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  1. #5 — September 2025
    | petemillspaugh.com

  2. DHH Is Way Worse Than I Thought
    | jakelazaroff.com

  3. Danger Gently
    | chriscoyier.net

  4. Breaking “provably correct” Leftpad
    | lukeplant.me.uk

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

  6. Email outage
    | kerkour.com

  7. Winning a bet about “six”, the Python 2 compatibility shim
    | sethmlarson.dev

  8. Subtest grouping in Go
    | rednafi.com

  9. A Strong Reference to Weak References in Python
    | blog.codingconfessions.com

  10. How to find a domain for your startup
    | petemillspaugh.com

  11. Welcoming CERN to Have I Been Pwned
    | troyhunt.com

  12. Weekly Update 471
    | troyhunt.com

  13. GZipped files and streams may contain names
    | sethmlarson.dev

  14. Strongbacks
    | chriscoyier.net

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

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

  17. Microwaves
    | chriscoyier.net

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

  19. HIBP Demo: Querying the API, and the Free Test Key!
    | troyhunt.com

  20. Compiling Python to Run Anywhere
    | blog.codingconfessions.com

  21. Send a Song
    | chriscoyier.net

  22. Flies
    | chriscoyier.net

  23. What's a UUID, and what do you use that for?
    | bitecode.dev

  24. Weekly Update 470
    | troyhunt.com

  25. Ongoing Tradeoffs, and Incidents as Landmarks
    | ferd.ca

  26. Let the domain guide your application structure
    | rednafi.com

  27. Is Zig's New Writer Unsafe?
    | openmymind.net

  28. Have I Been Pwned Demos Are Now Live!
    | troyhunt.com

  29. De la mystification de la Grande Idée
    | ploum.net

  30. Seven Years of Firecracker
    | brooker.co.za

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

  32. What Makes System Calls Expensive: A Linux Internals Deep Dive
    | blog.codingconfessions.com

  33. In response to a developer asking about systems
    | notes.eatonphil.com

  34. Test state, not interactions
    | rednafi.com

  35. Devotions on 1 Thessalonians 1, August 2025
    | lukeplant.me.uk

  36. Weekly Update 469
    | troyhunt.com

  37. SCREAM CIPHER (“ǠĂȦẶAẦ ĂǍÄẴẶȦ”)
    | sethmlarson.dev

  38. Infinite Precision CVSS Calculator
    | sethmlarson.dev

  39. Many Hard Leetcode Problems are Easy Constraint Problems
    | buttondown.com

  40. Protecting Rust against supply chain attacks
    | kerkour.com

  41. A simple clustering and replication solution for Postgres
    | notes.eatonphil.com

  42. À la recherche de l’humanité perdue…
    | ploum.net

  43. Strong Eventual Consistency - The Big Idea behind CRDTs
    | lewiscampbell.tech

  44. Weekly Update 468
    | troyhunt.com

  45. Early return and goroutine leak
    | rednafi.com

  46. Everything is a []u8
    | openmymind.net

  47. What's up Python? Astral never stops, JetBrains gives us insights
    | bitecode.dev

  48. The Angels and Demons of Nondeterminism
    | buttondown.com

  49. Extracting NES & N64 ROMs from Zelda Collector's Edition
    | sethmlarson.dev

  50. SQL needed structure
    | scattered-thoughts.net

  51. Analytics query goes 6x faster with EDB Postgres Distributed's new analytics engine
    | notes.eatonphil.com

  52. #4 — August 2025
    | petemillspaugh.com

  53. Untitled
    | chriscoyier.net

  54. The Millspaugh method
    | petemillspaugh.com

  55. 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

  56. Une vie sans notifications
    | ploum.net

  57. Centralia Old-Time Campout 2025
    | chriscoyier.net

  58. Talk: Почему компьютеры не умеют считать? @ Podlodka
    | tonsky.me

  59. Weekly Update 467
    | troyhunt.com

  60. Lifecycle management in Go tests
    | rednafi.com

  61. Finding Bugs in a Coding Agent with Lightweight DST
    | wickstrom.tech

  62. Logical Duals in Software Engineering
    | buttondown.com

  63. Home Assistant + Ubiquiti + AI = Home Automation Magic
    | troyhunt.com

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

