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It’s fun to build things like this but if you want to nourish a user base you need to fully understand the landscape of similar tools and then explain your differentiating value. T…

This is an unnecessary optimization, particularly for the article's use case (small files that are read immediately after being written). Just use /tmp. The linux buffer cache is m…

Woohoo, one of the highlights of this time of year. I had to do mine from an eastbound flight over the pacific. This has become a fun tradition not just for me personally but for m…

Architecture matters because while deep learning can conceivably fit a curve with a single, huge layer (in theory... Universal approximation theorem), the amount of compute and dat…

But not all things you might do with a dotfile (or, more generally, per-user customization) are just replacing files. Things like cronjobs, brew installs, `defaults` in MacOS, etc.…

Reread the story. The child wasn’t left in the car for an extended period (by a grandparent, not parent). The child had just been buckled into a car seat and the driver closed the …

We give away potatoes to trick or treaters on Halloween. They are immensely popular and we’ve become known as the potato house in our city’s Facebook groups. The weird delight on t…

Careful, your homedir has a CloudStorage folder and if you are using, say, Dropbox or Google Drive then that find will be incredibly slow (in addition to security software possibly…

I find it very useful. I made a tool similar to mcfly (before knowing it existed) and use this workflow (`--here`) constantly. Also hostname context and shell session can be useful…

While I doubt I'd quit my day job for it, over the past couple of years I've been poking at my own database-backed shell history. The key requirements for me were that it be extrem…

What a great historical summary. Compression has moved on now but having grown up marveling at PKZip and maximizing usable space on very early computers, as well as compression in …

For those thinking about lessons to take from this, check out the EOL DR checklist: https://github.com/potatoqualitee/eol-dr

Mark is one of the world's top experts on practical MySQL performance at scale, having spent a huge amount of time optimizing MySQL at Google and Facebook. There's a question in th…

This article seems like it is an AI summary of another document. It doesn’t offer anything new, just restating someone else’s analysis. And that analysis comes down to… storage dem…

Sounds like hypnogogic hallucinations and/or the hypnogogic stare. Thomas Edison and Salvador Dali (an)used this state for creativity supposedly.

He was and worked on, among other things, Python while there. He's a trustworthy source.