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Beyond ‘latency numbers every programmer should know’

Took 10 years, but there's finally a better list.

An ‘All Souls Examination’ of the machine

Inspiration towards a better software essay.

A brief history of our serverless future

Just over ten years ago, Tim Wagner walked down a chain-link fenced office corridor towards The Chop…

Fast, lazy container loading in Modal.com

Sharing my August 2024 talk at NYC Systems.

The Pull Request Self-Review

Out of the crooked timber of humanity...

How to catch crypto miners using syscall signatures

Whatever is necessary to keep our users happy and our cryptomining abusers mad, we’ll do it.

Computers are fast

Do you know how much your computer can do in one second?

The Wonderful LLMs

Praise for ChatGPT after one year of use.

Computing Cultural Literacy

What every programmer needs to know.

Infinite AMA

A ChatGPT that answers questions just like me.

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