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  1. Making sense of the video formats / codecs / containers mess (and what to use for long-term video archival)


    | kerkour.com
  2. VictoriaMetrics Achieves Red Hat OpenShift Operator Certification


    | victoriametrics.com
  3. What Does a Database for SSDs Look Like?


    | brooker.co.za
  4. Statistics made simple


    | tonsky.me
  5. Them’s the Breaks


    | htmhell.dev
  6. Justified


    | bitecode.dev
  7. In the economy of user effort, be a bargain, not a scam


    | lea.verou.me
  8. The Wonderful World of Web Feeds


    | htmhell.dev
  9. Media Diet


    | chriscoyier.net
  10. Tap compare testing for service migration


    | rednafi.com
  11. Hell is other people's markup


    | htmhell.dev
  12. Processing 630 Million More Pwned Passwords, Courtesy of the FBI


    | troyhunt.com
  13. Reviving a Dead Pet Project


    | hamvocke.com
  14. A11y Considerations in Math on the Web


    | htmhell.dev
  15. Ol’ Bob


    | chriscoyier.net
  16. How HTML changes in ePub


    | htmhell.dev
  17. Some Fun Software Facts


    | buttondown.com
  18. Firecracker deep dive: How Rust and microVMs are revolutionizing cloud infrastructure


    | kerkour.com
  19. L’autocomplétion de nos intentions


    | ploum.net
  20. Extracting Nintendo Switch “Play Activity” with OCR


    | sethmlarson.dev
  21. a11y freedom beaver


    | htmhell.dev
  22. Encryption protects AGAINST criminals


    | kerkour.com
  23. Discover Dialog


    | htmhell.dev
  24. What’s up Python ? Rust in CPython, immutable dicts, unpacking in comprehensions...


    | bitecode.dev
  25. Notes on building CRDT-based local-first and end-to-end encrypted applications


    | kerkour.com
  26. Deprecations via warnings don’t work for Python libraries


    | sethmlarson.dev
  27. What's wrong with this HTML, and is it valid?


    | htmhell.dev
  28. Controlling dialogs and popovers with the Invoker Commands API


    | htmhell.dev
  29. 0056: consulting, zest progress, existentialize, modular borrowing, do we understand sql, zjit updates, books


    | scattered-thoughts.net
  30. Accessible by Design: The Role of the 'lang' Attribute


    | htmhell.dev
  31. Weekly Update 481


    | troyhunt.com
  32. The Jeopardy Phenomenon


    | chriscoyier.net
  33. Mais c’est plus joli !


    | ploum.net
  34. IDREFs: What they are and how to use them


    | htmhell.dev
  35. Referencing HTML elements inside Shadow DOM


    | htmhell.dev
  36. Why Does Have I Been Pwned Contain "Fake" Email Addresses?


    | troyhunt.com
  37. When your customer leads your Series A


    | antithesis.com
  38. How CRDTs and Rust are revolutionizing distributed systems and local-first applications


    | kerkour.com
  39. AI optimism is a class privilege


    | joshcollinsworth.com
  40. Getting from tested to battle-tested


    | blog.janestreet.com
  41. Speculation rules improvements


    | htmhell.dev
  42. Public library holds as your want-to-read book list


    | petemillspaugh.com
  43. Using the Ancient Evils for Debugging


    | htmhell.dev
  44. Weekly Update 480


    | troyhunt.com
  45. Our latest updates across the VictoriaMetrics Observability ecosystem


    | victoriametrics.com
  46. One weird trick for cheaper physical Switch 2 games?


    | sethmlarson.dev
  47. Top layer troubles: popover vs. dialog


    | htmhell.dev
  48. Splintered failure modes in Go


    | rednafi.com
  49. We finished the Chinese release


    | annas-archive.li
  50. Working Faster with Git Worktrees and AI-Based Multi-Workflow Development


    | safjan.com
  51. Using Git Worktrees as Clean Rooms for AI-Assisted Coding


    | safjan.com
  52. It’s been a very hard year


    | bell.bz
  53. Pointer pop quiz


    | dave.cheney.net
  54. Too many people stopped learning after university. They will be the first replaced by AI.


