I was wondering: how often do nanosecond timestamps collide on modern systems? The answer is: very often, like 5% of all samples, when reading the clock on all 4 physical cores at the same time. As a result, I think it is unsafe to assume that a raw nanosecond timestamp is a unique identifier. I wro...
This is the third spinoff post in the migration saga of this blog from WordPress to 11ty. Migrating was a good opportunity to rethink the information architecture of my site, especially around categorization. Categories vs Tags Just like most WP users, I was using both categories and tags, simply be...
The essence of great leadership is getting a group of passionate individuals unified and heading in the same direction. To achieve that, you need a vision. The post How To Communicate Your Vision & Why It Matters appeared first on Novoda.
This is a second spinoff post in the migration saga of this blog from WordPress to 11ty. On good URLs It was important to me to have good, RESTful, usable, hackable URLs. While a lot of that is easy and comes for free, following this principle with Eleventy proved quite hard: URLs that are βhackable...
Jeff Charles, a Senior Shopify Developer, shares key learnings from his successful pull request to Winch. The pull request aimed to add support for various WebAssembly instructions to Wasmtime's baseline (non-optimizing) compiler.
Adding AuthN to OAuth2.0 OpenID Connect (OIDC) is an authentication protocol that sits on top of the OAuth2.0 protocol. It provides a standardized way for clients to authenticate users and obtain information about their identity. In simple terms, OpenID Connect allows users to log in to different ap...