Why "learn to code" is bullshit advice for 99% of non-technical founders and professionals — and how to develop *technical intuition and fluency* instead, which will grow your career faster.
https://sanpram.com/2021/05/25/ultimate-guide-to-software/

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Omission of a single '&' has caused Google to brick Chrome OS devices
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2021/07/google-pushed-a-one-character-typo-to-production-bricking-chrome-os-devices/

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Fluxsort: A branchless sorting algorithm 2.5 times faster than std:stable_sort
https://github.com/scandum/fluxsort

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You Really Shouldn't Roll Your Own Crypto: An Empirical Study of Vulnerabilities in Cryptographic Libraries: "37.2% of vulnerabilities are memory safety issues, indicating that systems-level bugs are a greater security concern than the actual cryptographic procedures." [abstract + link to PDF, 15pp]
https://arxiv.org/abs/2107.04940

https://redd.it/or56tz
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Content-aware image resizing in JavaScript (using Seam Carving algorithm)
https://trekhleb.dev/blog/2021/content-aware-image-resizing-in-javascript/

https://redd.it/oquxvc
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Agile At 20: The Failed Revolution
https://www.simplethread.com/agile-at-20-the-failed-rebellion/

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Back to the '70s with Serverless
http://evrl.com/devops/cloud/2020/12/18/serverless.html

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I wrote an extremely fast SQL Parser in Python. It can translate between different dialects allowing you to reuse queries with different engines!
https://github.com/tobymao/sqlglot

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16 of 30 Google results contain SQL injection vulnerabilities
https://waritschlager.de/sqlinjections-in-google-results.html

https://redd.it/oriboj
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We learned our database (redis) can only handle 65,536 concurrent players
https://twitter.com/Splitgate/status/1418265422504202240

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Understanding Rust futures by going way too deep
https://fasterthanli.me/articles/understanding-rust-futures-by-going-way-too-deep

https://redd.it/ormzi1
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Building a Better Resume for Developers
http://www.bennorthrop.com/Essays/2021/techrez-a-better-resume-for-tech.php

https://redd.it/orypo5
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What I Wish I Knew About CSS When Starting Out As A Frontender
https://engineering.kablamo.com.au/posts/2021/my-first-css

https://redd.it/orqmp3
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Finding Windows HANDLE leaks, in Chromium and others
https://randomascii.wordpress.com/2021/07/25/finding-windows-handle-leaks-in-chromium-and-others/

https://redd.it/orv4t5
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Lessons learned from 15 years of SumatraPDF, an open source Windows app
https://blog.kowalczyk.info/article/2f72237a4230410a888acbfce3dc0864/lessons-learned-from-15-years-of-sumatrapdf-an-open-source-windows-app.html

https://redd.it/os50uc
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For developers, Apple’s Safari is crap and outdated
https://blog.perrysun.com/2021/07/15/for-developers-safari-is-crap-and-outdated/

https://redd.it/osj2i8
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Microsoft proposes a standard of adding app changelog to Webmanifest
https://github.com/MicrosoftEdge/MSEdgeExplainers/blob/main/VersionHistory/explainer.md

https://redd.it/osgg4i
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6 Command Line Tools for Productive Programmers
https://earthly.dev/blog/command-line-tools/

https://redd.it/os15fs
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Open Source Instagram Viewer Hit with Cease and Desist Letter
https://github.com/austinhuang0131/austinhuang0131/issues/2

https://redd.it/osnl7x
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We did a page speed tests of a popular corporate websites. Here is what we got
https://fastdivs.com/blog/we-did-a-page-speed-tests-of-a-popular-corporate-websites-here-is-what-we-got/

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