    | kerkour.com
  55. Happy one year anniversary to Complete CSS!


    | bell.bz
  56. How to get hired in 2025


    | tonsky.me
  57. Is psql's scripting language Turing complete? Or: fibonacci in psql


    | notes.eatonphil.com
  58. I no longer block AI bots on my website


    | kerkour.com
  59. WebKit browsers see telephone numbers everywhere


    | sethmlarson.dev
  60. One more week to the Logic for Programmers Food Drive


    | buttondown.com
  61. Advent of FPGA — A Jane Street Challenge


    | blog.janestreet.com
  62. Weekly Update 479


    | troyhunt.com
  63. Pydantic can do what?


    | bitecode.dev
  64. Entrepreneurs and athletes


    | kerkour.com
  65. Nos comptoirs virtuels


    | ploum.net
  66. The 2025 Go Cryptography State of the Union


    | words.filippo.io
  67. Like solar, Rust is inevitable


    | kerkour.com
  68. What Now? Handling Errors in Large Systems


    | brooker.co.za
  69. How Cloudflare uses Rust to serve (and break) millions of websites at 50+ millions requests per second


    | kerkour.com
  70. It feels good to be online when most of the internet is down 😎


    | kerkour.com
  71. New Capacity Tiers in VictoriaMetrics Cloud


    | victoriametrics.com
  72. Why Strong Consistency?


    | brooker.co.za
  73. BrotliCFFI has two new maintainers


    | sethmlarson.dev
  74. Logo: Clojure+


    | tonsky.me
  75. 80 characters? In this economy?


    | bitecode.dev
  76. La complainte du technopunk ringard


    | ploum.net
  77. Weekly Update 478


    | troyhunt.com
  78. Re-exec testing Go subprocesses


    | rednafi.com
  79. Soutenez Ploum, achetez un livre !


    | ploum.net
  80. Interpreting Crafting Crafting Interpreters


    | petemillspaugh.com
  81. Programmer-writer


    | petemillspaugh.com
  82. TAG Bulletin: Q3 2025


    | blog.google
  83. Announcing 1B+ Downloads & Product Development With Logs, Traces, Metrics


    | victoriametrics.com
  84. Needy programs


    | tonsky.me
  85. x86 Addressing Modes, Part 1 — Immediate and Direct Access


    | blog.codingconfessions.com
  86. Weekly Update 477


    | troyhunt.com
  87. Get Logic for Programmers 50% off & Support Chicago Foodbanks


    | buttondown.com
  88. Get the core right and the resilient code will follow


    | bell.bz
  89. What's up Python? You already know :)


    | bitecode.dev
  90. Alchemy


    | joshcollinsworth.com
  91. The Great (Refrigerator) Divide


    | chriscoyier.net
  92. AI Agents Observability with OpenTelemetry and the VictoriaMetrics Stack


    | victoriametrics.com
  93. La guerre que mènent les robots ascientifiques contre la solitude intellectuelle


    | ploum.net
  94. Antithesis launches Kubernetes support


    | antithesis.com
  95. 2 Billion Email Addresses Were Exposed, and We Indexed Them All in Have I Been Pwned


    | troyhunt.com
  96. Rust is eating the world: From embedded firmware to cross-platform applications, databases and big servers


    | kerkour.com
  97. Image formats: Codecs and compression tools


    | developer.mozilla.org
  98. ToiletTree Fogless Shower Mirror


    | chriscoyier.net
  99. Weekly Update 476


    | troyhunt.com
  100. An individual can change an organization


    | notes.eatonphil.com
  101. DSQL: Simplifying Architectures


    | brooker.co.za
  102. Claude Code Can Debug Low-level Cryptography


    | words.filippo.io
  103. The fetch()ening


    | htmx.org
  104. Quand éclatera la bulle IA…


    | ploum.net
  105. Revisiting interface segregation in Go


    | rednafi.com
  106. 0055: consulting, sql needed structure, slow forum, on the line, out of thin air, papers, other stuff


