In this post, we’ll implement and optimize a text search system based on Postgres Trigrams

Neptune OS: A Windows NT personality for the seL4 microkernel - cl91/NeptuneOS

For non-expert cyclists, I recommend steel road-ish bikes with wide tires. This post expands on this and also has tips for how to actually go about getting a bike.

Trusting user data is risky: here's where you might be slipping up on primary keys... and much more due to canonicalization.

Qualcomm has given the foundry order for its 3-nanometer (nm) application processor launching next year exclusively to TSMC, TheElec has learned.The US chip giant has also given some of the foundry...

Everything you need to know about monorepos, and the tools to build them.

I am a daily Anki user (I describe how and why here and here). I've been working with my Anki data lately, which has meant exposing and manipulating the Sqlite database underlying the program. (I'm grateful to the Ankidroid project and r/anki  for having…

On the need for low-carbon and sustainable computing and the path towards zero-carbon computing.

The official documentation for Textile Markup Language - A humane web text generator.

The Minister of Public Sector Transformation and the Civil Service of France, Amélie de Montchalin announced a new action plan for open source software in the public sector at the closing of the Paris Open Source Experience conference on 10 November. It sets…

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Hide all mentions of Wordle from Hacker News feeds - StopWordle.user.js

Modern browsers are some of the most complicated programs ever written. For example, the main Firefox library on my system is over 130Mbytes. Doing 130MB of IO poorly can be quite a performance hit, even with SSDs! :).
Few people seem to understand how memory…

As I’ve progressed through my career, I’ve experienced increasing imposter syndrome. It’s never gone away.