Downdetector and the real cost of no upstream dependencies
Downdetector went down during Cloudflare's outage due to a hard dependency that can't be easily removed, highlighting the risks of relying on upstream services.
Downdetector went down during Cloudflare's outage due to a hard dependency that can't be easily removed, highlighting the risks of relying on upstream services.
"Pony Famous" describes being genuinely famous with fans and influence, but only within a specific niche community rather than mainstream culture.
An 11-year-old feature request was finally resolved, evoking nostalgia and emotions about the long journey.
Author resigned from Intel after 3.5 years working on AI/GPU performance tools like flame graphs and eBPF, moving to a new opportunity.
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Ghostty has transitioned to operating as a non-profit organization.
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African bell patterns with 12 notes connect to cancer research through combinatorics, exploring circular rhythmic structures called Tracy Numbers.
Learn how to modify commit timestamps in Git when needed.
GitHub Actions can automatically label and close inactive pull requests and issues, helping maintain clean project repositories.
Family member fell victim to a sophisticated email scam that used hidden account settings to avoid detection while stealing information.
AI agents trained on Brendan Gregg's extensive performance engineering work are being marketed as "virtual Brendans," raising questions about selling AI versions of individuals.
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WebAssembly's Basic C ABI defines how C programs are represented in WASM, used by Clang and Rust for interoperability between compilation tools.
AI is set to transform cybersecurity, while the EU investigates AWS and Microsoft's cloud practices.
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A Mongolian startup translated "The Software Engineer's Guidebook" to benefit their team and local tech community.