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  1. Fixing the `opendiff` command line tool
    | chriscoyier.net

  2. Choosing between PostgreSQL and SQLite
    | kerkour.com

  3. Local by Flywheel was Ultra Slow Because I Had The Wrong Version
    | chriscoyier.net

  4. Is the "Nintendo Classics" collection a good value?
    | sethmlarson.dev

  5. Weekly Update 472
    | troyhunt.com

  6. Hosting a website with automatic HTTPS and unlimited bandwidth for 3 € / month with Pingoo
    | kerkour.com

  7. What's up Python? Lazy imports, django gets a task queue...
    | bitecode.dev

  8. Locality, and Temporal-Spatial Hypothesis
    | brooker.co.za

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

  10. #5 — September 2025
    | petemillspaugh.com

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

  12. Danger Gently
    | chriscoyier.net

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

  14. Email outage
    | kerkour.com

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

  16. Subtest grouping in Go
    | rednafi.com

  17. Understanding Weak References in Python
    | blog.codingconfessions.com

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

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

  20. Weekly Update 471
    | troyhunt.com

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

  22. Strongbacks
    | chriscoyier.net

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

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

  25. Microwaves
    | chriscoyier.net

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

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

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

  29. Send a Song
    | chriscoyier.net

  30. Flies
    | chriscoyier.net

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

  32. Weekly Update 470
    | troyhunt.com

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

  42. Test state, not interactions
    | rednafi.com

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

  44. Weekly Update 469
    | troyhunt.com

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

  46. Infinite Precision CVSS Calculator
    | sethmlarson.dev

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

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

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

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

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

  52. Weekly Update 468
    | troyhunt.com

  53. Early return and goroutine leak
    | rednafi.com

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

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

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

  57. SQL needed structure
    | scattered-thoughts.net

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

  59. #4 — August 2025
    | petemillspaugh.com

  60. Untitled
    | chriscoyier.net

  61. 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

  62. Une vie sans notifications
    | ploum.net

  63. The Millspaugh method
    | petemillspaugh.com

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

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

  66. Weekly Update 467
    | troyhunt.com

  67. Lifecycle management in Go tests
    | rednafi.com

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

  69. Logical Duals in Software Engineering
    | buttondown.com

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

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

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

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

  74. Titles matter
    | joshcollinsworth.com

  75. Weekly Update 466
    | troyhunt.com

  76. The kids are alright
    | bitecode.dev

  77. Chalk Font Kid
    | chriscoyier.net

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

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

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

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

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

  83. The Important Things in Life
    | hamvocke.com

  84. Weekly Update 465
    | troyhunt.com

  85. Basic Type System Terminology
    | lewiscampbell.tech

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

  95. Just a nice shell script
    | bitecode.dev

  96. Weekly Update 464
    | troyhunt.com

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

  107. Getting Started with Randomised Testing
    | lewiscampbell.tech

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

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

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

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

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

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

  114. The $200 Yamaha
    | chriscoyier.net

  115. 2000 words about arrays and tables
    | buttondown.com

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

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

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

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

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

  121. Programming Language Escape Hatches
    | buttondown.com

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

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

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

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

  126. TAG Bulletin: Q2 2025
    | blog.google

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

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

  129. Go allocation probe
    | scattered-thoughts.net

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

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

  132. Zig's new Writer
    | openmymind.net

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

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

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

  136. Gaslight-driven development
    | tonsky.me

  137. #3 — July 2025
    | petemillspaugh.com

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

  146. Logic for Programmers Turns One
    | buttondown.com

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

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

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

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

  151. Logical Quantifiers in Software
    | buttondown.com

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

  163. Homomorphically Encrypting CRDTs
    | jakelazaroff.com

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

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

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

  167. Solving LinkedIn Queens with SMT
    | buttondown.com

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

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

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

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

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

  173. it took a big cup
    | j3s.sh

  174. Record broken; Broken record
    | petemillspaugh.com

  175. Advanced Testing and Determinism
    | lewiscampbell.tech

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

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

  178. 0053: consulting, go tips, benchmark_mode, niri, linkrot, sea of nos, llm outsourcing, books
    | scattered-thoughts.net

  179. Consider Knitting
    | journal.stuffwithstuff.com

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

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

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

  183. Access Control Syntax
    | journal.stuffwithstuff.com

  184. Cheerleading
    | notes.eatonphil.com

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

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

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

  188. Kitchen Confidential by Anthony Bourdain
    | petemillspaugh.com

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

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

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

  192. LLM Memory
    | grantslatton.com

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

  194. Petit manifeste low-tech
    | ploum.net

  195. TAG Bulletin: Q1 2025
    | blog.google

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

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

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

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

  200. Claude Code
    | grantslatton.com

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

  208. Words & shwords
    | petemillspaugh.com

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

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

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

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

  213. Solution-space Taste
    | grantslatton.com

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

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

  216. Sorting Algorithm: The Game
    | grantslatton.com

  217. Burn your title
    | notes.eatonphil.com

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

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

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

  221. Decomposing Aurora DSQL
    | brooker.co.za

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

  239. On David Foster Wallace
    | petemillspaugh.com

  240. Typo Minimizing Keyboard
    | grantslatton.com

  241. A Fresh Coat of Paint
    | hamvocke.com

  242. The Curve is Bending
    | grantslatton.com

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

  250. Trading ambition for presence
    | petemillspaugh.com

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

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

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

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

  255. Allocator.resize
    | openmymind.net

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