The Weirdest Bug I’ve Seen Yet
In an investigation for an on call issue, we followed a series of incorrect hypotheses before ultimately discovering a surprise at the end of the debugging rainbow.
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Consider Writing Documentation for Your House
Have you considered writing documentation for your house?
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The Tinkerings of Robert Noyce
Esquire Magazine,,December 1983, pp. 346-374 . America is today in the midst of a great technological revolution.With the advent of the silicon chip,…
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How Did Courtney Dauwalter Get So Damn Fast?
This summer Courtney Dauwalter made history, becoming the first athlete to win the three biggest races in ultrarunning in the same year: the Hardrock 100, the Ultra-Trail du Mont Blanc, and the Western States Endurance Run. What’s her secret?
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globalization-fashion
Plentiful cheap clothes are a triumph of innovation and markets. Most of human history has been characterized by privation and low‐productivity toil. As one…
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Emily Oster Capsule
BUY ONE, GIVE ONE! Save 25% and support Bottomless Closet in partnership with the New York Liberty. In 2023, we're donating 10% of our annual profits to social…
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My techno-optimism
Dark Mode Toggle 2023 Nov 27 See all posts My techno-optimism Special thanks to Morgan Beller, Juan Benet, Eli Dourado, Karl Floersch, Sriram Krishnan, Nate…
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Chris Evans is Captain America - GQ July 2011 Cover Story
"Chris Evans pecs. how do they FEEL? like smooth stone from the souvenir shop?" …is the instant message that pops up on my computer one Monday morning in April.…
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Neil Gaiman's Radical Vision for the Future of the Internet - Cal Newport
Earlier this week, Neil Gaiman was interviewed on Icelandic television. Around the twenty-five minute mark of the program, the topic turned to the author’s thoughts ... Read more
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The Roots of Today's Modern Backend Engineering Practices
What accidentally taking down Amazon.com in 1997 taught Joshua Burgin; tech industry veteran and one of Amazon’s first 100 employees
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‘AI’ Is Supercharging Our Broken Healthcare System’s Worst Tendencies
“AI” (or more accurately language learning models nowhere close to sentience or genuine awareness) has plenty of innovative potential. Unfortunately, most of the folks actually in charg…
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We’ve been fighting poverty all wrong
The success of the expanded child tax credit shows why anti-poverty programs should be unconditional.
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OpenAI Staff Threaten to Quit Unless Board Resigns
OpenAI was in open revolt on Monday with 490 employees threatening to leave unless the board resigns and reinstates Sam Altman as CEO, along with cofounder and…
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7 books that changed me the most as a software engineer
Books are one of the best ways to grow as a software engineer. They give you actionable takeaways based on decades of knowledge and experience. This article goes into 7 categories of books valuable for software engineers and top 1. Writing & communication
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Museletter #368: The Gasoline-Powered Leaf Blower as a Metaphor for Industrial Society
MuseLetter #368 / November 2023 by Richard Heinberg Download printable PDF version Every Thursday our next-door neighbor hires a worker to use a leaf blower. This infernal machine drives me nuts. Rather than letting a
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Is My Toddler a Stochastic Parrot?
New Yorker Favorites First she scandalized Washington. Then she became a princess . The unravelling of an expert on serial killers . What exactly happened…
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Speeding up the JavaScript ecosystem - The barrel file debacle
Many projects are littered with files that just re-export other files. These so called "barrel files" are one of the key reasons why JavaScript tooling is slow in bigger projects.
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Zod: Why you’re using TypeScript wrong
TypeScript can be too permissive regarding external data. In this article, I will explain how Zod can prevent data-related runtime errors.
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Your Small Imprecise Ask Is a Big Waste of Their Time
When managers and leaders don't specify the expected time investment of an ask, the time that is invested is almost never what was intended.
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“Nothing without water”
Bar Beach in Lagos, Nigeria, 2012. [ PG Media via Wikimedia Commons under license CC BY 3.0 ] If you wan’ go wash, na water you go use If you wan’ cook soup, na…
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Age of Invention: Outdoing the Ancients
When was the technology of the Ancient World superseded? The views from 1599 and 1715.
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We're sorry we created the Torment Nexus - Charlie's Diary
( This is the text of a talk I delivered at the Next Frontiers Applied Fiction Day in Stuttgart on Friday November 10th, 2023. Note: early draft, contains some…
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Online migrations at scale
Online payment processing for internet businesses. Stripe is a suite of payment APIs that powers commerce for businesses of all sizes.
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Zero Downtime Table Migrations using a Double Write Methodology
Thoughts on how to do complex migrations with zero down-time
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Online Database Migration by Dual-Write: This is not for Everyone
(to be more precise: for almost no-one)
