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Embrace the Grind
(jacobian.org)
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146 pts
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noncrab
Apr 10, 2021
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Why async Rust?
(without.boats)
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95 pts
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noncrab
Oct 15, 2023
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You don't need JavaScript for that
(htmhell.dev)
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94 pts
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noncrab
Dec 2, 2023
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Advice for new software devs who've read all those other advice essays
(buttondown.email)
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67 pts
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noncrab
Dec 20, 2023
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Xilem: an architecture for UI in Rust
(raphlinus.github.io)
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47 pts
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noncrab
May 7, 2022
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HTML link, or button, that is the question
(marijkeluttekes.dev)
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41 pts
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noncrab
Nov 4, 2024
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The Decline of Usability: Revisited
(datagubbe.se)
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38 pts
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noncrab
Nov 16, 2023
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GZIP exceptions, but only on hot or rainy days
(alexyorke.github.io)
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36 pts
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noncrab
Nov 12, 2022
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Is Datalog a good language for authorization?
(neilmadden.blog)
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35 pts
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noncrab
Feb 20, 2022
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The Market for Lemons
(infrequently.org)
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33 pts
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noncrab
Feb 5, 2023
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Stop saying “technical debt”
(stackoverflow.blog)
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26 pts
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noncrab
Feb 28, 2023
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Split Your Overwhelmed Teams
(queue.acm.org)
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25 pts
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noncrab
Nov 15, 2022
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The disproportionate influence of early tech decisions
(brandur.org)
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24 pts
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noncrab
Oct 15, 2022
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Just because you can doesn't mean you should: the <meter> element
(localghost.dev)
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22 pts
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noncrab
Jan 8, 2024
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pg_bm25: Elastic-Quality Full Text Search Inside Postgres
(docs.paradedb.com)
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21 pts
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noncrab
Oct 7, 2023
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When rustc explodes
(fasterthanli.me)
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21 pts
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noncrab
Jul 13, 2022
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Taming the Flat AST: Ergonomics in the Age of Zero Allocations
(modern-c.blogspot.com)
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20 pts
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noncrab
Feb 3, 2026
go
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A Conversation with Margo Seltzer and Mike Olson: The history of Berkeley DB
(queue.acm.org)
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18 pts
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noncrab
Nov 20, 2021
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Garbage Collection Without Unsafe Code
(fitzgeraldnick.com)
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16 pts
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Feb 6, 2024
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Server-Sent Events, WebSockets, and HTTP
(mnot.net)
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16 pts
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noncrab
Feb 20, 2022
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My Best and Worst Deadlock in Rust
(snoyman.com)
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14 pts
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noncrab
Jan 19, 2024
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What is Backoff For?
(brooker.co.za)
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14 pts
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Aug 14, 2022
distributed
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How ISO C became unusable for operating systems development
(arxiv.org)
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14 pts
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Jan 21, 2022
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The case of the spiky file descriptors
(tailscale.com)
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12 pts
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Sep 15, 2022
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Deadlock-free Mutexes and Directed Acyclic Graphs
(bertptrs.nl)
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noncrab
Jun 23, 2022
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50 years later, is Two-Phase Locking the best we can do?
(concurrencyfreaks.blogspot.com)
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Sep 30, 2023
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Encrypting Data in the Browser Using WebAuthn
(blog.millerti.me)
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11 pts
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noncrab
Jan 24, 2023
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Devirtualization and Static Polymorphism
(david.alvarezrosa.com)
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10 pts
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Feb 25, 2026
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Solving the Expression Problem in Go
(tzcl.me)
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10 pts
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noncrab
Sep 16, 2023
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Clocks and Causality - Ordering Events in Distributed Systems
(exhypothesi.com)
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10 pts
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noncrab
Apr 2, 2023
compsci
distributed
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