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What an inspired name :)

This looks like a disaster. It is like it was fast-tracked based on the oomph factor because seriously, how come you didn't notice how hard it is to read text or even notice overla…

https://github.com/skypjack/entt is a fantastic alternative; also, one of the most beautiful codebases/elegant designs I 've come across.

Velocity is about familiarity, about expressiveness, about being able to quickly translating what you want to accomplish to code. It’s also about, for me anyway, not being constrai…

All our infrastructure technology, services, and almost all “applications” we have built are written in C++. That’s millions of lines of code and span everything from IR, distribut…

We have been running hundreds of services that effectively consume from various topics, perform mostly simple transformations and produce back to other topics. Providing this kind …

This is a great related podcast episode: https://maximumfun.org/episodes/sawbones/havana-syndrome/

Apologies for linking to something I wrote; I believe convenience is addictive: https://markpapadakis.medium.com/convenience-is-key-2aad97d5...

This works great for me; what's most important is understanding what it is and how it materialises. Dealing with it becomes much simpler once you can reason about it: https://markp…

This is quite ridiculous. I’d say it’s obviously ridiculous but others may have a different point of view. The government there is eager to side with Murdoch and his friends for fa…

This is fantastic news. What would you say were the hardest aspects of the design and implementation, in terms of effort and thinking that went into those accomplishments ?

https://medium.com/@markpapadakis/interesting-codebases-159f... In addition to those I highly recommend studying ClickHouse’s codebase. There are brilliant design and engineering b…

Pocket ( https://getpocket.com/ ). It’s really bad. Been using it for years and it’s always been broken. Crashes often, narration sometimes works most of the time it doesn’t, other…

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kuro5hin, slashdot as it existed back when, dejanews, and s bunch of video gaming sites that went extinct

I never had coffee. I drink Diet Coke and I enjoy tea ( I have some once every week or so ). I have been writing code for over 25 years now, and I never felt that I was missing out…

From https://500ish.com/offline-curious-85363c4aed18 > One trend I’m most curious about right now is the rise of no or low alcohol drinks. I noticed this in Europe years ago — that…

Our ( https://bestprice.gr/ ) services/“programs” generate three different types of events: - Short events (no longer than ~1k in size) where the cost to generate and transmit is v…

This is what I believe is the the main cause of burnout and how to efficiently prevent it and deal with it if necessary: https://medium.com/@markpapadakis/how-to-prevent-burnout-an…

I like how the blog post title is, likely, based on Google's Page and Brin seminal paper "The Anatomy of a Large-Scale Hypertextual Web Search Engine". :) This blog post, and other…

For a few million queries we needed to index, many of them close to 30 characters in length(some even longer than that), the generated index size for max edit distance 3, was reall…

Got it. This is by design - though I suspect we need to dial down the cost for misspelled first character in prefixes. We built our own FST, which is somewhat similar to the design…