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The Pulse #119: Are LLMs making StackOverflow irrelevant? https://newsletter.pragmaticengineer.com/p/the-pulse-134
The Fall of Stack Overflow https://observablehq.com/@ayhanfuat/the-fall-of-stack-overfl...
"Paxos Simplified" (video & slides below) attempts to give a simple and clear explanation of Paxos. It is inspired by Leslie Lamport's paper "Paxos Made Simple".
- L9: Paxos Simplified https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SRsK-ZXTeZ0
- Slides https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1ossDCdSERSZmJXKfiCwD...
Check out https://www.distributedsystemscourse.com/ by Chris Colohan for more info.
I found the below two split keyboards very enticing. I haven't pulled trigger on either though.
- ElimKeys Elytra https://elimkeys.com/products/elytra, I Finally Found It: The Elytra Wireless Split Keyboard (VIAL, Bluetooth, RMK, travel friendly) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oIkULzKPmig
- Compose (Estimated delivery Feb 2027) https://read.compose.llc/, https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/ryanlpeterman/compose-s...
Hak5 video that helped me understand many years ago about the practical usage of SSH forwarding
Hak5 - SSH Forwarding: Local vs Remote with examples, Hak5 1113 part1 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g_Row8zEJZc
C-SPAN: Doctor on How Screen Time Hurts Kids' Cognitive Development https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fd-_VDYit3U
Stanford University offered the course "CS146S: The Modern Software Developer" in Fall 2025. Check it out if interested. https://themodernsoftware.dev/
Google’s Data Center Buildout Could Top $1 Trillion https://archive.is/kG3p4
Love both books by Daniel J. Barrett.
"The Linux Command Line" by William Shotts is pretty good book for new and experienced command line users. He has also written the supplemental book "Adventures with the Linux Command Line". The author has also generously provided them for free download at https://linuxcommand.org/tlcl.php.
Interfaze.ai at YC Launch Live - May 8th, 2026 https://youtu.be/S9Lgp2hWBsE?t=4185
How I built this website on a Raspberry Pi https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42712378
John Howard (one of the maintainers of Istio and currently with Solo.io) blogged about "Fast GitHub Actions with Blacksmith" [1]. The blog also contains a link to "GitHub Action Runner Alternatives" [2].
[1] https://blog.howardjohn.info/posts/blacksmith-gha/
[2] https://binhong.me/blog/github-action-runner-alternatives/
I enjoyed both these GopherCon talks:
GopherCon 2018: The Scheduler Saga - Kavya Joshi https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YHRO5WQGh0k
GopherCon 2017: Understanding Channels - Kavya Joshi https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KBZlN0izeiY
sudo-rs is one of the initiatives of Prossimo https://www.memorysafety.org/
Markdown reader using find, fzf and lnav
find . \( -path '*/vendor/*' -or -path '*/.git/*' -or -path '*/node_modules/*' \) -prune -or -type f -name "*.md" -print | fzf | xargs lnav
Bloomberg Originals had recently published a video "The Dangerous Feature in Tesla's Doors" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2lFzqBt3z0w
Per Dr. Marshall Kirk McKusick (as announced in one of the recent BSD conferences), No Starch Press will be publishing the third edition of the Design and Implementation of the FreeBSD Operating System book sometime later this year.
New Yorker published an interesting article on Jeff Dean and Sanjay Ghemawat few years ago - The Friendship That Made Google Huge [0]
[0] https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2018/12/10/the-friendship...
A recent blog post from Docker mentions about Twilio and Amazon Prime Video seeing gains by moving away from microservices to monolith
You Want Microservices, But Do You Really Need Them? https://www.docker.com/blog/do-you-really-need-microservices...
"mr status" command gives status information of locally checked out repos. Refer https://myrepos.branchable.com/
FreeBSD has published a youtube video along with a blog post to run FreeBSD VM on Apple Silicon.
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CWuZLJkUBfw
- https://freebsdfoundation.org/blog/three-ways-to-try-freebsd...
Mosh is really great. When working on remote servers, I combine it with tmux.
Note: Mosh does not natively support agent forwarding similar to ssh. Creator of Mosh explained why in this comment https://github.com/mobile-shell/mosh/issues/120#issuecomment...
I found https://www.bigocheatsheet.com/ and https://visualgo.net/en helpful in the past.
Free version of Rectangle is very good https://rectangleapp.com/
reminds me of how so many text books have an incorrect or overflowing version of binary search.
Extra, Extra - Read All About It: Nearly All Binary Searches and Mergesorts are Broken https://research.google/blog/extra-extra-read-all-about-it-n...
LinkedIn recently announced that it transitioned from Kafka to Northguard. Introducing Northguard and Xinfra: scalable log storage at LinkedIn [1] & LinkedIn: Stream Processing 4.16.25 [2]
[1] https://www.linkedin.com/blog/engineering/infrastructure/int...
A new APT sources format "debian.sources" is announced with trixie. The now older "sources.list" format is still supported, but is likely to be deprecated in a future Debian release.
See below:
APT is moving to a different format for configuring where it downloads packages from. The files /etc/apt/sources.list and *.list files in /etc/apt/sources.list.d/ are replaced by files still in that directory but with names ending in .sources, using the new, more readable (deb822 style) format. For details see sources.list(5). Examples of APT configurations in these notes will be given in the new deb822 format.
If your system is using multiple sources files then you will need to ensure they stay consistent.
- https://www.debian.org/releases/trixie/release-notes/upgradi...
"apt modernize-sources" command can be used to simulate and replace ".list" files with the new ".sources" format.
Modernizing will replace .list files with the new .sources format, add Signed-By values where they can be determined automatically, and save the old files into .list.bak files.
This command supports the 'signed-by' and 'trusted' options. If you have specified other options inside [] brackets, please transfer them manually to the output files; see sources.list(5) for a mapping.pdfgrep (as a command line utility) is pretty great if one simply needs to search text in PDF files https://pdfgrep.org/
Introduction to Debian packaging https://www.debian.org/doc/devel-manuals#packaging-tutorial
Best Packaging Practices https://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/developers-reference/best...
Richard Bellman on the Birth of Dynamic Programming (2002) [pdf] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42482289
If one is running a pi-hole, then you might want to consider configuring the pi-hole instance with unbound. https://docs.pi-hole.net/guides/dns/unbound/