Stories by birdculture

When a Small Open-Source Tool Blows Up: An Unexpected Experience

Deprecations via warnings don't work for Python libraries

How do you modernize a legacy tech stack without a complete rewrite?

Tracking Phone Numbers via WhatsApp and Signal: Open-Source PoC

The Internet forgets, but I don't want to

Practical Guide to Xhtml (2021)

Why the Sanitizer API is just `setHTML()`

Golang's Big Miss on Memory Arenas

The Gerrit code review iceberg

How Computers Store Decimal Numbers

It Is Worth It to Optimize Images for Your Site

Use Python for Scripting

Spinlocks vs. Mutexes: When to Spin and When to Sleep

F-35 Fighter Jet's C++ Coding Standards [pdf]

Typewriter Plotters

Authentication Explained: When to Use Basic, Bearer, OAuth2, JWT and SSO

LZAV 5.7: Enhanced Compression, Speed, C++ Compliance, and Benchmark Results

Full Haskell-Like Type Class Resolution in Java

Polynomial roots visualisation inspired by 2swap's video on the quintic

Agents need good developer experience too

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