    | scattered-thoughts.net
  107. Computer Says No: Error Reporting for LTL


    | wickstrom.tech
  108. They don't even have eyes


    | antithesis.com
  109. Microsoft™ Ergonomic Keyboard (now sold by Incase)


    | chriscoyier.net
  110. Avoiding Homebrew Upgrades That Require Sudo on macOS


    | safjan.com
  111. How Signal uses Rust to secure the communications of millions of people


    | kerkour.com
  112. Understanding Python Protocols - Structural Subtyping in Practice


    | safjan.com
  113. I'm taking a break


    | buttondown.com
  114. How We (Almost) Found Chromium's Bug via Crash Reports to Report URI


    | troyhunt.com
  115. Discarding gRPC-Go: The Story Behind OTLP/gRPC Support in VictoriaTraces


    | victoriametrics.com
  116. Qu’est-ce que l’outil va faire de moi ?


    | ploum.net
  117. Pepsi, when they don't have coke


    | bitecode.dev
  118. Weekly Update 475


    | troyhunt.com
  119. Untitled


    | chriscoyier.net
  120. Transaction pooling for Postgres with pgcat


    | notes.eatonphil.com
  121. Evolution of Type Hints in Python — From Comments to Inline Typing and Beyond


    | safjan.com
  122. Keeping performance results in a separate Git branch using `git checkout --orphan`


    | safjan.com
  123. The Geomys Standard of Care


    | words.filippo.io
  124. A Systems Engineer’s Guide to Benchmarking with RDTSC


    | blog.codingconfessions.com
  125. Everything is Broken


    | chriscoyier.net
  126. Cleanup your lifetime annotations in Rust with Rc and Arc


    | kerkour.com
  127. Fixing UUIDv7 (for database use-cases)


    | brooker.co.za
  128. Avoiding collisions in Go context keys


    | rednafi.com
  129. Inside the Synthient Threat Data


    | troyhunt.com
  130. Plates


    | chriscoyier.net
  131. Modal editing is a weird historical contingency we have through sheer happenstance


    | buttondown.com
  132. Weekly Update 474


    | troyhunt.com
  133. I’ve been to 39 US states


    | petemillspaugh.com
  134. Diskcache, more than caching


    | bitecode.dev
  135. The Phase Change


    | buttondown.com
  136. Antithesis and the open source community


    | antithesis.com
  137. I created a Mastodon account for Pingoo


    | kerkour.com
  138. Understanding the Language Server Protocol through a Minimal Working Example


    | safjan.com
  139. Did you get lucky or unlucky?


    | antithesis.com
  140. I created a Bluesky account for Pingoo


    | kerkour.com
  141. Building SQLite extensions in Rust


    | kerkour.com
  142. I am sorry, but everyone is getting syntax highlighting wrong


    | tonsky.me
  143. vCPUs in the cloud: x86-64 vs ARM64 (aarch64)


    | kerkour.com
  144. La justesse au lieu de l’exactitude


    | ploum.net
  145. Using CSS Variables for Dynamic and Reusable Styling


    | safjan.com
  146. Oregon Rocketry


    | chriscoyier.net
  147. Python 3.14 - What didn't make the headlines


    | bitecode.dev
  148. Weekly Update 473


    | troyhunt.com
  149. Is Systems Research Really Just About Making Numbers Bigger?


    | brooker.co.za
  150. Hacking the World Poker Tour: Inside ClubWPT Gold’s Back Office


    | samcurry.net
  151. My Top 5 Favourite Features in Python 3.14


    | blog.codingconfessions.com
  152. Oatmeal on AI Art


    | chriscoyier.net
  153. Three ways formally verified code can go wrong in practice


    | buttondown.com
  154. A Retrospective Survey of 2024/2025 Open Source Supply Chain Compromises


    | words.filippo.io
  155. Notes on switching to Helix from vim


    | jvns.ca
  156. Bare Asterisk in Python Function Signatures - Keyword Only Arguments


    | safjan.com
  157. Programming in the Sun: A Year with the Daylight Computer


    | wickstrom.tech
  158. Media Diet


    | chriscoyier.net
  159. Court Injunctions are the Thoughts and Prayers of Data Breach Response


