Stories by al-al

Does Functional Package Management Enable Reproducible Builds at Scale? Yes. [pdf]

Physics Solves One of Man's Biggest Problems: Urinal Splashing

Shaping AI's Impact on Billions of Lives

Microsoft is now 50 years old

Build your own S3-Select in 400 lines of Rust – DataFusion is ALL YOU NEED

Parquet Pruning in DataFusion: Read Only What Matters

Don't Make Things Work

Efficient Filter Pushdown in Parquet

Evil Scheduler: Mastering Concurrency Through Interactive Debugging

Chrome Returns 206 when the Server Returns 403

Concurrency bugs in Lucene: How to fix optimistic concurrency failures

Show HN: Fray: A controlled concurrency testing framework for the JVM

As Firefox turns 20, Mozilla ponders how to restore it to its former glory

Crowdstrike and Microsoft: What we know about global IT outage

Have I Been Pwned Employee 1.0: Stefán Jökull Sigurðarson

Scientists swabbed monuments in Europe to see what bacteria live on them (2019)

Translation Tech Is Amazing, Except When It's Not

Daylight Saving Time Gripe Assistant Tool

The appendix is not, in fact, useless

Recommended reading list at the back of the manual of The Sims

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