Bookmarks from 2023
160 bookmarks from 2023
Where Is the Line? | How Arbitrary Rules Are Crucial to a Successful Projec
Discover the significance of conventions in your codebase and how they shape your software development projects. Explore the benefits of establishing and following conventions, including efficiency, reliability, troubleshooting, and maintainability. Learn how conventions can enha
A Backup of Historical Proportions - CHM
Discover what surprises await in CHM's release of the Xerox PARC file system archive.
Adactio: Journal—The intersectionality of web performance
Business, sustainability, and inclusivity.
Z-order indexing for multifaceted queries in Amazon DynamoDB: Part 2 | Amazon Web Services
In a previous AWS Database Blog post, I introduced Z-order indexing, a way in which you can sort your data to efficiently query an Amazon DynamoDB table by using range bounds on multiple attributes. In this post, we explore the process of creating a schema for your index. We look
Go Memory Management Part 3 – Povilas Versockas
Go Memory Management. In this blogpost we will go thru how cgo impacts go virtual memory. We will look at Go Execution Tracer and how to trace system calls.
Go Memory Management Part 2 – Povilas Versockas
Go Memory Management. In this blogpost we will go thru how go uses cgo. We will look at Go DNS resolver implentations, libc & more!
Installing Linux on a Dead Badger: User's Notes
Place badger in center of fireproof surface, making sure ventilation is adequate and all doors are locked.
Scaling up the Prime Video audio/video monitoring service and reducing cost
We create and provide access to world-class entertainment through Amazon Originals, Prime Video, Audible, Amazon Games, Twitch, Amazon Music, Prime Gaming, and more. Amazon’s digital entertainment products enable customers to access the latest apps and games, stream or download m
The Potentially Dangerous Non-Accessibility Of Cookie Notices — Smashing Ma
In this piece, a Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) auditor shares some cookie banner error patterns that can massively hurt a page’s overall conformance. Let’s explore what to look out for with this omnipresent piece of the web interface.
Why Performance Matters, Part 3: Tolerance Management — Smashing Magazine
User reaction to a wait online is no different from that in the offline world. Studies based on the analysis of more than a thousand cases identify 14 distinct types of waiting situations on the web. Being dependent on your users' loyalty, you cannot leave them facing a passive w
Why Performance Matters, Part 2: Perception Management — Smashing Magazine
When we talk about the user’s perception of time, we mean psychological time, or brain time. This time is of interest to psychologists, neuroscientists and odd individuals like me. Objective time is dealt with by technical means, and those means have limits that become insurmount
To understand AI sentience, first understand it in animals | Aeon Essays
As the power of AI grows, we need to have evidence of its sentience. That is why we must return to the minds of animals
An example of LLM prompting for programming
Generated knowledge and chain of thought prompting of an LLM can generate useful code.
Open source is fueling the future of nuclear physics · GitHub
A look at the open source artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning (ML), and high performance computing (HPC) tools used in the nuclear fusion ignition breakthrough at Lawerence Livermore Labs.
