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I Don’t Write Ruby. A Fix I Sent Is Now in Forem. open_in_new

On Oct 22, I read the word "Merged" twice. It was my first contribution to Forem (the platform that...

Sebastian Raschka's from-scratch video course on building reasoning models open_in_new

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

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

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

Closing the Sea: Lessons from Ancient Mediterranean Blockades open_in_new

I never rewatch what I save, so a night shift turned 56 videos into notes open_in_new

This is a submission for the Hacktoberfest Open-Source AI Challenge Week 3: Slow and Steady ...

Why bloc.add(...) Isn't What You Think: Synchronous Event Fast-Paths and 0ms Form Bindings open_in_new

Why classic BLoC's StreamController forces an asynchronous microtask tax, how BlocSignal executes synchronous event handlers inline on the exact same call stack, and why this is the only way to build 120 FPS Generative UI form bindings.

Slowth Money: a local AI agent for your financial goals open_in_new

This is a submission for the Hacktoberfest Open-Source AI Challenge Week 3: Slow and Steady ...

SIMD-accelerated computer vision on a $2 microcontroller open_in_new