Introduction Postgres queue tech is a thing of beauty, but far from mainstream. Its relative obscurity is partially attributable to the cargo cult of “scale”. The scalability cult has decreed that there are several queue technologies with greater “scalability”…

Let me introduce you to μMon, mypersonal, minimalist, opinionated take on host monitoring based onRRDtool, SNMP, some lightweightshell noscripting, and a small...

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The nine nines. 99.9999999% of uptime. Whether the AXD301 actually deserves to be held up as a system of nine nines seems debatable. I am not particularly interested in that debate. Erlang has a strong record for reliability and a design intended to help…

Definitive practical and psychological distinctions between live action role play and violent extremism can help investigators during their pursuit of justice.

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There's a new map style on OpenStreetMap.org! The Tracestrack Topo map from @tracestrack.

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a work-in-progress Ruby compiler, written in Ruby and C++ - natalie-lang/natalie

In his standup specials, the former “Patriot Act” host often recounts harrowing experiences he’s faced as an Asian American and Muslim American. Does it matter that much of it never happened to him?

In 1873, greed, speculation and overinvestment in railroads sparked a financial crisis that sank the U.S. into more than five years of misery

A noscript to effortlessly extract your entire ChatGPT data export from JSON files to nicely-formatted markdown files. - mohamed-chs/chatgpt-history-export-to-md

A discussion of pure Rust crates and what crates I would like to see

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Carbon dioxide detected on Jupiter's moon Europa comes from the vast ocean beneath its icy shell, research using James Webb Space Telescope data indicated on Thursday, potentially bolstering hopes the ...

A few interesting CSS findings from the threads app by Meta.

Mastercard knows where people shop, how much they spend, and on what days - and it sells that information online.

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