Benchmarking ClickHouse's performance on a high-end Intel i9-14900K workstation using a 1.1 billion row NYC taxi trip dataset.
A comprehensive guide to setting up and optimizing Visual Studio Code for professional Java development, including extensions and workflow tips.
A developer investigates why a Zig program runs 10x faster when using 'zig build run' versus executing the compiled binary directly.
An overview of five impactful open-source data projects, including Apache Iceberg and Arrow, that are revolutionizing data management and analytics.
Explains a common issue with Blazor's ::deep CSS pseudo-selector and provides a solution for styling child components.
A guide to creating a custom Tree-sitter grammar for the Djot markup language, covering advanced topics like external scanners and syntax highlighting.
Tutorial on using PhotosPicker in production SwiftUI apps, covering loading, downsampling, and saving user media efficiently.
Explains the history and differences between IPython, Jupyter Notebook, JupyterLab, and related terms in the Python data science ecosystem.
Argues against using LLMs to generate SQL queries for novel business questions, highlighting the importance of human analysts for precision.
Discusses effective anti-spam techniques like shadowbanning, adding friction, and filtering bot traffic, based on a Hacker News thread.
Explores implementing a zip() operation for Java streams using the new Stream Gatherers preview API in Java 22.
Explores implementing a zip() operation for Java streams using the new Stream Gatherers preview API in Java 22.
A nostalgic look back at the early days of web development, from table layouts to dial-up modems, by a developer with 20 years of experience.
Introducing NCronJob, a lightweight .NET job scheduler library that sits between BackgroundService and full-featured schedulers like Hangfire.
A software engineer reflects on how life changes like marriage, parenthood, and a demanding job have shifted his priorities and time for open source contributions.
Discusses the negative impact of analytics tracking scripts on website performance, privacy, and environmental sustainability, suggesting alternatives.
A curated newsletter issue covering the latest news, tutorials, and tools for mobile automation, including CI/CD, testing, and DevOps for iOS, Android, and Flutter.
Analyzes Tesla's high market cap vs. Toyota, explaining why enterprise value (including debt) is a more complete measure of a company's true worth.
Developer creates and releases a custom dark VSCode theme inspired by Agathist's brand colors, with plans for a light theme.
Explains how missing frame pointers in libc break profilers and debuggers, causing incorrect stack traces and misleading flame graphs.
