Performance oscillates around your mean. Your average is what matters.

A rather bizarre bill has been introduced in the Michigan legislature, the Anticorruption of Public Morals Act, H.B. 4938. While there’s a lot to object to in the bill, I’ll leave the broader criticisms to others and focus on some technology issues. The goal of the bill is specified in §3(1): “A com...

Introduction My friend, Laurentiu Spilca, has been working on the second edition of his Troubleshooting Java book, and when I was asked to review it, I was more than happy to do it since the book features a lot of topics that I’m also very interested in, such as performance tuning and query optimiza...

A lot of good work has been done by the core Java team on patterns, providing new ways to explore data. The latest extension, in JEP 507, is the idea that primitive type patterns should be supported. Today I'm publishing an alternative approach. Primitive Types in Patterns, instanceof, and switch Th...

Many of us at Neon use Claude Code almost every day: for debugging, for scaffolding new features, or keeping the flow going when context-switching between projects. I noticed pretty quickly that everyone seemed to have their own way of working with it though.  For me, it clicked once I started exper...

Sometimes it's helpful to add some text to my current Obsidian daily note without having to switch to Obsidian, find the daily note and then type my text. To do this, we can use the magic of Obsidian's obsidian:// URI schema and automate the text capture in Apple Shortcuts, with an assigned keyboard...

Migrate from Pusher to PubNub in minutes with a Claude/Cursor prompt. Choose Chat or Core SDK, set up Access Manager, presence, history, and serverless.

Migrate from Pusher to PubNub in minutes with a Claude/Cursor prompt. Choose Chat or Core SDK, set up Access Manager, presence, history, and serverless.

Cosmos, the book by Carl Sagan, does something remarkable. It starts in a distant part of the universe. It does a slow zoom, through desolate space, through groups of galaxies, through the Milky Way, through a remote arm of the Milky Way, through the solar system, past the most distant plants, final...

When generating code with an LLM, sometimes a task is so laborious to specify that you may as well do it manually. But, sometimes, you can find just the right information to cinch together to enable the model to do the work. Here’s an example. At Notion, I had built some UI for a new feature. Ken, m...

I used to use Bit.ly to put links into my presentations. Their service allowed you to customize the path portion of the link, so I was able to create links like bit.ly/ok-libs. If you were attending the talks live, watching the recording, or browsing the slides, the short URL was easy to type into a...

We are announcing a new Crystal release 1.18.0 with several new features and bug fixes. Pre-built packages are available on GitHub Releases and our official distribution channels. See crystal-lang.org/install for installation instructions. Stats Section titled Stats This release includes 172 changes...

At our scale, we needed to handle billions of transactions efficiently - routing across multiple environments and internal data centers - while maintaining reliability, security, and dynamic control. To achieve this, we chose HAProxy, a proven, high-performance load balancer known for its lightweigh...

There’s less variation this year with the base iPhone 17 and Pro models sharing a display. The Plus model is gone but we get a new iPhone Air. Here’s what you need to know about the iPhone 17 models. The New Models in a Nutshell There’s no iPhone 17 Plus model this year. Instead the iPhone 17 gets t...

We take pride in investing as much as possible in our ability to ship cool projects and not in hiring a gazillion managers. As a result, we only have…

A few of the ideas, topics, and commonplaces that have been gaining steam on <a...

In part 1 of this mini-series, we looked at the basics of iterating over a std::tuple using index_sequence and fold expressions. In part 2, we simplified things with std::apply and even created helpers like for_each_tuple and transform_tuple. So far, we used C++ features up to C++20/23… but now, in ...

Liam knew he could not be hearing a baby crying across the mile and a half of unbroken Hospital facilities...

Eric Prouzet And now we see it clear, like a Cupertino sunrise bathing Mt. Bielawski in amber: Apple will censor its App Store at the behest of the Trump administration without putting up a fight. It will twist words into their antipodes to serve the powerful at the expense of the weak. To better se...