Blogs about Development

Daniel Parris in When Do We Stop Finding New Music? A Statistical Analysis: 30 is our optimal stopping point: Despite the 37% rule being a highly generalized heuristic, there is some merit to doubling down …

Reading I don’t think you should focus on the failure of others, or even the success of others. What you do need to do—and what is surprisingly hard—is to define success for your own part …

MemoryDB: Speed, Durability, and Composition. Blocks are fun. Earlier this week, my colleagues Yacine Taleb, Kevin McGehee, Nan Yan, Shawn Wang, Stefan Mueller, and Allen Samuels published Amazon MemoryDB: A fast and durable memory-first cloud …

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If you work in shell/terminal often enough, then over time the history will become your personal knowledge vault, documentation and command reference. Being able to use this personal documentation efficiently can hugely boost your productivity. …

FTC (tweet, Hacker News): Today, the Federal Trade Commission issued a final rule to promote competition by banning noncompetes nationwide, protecting the fundamental freedom of workers to change jobs, increasing innovation, and fostering new business …

I really enjoyed attending and speaking at LeadDev Berlin in 2023. Here are just a few of the things that I took away from the conference. When to make quick decisions I learned the most …

I saw that Meta released the Llama 3 AI model, and people seem excited about it, so I decided to give it a try. I don’t have much experience running open-source AI models, and I …

The following piece was written months ago, right after the “We Are Developers World Conference” took place in Berlin. So far I have not been reached out to for providing feedback to the conference, and …

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I have a few providers which initialize state, shove it in a context, and then ensure that the state is synchronized with AsyncStorage so that if the app is quit and restarted, the context’s state …

Recently I purchased a Honda Odyssey (2024 EX-L) to replace my aging Subaru Outback and get something a bit better for longer trips. Specifically, I wanted to be able to easily put two (or more) …

Week #687 We started the week with a few potentially new projects down-under in Australia. Most of these projects fall into custom software development: Data Bridge category. Companies have data in one silo and need …

When the Medley Interlisp Project began reviving the system around 2020, its Common Lisp implementation was in the state it had when commercial development petered out in the 1990s, mostly prior to the ANSI standard. …

I am writing these notes between a five year old’s birthday party and a 67 year old’s birthday dinner. It remains to be seen which one is the more chaotic. Our aforementioned break in the …

There are several nice options in NixOS for specifying scheduled backup jobs, including borgbackup, borgmatic and restic. But I’ve often used rsync in the past, and there is no such module for scheduled rsync jobs …

Do you have a public library card or go to a university? Then you can watch the Oscar-nominated documentary Ayn Rand: A Sense of Life for free on Kanopy! The film sweeps from Rand’s childhood …

The story of a fiasco. This is the second in a small series of articles titled Trying to fit the hype cycle. In the introduction, I've described the exercise I had in mind: Determining a …