The repercussions of missing an Ampersand in C++ & Rust
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Architecture of a Joke
My April Fool’s Joke: Ad Supported, Subscription DNS My april fools joke (briefly) made it to the front page of hackernews. The joke itself is small, but what I think is more fun and interesting are the constraints I had for this project, and how there are a couple of clever decisions that affect the architectural, implementation, and operational choices. I’m going to write down as many details as…
My April Fool’s Joke made it to the front page (of hackernews)
My april fools joke made it to the front page of hacker news: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39895453! Git Repo.
Failed Branchless Optimization - are we actually optimizing what we think we are?
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My Traumatic AWS Bill
My AWS bill seems a bit larger than the usual (pictured below):
Better Testing with Environment Composability
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Testing: A Tragedy
Context This was a “story” I wrote to illustrate a point about testing within complex software architectures in a different blog post. The story got too long, too cringe-worthy, too difficult to make “good” - and was distracting from the actual purpose of my original post. As a result, I decided to cut my losses and quarantine it to a different post.
Temporary Microservice Pattern
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Advice (and opinion) for Taking CS229
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Purchasing USB-C Pro Micros
I haven’t been posting much recently because I’m taking cs229: machine learning at Stanford as a non-degree option. The class is a lot of work (but I would recommend, especially the lecture notes), so I had to (temporarily) cut time from my other endeavors such as (1) Work (2) CS229 (3) Social Activities/Hobbies (4) Blogging about Hobbies. Since work and the class are non-negotiable and…