A lot of effective engineering comes from the accumulation of small nuggets of knowledge.

The Broken Window Theory is the idea that visible disorder encourages more disorder.

git worktrees are no longer a niche tool, but they still come with some gotchas — like the fact that, in a worktree, .git is a file, not a directory.

Empowering everyone to build reliable and efficient software.

Git packfiles were designed for mmap and local disk, so pulling one object out
of a bucket means guessing at a byte range. I wrote a new format instead.

Cloudflare's global network is immense but not limitless. As we look for small ways to trim our resource usage, we sometimes get lucky and we can cut significantly more. Here’s how we reduced one of our Pingora-based service's RAM usage with statistics.

A discussion thread from comp.lang.java about the magic number
(first four bytes) of Java class files.

Coupling and Cohesion in practice: meaningful quantitative metrics and the common ground behind software design principles.

Do you want to know what your phone is sending & receiving? Nowadays, that means you need to control who it trusts. In modern connections everything sent &...

CedarDB is a database system that delivers unmatched performance for transactions and analytics, from small writes to handling billions of rows. Built on cutting-edge research to power today’s tools and tomorrow’s challenges.

When you develop a program, dealing with errors and side effects is unavoidable. However carefully you write the code, there will be…

I’ve always been fascinated by the history of compilers. So I compiled the same C benchmark(index-c) with GCC from 4 to 16 and Clang from 3…

From NeoBook to VisualNEO Win: 30+ Years of Keeping a Development Tool Alive