Thinking of becoming one of those eccentric computer hermits who mostly use their own software and libraries, in a Frankensteinian amalgamation of tech no one else understands
HTTP/3 just surprised me - I just did a pretty simplistic test (firing off 50 requests from the frontend vs. batching 50 requests on the backend). I expected to see a much slower response for the non-batched requests
We’ve raised $100M at a $1.5B valuation. We built @render.com to give developers an intuitive path to reliable and scalable cloud infrastructure. Now, we are bringing that same philosophy to long-running, stateful infrastructure for AI apps & agents. 🧵
Unbelievable that we still haven't developed a better distribution mechanism for flu shots
Parsing JSON in go is such a minefield. Oh you wanted numbers other than float64? Better remember to UseNumber or you might get a runtime error!
This week’s high‑profile outages made headlines, but the 2025 Uptime Institute Outage Analysis shows a different picture: overall data center outage frequency and severity keep declining even as the need for infrastructure explodes.
When a shiny new bit of tech is released I like to find the version that IBM built a decade ago as reference material - what limitations did it have? How did it evolve?
Finally I created a perfect blend of Popeye and Donald Duck:
I came across this architecture diagram from OpenNext and ... This just seems wildly over complicated as a means to serve some HTML and JS
@render.com just announced $80M in new funding[1] - we're doing some outstandingly cool things in what has been a very stagnant area. If you're starting something new, give us a try, I think you'll like it [1] render.com/blog/series-c
$80M to reimagine the cloud for the AI era
Today marks two significant milestones in Render's journey: we’ve surpassed 2 million developers on the platform and added $80M in Series C funding to reimagine the cloud for the AI era.
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So dark mode in Google Calendar is great and all, but how did these borders make it to production???
Pretty happy with day 1, nim was a pleasant surprise! github.com/cal-smith/ao... #AdventOfCode
aoc2024/day1 at main · cal-smith/aoc2024
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I know! I'll use nix to manage my #AdventOfCode dependencies! *several hours of confusion pass* Well, I can finally compile, so that's nice
Nothing like spending hours debugging network issues only to have it be a bad config on your local machine
I've been reworking our react-router set up for the last few weeks, and I really wish there was a clean way to type route loaders
Me hammering a stack of papers to the door of 1 Hacker Way: GraphQL sucks and here's 95 reasons why
One moment you think you have it together, and then you buy a new vacuum cleaner
The annual spider eviction is complete, and their winter residence has been constructed
Ergonomic chairs make you question the nature of comfort Normal chairs provide the definition
Witnessing someone use the Apple Vision Pro in public feels like an appropriate way to end this trip
Using a hook as a controller and providing a nice API to manage the internal state is such an awesome pattern
Ah yes, exactly what I needed for my infestation of extraordinarily long worms
