Stories by birdculture

Bloom filters: the niche trick behind a 16× faster API

The politics of purely client-side apps

The AI water issue is fake

The inconceivable types of Rust: How to make self-borrows safe (2024)

Just a Reminder: The Health Risks of Sitting More Than 8 Hours a Day

One-Second Voice-to-Voice Latency with Modal, Pipecat, and Open Models

Furgit: Fast implementation of Git in pure Go

Patterns for Faster Python Code

IncusOS

Supply Chain Security made the OWASP Top Ten, this changes nothing

DNS Resolution Delay: The Silent Killer That Blocks Your Threads

Domain Driven Design (DDD) is a particular way to structure your app

I Reverse Engineered a High-Volume Solana Arbitrage Bot

There is no such thing as a 3.5 inch floppy disc

Raft Consensus in 2k Words

Language Design Notes

One Weird Hashing Trick

Why agents do not write most of our code – A reality check

The Forty-Year Programmer

I converted a rotary phone into a meeting handset

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