Why I Did Not Go To Jail
A lot of people have been asking me what my upcoming book, The Hard Thing About Hard Things, will be…
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Using Pandoc and Typst to Produce PDFs
I recently responded to someone on Mastodon who asked about producing decent-looking PDFs from markdown. I replied eagerly with “OMG…
TikTok CEO summoned by European Parliament after surprising first-round presidential victory of Călin Georgescu in Romania
The surprise first-round victory of political outsider Călin Georgescu in the first round of the presidential elections sent shockwaves throughout…
Australia bans social media for children under 16
MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — A social media ban for children under 16 passed the Australian Parliament on Friday in a…
Why people face difficulties in attracting mates: An investigation of 17 probable predictors of involuntary singlehood
Not having an intimate partner is a common state in contemporary post-industrial societies (Klinenberg, 2012). A considerable proportion of singles…
How Much Memory Do You Need in 2024 to Run 1 Million Concurrent Tasks?
How Much Memory Do You Need in 2024 to Run 1 Million Concurrent Tasks? Did you still remember the memory…
Microbenchmarks are experiments
Microbenchmarks are experiments Wake up babe, new microbenchmark just dropped! More languages, more insights! A few interesting takeaways: * Java…
Car tires shed a quarter of all microplastics in the environment. Urgent action is needed
Credit: CC0 Public Domain Every year, billions of vehicles worldwide shed an estimated 6 million tons of tire fragments. These…
Engineers Do Not Get To Make Startup Mistakes When They Build Ledgers
Not losing track of money is the bare minimum for fintech companies. And yet, I used to work for a…
Continue & Persist Letter
New York MarkhamDubaiChicagoParsipanny Send someone you appreciate an official ‘Continue and Persist’ Letter Every day, thousands of Cease and…
Goodbye, Rust. I wish you success but I’m back to C++ (sorry, it is a rant) : rust
TL,DR: Because jobs. In my 3 year run in Rust I did asynch/multithreaded code, FFI with bindgen, kernel programming without…
What were the best books you read this year?
I’m looking for inspiration for the Christmas holidays. Mine were: – Helen DeWitt, The Last Samurai (2000) – William Cronon,…