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I’ve been thinking about what happens to our understanding of a system when agents allow us to build it much faster.

OpenAI published a post about harness engineering , describing how they run a codebase written almost entirely by Codex.

After upgrading from Postgres 16 to 18, every time I recreated my Docker container, the database started fresh.

Claude Code has 3,617 open bugs .

This year I read 24 books.

50 days ago this equivalence made no sense to me.

It’s early morning, and I can’t connect to my Synology NAS DS1522+ over the local network.

After learning about k-means clustering , I thought I understood it until I tried implementing it myself.

Zig is a general-purpose, statically typed, compiled system programming language designed by Andrew Kelley back in 2016.

Machine Learning (ML) is one of the biggest drivers of change in tech today.

The Leaky Bucket Rate Limiting algorithm utilizes a FIFO (First In, First Out) queue with a fixed capacity to manage request rates, ensuring that requests are processed at a constant rate regardless of traffic spikes.

The Token Bucket Rate Limiting algorithm implements rate limiting by maintaining a fixed-capacity bucket that holds tokens.

The Sliding Window Rate Limiting is similar to the Fixed Window Rate Limiting but differs in its approach to managing the time window.

The Fixed Window Rate Limiting algorithm divides time into fixed windows of a specified duration, with each window having a predetermined request limit.

Rate limiting is a critical technique in system design that controls the flow of data between systems, preventing resource monopolization, and maintaining system availability and security.

Sometimes, you realize that a common library is being used in a single project but resides in its own Git repository.

What’s wrong with this Java code?

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