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The EU told them they can not by default prefer their own maps product when linking from their search product, they have to allow the user to choose. They could have simply added a…

I actually first thought this wasn't possible at all because I'm used to zstd which by default uses a 128MB window and I usually set it to the max (2GB window). 32kB is _really_ ti…

I think you're looking at a different perspective than me. At _build time_ you need to process O(n), yes, and generate O(n) additional data. But I said "The amount of data you need…

I'm a bit disappointed that this only solves the "find index of file in tar" problem, but not at all the "partially read a tar.gz" file problem. So really you're still reading the …

There's a bit of an issue with the linked deployment (in my opinion). In the most zoomed out view you should see the first layer of blocks - very big blocks titled "English languag…

Here's my article on how I built it - and also an instance hosted on GitHub pages if the AA domain is blocked for you: https://phiresky.github.io/blog/2025/visualizing-all-books-i.…

Netdata used to be really impressively minimal, performant, and packed with functions. Fully GPL open source. You ran one install command and it started a web-ui at localhost:19999…

A $120M spend on AWS is equivalent to around a $12M spend on Hetzner Dedicated (likely even less, the factor is 10-20x in my experience), so that would be 3% of their revenue from …

Even then you can just err.downcast_ref:: () though to get the underlying IOError, no?

I'm happy to answer any questions! Nice to see this here again :)

This is great! Especially the DB sync part, because that happens before a user interaction, so you actually have to wait for it (the update itself can run in the background). It al…

There's an extension to ISO8601 that fixes this and is starting to become supported in libraries: 2019-12-23T12:00:00-02:00[America/Sao_Paulo] https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/d…

That seems a bit excessive to sandbox a command that really just downloads arbitrary code you are going to execute immediately afterwards anyways? Also I can recommend pnpm, it has…

I disagree, you can always spend one or two sentences at the top to immediately bring everyone to a good starting point, regardless of how much technical depth the rest of the arti…

If your cache fits in Redis then it fits in RAM, if your cache fits in RAM then Postgres will serve it from RAM just as well. Writes will go to RAM as well if you have synchronous=…

I think relational databases are great, but this is my biggest problem with SQL, even before the ridiculous syntax. A query like select users.*, orders.* from users left join order…

TypeScript does supports all of these - `C implements I` is not necessary but gives compile errors if not fulfilled. You can use `o satisfies T` wherever you want to ensure that an…

If you replace `sh:link` with `sh:clone` instead, it will. > clone: reflink-capable filesystems only. Try to clone both files with the FIDEDUPERANGE ioctl(3p) (or BTRFS_IOC_FILE_EX…

Wow, amazing how you managed to convert that into a compact shader, including a representation of the visualization!

It is admittedly pretty noisy, which is somewhat intentional because the focus was on high data density. Here's an a bit more minimalistic view (less color, only one text level sim…

Huh, that text (and barcodes) are very offset from where they should be. Would you mind sharing what OS and browser you are using and if this text weirdness was temporary or all th…

Did you search by title or ISBN? If you search by title, the search goes through Google Books, which is very incomplete (since I didn't build a search database myself). If you put …

Yes! You can go here to have group texts be horizontal, it was just a stylistic choice to better show the layout: https://phiresky.github.io/isbn-visualization/?groupTextVert...

The names of the groups are taken directly from the official allocation XML from the International ISBN Organization. This is what they call it, I assume to distinguish it from "Ge…

Books visible should be fairly complete as far as I know. But the search is pretty limited (and dependent on your location) because that uses the Google Books API. If you put in an…