Last night, I caused something on X by saying that transactional databases should be single-threaded and aggressively sharded:

hot take: databases should be single-threaded

someone a long time ago decided that database shards should be multi-threaded. ever…

Public repository of the Micro QuickJS Javascript Engine - bellard/mquickjs

An interesting anecdote from this month's Linux Plumbers Conference in Tokyo is that Meta (Facebook) is using the Linux scheduler originally designed for the needs of Valve's Steam Deck..

A while back, I coded the CBC (Canadian Broadcasting Corporation) logo with a quick css-doodle implementation.
There are certainly better ways to do it, but I chose to stack several black boxes and circles, because the background color was black, those…

The quest to run large AI models locally on an individual's machine are driving the biggest change in laptop architecture in decades.

The group’s biggest claims were largely incorrect, a New York Times analysis found. And its many smaller cuts added up to few savings.

We’ve figured out how to unredact some of the Epstein Files:

Or: How JPEG Screenshots Defeated Our Beautiful H.264 WebCodecs Pipeline

Inlining doesn't have to be all-or-nothing

Microsoft is taking an impressive step in modernizing its biggest codebases and will eliminate all C/C++ code by the end of the decade.

feat. Nix, microVMs, and GPUs

So transfer them to his office, or so it seems.

Bilge Ebiri explores filmmaker Terrence Malick’s vision of grace and his far-ranging influence on American cinema.

We have many names to describe personal tools. Malleable software speaks to how it behaves. Home-cooked software speaks to who makes it.

The bare metal Go UEFI boot manager. Contribute to usbarmory/go-boot development by creating an account on GitHub.

A tool to detect whether a PDF has a bad redaction - freelawproject/x-ray

Angelo Pesce's homepage & blog on computers, graphics and other things.