    | troyhunt.com
  160. A beginner-friendly guide to view transitions in CSS


    | developer.mozilla.org
  161. Behind the Scenes of Pingoo: Slashing Rust allocations with mimalloc and heapless to build the fastest reverse proxy


    | kerkour.com
  162. Introducing “Moments”


    | hamvocke.com
  163. Organizing Go tests


    | rednafi.com
  164. Choosing between PostgreSQL and SQLite


    | kerkour.com
  165. What's New in VictoriaMetrics Cloud Q3 2025? From new region in Asia to proactive alerts


    | victoriametrics.com
  166. Hosting a website with automatic HTTPS and unmetered traffic for 3 € / month with Pingoo


    | kerkour.com
  167. Six Weeks, Real Progress - Exploring Shape Up for Product Work


    | safjan.com
  168. What's up Python? Lazy imports, django gets a task queue...


    | bitecode.dev
  169. How DreamHost Slashed Memory Usage by 80% and Scaled to 76 Million Time Series


    | victoriametrics.com
  170. Locality, and Temporal-Spatial Hypothesis


    | brooker.co.za
  171. Breaking “provably correct” Leftpad


    | lukeplant.me.uk
  172. #5 — September 2025


    | petemillspaugh.com
  173. DHH Is Way Worse Than I Thought


    | jakelazaroff.com
  174. Case Study: How Proton uses Rust to build secure cross-platform applications for millions of people


    | kerkour.com
  175. Email outage


    | kerkour.com
  176. Subtest grouping in Go


    | rednafi.com
  177. Understanding Weak References in Python


    | blog.codingconfessions.com
  178. How to find a domain for your startup


    | petemillspaugh.com
  179. Upcoming Conferences & Meetups: Where to Meet Our Team


    | victoriametrics.com
  180. VictoriaMetrics Long-Term Support (LTS): H2 2025 Update


    | victoriametrics.com
  181. New Blog Post: " A Very Early History of Algebraic Data Types"


    | buttondown.com
  182. My GitHub account has been blocked. Edit: Solved. Thank you all!


    | kerkour.com
  183. Implementing automatic HTTPS / TLS for Pingoo: Here is what it takes to build a secure internet


    | kerkour.com
  184. Creating a Sustainable Open Source Business Model - Introduction


    | victoriametrics.com
  185. Compiling Python to Run Anywhere


    | blog.codingconfessions.com
  186. What's a UUID, and what do you use that for?


    | bitecode.dev
  187. Simpler Parallelism with concurrent.futures


    | safjan.com
  188. Ongoing Tradeoffs, and Incidents as Landmarks


    | ferd.ca
  189. Let the domain guide your application structure


    | rednafi.com
  190. Is Zig's New Writer Unsafe?


    | openmymind.net
  191. Obscure feature + obscure feature + obscure feature = bug


    | antithesis.com
  192. Seven Years of Firecracker


    | brooker.co.za
  193. De la mystification de la Grande Idée


    | ploum.net
  194. Announcing Pingoo: The fast and secure Load Balancer / API Gateway with built-in service discovery, WAF and bot management (in Rust)


    | kerkour.com
  195. What Makes System Calls Expensive: A Linux Internals Deep Dive


    | blog.codingconfessions.com
  196. In response to a developer asking about systems


    | notes.eatonphil.com
  197. Test state, not interactions


    | rednafi.com
  198. Devotions on 1 Thessalonians 1, August 2025


    | lukeplant.me.uk
  199. Worldcat editions and holdings release


    | annas-archive.li
  200. Many Hard Leetcode Problems are Easy Constraint Problems


    | buttondown.com
  201. Protecting Rust against supply chain attacks


    | kerkour.com
  202. Full-Stack Observability with VictoriaMetrics in the OTel Demo


    | victoriametrics.com
  203. A simple clustering and replication solution for Postgres


    | notes.eatonphil.com
  204. Threading vs Multiprocessing in Python - GIL Implications and Choosing the Right Tool


