Back in January I gave a talk at Jane Street titled "Are Mutexes Slow?" (I gave a lightning version of it at @rustikon.dev last week!). And it's now up on YouTube if you're interested in wonky details about CPU cache coherence and the cost of coordination!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=tND-...
We are excited to announce that we can successfully use Rust's std::thread on the GPU. This has never been done before.
www.vectorware.com/blog/threads...
Supporting Rust's std::thread enables existing Rust code to work on the GPU and makes GPU programming more ergonomic.
an interview with Gergely Orosz about writing
Our latest interview: @gergely.pragmaticengineer.com shares his path to The Pragmatic Engineer, his favorite bloggers, and tips for others writethatblog.substack.com/p/gergely-or...
Lucky people you all are. I've to settle for Kindle edition for now. Print, it says probably march/april. 😐
If you want to learn more about the Variant type in Parquet, Aihua Xu and @andrewlamb1111.bsky.social wrote a great blog post on the project blog.
parquet.apache.org/blog/2026/02...
it’s important to keep caring about how things work and how they’re built
reason why I've entirely stopped using it and when I do need hands off approach, it's wispr flow to the rescue. Wispr is great so far. But yeah, I wish claude becomes as good as chatgpt voice mode
Highly recommend. Now I'm digging through all the references, links - nice rabbit hole.
newsletter.pragmaticengineer.com/p/observabil...
Haha, no pressure. Register Spill is more than enough :D
Choose your storage layer carefully.
Wow, it's been a while. Testing the waters? or back here?
Didn't realise how much I love @spacecowboy17.bsky.social "For You" feed.
"Well you only need the light when it's burning low Only miss the sun when it starts to snow... "
Reminding me of this lyrics - www.youtube.com/watch?v=RBum...
Rooting for you spacecowboy...
I have no more patience for platforms. I'm done.
#offprint
tynanistyping.offprint.app/a/3mcsvjjceei23-publishi...
@danielroe.dev profile with a proposed Website button linking to danielroe.dev
as more people add bluesky comments to their blogs, bluesky should give back by surfacing their websites. If we visit someone's profile, we should find a prominent link inviting us to explore their garden
One of my favourite childhood games. Arkanoid. Now you put this seed in my head, why not rebuild this a side project (one more to the never ending list of side projects 😂)
my competitive advantage is that i'm having fun
But there are also instances where I just shut it down completely and hand code it like old days without any autofill. Just to make sure I’ve indeed learned or was just nodding my head along to whatever it says.
I usually ask AI to keep explaining while it writes. Like why this and what alternatives are considered, why not them…etc. ELI5 mode if it’s a language I’ve never worked with earlier.
I've posted my latest recap of the world of databases: www.cs.cmu.edu/~pavlo/blog/...
All the hot topics from the last year:
• More Postgres action!
• MCP for everyone!
• MongoDB gets litigious with FerretDB!
• File formats!
• Market movements!
• The richest person in the history of the world!
Teaser - Just AI 😛
Using AI to generate code you don't understand is akin to using a translation app for a language you don't know.
It might be ~90% correct but you'll never be able to spot the ~10% that's wrong, and that's going to look bad on you when others do.
Currently reading “Writing to Learn” by William Zinsser.
Was surprised at first to see so many em dashes throughout. And the book was written long back before LLM tools are out there.
That’s when I learned this “em dashes means AI” is not really a thing. We should just whatever works for us 😅
exercising in january is way too mainstream, so I'll be starting at some point later in the year just to show that I'm serious about it
My friends in Austria sent this and I can't stop watching...wait for the end. 🤗💜
Ready for the first cool demo of the year?
A mini Mario world with keyboard control. Yes, you can move Mario and also jump! 👀
Demo: codepen.io/t_afif/full/... via @codepen.io
✔️ 100% CSS Magic
✔️ Minimal HTML
❌ 0% JavaScript
A Chrome-only experimentation using modern CSS.
One of the advantages of being a millennial is that by the time these short-form videos started becoming a thing, I was already considered too old for the platforms.
So, I ended up never downloading them. But watching my cousins use their phones like zombies - ngl, I’m a tad bit worried.
