Boost Your Git DX second update out now 2025-01-28Today I have released the second update to Boost Your Git DX, my book of developer experience (DX) recommendations for using Git. Since the last update (2024-04-04), it has grown again by 28 pages, for a new total of 391 pages! Changes include:…

Elasticsearch just turned 15-years-old. It all started back in February 2010 with the announcement blog post (featuring the iconic “You Know, for Search” tagline), first public commit, and the first release, which happened to be 0.4.0. Let’s take a look back at the last 15 years of indexing and…

February 12, 2025 Why are scalable systems locally-inefficent, and locally-efficient systems unscalable? Plus, new book release! Sorry for missing the newsletter last week! I started writing on Monday as normal, and by Wednesday the piece (about the hierarchy of controls ) was 2000 words and not…

Chips Ahoy OpenAI’s secret weapon against Nvidia dependence takes shape Chatbot maker partners with TSMC to manufacture custom AI chip, with plans for future iterations. Benj Edwards – Feb 10, 2025 4:00 pm | 80 Credit: OsakaWayne Studios via GettyImages Credit: OsakaWayne Studios via GettyImages…

We’re huge fans of Deterministic Simulation Testing (DST) at TigerBeetle, which enables us to perfectly reproduce complex failures of a distributed system on a single laptop. But that’s not today’s story! We’ve added an intentionally non-deterministic testing harness, the Vörtex! TigerBeetle applies…

tl;dr In this article, we use Pulumi to spin up a cloud-based development environment that emulates GitHub Codespaces. We define the environment using the devcontainer.json spec and establish a secure tunnel to mount your local file system on a remote server. This setup runs on Hetzner Cloud, starts…

February 10th, 2025: Greetings from Oaxaca. What a beautiful place. We took some fun pictures. and oh, and I turned 40. I decided to riff on thoughts racing through my head over the past week. I don’t have a good reflection on what it’s like to be 40 yet as I’m only a few days into this thing. For…

Previously: Mid 2024 The landscape of AI tooling continues to shift, even in the past half year. This is not unexpected. This post is an updated snapshot of the “state of things I use”. Tools Work This feels roughly 85% as effective as Cursor, but the ability to incorporate enterprise code context…

And the Tragedy of Bidenomics Jason Furman March/April 2025 Published on February 10, 2025 U.S. President Joe Biden at a manufacturing plant in West Columbia, South Carolina, July 2023 Jonathan Ernst / Reuters JASON FURMAN is Aetna Professor of the Practice of Economic Policy at Harvard University.…

Kenneth Harry Olsen was born on the 20th of February in 1926 in Bridgeport, Connecticut, and he grew up in nearby Stratford. In the 1930s and 1940s when Olsen was a teenager, the electronics industry for the average person was essentially the radio industry. For Olsen, his window into that world was…

I’ve talked before about how I think NetBSD is “boring”, and that it’s among the highest forms of praise I can give tech as a sysadmin and architect. But I’ve never elaborated why that is. The opposite of being bored is to be surprised, and that’s not something a sysadmin desires when building,…

In the summer of 2014, I gave birth to a baby boy. He was born with a perfect Apgar score, after a very easy delivery. But my labor had not been smooth—in fact, throughout the day and a half of contractions, I believed there was something decidedly wrong. I also felt that way as I held him for the…

Igor Schwarzmann is the German co-founder of Third Wave, a strategy consultancy based in Berlin that works with small-scale industrial manufacturers. The company’s clients range across Europe, the United Kingdom, and the United States, so Schwarzmann often finds himself moving between poles of the…

Building hybrid search with Elastisearch requires wrestling with one of the hairiest queries out there - the knn query. Indeed it’s marked as an “expert level” feature, and under active development for good reason. I’ve stubbed my toe a bunch, so let me walk you through how I’ve arrived at effective…

How are we still shocked? China is using the same tools that built America in the first place: state-led investment, industrial policy, and actually planning for the future. What’s shocking isn’t what China has accomplished—it’s how little we’ve done to keep up. This isn’t a partisan issue. Donald…

