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Git might be the most ubiquitous tool in software development, but that doesn't mean it's perfect. What if we could keep Git compatibility while fixing its most frustrating aspects—painful merges, scary rebases, being stuck in conflict states, and the confusing…

I am trying to understand how to properly store ordered information in a relational database.

An example:

Say I have a Playlist, consisting of Songs. Inside my Relational Database, I have a table...

For the past 21+ years of running Phoronix and even longer than that being a Linux user, I have loved and consistently promoted Intel's open-source efforts and leading Linux support.

Introduction Versatile as it is, SQLite still suffers from one major drawback. Which is write concurrency. SQLite, using the Write-Ahead-Log (WAL) journaling mode, supports an unlimited number of r…

going-forward and retroactive

Compositionality can be much more than just an interface between two objects or functions. It can be a set of laws.

At the moment, my brain’s too fried to play a “proper” videogame, but that’s not going to stop me from writing these articles because there ...

The Fedora Council began a process to create a policy on AI-assisted contributions in 2024, st [...]

Anthropic research on data-poisoning attacks in large language models

As part of standard incident-response practice, Ruby Central is publishing the following post-incident review to the public. This document summarizes the September 2025 AWS root-access event, what occurred, what we verified, and the actions we’ve taken to…

Every line of code we write shapes the society we live in. Software has been woven into our everyday lives, influencing access, inclusion, and representation. As technology professionals, our choices carry ethical and political weight, impacting real people…

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interactive shell navigation and history

GitHub is working on migrating all of its infrastructure to Azure, even though this means it'll have to delay some feature development.

In 2021 I found a huge memory leak in VS code, totalling around 64 GB when I first saw it, but with no actual limit on how high it could go. I found this leak despite two obstacles that should have…

The simple harmonic oscillator and the fundamental role of complex exponents for ODEs.
Next chapter on the Laplace Transform video: https://youtu.be/j0wJBEZdwLs
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Exploring Odin Through a Tiny Key-Value Store with Pub/Sub