Explores common disk I/O failure scenarios in transactional applications and how real-world systems handle data integrity issues.
A developer's personal year-in-review, reflecting on coding work, side projects, and blog writing habits in 2024 and looking ahead.
Part two of building a personal recommendation system, covering data collection from Pocket and content extraction using the Jina Reader API.
A guide to implementing cost-effective, 'good enough' security for Azure PaaS applications, covering architecture, Entra ID, WAF, and Managed Identities.
A tech team's story of pivoting from a CI cost tool to a CI reliability product, only to realize they built great tech but not a viable product.
Analyzes the geopolitical risks for European organizations using American cloud services (AWS, Azure, GCP) due to declining trans-Atlantic trust.
A technical guide exploring the Confluent Cloud API for deploying and managing Apache Flink workloads, including authentication and deployment models.
A guide to implementing authorization in Next.js applications using React Server Components, Server Actions, and the App Router.
A technical guide on discovering and executing a long-tail MEV strategy to profit from imbalanced Uniswap V2 pools using Rust tools.
A technical blog post about writing an experimental Linux scheduler using eBPF and Java that dynamically allocates CPU cores based on system sound levels.
Announcing a talk at iOSKonf25 on distributing and monetizing closed-source SDKs using Swift Package Manager.
A guide to fixing Windows Search when it fails to find files, including how to index hidden application data folders.
A guide to configuring smoother scrolling behavior in the Emacs text editor by adjusting built-in variables like scroll-conservatively and scroll-margin.
An interview with engineer Phil Eaton on the motivations, benefits, and surprising impacts of maintaining a consistent technical blog.
A technical guide on setting up secure HTTPS access to a local LLM web interface using Tailscale and a Go proxy.
Analyzes the negative long-term effects of Postel's Law on software ecosystems, arguing it creates a 'ratchet' of increasing specification deviance.
A developer explores package manager performance by building a custom tool, benchmarking it against bun, and analyzing the results.
A critique of the "Observability 3.0" label and a discussion on the evolution from multi-pillar to unified storage models in software telemetry.
A monthly roundup of tech links covering DuckDB, Kafka, data visualization, and stream processing, with highlights and commentary.
A developer shares a complex solution for dynamic column selection in Entity Framework using expressions, highlighting a self-admitted overengineered approach.
