The Fifth Kind of Optimisation (20 minute read)
Parallelization is an optimization method that uses multiple CPU cores for simultaneous calculations. Modern multicore CPUs and advancements in languages like Rust have made parallel programming much more accessible and reliable. For example, Rust's Send and Sync traits allow for safe data sharing between threads, preventing common multi-threading errors.
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Overengineered anchor links (17 minute read)
Anchor links often have an issue of not scrolling to the correct section on a site, especially for headings near the bottom of the page. This article goes over solutions, starting with simple fixes like adding extra padding or shifting the trigger line. The final solution fixes anchor link positioning by minimizing the mean squared error (MSE) while still keeping relative section spacing.
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Engineering a Trace Details Page That Handles a Million Spans (11 minute read)
It's a challenge to visualize traces with millions of spans in a browser without performance issues. However, Signoz was able to do so by using virtualization to only render spans within the user's viewport, optimizing database queries for fast data retrieval, and flattening the hierarchical trace data using a pre-order traversal for efficient pagination. It also added smart windowing, dynamically adjusting the data based on user interactions to provide a smoother debugging experience by only loading relevant spans.
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In retrospect, DevOps was a bad idea (5 minute read)
The main goal of DevOps was to allow devs to manage their code through production, but formalizing this into "DevOps teams" backfired. This shift isolated DevOps engineers from product teams, recreating the operational silos that DevOps sought to eliminate.
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GitMCP (Website)
GitMCP provides instant AI context for GitHub repositories by creating a Model Context Protocol (MCP) server that AI assistants can use to understand code and documentation. Use it quickly by replacing "github.com" or "github.io" in the URL with "gitmcp.io".
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Headlamp (GitHub Repo)
Headlamp is an easy-to-use and extensible Kubernetes web UI. It provides a vendor-independent, multi-cluster Kubernetes interface with features like resource management, logs, interactive actions, and role-based access control.
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Celebrating 50 years of Microsoft (92 minute read)
"Source Code," a memoir by Bill Gates, reflects on his childhood, the early days of Microsoft, and the influences that shaped his life. He credits a lot of his success with Microsoft to good teachers early on, along with having early experiences with computers and programming. Now, he's focused mostly on philanthropy to combat diseases, address climate change, and improve education.
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AI cheats: Why you didn't notice your teammate was cheating (4 minute read)
Video game cheats have evolved from colorbots to AI-powered aim assist. Colorbots read enemy positions from the screen based on color, but AI has surpassed this methodology. Newer AI cheats analyze screen captures to identify enemies and operate on a separate PC to evade anti-cheat detection, making them difficult to detect even while spectating.
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AI 2027 (37 minute read)
This document predicts the creation of capable AI agents that result in a superhuman AI researcher over time. It predicts increasing competition between the US and China, with stolen AI models and geopolitical tensions rising. There are also concerns about AI misalignment, job displacement, and national security, which may lead to increased government oversight and public backlash.
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Why We Moved off Next.js (3 minute read)
Documenso switched from Next.js to React Router and Vite due to growing pains with Next.js's newer features, which included debugging and build issues, along with slow hot module reloading.
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React Architecture Tradeoffs: SPA, SSR, or RSC (10 minute read)
The traditional React Single Page App (SPA) approach requires devs to manually handle routing, data fetching, and architecture, while modern React frameworks using Server-Side Rendering (SSR) and React Server Components (RSC) have better performance, SEO, and a better dev experience.
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