So this talk is my attempt to step back and write down some of the things I've learned. Hope you find something to apply in your team.

From March 1st, 2026, all clients and apps must be updated to utilize DAVE’s end-to-end encryption support for voice and video calls. In this blog, we explore the challenges we encountered bringing E2EE to browsers, and share what you may need to do to ensure your app can still connect to voice call...

In this chapter, we learn how to handle tasks that take a long time to complete – think downloading a file. The mechanisms for doing that, Promises and async functions are an important foundation of JavaScript and enable us to do a variety of interesting things.

TL;DR: Market competition underlies the enterprise of standards. It creates the only functional test of designs and lets standards-based ecosystems route around single-vendor damage. Without competition, standards bodies have no purpose, and neither they, nor the ecosystems they support, can retain ...

The Alumni Talk and the Opening Ceremony were the main events of the ICPC World Finals 2025 today. Among other things, they demonstrated two of the best careers (according to my own perception, of course :)) that the ICPC crowd can choose: the Alumni Talk was about fundamental computer science resea...

In Swift 6.2, Swift Packages give us control over which compiler warnings to treat as errors. Finer-grained Controls for Compiler Warnings The Swift compiler has options to treat all warnings as errors or suppress all warnings: -warnings-as-errors -suppress-warnings In Xcode, you add those compiler ...

Toptal’s Senior Client Solutions Advisor explores how leading companies like SAS and ServiceNow successfully updated their business models—and shares advice for other organizations looking to do the same.

Our approach We built on the same production-grade, single-agent system we used in our previous SWE-bench Verified submission. The agent and tools are the same ones we ship in Warp, which keeps our results representative of real-world usage. We used a single‑agent architecture powered by GPT‑5 as th...

Last week, the main round was the 3rd Universal Cup Semifinals (problems, results, top 5 on the left, analysis, contest stream, closing ceremony stream). For those not familiar with the Universal Cup, this announcement has some links for more information, but in short, it is a competition with many ...

In this chapter, we explore the popular data format JSON. And we implement shell commands via Node.js that read and write files.

Structured binding is a C++17 feature that allows you to bind multiple variables to the elements of a structured object, such as a tuple or struct. This can make your code more concise and easier to read, especially when working with complex data structures. On this blog, we already covered this fun...

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

Who comes to Vegas stays in Vegas. Nobody moves to a place where daytime blackouts come with...

In this chapter, we’ll explore the data structure Map (a class) which lets us translate (“map”) from an input value to an output value. We’ll use a Map to display text upside-down in a terminal!

Our client, a leading company in the streaming industry, acquired a highly successful indie website with over 50 million unique visitors per month. The site had been built by a single developer who prioritized functionality over maintainability. While the features were mostly bug-free, the design wa...

One of the negative side effects of having any top-down command structure is that every additional layer risks introducing a new level of bureaucracy, which then actively subtracts value. Consider the Politburo of the USSR with dozens of offices of skilled bureaucrats. Because most produced no actua...

Postgres is one of the most versatile databases out there. You can store vectors, declare row-level security rules, run background jobs, and more. Its simplicity and extensibility make it a workhorse for everything from side projects to large-scale systems. But that flexibility comes with a trade-of...

Save the date for MapTiler Connect 25, our first ever user conference! October 21st

In this blog post, we discuss Oracle’s trademark of the word “JavaScript”: What are the problems caused by that trademark? How can we fix those problems?

In this chapter, we look at exceptions in JavaScript. They are a way of handling errors. We’ll need them for the next chapter.

“I was surprised by how fast Neon was. It was faster than my self-hosted setup and Prisma Postgres. This plus the convenience of the Free Plan makes it a no-brainer for building your projects.” (Issa Nassar, founder of Databuddy) Databuddy is a new privacy-first web and product analytics platform th...

One year ago, as AI agents started to make waves, a handful of us at PagerDuty began investigating how they might reshape the way we... The post From Experiment to Essential: Making Every Engineer an AI Agent Engineer appeared first on PagerDuty.