Explore how Epic Online Services and PubNub Illuminate are transforming matchmaking by going beyond skill and latency—prioritizing social connections, player behavior, and real-time engagement to create more fun, memorable multiplayer experiences.

Explore how Epic Online Services and PubNub Illuminate are transforming matchmaking by going beyond skill and latency—prioritizing social connections, player behavior, and real-time engagement to create more fun, memorable multiplayer experiences.

Update October 2025: further enhancements. Patrice Roy’s new book, C++ Memory Management, has made me more conscious of object lifetimes. C++ is stricter than C about lifetimes, and common, textbook memory management that’s sound in C is less so in C++ — more than I realized. The book also presents ...

Twelve years later! Twelve years ago today, I decided to create this blog on WordPress.com to share whatever I was finding interesting while working as a software architect. Prior to starting this blog, I didn’t have any writing experience, which you can clearly see in the first article I’ve ever pu...

I use OpenIn to open links in a given browser when I click on them in other applications. This is really helpful to keep various work related stuff in different browsers or profiles and I find it very helpful. One thing that's bothered me is that links from the Jira Cloud Slack App ignore my OpenIn ...

Recently I watched a pretty good video Cypress vs Playwright side-by-side coding comparison. by Artem Bondar. While not as good as my Cypress vs Playwright course, the video is pretty solid. There is one point Artem makes in the beginning that he did not stress enough, but which determines how each ...

Regimes come and go but the people stay. Observations from living through a socialism->capitalism transition

New features and changes in PostgREST version 13.

With today's launch of Bolt Cloud, every project that needs a backend is powered by Supabase, giving developers enterprise standards with the speed of vibe coding.

Regimes come and go but the people stay. Observations from living through a socialism->capitalism transition

“Our system can’t afford any downtime. We manage field staff operations for thousands of workers through WhatsApp, and if a message fails to write, it’s lost. We’re leveraging all of Neon’s multi-region flexibility, autoscaling, and read replicas to optimize reliability at scale” (Ahsan Nabi Dar, CT...

Lovable Cloud makes building with AI agents easier than ever, with every project powered by Supabase behind the scenes.

Alan Kay [source] One of my favorite product design principles is Alan Kay’s “Simple things should be simple, complex things should be possible”. [1] I had been saying it almost verbatim long before I encountered Kay’s quote. Kay’s maxim is deceptively simple, but its implications run deep. It isn’t...

I was looking for a way to create images (think screenshots) of CSS layouts that I can use in HTML, EPUB and PDF files. This blog post describes my solution – which produces SVG images.

For when you have too many calendars Once upon a time I built a calendar and then wrote an exhaustively long talk about working with time, timezones, calendars, and everything in between. For a few unrelated reasons we ended up not shipping the calendar, but in general, as I mentioned in the post: Z...

My presentation for Digital Collegium 2025 was an overview of many recent and forthcoming additions to the web platform, specifically HTML and CSS. Description Roll for sanity: Surviving the ever-expanding web feature bestiary Are you, brave front-end adventurer, feeling your sanity slipping as the ...

My time at Manas is coming to an end, though I will remain a Core Team member and continue to help develop the project from that seat. Johannes (@straight-shoota) will be taking on the leading role of the project. Please join me in congratulating him on his new position! While this might sound like ...

Testers and developers often use page objects to interact with their web applications via DOM elements. Let's create a page object for our TodoMVC app:cypress/e2e/todo.ts123456789export const TodoMVC = { addTodo(title: string) { cy.get('.new-todo').type(`${title}{enter}`) }, getTodos() { return cy.g...

The Fathers hadn't been the first hyperlocal ecoengineering cult I had been paid to infiltrate, nor the...

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

Modern GPS datasets are notoriously noisy: satellites drift, buildings scatter signals, and consumer devices introduce frequent errors. When working with millions of position samples from vehicles, smartphones, or IoT devices, this noise makes analysis unreliable. Routes jump, tracks zigzag, and out...

Say hello to Adam Rack, our new Business Development Manager for the DACH region, and hear what drives his passion for growth and collaboration. The post Meet the Team: Adam Rack appeared first on Erlang Solutions.

Reviewed by: Sumit Sarabhai and Gaurav Sharma If you’ve worked with databases in Python, you know the boilerplate: open a connection, create a cursor, run queries, commit or rollback transactions, close cursors and connection. Forgetting just one cleanup step can lead to resource leaks (open connect...

In this blog post, I’d like to talk about CSS: I wish it supported inner breakpoints – breakpoints not for viewports or containers but for HTML elements inside viewports or containers.

Postgres 18 just shipped, and as always, it’s available in preview on Neon right away. You can try it right now on Neon’s Free plan, no credit card or setup required. New Features in Postgres 18 Postgres 18 comes with a ton of other exciting updates around performance, flexibility, and developer exp...

We recently became aware of a malicious npm package called "postmark-mcp" on npm that was impersonating Postmark and stealing user emails. We want to be crystal clear: Postmark had absolutely nothing to do with this package or the malicious activity.Here's what happened: A malicious actor created a ...