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This might be the most interesting AI search tool yet

App developers in the European Union who choose to opt in to Apple's new business terms must pay an €0.50 "Core Technology Fee" or CTF...

GPU-accelerated RAID offers excellent performance benefits over traditional software and hardware RAID solutions and has become more consumer-friendly.

Learn about POSIX, a set of standard operating system interfaces based on the Unix operating system that enables cross-platform application development.

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It takes more than open source, it takes open standards and consensus

The history of region-locking, a once-unintentional process of keeping devices built for one region from being used in another. (Now Apple’s doing it.)

Tris - A simple and free web crawler. Tris recursively crawls a website's domain HTML pages and collect its links, built by Vedran Mandić.

The current accelerating trend of requiring accounts and logins for everything has to stop.

Multiple branches that build on each other? Easy.

Robby engages with independent consultant and author, Andrew Atkinson, delving into the intricate world of software development and database maintenance. The episode is a treasure trove of insights, covering everything from optimizing database performance with rules to navigating the tricky terrain of advocating for codebase improvements in the face of reluctant stakeholders.

The greatest benefit of shifting right is the ability to see what software will actually look like once deployed while developers are still shaping it.

WebAssembly modules encompass different programming languages implemented inside them, so the ways garbage collection is used for these languages vary.

IT departments—amid a transformative landscape driven by GenAI—are witnessing the decline of standalone firewalls, the convergence of networking and security goals through Zero Trust principles, and a user-focused operational shift.

Discover the evolution of cloud-computing in the post-serverless era, with a shift towards hyper-specialized vertical multi-cloud services and a trend moving from Infrastructure as Code to Composition as Code. Microservices are being redefined in the cloud landscape and upcoming cloud services are set to be rich in constructs.

Book notes on "The Staff Engineer's Path: A Guide for Individual Contributors Navigating Growth and Change" by Tanya Reilly

The past couple weeks I’ve been working on three semi-related articles that I think of as the “High Context Triad.” Those are Layers of context, Navigating ambiguity, and Tradeoffs are multi-dimensional. One of my background projects, probably happening in 2025 or 2026 after I’ve finished my nascent project on engineering strategy, is publishing a second edition of Staff Engineer, and I intended these three articles as supplements. I’ve really enjoyed writing these pieces, because the first on context layers is really necessary to establish the vocabulary to even talk about the other two effectively.

One of my early questions about ChatGPT was, “Will it have a positive second derivative?” Will the use of ChatGPT accelerate the rate at which ChatGPT improves? This is a useful question to ask of any new technology. If a technology has a positive second derivative,…