·arcjet.notion.site·
[Public] Founding Product Engineer
Google Search's Death by a Thousand Cuts
Google Search's Death by a Thousand Cuts
Reddit communities are still private in protest of new API rules. Twitter moved beyond a login wall and is rate-limiting users. Users are frustrated but still using these sites. But — what will happen to the Google Index? Millions of search results are effectively dead links. Users that refined Reddit search results via Google are now out of luck (Reddit’s search is inferior). Tweets in the search engine results page (SERP) now lead to a login wall for many users.
·blog.matt-rickard.com·
Google Search's Death by a Thousand Cuts
Career Ladders for Tech, Open Sourced
Career Ladders for Tech, Open Sourced
A sample of career ladders Sarah Drasner uses for her organization, open sourced for anyone.
·career-ladders.dev·
Career Ladders for Tech, Open Sourced
The Circular Startup Economy
The Circular Startup Economy
At the height of the dot com bubble, Yahoo was printing money from selling ads. Enticed by Yahoo’s success, more money was invested in startups. These startups, in turn, bought ads on Yahoo. Many of these startups failed when the bubble burst, and Yahoo’s market capitalization dropped dramatically.
·blog.matt-rickard.com·
The Circular Startup Economy
Monopolizing Useless Resources
Monopolizing Useless Resources
Oil was found in Lima, Ohio, in 1885. It was one of the most productive oil regions by 1886. Except the oil was “heavy” — thick and sulfurous. It smelled so bad that not only did people refuse to use it to light kerosene lamps, but some cities outlawed its transportation. It was practically unusable. John D. Rockefeller started to buy up the sulfurous Lima oilfields. He bought so many barrels that the board of directors protested until Rockefeller agreed to put up millions of his own capital to finance it.
·substack.com·
Monopolizing Useless Resources
Personal Lessons From LLMs
Personal Lessons From LLMs
The brain metaphor for neural networks has always been a fun simplification but not a useful one under closer inspection. How we train and inference deep networks doesn’t have much to do with how the human brain works. But what if LLMs could teach us more about ways that we approach general reasoning and languages? Some personal lessons I’ve learned (or have been reinforced) from working with LLMs.
·blog.matt-rickard.com·
Personal Lessons From LLMs
Platform Engineering vs. DevOps
Platform Engineering vs. DevOps
There aren’t many agreed-upon definitions, but I’ll attempt a simple distinction: IT covers physical provisioning and maintenance. Data center management, on-premise appliances, and technical support. DevOps covers virtual provisioning and maintenance.
·blog.matt-rickard.com·
Platform Engineering vs. DevOps
Speed x AI
Speed x AI
It's always been true that speed is the #1 advantage of an early-stage startup. But now that generative AI here, you need to go 10x faster.
·nfx.com·
Speed x AI