Stories by al-al

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

Elon Musk's luck has finally run out

Secret War New Wounds, Silence from The Pentagon

Lego Is a Company Haunted by Its Own Plastic

From Starstruck to The Bear: why are text messages on TV so impossible to read?

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