Intel is extending its instruction set. "Intel® APX doubles the number of general-purpose registers (GPRs) from 16 to 32. This allows the compiler to keep more values in registers; as a result, APX-compiled code contains 10% fewer loads and more than 20% fewer stores than the

As the first AWS service, I almost forgot SQS is still stuck in XML land until I saw this announcement just now. aws.amazon.com/about-aws/what… If you're using an official AWS SDK, there is no code change required on your part. Just upgrade the SDK to the specified version and it'll

Not only is DuckDB fast, it is getting faster very fast! Group By queries are up to 3x faster now! Yes. 300%. Plus, groupings are faster with 1/10th the RAM than they used to be with ~unlimited memory! DuckDB is now 44% faster on ClickBench too. github.com/duckdb/duckdb/…

I've got a new blog post about the hobby programming language I'm noodling on: journal.stuffwithstuff.com/2023/08/04/rep…

introducing ✨ runes ✨ svelte.dev/blog/runes

Another good reason to move as fast as possible to JDK21 (at least for runtime) OpenJDK Java (The code: github.com/khmarbaise/dup…)

Something really beautiful in Scala: soundness.dev

A paper from 2008 co-authored by Yaron (Ron) Minsky on why Jane Street started using OCaml for a wide range of tasks: critical trading systems, quantitative research, systems software, and system administration. Definitely worth a read. They discuss the various language features that

With AI, everybody will make their own software just like how we all 3D print our own furniture.

The detailed AWS incident report is out, and it’s worth a read - DNS records managed by 2 systems; a race condition led to regional record getting unset - EC2 lease establishment was borked as it depends on DynamoDB - fluctuating NLB health checks leading to EC2 DNS entry purges

Stingless bees, also known as Melipona or Meliponini, are a special group of tropical bees that do not have a functional stinger. They are gentle, highly intelligent, and produce a rare medicinal honey valued for its healing properties. Unlike regular honey bees, they build

I want to champion British dads. Because how does modern Britain view fatherhood? Too often the answer is secondary, optional, even inconvenient. For decades, the role of dads has been insidiously downplayed. The message has been clear - you’re there if it’s convenient, but the

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I'm trying to figure out where to live next, and one big consideration is the climate. So naturally I made a tool that represents monthly average temperatures for cities as 3D rings so they can be compared more easily. Check it out: awjuliani.github.io/weather-explor…

This dude shares the little things in life that make men happy.

Bro replaced the company with a Mac mini

Created an agent skill called “Visual Explainer” + set of complementary slash commands aimed to reduce my cognitive debt so the agent can explain complex things as rich HTML pages. The skill includes reference templates and a CSS pattern library so output stays consistently

Pleased to Jeremy Clarkson covering our recent Rachel Evans - Countryside Alliance Wales investigation which found that, in some council areas, Chinese and Thai chicken accounted for more than 99% of chicken served to Welsh schoolchildren ⬇️

This is what a newborn baby looks like, a tiny, perfect, innocent & fully formed human. Labour and their vile supporters are actually voting to end the lives of full-term babies. It’s m*urder. It’s beyond evil. Fuck Labour.