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Thanks for the interesting article. Is anyone not just me hesitant to run their own servers? I think about patching and it becomes a full on devops job to set up something safe and…

I agree with you, I perceive it to be really difficult to change existing code to fit new things in. There's all interactions between things. The source code of the widgets we use …

If you have a large body of existing code and you want to change its behaviour, you have to work out where to add your change, without breaking what already is there. My thoughts i…

Thank you for this post, I enjoyed it. I like these kinds of posts, about wholesome satisfying work I found a similar feed to HN on https://bearblog.dev/ at https://bearblog.dev/di…

Thanks for your reply. The JVM is a reliable stack. I used it at work on most projects.

Can someone reply me a mature stack that is extremely reliable and won't go away? That they're using. I had frequently thought that I would prefer to maintain a batch system than a…

where can I go to see the awesome things you're working on in your home personal computing? I like the GitHub collected archives of "awesome" that is lists of things that persons h…

In early 2000-2007 I felt technology optimism (things like Digg, slashdot) about new websites and there was a hopefulness about new technology (file sharing) The spirit of new tech…

I would like to benefit from big tech's security teams by hosting web forms and those various different kinds of site you suggest behind them and their teams! WAF + captchas + defe…

If you're looking for casual ideas what persons have ideas on then have a scroll through halfbakery.com they are inspired by problems that people foresaw.

Thanks for such a detailed article. In my spare time working with C as a hobby I am usually in "vertical mode" which is different to how I would work (carefully) at work, which is …

So one shot transactions can check if every timestamp in every write and item inside the transaction packet depends on data that is before the timestamp of that particular monotoni…

I enjoy writing tools. How do you feel about Kubernetes? It would be good to have some interesting tasks to do? I think the tools should do also much of the work. I actually prefer…

We can all try make good content and share it but how would it be discovered?

One thing I have been doing is to create a directory called "debug" from the software and write lots of different files when the main program has executed to add debugging informat…

Thanks for sharing your thoughts. I am also agreeing that relational approach to in-memory data is a good, efffective thought. I recently compiled some of my C code with the sqlite…

Thanks for putting the work into this. These kinds of software pipelines can be strangely satisfying to implement. The development style of thinking of stream processing and online…

Thanks for sharing. I am curious: how low maintenance is this? Is this something that can be hosted for long periods of time without security interventions and updates? Is it fire …

This document helped me learn the io_uring API. You can use io_uring with epoll to monitor eventfd to wake up your sleeping with io_uring wait for completions. I have implemented a…

CPUs and railway signalling come to mind. The low level uops (microops) of a CPU seem to be relevant. Openttd is another example of a game where you can implement train signalling.…

I implemented split IO with io_uring, epoll and eventfd and my own thread safe comm pattern You can write to an eventfd to wake up io_uring listening on an epoll instance.

A word cloud could be a useful navigation technique if the words were clickable and the sizes of words could be customized. They could also link to other word clouds Generated and …

We need tools that process command line output and large files and create tables of contents dynamically based on rules of architecture or comments and allow efficient navigation. …

I greatly enjoyed this comment of yours daltonpinto. Thank you. I do not rejoice with code bases where every file has no logic or code in it but there are hundreds of methods and f…