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The plan-execute pattern

What are Reed-Solomon Codes? How computers recover lost data - YouTube

Discusses about Pig Philosophy and whether human advancement is equal to technological advancement

Codus Operandi

pingcap/talent-plan: open source training courses about distributed database and distributed systems

pdfs on how improper handling of input leads to insecurity problems. Some example include: patch on postel’s principle, Shotgun parser etc

Discusses how validation is harmful and how we can replace validation logic with helpful state machine like behavior that is meant to consume for another state in static typed systems

26 years, 28 languages and Noah Webster came up with this masterpiece of a dictionary with 70k words. It's different from engineered modern dictionaries like Oxford and Google dictionary.

The context is

Making it short. it’s path to learn things. It’s how you practice freedom. You have to start from somewhere

We want AI agents that can discover like we can, not which contain what we have discovered

About Hacker mindset on what actually a hacker is

How to Think About GPUs | How To Scale Your Model

How to be more agentic - by Cate Hall - Useful Fictions

Best of VIM Tips, gVIM's Key Features zzapper

Rewrite is not the answer, Maintenance is the way forward in the world where Kubernetes makes more sense for career than cmake

Advice from a programmer with 20 years of experience

Talk from the Matt Godbolt. Creator of godbolt.org

Simplicity is the main concern, consistency, completeness, correctness all can be sacrificed in name of simplicity. Simplicity gets the work done. C and Unix are example of worse is better.

Architects look at thousands of buildings during their training, and study critiques of those buildings written by masters. In contrast, most software developers only ever get to know a handful of large programs well—usually programs they wrote themselves—and never study the great programs of history. As a result, they repeat one another's mistakes rather than building on one another's successes

The Six Dumbest Ideas in Computer Security