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Why Micron Is Suddenly Ditching 4F² DRAM as Rivals Double Down open_in_new

Nixpkgs for the Front End Impaired open_in_new

What are your goals for the week? #202 open_in_new

What are your goals for the week? What are you building this week? What do you want to...

Getting debug access on a Brother printer over Telnet open_in_new

Node.js Isn't Single-Threaded. How libuv and the OS Kernel Actually Run Your Code. open_in_new

A visual, 10-minute architectural deep dive into Node.js runtime internals. Learn how V8, the libuv threadpool, OS kernel event demultiplexers (epoll/kqueue/IOCP), the 6-phase event loop, and Worker Threads execute JavaScript under the hood.

Land Value Capture in Practice: Ethiopia's Urban Land Lease System open_in_new

New iPad mini open_in_new

The Grid, a factory-scale robot in Massachusetts that builds PCBs on demand open_in_new

Anthropic S-1 open_in_new

How to Make the Business Case for Slowing Down (and When Not To) open_in_new

Last week I wrote about the two kinds of friction in an engineering process...the kind that just...

Human-enhanced tsunami hazard in large lakes open_in_new

MCP Token Cost: I Cut My MCP Server From 15 Tools to 4 open_in_new

I rebuilt a real AWS cost-triage MCP server from 15 tools to 4. Same account, same question, 7 tool calls down to 2, schemas 88% smaller.

Jokes for the ZX81 open_in_new

Java's new AOT cache feature is in a rough state open_in_new

Rubber Duck I've Ever Had open_in_new

Treap (Cartesian Tree) open_in_new

Pharo 14 open_in_new

Python 3.14's concurrent.interpreters module turns a 3.6-second GIL bottleneck into 0.9 seconds open_in_new

I measured Python 3.14's new subinterpreters against threads and processes: 3.6s of GIL contention dropped to 0.9s, but a single interpreter flatly refuses a second concurrent thread.

Websites Should Be Printable open_in_new

How long a serverless function stays warm on DigitalOcean open_in_new

Every serverless platform has cold starts, and every write-up about them gives you a number for how...

How to grow a cacao tree at home (2024) open_in_new

Rosettes and Other Hidden Traces of Hamburg's Tram open_in_new

When Recovering From Burnout, Writing Became My Therapy. And This Week My First Coding Book Turns 1 Year Old. Ask Me Anything! open_in_new

Hi, I'm Cesar, a Senior Software Engineer with 10+ years of experience. In 2023, I got sick and...

SS United States to be sunk as largest artificial reef open_in_new