{{< bookmark-card image="1055999662.webp" title="How bloom filters made SQLite 10x faster - blag" link="https://avi.im/blag/2024/sqlite-past-present-future" domain="avi.im" date="2025-02-26" tags="database, performance, tech" excerpt="This is the fascinating story of how researchers used Bloom filters cleverly to make SQLite 10x faster for analytical queries. These are my five-minute notes on the paper SQLite: Past, Present, and Future" >}} {{< bookmark-card image="1055999661.png" title="Keeping Figma Fast | Figma Blog" link="https://www.figma.com/blog/keeping-figma-fast" domain="figma.com" date="2025-02-26" tags="performance, tech" excerpt="When a laptop crashed in an empty office, we knew it was time to overhaul our performance testing framework." >}} {{< bookmark-card image="1055999660.png" title="The Ultimate Guide To Software Architecture Documentation" link="https://www.workingsoftware.dev/software-architecture-documentation-the-ultimate-guide" domain="workingsoftware.dev" date="2025-02-26" tags="tech" excerpt="This guide shows you how to write, structure, visualize and manage software architecture documentation in a lean way using appropriate documentation tools." >}} {{< bookmark-card image="1055999659.webp" title="My Washing Machine Refreshed My Thinking on Software Effort Estimation — Cosive" link="https://www.cosive.com/blog/my-washing-machine-refreshed-my-thinking-on-software-effort-estimation" domain="cosive.com" date="2025-02-20" tags="agile, tech" excerpt="I recently had a saga with a washing machine that reminded me why one of the most feared and hated tasks for software developers starts with the question: “So how long will it take you to build that?”" >}} {{< bookmark-card image="1055999658.png" title="Exploring Apache Kafka Internals and Codebase | Moncef Abboud" link="https://cefboud.com/posts/exploring-kafka-internals" domain="cefboud.com" date="2025-02-20" tags="code, tech" excerpt="Trying to dig into the Apache Kafka codebase and make some sense of it." >}} {{< bookmark-card image="1055999657.png" title="the sudoku affair • Buttondown" link="https://explaining.software/archive/the-sudoku-affair" domain="explaining.software" date="2025-02-20" tags="code, tech" excerpt="Software design is a deliberate process, and requires deliberate effort." >}} {{< bookmark-card image="/images/bookmark-placeholder.jpg" title="The Evolution of Security at Riot | Riot Games Technology" link="https://www.riotgames.com/en/news/evolution-security-riot" domain="riotgames.com" date="2025-02-17" tags="gaming, tech" excerpt="Hey folks! We’re Mark Hillick, Jason Clark, and David Rook from the Riot Security team and we’re here to discuss how the security program at Riot has evolved over the last 4 years." >}} {{< bookmark-card image="/images/bookmark-placeholder.jpg" title="Welcome to the Death Dimension | Riot Games Technology" link="https://www.riotgames.com/en/news/welcome-death-dimension" domain="riotgames.com" date="2025-02-17" tags="gaming, tech" excerpt="It's time for a trip to a new dimension!" >}} {{< bookmark-card image="/images/bookmark-placeholder.jpg" title="A Story of Fog and War | Riot Games Technology" link="https://www.riotgames.com/en/news/story-fog-and-war" domain="riotgames.com" date="2025-02-17" tags="gaming, tech" excerpt="http://riot.com/1NvPXyT #RiotTechBlog" >}} {{< bookmark-card image="/images/bookmark-placeholder.jpg" title="Riot's Approach to Anti-Cheat | Riot Games Technology" link="https://www.riotgames.com/en/news/riots-approach-anti-cheat" domain="riotgames.com" date="2025-02-17" tags="gaming, tech" excerpt="https://riot.com/2mgcpBj #RiotTechBlog" >}} {{< bookmark-card image="1055999652.webp" title="/dev/null: Anti-Cheat Kernel Driver" link="https://www.leagueoflegends.com/en-us/news/dev/dev-null-anti-cheat-kernel-driver" domain="leagueoflegends.com" date="2025-02-17" tags="gaming, tech" excerpt="We’re protecting some of Riot’s upcoming games with new anti-cheat systems." >}} {{< bookmark-card image="/images/bookmark-placeholder.jpg" title="Monorepos in JavaScript & TypeScript" link="https://www.robinwieruch.de/javascript-monorepos" domain="robinwieruch.de" date="2025-02-15" tags="javascript, tech" excerpt="A tutorial how to use a monorepo architecture in frontend JavaScript and TypeScript with tools like npm/yarn/pnpm workspaces, Turborepo/NX/Lerna, Git Submodules, ..." >}} {{< bookmark-card image="1055999650.png" title="Memory Allocation" link="https://samwho.dev/memory-allocation" domain="samwho.dev" date="2025-02-03" tags="tech" excerpt="A