The idioms of free jazz and fusion are perpetually controversial. The Ken Burns PBS documentary Jazz, which codified a certain narrative of jazz history in the public imagination, did what it could to ignore both. The story Burns tells suggests that jazz was in hibernation between the death of…

Greenberg’s analysis was steeped in the anxious postmortems that the party launched after Reagan’s powerful new coalition made strong inroads among Democrats in the 1980s. But the presuppositions behind his counsel reflected a constrained and fast-obsolescing view of working-class politics and…

David French Feb. 9, 2025, 6:00 a.m. ET Credit...Hannah McKay/Reuters Listen to this article · 14:11 min Learn more By Opinion Columnist Steve Bannon made me laugh out loud. I was listening to my colleague Ross Douthat’s excellent, informative interview with President Trump’s former chief…

How do you fit a 250kB dictionary in 64kB of RAM and still perform fast lookups? For reference, even with modern compression techniques like gzip -9, you can't compress this file below 85kB. In the 1970s, Douglas McIlroy faced this exact challenge while implementing the spell checker for Unix at…

On a warm Saturday in August of 2024, Raphaël Maillochon was celebrating his son’s first birthday when he got a message from one of his sources. Maillochon, a 34-year-old crime reporter for the French broadcaster TF1, was used to contacts in law enforcement pinging him on the weekend. They liked…

A short, somewhat parochial post today. I’ll return to the big issues tomorrow. But it’s Sunday, so let’s take a break from the big picture and talk about traffic — specifically, New York’s new congestion pricing and the people who want to kill it. A bit over a month has passed since New York City…

Thunderbolt 5 is not supported everywhere yet, but if your computer can handle it, it's much faster and more capable than previous connectivity standards. CalDigit has just released a successor to its great Thunderbolt 4 hub, and the new Thunderbolt 5 version looks just as good. CalDigit has…

I was watching a documentary the other night—I’m not going to say which one here, because it was good and intelligent overall, and the filmmakers might be reading this—and got annoyed immediately because it was steeped in the same storytelling cliches as so many other documentaries made nowadays. It…

Destinations United States Florida Florida's Tallest Lighthouse Is A Giant Beacon Of History Offering The Most Scenic Coastal Views By Feb. 8, 2025 9:00 am EST Michael612/Shutterstock If you like nautical iconography and are fascinated by the maritime marvels that are lighthouses, Florida's…

Thunderbolt 5 is not supported everywhere yet, but if your computer can handle it, it's much faster and more capable than previous connectivity standards. CalDigit has just released a successor to its great Thunderbolt 4 hub, and the new Thunderbolt 5 version looks just as good. CalDigit has…

ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up to receive our biggest stories as soon as they’re published. Reporting Highlights Court Fight: During internal meetings, a political appointee said Trump could not have a higher tolerance for legal risk. Law-Breaking: Then…

${intro} ${title} ${lead} ${intro} ${title} ${lead} ${content} Contents Hard disk fraud: Increasing evidence of origin in China Recently, many online retailers have sent out Seagate hard disks as new that have already been running somewhere for many, many hours. As yet unknown fraudsters had reset…

In December 2020, Amazon announced with great fanfare that it would use Gaudi chips from the small Israeli startup Habana Labs to train its large language models (LLMs) in the cloud. Although generative AI was not yet a household term at the time, it was a major development in the ecosystem. Intel,…

Last week, I happened on a tweet from Patrick Collison (co-founder of Stripe and the excellent Stripe Press) reflecting on the ten classic “triple-decker” novels that he’d just finished reading: This year, I read ten important historical novels: Jane Eyre, Middlemarch, To The Lighthouse, Bleak…

Written By: Ami John 03/02/2025 Anime’s presence is undeniable. From Tokyo to New York to London, the genre has swept across the globe, especially in the wake of the pandemic. Comic Cons around the world are seeing bigger crowds each year, a clear sign of anime’s rising popularity and cultural…

This is an edition of Time-Travel Thursdays, a journey through The Atlantic’s archives to contextualize the present and surface delightful treasures. Sign up here. In 1933, the author Isadore Luce Smith made a bold declaration in The Atlantic: “A new type of parent has evolved.” These parents, Smith…