    | safjan.com
  205. asyncio Basics - async/await and When to Actually Use Them


    | safjan.com
  206. Strong Eventual Consistency - The Big Idea behind CRDTs


    | lewiscampbell.tech
  207. Early return and goroutine leak


    | rednafi.com
  208. Everything is a []u8


    | openmymind.net
  209. What's up Python? Astral never stops, JetBrains gives us insights


    | bitecode.dev
  210. The Angels and Demons of Nondeterminism


    | buttondown.com
  211. SQL needed structure


    | scattered-thoughts.net
  212. Analytics query goes 6x faster with EDB Postgres Distributed's new analytics engine


    | notes.eatonphil.com
  213. #4 — August 2025


    | petemillspaugh.com
  214. On the McPhee method


    | petemillspaugh.com
  215. 0054: zest namespaces, store tags after payloads, go allocation probe, everyones got one, pprof labelguns, go value types, go perf probe, tpde, anyblox, books


    | scattered-thoughts.net
  216. Lifecycle management in Go tests


    | rednafi.com
  217. Finding Bugs in a Coding Agent with Lightweight DST


    | wickstrom.tech
  218. Logical Duals in Software Engineering


    | buttondown.com
  219. Building a Plugin System for Rust: Native Libraries vs Scripting Language vs WebAssembly vs Rules Engine


    | kerkour.com
  220. What the interns have wrought, 2025 edition


    | blog.janestreet.com
  221. Titles matter


    | joshcollinsworth.com
  222. The kids are alright


    | bitecode.dev
  223. Observability at scale


    | antithesis.com
  224. Optimizing our way through Metroid


    | antithesis.com
  225. Alerting Best Practices


    | victoriametrics.com
  226. I'm too dumb for Zig's new IO interface


    | openmymind.net
  227. Sapir-Whorf does not apply to Programming Languages


    | buttondown.com
  228. vmanomaly Deep Dive: Smarter Alerting with AI (Tech Talk Companion)


    | victoriametrics.com
  229. This Blog Will Make You a Better Programmer


    | hamvocke.com
  230. Launching MDN's new front end


    | developer.mozilla.org
  231. Arc Troopers: Adventures in Async Rust


    | bitbashing.io
  232. The Important Things in Life


    | hamvocke.com
  233. An update from the team


    | annas-archive.li
  234. Basic Type System Terminology


    | lewiscampbell.tech
  235. How to Leverage the CPU’s Micro-Op Cache for Faster Loops


    | blog.codingconfessions.com
  236. Dynamo, DynamoDB, and Aurora DSQL


    | brooker.co.za
  237. Maintainers of Last Resort


    | words.filippo.io
  238. Set up a single-node EDB Postgres Distributed cluster on Ubuntu


    | notes.eatonphil.com
  239. Replacing Makefile with Invoke for Cross-Platform Python Tasks


    | safjan.com
  240. Cross-Site Request Forgery


    | words.filippo.io
  241. Lessons learned from implementing SIMD-accelerated algorithms (ChaCha20 / ChaCha12) in pure Rust


    | kerkour.com
  242. Just a nice shell script


    | bitecode.dev
  243. LLMs as Parts of Systems


    | brooker.co.za
  244. What even is distributed systems


    | notes.eatonphil.com
  245. Reliability on the road


    | antithesis.com
  246. Key Derivation with ChaCha20 (or ChaCha12)


    | kerkour.com
  247. VictoriaLogs Practical Ingestion Guide for Message, Time and Streams


    | victoriametrics.com
  248. Software books I wish I could read


    | buttondown.com
  249. ChaCha12-BLAKE3: Secure, Simple and Fast authenticated and committing encryption for any CPU


    | kerkour.com
  250. The hiring test that defeated AI


    | bitecode.dev
  251. Everyone's got one


    | scattered-thoughts.net
  252. Getting Started with Randomised Testing


    | lewiscampbell.tech
  253. Image formats: Pixel data from encoders to decoders


    | developer.mozilla.org
  254. Big O vs Hardware: Better Complexity ≠ Better Performance


    | blog.codingconfessions.com
  255. Gateway pattern for external service calls


    | rednafi.com
  256. What's up Python? Unpacking in Comprehensions, Android Wheels, and uv is a big boy now...


    | bitecode.dev