A guide on managing Swift version compatibility and requirements in Swift Package Manager (SPM) projects.
How eBPF technology can prevent system crashes like the massive July 2024 Windows outage caused by a faulty kernel driver update.
Analysis of the 2024 CrowdStrike outage that crashed 8.5 million Windows systems, exploring the technical cause and industry-wide cultural problems.
Microsoft releases a USB recovery tool to help IT admins fix Windows systems affected by the recent CrowdStrike Falcon agent update crash.
A tutorial on advanced text styling in R's ggplot2, including dynamic color adjustment and using the new {marquee} package for markdown formatting.
CrowdStrike's security updates caused crashes on Debian and Rocky Linux servers, revealing gaps in their testing procedures.
A global IT outage caused by a logic error in a CrowdStrike security update, leading to widespread system crashes (BSOD).
Explores recent research on instruction finetuning for LLMs, including a cost-effective method for generating synthetic training data from scratch.
Explores recent research on instruction finetuning for LLMs, including cost-effective data generation methods and an overview of new models like Gemma 2.
A technical comparison of self-hosting a service on a Raspberry Pi 5 versus renting a VPS, analyzing costs, complexity, and pros/cons.
A list of upcoming tech talks and events by Alex Merced, focusing on Apache Iceberg, data lakehouses, and data engineering topics.
An interactive guide explaining the CSS Grid template areas feature, highlighting its simplicity and power for layout positioning compared to line numbers.
A tech professional discovers Gergely Orosz's resume guide is free for the unemployed and shares a key tip about linking to published work.
Microsoft confirms unrelated causes for major Azure and CrowdStrike outages that disrupted global services, highlighting digital infrastructure fragility.
A global CrowdStrike software outage caused over 3,000 flight cancellations, disrupting airline IT systems and leading to widespread travel chaos.
Two LockBit ransomware affiliates plead guilty in the U.S., facing decades in prison for cyberattacks that caused millions in damages.
A podcast discussing why all code becomes legacy and how to write modular, maintainable code to reduce future technical debt.
A CrowdStrike software bug caused a global IT outage, crashing Windows PCs with BSODs. A fix has been deployed.
A technical guide to fix the global CrowdStrike BSOD boot loop by deleting a specific driver file in Safe Mode.
A beginner's guide to installing Git, setting up a repository, and making your first commit with step-by-step instructions.