  65. I tell you what I want, what I really, really want
    | bell.bz

  66. Titles matter
    | joshcollinsworth.com

  67. Pas de médaille pour les résistants
    | ploum.net

  68. Weekly Update 466
    | troyhunt.com

  69. The kids are alright
    | bitecode.dev

  70. Chalk Font Kid
    | chriscoyier.net

  71. I'm too dumb for Zig's new IO interface
    | openmymind.net

  72. Sapir-Whorf does not apply to Programming Languages
    | buttondown.com

  73. Launching MDN's new front end
    | developer.mozilla.org

  74. This Blog Will Make You a Better Programmer
    | hamvocke.com

  75. Arc Troopers: Adventures in Async Rust
    | bitbashing.io

  76. The Important Things in Life
    | hamvocke.com

  77. Weekly Update 465
    | troyhunt.com

  78. Basic Type System Terminology
    | lewiscampbell.tech

  79. How to Leverage the CPU’s Micro-Op Cache for Faster Loops
    | blog.codingconfessions.com

  80. Dynamo, DynamoDB, and Aurora DSQL
    | brooker.co.za

  81. Maintainers of Last Resort
    | words.filippo.io

  82. Set up a single-node EDB Postgres Distributed cluster on Ubuntu
    | notes.eatonphil.com

  83. Replacing Makefile with Invoke for Cross-Platform Python Tasks
    | safjan.com

  84. That 16 Billion Password Story (AKA "Data Troll")
    | troyhunt.com

  85. Cross-Site Request Forgery
    | words.filippo.io

  86. Lessons learned from implementing SIMD-accelerated algorithms (ChaCha20 / ChaCha12) in pure Rust
    | kerkour.com

  87. Get Pwned, Get Local Advice From a Trusted Gov Source
    | troyhunt.com

  88. Just a nice shell script
    | bitecode.dev

  89. Weekly Update 464
    | troyhunt.com

  90. LLMs as Parts of Systems
    | brooker.co.za

  91. What even is distributed systems
    | notes.eatonphil.com

  92. Key Derivation with ChaCha20 (or ChaCha12)
    | kerkour.com

  93. Choice is important with stuff like highlighting
    | bell.bz

  94. Software books I wish I could read
    | buttondown.com

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

  96. We shouldn’t have needed lockfiles
    | tonsky.me

  97. Welcoming Guardio to Have I Been Pwned's Partner Program
    | troyhunt.com

  98. The hiring test that defeated AI
    | bitecode.dev

  99. Everyone's got one
    | scattered-thoughts.net

  100. Your Own Newspaper, Or Not
    | chriscoyier.net

  101. Getting Started with Randomised Testing
    | lewiscampbell.tech

  102. Pixel data from encoders to decoders
    | developer.mozilla.org

  103. Big O vs Hardware: Better Complexity ≠ Better Performance
    | blog.codingconfessions.com

  104. Gateway pattern for external service calls
    | rednafi.com

  105. What's up Python? Unpacking in Comprehensions, Android Wheels, and uv is a big boy now...
    | bitecode.dev

  106. Go Assembly Mutation Testing
    | words.filippo.io

  107. Stack traces for Postgres errors with backtrace_functions
    | notes.eatonphil.com

  108. The $200 Yamaha
    | chriscoyier.net

  109. 2000 words about arrays and tables
    | buttondown.com

  110. The Signal Protocol Explained #2: Implementing the Double Ratchet Algorithm in Rust
    | kerkour.com

  111. Using OpenAI Python SDK with Local Ollama Models (and When to Opt for Alternatives)
    | safjan.com

  112. I deleted Bluesky, Mastodon and LinkedIn off my phone
    | bell.bz

  113. Implementing a Key Encapsulation Mechanism (KEM) with X25519
    | kerkour.com

  114. Why I’m not letting the juniors use GenAI for coding
    | lukeplant.me.uk

  115. Programming Language Escape Hatches
    | buttondown.com

  116. Impact of AI on Tech Content Creators
    | chriscoyier.net

  117. What "Parse, don't validate" means in Python?
    | bitecode.dev

  118. The Signal Protocol Explained #1: Implementing the Post-Quantum Extended Diffie-Hellman (PQXDH) Protocol in Rust
    | kerkour.com

  119. Celebrating 20 years of MDN
    | developer.mozilla.org

  120. Building a Multi-Notebook Report with Quarto
    | safjan.com

  121. TAG Bulletin: Q2 2025
    | blog.google

  122. x86 Assembly Exercise #1: Toy kill Program (Solution)
    | blog.codingconfessions.com

