I'm getting ready to go back to the West Highlands next week so I thought I'd make a 'will it be raining when I'm in the West Highlands, and will I be able to see Ben Nevis this time, and also do I need my waterproofs?' map

Congratulations to @ztfasr for passing her PhD viva on “Secure Programming with Dispersed Compartments” today!!! Most exciting systems work on a full stack approach to using modern TEE hardware across the kernel/userspace/app layers. Keep an eye out for the final version…

DevX folks fighting the good fight, as usual :-)

Finally got around to fixing the initial dark mode flicker on my site 🎉 Only took me several years to get around to it... Dark mode + SSR always feels more complicated than it really should – props to Josh W. Comeau for his excellent post on the subject. joshwcomeau.com/react/dark-mod…

Oh. Oh no.

A sweet example of #offlinefirst application built using #Irmin and #OCaml. Backup your browser application data in Git on the server-side and use a 3-way merge strategy to reconcile any conflicts. Great work Odinaka Joy !

Watch a billion dollar news company use my footage without licensing it

I wrote a book about the Janet programming language: janet.guide

ah yes, increasing the speed of an OCaml program by up to 50% by predicting memory allocation patterns. The correctness is straightforward, but why is it faster ? When unrolled i get a 2x improvement over the naive loop.

Really lovely post by Patrick with lots of pointers to interesting open source work – he's been on quite a tour!

I wrote about using confidential computing and reproducible builds to broker access to admin permissions at Monzo 🏦 🔒🏦 monzo.com/blog/2023/12/1…

[private message on work slack] friend: hey buddy how do i <do thing>, i can't find it in your team's docs and i feel super dumb me: hey buddy! it doesn't exist. please re-ask this question in our public help channel so whoever is on-call can answer you. [public help channel]