Happy New Year folks! Here’s what I read in 2025. Hope you find a gem or two for your lists. (Previous issues: 2024, 2023) Non-fiction The Ascent of Money – Niall Ferguson A convincing case that finance shaped the modern world pretty much at every turn, starting with the financialisation of wars, colonisation, industrialisation, and […]
|
|
📗 The Nvidia Way: Jensen Huang and the making of a tech giant, by Tae Kim
-
ernest.oppet.it
-
4 months ago
-
eng
Belatedly posting a few notes on the first history of Nvidia; amazingly none had been written before this one coming which came out in December 2024. We’d all heard the stories of Huang’s intensity, 50+ direct reports, etc. but stories of the relentless execution and risk-taking is really the stuff of legends, and this was […]
|
At this time of year, it is customary to write down New Year's resolutions. However, this time I didn't want to dream the impossible, but rather retrace my steps over the last five years, understand where I come from and where I am going, and, above
|
Have you ever tried a casino strategy and felt confident at first, then wondered why results feel different over time? Have you heard people talk about special systems that promise steady success and thought about how that really works? Many players think about this because strategies sound smart and organized, but understanding the long-term picture […] The post Why Casino Strategies Cannot Beat the House Long-Term appeared first on I..
|
When I was starting out with guitar the first pieces I learned were Classical ones. At the time I was very influenced by Bach, even learning to play some of his pieces (Bach created a lot of music for the Lute – a cousin of the guitar). Back then my dream was to get an … Continue reading "I used AI to play my Classical composition" The post I used AI to play my Classical composition appeared first on Circus Scientist .
|
|
In Day 10, we explored the Process Manager pattern for tracking workflow state over time. But what happens when things go wrong? How do you undo distributed work that’s already been committed? Today we dive into the Saga pattern: distributed transactions with compensation. Saga: When “Undo” Actually Works This pattern kept coming up in my research, and I’ll admit: I initially thought “Saga” was just a fancy name for “try/catch with cleanup.
|
|
Apologies for the long delay between posts, the new year kicked off extremely busy! Previously in Day 9, we explored the Routing Slip pattern, where messages carry their own itinerary. Each node was designed to route the message to the next destination based on the content of the routing slip and we had a small discussion about whether or not this was a form of choreography or orchestration since the route was computed up front.
|
|
LIVE from GitHub Universe: Inside the GitHub Secure Open Source Fund
-
carlosbecker.com
-
5 months ago
-
eng
I had a chat with Greg Cochran (GitHub) , Christian Grobmeier (log4j) , Michael Geers (evcc) , and Camila Maia (ScanAPI) about the GitHub Secure OpenSource Fund . It was recorded at the last day of GitHub Universe 2025.
|
The Itch # MeTube is a neat self-hosted YouTube downloader with a clean web UI. Paste a link, pick your format, hit download. Simple. Except YouTube decided that simple things shouldn’t stay simple. At some point, downloads started failing with the lovely “Sign in to confirm you’re not a bot” message. Classic. YouTube’s bot detection had gotten stricter, the web is not fun anymore. On top of that, I wanted my downloaded videos t....
|
|
2025 was one full challenge and change for all of us. As the long tail of home renovation efforts from 2024 wrapped up, we started thinking seriously about selling the house. With college drawing close for Ben, the allure of a smaller house, with less maintenance and more freedom to travel, combined with current market…
|
|
I recently performed an overdue Ubuntu 24.04 upgrade on a few machines and as with past upgrades , I had to fix a few things after the fact. As usual, I keep any backports of packages I make for myself in my noble PPA . AppArmor fix for Brave Beta & Nightly I had to modify the brave AppArmor profile in /etc/apparmor.d/brave in order to enable proper sandboxing in Brave Beta & Nightly . Network problems Surprisingly, .local resolu....
|
|
In one form or another, Firefox Sync has been around for years (in fact, it's not that far off being decade s ...). It allows you to share tabs, history and bookmarks between browsers on different devices (though, frustratingly, it doesn't sync settings or extension config ). Although sending that data via a 3rd party server might sound concerning, Mozilla are unable to see the content that's being synced because the data is end-t....
|
|
DeveloPassion's Newsletter 204 - Building in Public - The Numbers, The Struggles, and My Plans for 2026
-
www.dsebastien.net
-
5 months ago
-
eng
A newsletter discussing AI, Knowledge Work, Knowledge Management Systems, Zen Productivity, Personal Organization, and everything in between!
|
|
odd i havent seen something on the matter here. Lets see if any lains have some good ol wisdom from the oldschool. As i personally remember elder people having had it as hobby back then. whats your favorite tool, which brands are the most sophisticated to crack, hehe
|
|
Karpathy: I have never felt this much left behind as a programmer
-
nicolaiarocci.com
-
5 months ago
-
eng
I’ve never felt this much behind as a programmer. The profession is being dramatically refactored as the bits contributed by the programmer are increasingly sparse and between. I have a sense that I could be 10X more powerful if I just properly string together what has become available over the last ~year and a failure to claim the boost feels decidedly like skill issue. There’s a new programmable layer of abstraction to master (in addition....
|
|
What are tech companies looking for these days that you don't see in job descriptions, and are unlikely to come up in interviews, but still usually looked out for?
|
|
Is AI really bringing/brought undeniable doom to Junior web developer roles. If yes, how can one adapt without selling their soul to prompting away all the knowledge they've gathered?
|
|
I keep track of an "ideal architecture", one that I would use if tasked to design a new system from scratch. For several years now this was AWS serverless. The AWS part is personal: this is the stack I'm most familiar with. And serverless because it works the same for small and for large. It is a magical feeling to do a terraform apply and see that all the different parts are coming live, ready to serve whatever load coming its way. A well-....
|
|
In this post, I’ll show you how to think about AI agents through the infrastructure patterns you already use. Think about your CI runner. It spins up an environment. Runs some steps. Reads files. Runs tests. Captures output. Decides what to do next. Knows when to stop. Now swap out the hardcoded logic for an LLM. That’s it. That’s an AI agent in simpler terms. The fancy demos want you to think it’s magic. Some brand new thing you need to ....
|
|
Distinguishing yourself early in your career as a developer
-
notes.eatonphil.com
-
5 months ago
-
eng
Sometimes I get asked questions that would be more fun to answer in public. All letters are treated as anonymous unless permission is otherwise granted. Hello [Redacted]! You asked about a friend's son who is a recent graduate looking for work as a software developer and having a hard time. I like to think of three key aspects of getting a job: 1) knowing where to apply, 2) getting an interview at all, and 3) passing the interview. K....
|
|
In this post, I’ll show you how to think about AI agents through the infrastructure patterns you already use. Think about your CI runner. It spins up an environment. Runs some steps. Reads files. Runs tests. Captures output. Decides what to do next. Knows when to stop. Now swap out the hardcoded logic for an LLM. That’s it. That’s an AI agent in simpler terms. The fancy demos want you to think it’s magic. Some brand new thing you need to ....
|
|
Like many coders, I participated in Advent of Code 2025. However, this year I want to make it challenging. Learning Rust or Elixir are both tempting options, but why not go for something a bit more out there? I want to solve every problem with the GPU not the CPU. Which means a compute shader. I chose to use Swift and Metal as my shader language. Mostly because I was using a Mac and partly because I’ve been meaning to improve my Swift skill..
|