  123. The EU can be shut down with a few keystrokes
    | bitecode.dev

  124. Go allocation probe
    | scattered-thoughts.net

  125. Maybe writing speed actually is a bottleneck for programming
    | buttondown.com

  126. NIH Is Far Cheaper Than The Wrong Dependency
    | lewiscampbell.tech

  127. Zig's new Writer
    | openmymind.net

  128. screencasting.com
    | chriscoyier.net

  129. Understanding Registers and Data Movement in x86-64 Assembly
    | blog.codingconfessions.com

  130. Rust is a great fit for the agentic era
    | kerkour.com

  131. A Programmer’s Guide to x86-64 Assembly (Series Overview)
    | blog.codingconfessions.com

  132. Gaslight-driven development
    | tonsky.me

  133. #3 — July 2025
    | petemillspaugh.com

  134. Encrypting Files with Passkeys and age
    | words.filippo.io

  135. Brett Cannon on Python, humans... and packaging
    | bitecode.dev

  136. Setting Up an SDL3 Mac App in XCode 16
    | journal.stuffwithstuff.com

  137. Store tags after payloads
    | scattered-thoughts.net

  138. The Creative Act by Rick Rubin
    | petemillspaugh.com

  139. Pure Rust cryptography is better than raw performance
    | kerkour.com

  140. The 4 pillars of Rust's superiority
    | kerkour.com

  141. How to Mount a Balcony Awning
    | solar.lowtechmagazine.com

  142. Logic for Programmers Turns One
    | buttondown.com

  143. You Should Run a Certificate Transparency Log
    | words.filippo.io

  144. What's up Python? Mypy gets better, uv faster, FastApi easier, Emscripten formal...er
    | bitecode.dev

  145. Podcast: Datomic: самая рок-н-рольная БД @ Тысяча фичей
    | tonsky.me

  146. The Framework 12 is the Thinkpad X220 we deserve in 2025
    | raphaelkabo.com

  147. Logical Quantifiers in Software
    | buttondown.com

  148. Why This Python Performance Trick Doesn’t Matter Anymore
    | blog.codingconfessions.com

  149. Flags for discoverable test config in Go
    | rednafi.com

  150. Want to meet people, try charging them for it?
    | notes.eatonphil.com

  151. Statically checking Python dicts for completeness
    | lukeplant.me.uk

  152. New zine: The Secret Rules of the Terminal
    | jvns.ca

  153. Downgrade or Upgrade Your Python Version with uv
    | safjan.com

  154. Lecture: Queueing theory on a cocktail napkin
    | blog.danslimmon.com

  155. Rust: A programming language that grows with you, your career and your projects
    | kerkour.com

  156. You can cheat a test suite with a big enough polynomial
    | buttondown.com

  157. Debugging memory leaks in Postgres, jemalloc edition
    | notes.eatonphil.com

  158. Career advice, or something like it
    | brooker.co.za

  159. Homomorphically Encrypting CRDTs
    | jakelazaroff.com

  160. Making System Calls in x86-64 Assembly
    | blog.codingconfessions.com

  161. How to Dress and Undress your Home
    | solar.lowtechmagazine.com

  162. Beyond Coverage - Building Truly Complete Test Suites with GitHub Copilot
    | safjan.com

  163. Solving LinkedIn Queens with SMT
    | buttondown.com

  164. Introduction to embedded development with Rust: Overview of the ecosystem
    | kerkour.com

  165. Using `make` to compile C programs (for non-C-programmers)
    | jvns.ca

  166. The Gap Through Which We Praise the Machine
    | ferd.ca

  167. One Law to Rule Them All: The Iron Law of Software Performance
    | blog.codingconfessions.com

  168. AI is a gamechanger for TLA+ users
    | buttondown.com

  169. Record broken; Broken record
    | petemillspaugh.com

  170. it took a big cup
    | j3s.sh

  171. Advanced Testing and Determinism
    | lewiscampbell.tech

  172. Systems Fun at HotOS
    | brooker.co.za

  173. What's up Python? Faster CPython cancelled, a new installer and yet another type checker
    | bitecode.dev

  174. 0053: consulting, go tips, benchmark_mode, niri, linkrot, sea of nos, llm outsourcing, books
    | scattered-thoughts.net

