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Every systems engineer at some point in their journey yearns to write a filesystem. This sounds daunting at first - and writing a battle-tested filesystem is hard - but the minimal surface area for a “working” FS is surprisingly small, simple, and in-distribution…

An important victory - but we still need to stop Chat Control.

A new study finds patients who listen to music during surgery wake faster and need fewer painkillers.

Notes and expanded thoughts on eXtreme Programming, AI agents, and the soul of Ruby from my SF Ruby Conference Keynote 2025 talk

Whitfield, former Sandia physicist, first sketched his idea for clean room technology while on an airplane in 1960.

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Explore the Linux kernel source code interactively. Study kernel architecture, system calls, device drivers, and core subsystems with guided learning paths. Perfect for kernel developers and systems programmers.

I like slim and stupid servers, where each endpoint wraps a very dumb DB query. Dumb queries are fast. Fast queries make websites smooth and snappy. Keep those click/render loops sacred. Sweep complexity under a task table.

I posted a WebGL demo to twitter and it blew up! This post talks about how it works under the hood.

A fearless and urgent chronicle of the tech-authoritarian movement from its early days in San Francisco politics to its current moment on the inter...

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When GitHub Copilot was launched in 2021, the fact that its training data included a vast amount of Open Source code publicly available on GitHub attracted significant attention, sparking lively de…

Every few months, we hear another confident prediction: AGI by 2026, superintelligence by 2027. The CEOs of major AI companies paint a…