Why rendering a single letter on your screen is one of the hardest problems your computer solves every day - a deep dive into Bézier curves, rasterization, hinting bytecode, subpixel rendering, and the GPU texture atlas cache.

0:00 The mathematical nightmare…

Build Your Own Redis with
C/C++ | Learn network programming and data structures

00:00 Intro
00:58 Interview process
04:16 Starting at Atlassian
04:35 Building an Open Service Broker
07:43 Diagram of OSB architecture
09:56 Picking a proxy technology - Envoy
11:36 Envoy XDS Control Plane
14:33 AWS Infrastructure
17:45 Creating the machine…

I created a basic horror game in Unity and then recreated it in Godot to find out which engine comes out on top. I've conducted a bunch of tests, such as install size, project load time, and frame rate, and I've shared the results of those tests here.

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Learn to Hack!

What was it like to design the ultimate 68k processor? In this interview, Amiga Bill and Oliver Achten sit down with Joe Circello, the lead designer of the legendary Motorola 68060 CPU.

The 68060 was a masterpiece of engineering—bringing a highly optimized…

I’m calling it now, the adoption of AI agents into software development will be one of the most costly mistakes in the field’s history. Agents cannot program, and it’s taking longer and longer to realize that they can’t. They are a highly sophisticated statistical…

Ulrich Drepper recently approached us asking if we would be interested in publishing a lengthy [...]

How to study the compressibility of language.
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A curated list of the best books for software engineers, with links to legal and free sources. Covers programming, system design, DevOps, ML and career growth. - devxhub/awesome-book-collection

The software development profession is in the midst of upheaval. Nobody knows how the AI revolution will play out in the end, but it is c...

The Most Important Social Phenomenon of the Late 2010s

I have started writing this post multiple times but never ended up posting it. I wasn’t able to figure out a proper way to express my position about Prettier. But this time, I think I should try harder to explain that for future reference.

How I registered a Linux machine with Apple's private services, received an existing Find My People key over IDS, and decrypted the live location without a Mac.

AI definitely helps with productivity, but only when you have the right culture in place first!