  175. Consider Knitting
    | journal.stuffwithstuff.com

  176. What does "Undecidable" mean, anyway
    | buttondown.com

  177. Talk: Local-first is not going to win, but that’s okay @ Local-First Conf
    | tonsky.me

  178. Debugging X86-64 Assembly with GDB
    | blog.codingconfessions.com

  179. Access Control Syntax
    | journal.stuffwithstuff.com

  180. Cheerleading
    | notes.eatonphil.com

  181. You probably don't need a DI framework
    | rednafi.com

  182. Debugging memory leaks in Postgres, heaptrack edition
    | notes.eatonphil.com

  183. How to securely encrypt your sensitive data with envelope encryption and KMS in Rust
    | kerkour.com

  184. Kitchen Confidential by Anthony Bourdain
    | petemillspaugh.com

  185. Finding hard 24 puzzles with planner programming
    | buttondown.com

  186. Announcing Markdown Ninja: Open Source alternative to Substack, Mailchimp and Netlify
    | kerkour.com

  187. Good Performance for Bad Days
    | brooker.co.za

  188. LLM Memory
    | grantslatton.com

  189. Building (and Breaking) Your First X86 Assembly Program
    | blog.codingconfessions.com

  190. Petit manifeste low-tech
    | ploum.net

  191. TAG Bulletin: Q1 2025
    | blog.google

  192. Modeling Awkward Social Situations with TLA+
    | buttondown.com

  193. Comment l’université tue le livre (et les intellectuels)
    | ploum.net

  194. Knowledge creates technical debt
    | lukeplant.me.uk

  195. Pour une poignée de bits…
    | ploum.net

  196. Claude Code
    | grantslatton.com

  197. Write the most clever code you possibly can
    | buttondown.com

  198. How to build small and secure Docker images for Rust (FROM scratch)
    | kerkour.com

  199. Color models for humans and devices
    | developer.mozilla.org

  200. The System-Level Foundation of Assembly
    | blog.codingconfessions.com

  201. Podfox: World's First Container-Aware Browser
    | val.packett.cool

  202. The Flying Pig Marathon 2025: race notes
    | petemillspaugh.com

  203. What's up Python? Python in hardware, lock file support and a new type checker
    | bitecode.dev

  204. Words & shwords
    | petemillspaugh.com

  205. The worst nightmare of small entrepreneurs happened. Products access postmortem.
    | kerkour.com

  206. The Business Case for Vanilla JS
    | lewiscampbell.tech

  207. VSCode workspace shortcuts with .desktop files on Linux
    | lovergne.dev

  208. Differential Coverage for Debugging
    | research.swtch.com

  209. Solution-space Taste
    | grantslatton.com

  210. Requirements change until they don't
    | buttondown.com

  211. The next big thing in Python
    | bitecode.dev

  212. Sorting Algorithm: The Game
    | grantslatton.com

  213. Burn your title
    | notes.eatonphil.com

  214. Preventing accidental struct copies in Go
    | rednafi.com

  215. Transactions are a protocol
    | notes.eatonphil.com

  216. Dédicace à Trolls & Vélo et magie cycliste
    | ploum.net

