Quake Shareware, a CD-ROM just a little too full - Fabien Sanglard
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The August 17 outage, and the work ahead
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The August 17 outage, and the work ahead
An update on the August 17 outage and the steps we're taking to improve reliability.
Finding a hidden Mersenne Twister implementation inside a 15 year old game binary
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I Reverse Engineered Plants vs. Zombies to Answer One Very Specific Question
Plants vs. Zombies has been, since I was a little kid, one of my favorite franchises; from the GOTY winner Plants vs Zombies, to my…
The unlikely Linux macro
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An unlikely experiment
There are so many great places to learn about out there on the internet, and one of those great places is the legendary Linux Kernel. If you stumble around s...
How To Report A Bug So It Actually Gets Fixed
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How To Report A Bug So It Actually Gets Fixed
A production ByteBuf leak took me from Netty logs to a fix shipped by Microsoft in a few weeks. Here is the step-by-step process I use to report bugs so they actually get fixed.
What Zig felt like, coming from Rust
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What Zig felt like, coming from Rust
What Zig felt like, coming from Rust Intro I’ve spent the last 7 years as a Rust developer, working mostly on open source projects, and I’d like to think I’ve built a solid feel for the language and its ecosystem along the way. I gravitate toward the functional…
Your executable is a SQLite database
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Your executable is a SQLite database
I have been probably obsessed with two things in the last few years: Nix as a tool to explore innovative ideas that require the capability to rebuild the world and replacing ELF with SQLite as an executable format. You might have noticed that these two ideas…
How an Underrated Refactor Saved 90% Memory Usage
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How an Underrated Refactor Saved 90% Memory Usage | TanStack Blog
TanStack Table V9 can use dramatically less memory than Table V8 in large tables because row, column, cell, and header APIs now live on shared prototypes instead of every object instance.
Solving the 1+N Query Problem
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Casey Muratori – The Root of The Root of All Evil – BSC 2026
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Casey Muratori – The Root of The Root of All Evil – BSC 2026
Casey Muratori's talk at BSC 2026, delving into root of the root of all evil, premature optimization.
References and Picture Credits: https://ComputerEnhance.com/theroot
00:00:19 Talk
02:08:17 Q&A w/ gingerBill
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References and Picture Credits: https://ComputerEnhance.com/theroot
00:00:19 Talk
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GitHub confirms Actions outage caused by database issue
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Welcome to GitHub's home for real-time and historical data on system performance.
mold: A Massively Parallel Linker
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mold: A Massively Parallel Linker
Linking is a critical step in the software build process that combines compiled object files into a single executable or shared library. Despite decades of engineering effort, link times remain a...
The Depths of JavaScript: Minesweeper in 247 Bytes
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How we saved 100 terabytes of memory by optimizing 1.1.1.1’s DNS cache
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How we saved 100 terabytes of memory by optimizing 1.1.1.1’s DNS cache
Five Rust-level memory optimizations to the DNS cache layout of Big Pineapple cut per-entry memory by 56%, freeing approximately 100 TB of memory across Cloudflare's fleet.
Zod v4.5 adds schema compilation (3-9x faster validation)
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Introducing Zod 4.5 and its flagship feature: SCHEMA COMPILATION
Just z.compile() any schema and get back a new precompiled schema that's 3-9x faster
Just z.compile() any schema and get back a new precompiled schema that's 3-9x faster
Reverse Engineering Unknown File Formats with ImHex
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Reverse Engineering Unknown File Formats with ImHex | WerWolv
An Introduction to File Formats and ImHex by Reverse Engineering FEZ's Save File Format
p99 0 ms* autocomplete for 240 million domain names
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p99 0 ms* autocomplete for 240 million domain names
How Wirewiki's domain-name autocomplete renders suggestions next frame for 99% of keystrokes.