From its humble beginnings as a project code-named "Oak" at Sun Microsystems to becoming a global standard for enterprise software and billions of devices, Java's journey is one of radical innovation, strategic pivots, and enduring community strength.

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Somewhere at the bottom of the Forth and Clyde Canal, buried in the silt, there is a box of custom silicon that was right about almost everything. Back in 1988 a Scottish hi-fi company shipped a processor that checked the type and bounds of every memory access…

Based on prior art: [Fil-C](https://fil-c.org/)

Currently Zig has:

```zig
pub const Optimize = enum {
/// Safety checks enabled. Optimize for bug detection, accurate debug info,
/// and compilation speed (in that order).
debug,
/// Safety…

For some reason, during TacoSprint 2026 I decided to see if we could tackle relocatable binaries in Nix.

An audit of 445 NixOS modules shows the cost of making configuration and secrets share one interface.

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The built-in Date API is full of traps: unreliable parsing, mutation, timezone confusion, and broken arithmetic. Here's what it's actually doing, and how Temporal finally fixes it.

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Does AI really make it possible for anyone to create apps? Can anyone really become a developer?

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Walk through the C compilation pipeline: preprocessor, compiler, assembler, and linker. Start with a normal hello world, inspect macros and generated assembly, and end by producing a running binary that has no main() function.

In the prequel, we introduced Neptune, a Direct3D protocol forwarding layer for VirtIO. Neptune allowed us to serialize Direct3D API calls across the hypervisor boundary and this allowed us to run Wine games on a Linux guest with a Linux host faster than…

My attempt at writing a little graphics and compute library with Vulkan.

Links:
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Code: https://www.patreon.com/SebastianLague/posts/source-code-164801777 (currently…

An independent, non-commercial educational visualization of PostgreSQL internals. Not affiliated with Electronic Arts.

I've written more shell scripts than I can count, but I still stumble upon tricks that honestly blow my mind far too often than I care to admit. Latest thing that blew my head clean off? The shell colon.

The year was 2015, halfway through my Computer Science bachelor’s degree. I had spent a few months contributing to open source and my confidence levels were high, so I thought: why not aim for a summer internship at Microsoft?
Microsoft, of all places, might…

The critics are right: PostgreSQL's MVCC bloats tables and amplifies writes. Oracle, InnoDB, SQL Server, MongoDB, LSM stores, and etcd answer the same four design questions differently, and each pays for it somewhere else.

Explaining the biggest misconception in HTML and how one small feature can fix it.

Every system ends up with bad data.