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Developer AI for real software engineering work Lots of coding AIs have cool X demos on greenfield apps. But the day-to-day of a pro software engineer working on a team looks…a little different from vibe coding. Enter Augment Code. The first developer AI built for teams and large codebases, Augment works on codebases of millions of lines of code and thousands of files, bringing...

Tracking You from a Thousand Miles Away! Turning a Bluetooth Device into an Apple AirTag Without Root Privileges Imagine someone could turn your laptop, smartphone, or even your gaming console into a tracking device without your knowledge. Our research team discovered a way this can happen through Apple’s Find My network The Find My network uses over a billion Apple devices worldwide. We found...

CSS Meets Voxel Art: Building a Rendering Engine with Stacked Grids We usually don’t include this tutorial style link but this one is really interesting to see. We will learn how transforms, perspective, and stacked grids can create a fully addressable 3D space and push the boundaries of what’s possible with pure CSS

Representing graphs in Postgresql A very command problem when we need to re-present a relationship in databsae such as family, friend. Can come in very handy to write a single SQL query to find relationship instead of building them from the app level

Writing an LLM from scratch, part 8 -- trainable self-attention Write up when following “Build a large language model from scratch” book.

Why fastDOOM is fast FastDOOM was a port of DOOM but it is 30% faster. On some complicated map, it’s even 48% faster. We will dive into the secret sauce of the technique that is used to optimized it. very low level thing like use the right assembly instruction to make code run in fewer instructions.

Micro event loop library to teach the basic concepts of python coroutines and how event loop libraries might be implemented

nativewebp This is a native WebP encoder written entirely in Go, with no dependencies on libwebp or other external libraries. Designed for performance and efficiency, this encoder generates smaller files than the standard Go PNG encoder and is approximately 50% faster in execution

Minecraft from scratch A Minecraft clone from scratch with only modern OpenGL. No game engines or frameworks. Using Go so it’s very h igh level and easy to follow.

Waveform Renderer A lightweight and customizable TypeScript library for rendering audio waveforms on HTML canvas. Create beautiful, interactive audio visualizations with ease.

BemiDB Postgres read replica optimized for analytics. It consists of a single binary that seamlessly connects to a Postgres database, replicates the data in a compressed columnar format, and allows you to run complex queries using its Postgres-compatible analytical query engine.

cartography a Python tool that consolidates infrastructure assets and the relationships between them in an intuitive graph view powered by a Neo4j database.

Build your own SQLite, Part 5: Evaluating queries We had been featuring this series in previos issue. In this part we will learn how to evaluate a SQL query. If you are interesting of understanding deep into your stack, these article provide great approach into learning and rebuilding them.

Running Pong in 240 Browser Tabs What do you do with your unclosed browser tabs? I find that they take up a lot of screen space. So this week I figured out how to run pong inside mine.

Video streaming using http 206 partial content Implementing video streaming might be a pain for some cases, especially when we talk about memory management alongside scalability of the application. One common way is using HTTP Live Streaming Protocol where a single video could be broken down into smaller chunks and sent through multiple HTTP requests. But then we need to transcode video ahead of...

Multi-Hop WireGuard WireGuard is a very powerful VPN which support multiple topology and routing. Can come in very handy when you want to perform complex routing, especially in environment where you want to control egress. Give this a read to learn about these setups: Site Gateway as a Spoke, Internet Gateway as a Spoke, Chain of Hubs, Hub is Also a Site Gateway.

3,200% CPU Utilization A tale into debugging a Java program to see why it use all 32 cores.