  217. Decomposing Aurora DSQL
    | brooker.co.za

  218. The Halting Problem is a terrible example of NP-Harder
    | buttondown.com

  219. Avoiding memory fragmentation in Rust with jemalloc
    | kerkour.com

  220. I’ve been to 38 US states
    | petemillspaugh.com

  221. À la recherche de l’attention perdue
    | ploum.net

  222. Go 1.24's "tool" directive
    | rednafi.com

  223. Concurrency in Haskell: Fast, Simple, Correct
    | bitbashing.io

  224. Building a Tell-Tale Heart with an Adafruit Prop-Maker FeatherWing
    | raphaelkabo.com

  225. Using Eleventy and S3 to build a personal photo blog
    | raphaelkabo.com

  226. Binary Arithmetic and Bitwise Operations for Systems Programming
    | blog.codingconfessions.com

  227. Capturing console output in Go tests
    | rednafi.com

  228. Default styles for h1 elements are changing
    | developer.mozilla.org

  229. Your mileage may vary: Training for a marathon on a vegan diet
    | petemillspaugh.com

  230. The Business of Being a Writer by Jane Friedman
    | petemillspaugh.com

  231. De l’utilisation des smartphones et des tablettes chez les adolescents
    | ploum.net

  232. Zig's new LinkedList API (it's time to learn @fieldParentPtr)
    | openmymind.net

  233. How to implement cryptographically-secure API keys in Rust
    | kerkour.com

  234. Solving a "Layton Puzzle" with Prolog
    | buttondown.com

  235. On David Foster Wallace
    | petemillspaugh.com

  236. Typo Minimizing Keyboard
    | grantslatton.com

  237. A Fresh Coat of Paint
    | hamvocke.com

  238. The Curve is Bending
    | grantslatton.com

  239. Understanding Computer Organization from First Principles
    | blog.codingconfessions.com

  240. Graph Search Algorithm: The Game
    | grantslatton.com

  241. The blissful zen of a good side project
    | joshcollinsworth.com

  242. A rough survey of compilation, recompilation, and compile-time evaluation
    | scattered-thoughts.net

  243. An incredible week for Markdown Ninja
    | kerkour.com

  244. What's up python? Less perf, no sugar and more bugs
    | bitecode.dev

  245. Architecting and building medium-sized web services in Rust with Axum, SQLx and PostgreSQL
    | kerkour.com

  246. Trading ambition for presence
    | petemillspaugh.com

  247. [April Cools] Gaming Games for Non-Gamers
    | buttondown.com

  248. Don’t Sweat the Small Stuff by Richard Carlson
    | petemillspaugh.com

  249. Deferred teardown closure in Go testing
    | rednafi.com

  250. Things that go wrong with disk IO
    | notes.eatonphil.com

  251. Allocator.resize
    | openmymind.net

  252. Betteridge's Law of Software Engineering Specialness
    | buttondown.com

  253. How, as an indie author, I have fought and won against the piracy of my books
    | kerkour.com

  254. Black Hat Rust Promotion
    | kerkour.com

  255. Phil Eaton on Technical Blogging
    | notes.eatonphil.com

  256. One or Two? How Many Queues?
    | brooker.co.za