A defense of boring languages
Advantages of monorepos
We used to build steel mills near cheap power. Now that's where we build datacenters
Reading citations is easier than most people think
Given that we spend little on testing, how should we test software?
What happens when you load a URL?
Goodhearting IQ, cholesterol, and tail latency
AI doesn't have to be very good to displace humans
CPU backdoors
Blog monetization
What's new in CPUs since the 80s?
A review of the Julia language
Integer overflow checking cost
Malloc tutorial
Markets, discrimination, and "lowering the bar"
TF-IDF linux commits
One week of bugs
Speeding up this site by 50x
How often is the build broken?
Literature review on the benefits of static types