visual introduction to memory allocation." >}} {{< bookmark-card image="1055999649.webp" title="Software Testing Anti-patterns · Codepipes Blog" link="https://blog.codepipes.com/testing/software-testing-antipatterns.html" domain="blog.codepipes.com" date="2025-02-03" tags="tech, testing" excerpt="" >}} {{< bookmark-card image="1055999648.jpg" title="Getting Things Done In A Chaotic Environment | Stay SaaSy" link="https://staysaasy.com/leadership/2024/03/12/Getting-Things-Done.html" domain="staysaasy.com" date="2025-02-03" tags="management, tech" excerpt="Have one main focus and keep it that way." >}} {{< bookmark-card image="1055999647.png" title="Why all developers should adopt a safety-critical mindset - Stack Overflow" link="https://stackoverflow.blog/2025/01/22/why-all-developers-should-adopt-a-safety-critical-mindset" domain="stackoverflow.blog" date="2025-02-03" tags="career, tech" excerpt="" >}} {{< bookmark-card image="/images/bookmark-placeholder.jpg" title="VALORANT Shaders and Gameplay Clarity" link="https://www.riotgames.com/en/news/valorant-shaders-and-gameplay-clarity" domain="riotgames.com" date="2025-01-27" tags="games, tech" excerpt="VALORANT had three graphics priorities - competitive integrity, high performance, and a sweet art style. This article describes how we balanced these pillars by using cool shader techniques and a collaborative team philosophy." >}} {{< bookmark-card image="/images/bookmark-placeholder.jpg" title="Demolishing Wallhacks with VALORANT's Fog of War" link="https://www.riotgames.com/en/news/demolishing-wallhacks-valorants-fog-war" domain="riotgames.com" date="2025-01-27" tags="games, tech" excerpt="Anti-cheat lead Paul Chamberlain walks us through the technical guts of Fog of War, VALORANT's anti-wallhack system." >}} {{< bookmark-card image="1055999644.png" title="Five Flawed Productivity Metrics" link="https://leaddev.com/reporting/flawed-five-engineering-productivity-metrics" domain="leaddev.com" date="2025-01-26" tags="leadership, management, tech" excerpt="Which commonly-used metrics aren't working and why?" >}} {{< bookmark-card image="/images/bookmark-placeholder.jpg" title="VALORANT's 128-Tick Servers | Riot Games Technology" link="https://www.riotgames.com/en/news/valorants-128-tick-servers" domain="riotgames.com" date="2025-01-26" tags="games, programming, tech" excerpt="Engineer Brent Randall tells the technical story behind VALORANT's search for optimal server performance." >}} {{< bookmark-card image="/images/bookmark-placeholder.jpg" title="Peeking into VALORANT's Netcode | Riot Games Technology" link="https://www.riotgames.com/en/news/peeking-valorants-netcode" domain="riotgames.com" date="2025-01-26" tags="games, programming, tech" excerpt="Take a peek behind the scenes of VALORANT's netcode." >}} {{< bookmark-card image="1055999641.jpg" title="Assertive communication: What it is and how to do it well - Work Life by Atlassian" link="https://www.atlassian.com/blog/teamwork/assertive-communication" domain="atlassian.com" date="2025-01-26" tags="leadership, management" excerpt="Assertive communication helps you express your thoughts and feelings while still being respectful of others. Here’s why it matters and how to get it right." >}} {{< bookmark-card image="1055999640.png" title="Tracking Engineering Time - Jacob Kaplan-Moss" link="https://jacobian.org/2024/feb/7/tracking-engineering-time" domain="jacobian.org" date="2025-01-07" tags="career, leadership, management, tech" excerpt="How do you understand what engineers are doing with that time? How do you know if they’re working on the “right” things? Here’s how I suggest answering those questions." >}} {{< bookmark-card image="1055999639.jpg" title="Things we learned about LLMs in 2024" link="https://simonwillison.net/2024/Dec/31/llms-in-2024" domain="simonwillison.net" date="2025-01-07" tags="tech, ai" excerpt="A lot has happened in the world of Large Language Models over the course of 2024. Here’s a review of things we figured out about the field in the past …" >}} {{< bookmark-card image="1055999638.png" title="Kill Your Heroes, Stop Doing it Harder | Irrational Exuberance" link="https://lethain.com/doing-it-harder-and-hero-programming" domain="lethain.com" date="2025-01-06" tags="career, management, tech" excerpt="One of the most destructive ideas is that you can dig out of a hole by doing what you’re already doing, but doing it harder. This doesn’t work, but it does breed and kill your heroes, and alienate everyone else." >}}