My career in data started as a SQL Server performance specialist, which meant I was deep into the nuances of indexes, locking and blocking, execution plan analysis and query design. These days I’m more in the world of the open table format such as Apache…

A Lisp Interpreter for Linux Shell Scripting, written in C++. - gue-ni/redstart

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Academic presentation videos have become an essential medium for research communication, yet producing them remains highly labor-intensive, often requiring hours of slide design, recording, and...

Trump administration scraps approval for 6.2 gigawatt Nevada project

Get details on our discovery of a critical vulnerability in GitHub Copilot Chat.

We’re excited to announce Flummoxagon, a new geometric puzzle game that might just leave you flummoxed. Imagine a mash-up of Pentominoes and Sudoku. Your goal is to fit all the pieces into the hexa…

LLM inference that gets faster as you use it. Our runtime-learning accelerator adapts continuously to your workload, delivering 500 TPS on DeepSeek-V3.1, a 4x speedup over baseline performance without manual tuning.

Exploring Odin Through a Tiny Key-Value Store with Pub/Sub

Research Square is a preprint platform that makes research communication faster, fairer, and more useful.

(This is the blog post version of my keynote from EuroPython 2025 in Prague, Czechia.)

We now have a lock file format specification. That might not sound like a big deal, but for me it took 4 years of active work to get us that specification. Part education…

esotoric programming language that's read like a spellbook - sirbread/spellnoscript

The mindful way to quit bad habits and stay free — one day at a time.

Loko Scheme is a bare metal Scheme implementation

Jeep just pushed a software update that bricked all the 2024 Wrangler 4xe models, including my Willys. The future is going great.

A great exchange rate, ChatGPT, and kimono-wearing bros have turned Kyoto into the loveliest tourist trap on earth.

Comparing the Django ORM support across official database backends, so you don’t have to learn it the hard way.