Explores the minimalist, engineering-focused design philosophy behind Sourcehut's web interface, contrasting it with platforms like GitHub.
A technical analysis verifying a statistical calculation from an XKCD comic, involving normal distribution probabilities and R code.
A technical guide to implementing Tufte CSS-style sidenotes and marginnotes within the Pollen document publishing system.
The article details a significant performance improvement in Ansible deployments by integrating the Mitogen tool, resulting in a 4.5x speed increase.
A technical guide on scaling a Kubernetes cluster deployed on Azure Stack, covering the transition from acs-engine to aks-engine and manual scaling steps.
A developer's first impressions of Pollen, a Racket-based library for creating web books, focusing on its markup flexibility and X-expression transformations.
An introduction to graph theory using examples from Facebook, Game of Thrones, and social relationships to explain network concepts.
Explores a new feature in SQL Server 2019's SET STATISTICS IO output, revealing detailed I/O metrics for INSERT operations into target tables.
A Developer Advocate details the five-day process of creating a new tech conference talk, from procrastination to final preparation.
A blog post analyzing Cohesity's approach to secondary storage, distinguishing it from traditional backup storage and exploring its use cases.
Explores whether C# qualifies as a low-level language by porting a C++ raytracer to C# and analyzing performance, value types, and systems programming.
A technical analysis of bus punctuality using Auckland Transport API data, with R code for data processing and visualization.
A software developer details the process of renovating a basement storage room into a functional home office and personal workspace.
A talk exploring the microservices architecture and design decisions behind building the JetBrains Rider .NET IDE, including its reactive protocol.
A guide to using PowerShell to automate batch transcription of audio files with the Azure Speech Service REST API.
Explains why pow() is slower than ** in Python using the dis module and introduces the concept of constant folding.
Troubleshooting guide for resolving a silent error when launching ASP.NET Core applications in IIS Express during development.
A guide on configuring selective backup jobs in Veeam Backup for Microsoft Office 365 during a migration, focusing on Exchange Online and OneDrive.
A serverless service that monitors the AWS Solutions catalog and sends alerts via SNS when new solutions are added.
Explains the relationship between scopes and claims in IdentityServer for OpenID Connect and OAuth 2.0, covering identity and API scope design.
