Stories by alec

Kamal Deployment: The Newest Form of Self-Torture

Rails GraphQL authentication from scratch #1

How to fight with professional burnout and depression

Better Builds with Earthly

Rails application boilerplate for fast prototype development

Peopleware on Programmer Productivity

F1: A Distributed SQL Database That Scales

Unlike Me: Using Facebook Graph Search

Profiling CSS for fun and profit: optimization notes

Factor's Visual REPL

Marriage Sort

Overhauling Factor's C library interface

Google agrees to buy ITA Software for $700 million

Microsoft Research: Smart Caching for Web Browsers: 60% improvement

Design of the LLVM disassembler

The left fold: week in review: alternate STLs, teaching, and zombie AI

The left fold: week in review: API design, branching, and Basic

The left fold week in review: regexp implementations, shooter AI, and new specs