A look at the performance of 150,757 hard drives in the Backblaze data centers.

How to make CPython faster. Contribute to markshannon/faster-cpython development by creating an account on GitHub.

Why TOAST is the best thing since sliced bread

An example, two macOS firewalls: LuLu and Little Snitch

Despite best efforts (e.g. disabling default rules, creating explicit rules to block, enabling 'deny mode'), Apple's App Store appears to be exempt ...the firewalls never even see its traffic, and thus…

Repo for tracking issues and hosting samples for Azure Notebooks - GitHub - microsoft/AzureNotebooks: Repo for tracking issues and hosting samples for Azure Notebooks

🚴 Call stack profiler for Python. Shows you why your code is slow! - joerick/pyinstrument

Even with what feels like a new no-code website builder popping up everyday, it's apparent that we're all still searching for something better. Here's why we're building another website builder.

The Julia programming language has
seen a major increase in its use and popularity over the last few years.
We last looked at it two years ago, around the time of the Julia 1.0
release. Here, we will look at some of the changes since that release,
none of…

One of the most common "data type" in programming is the text string. When programmers think of a string, they imagine that they are dealing with a list or an array of characters. It is often a "good enough" approximation, but reality is more complex. The…

My journey to create a YouTube of memories from my family's old home videos.

In response to our Cloud Security Punch-Out! videos, Palo Alto Networks sent this cease and desist letter, demanding the comparison be removed. Here is my response.

Why models always get better when they are bigger and deeper, even when the amount of data they consume stays the same or gets smaller.

With the customer traction we've seen so far, we're delighted to announce that Retool has raised a $50M Series B, led by Sequoia.

Earlier this week, I was doing some work on AWS and wanted to know what IP addresses were being used. Luckily for me, AWS publishes this all here https://ip-ranges.amazonaws.com/ip-ranges.json. When you go through this list, you’ll quickly see that AWS has…

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How the Julia language is making it easy for programmers to use GPU capabilities

Worse yet, stripping the IRS, DOJ and SEC of their powers has been a completely bipartisan effort

Why does @instagram continue to store and use all of my contacts?! I disabled access to contacts years ago, and yet they’ve retained the original import - not cool! How do I delete that??

I’ve become increasingly disgruntled at the state of hiring, and now I’m mad enough to write this blog post.

Combining the world’s most popular sport with everyone’s favourite discrete probability distribution, this post predicts football matches using the Poisson distribution.