Notes

128 GB of Apple Silicon, one hard rule (open-source / open-weights / fully-local / MLX-native), and the question of what stack results. Model and backend are the afternoon. The ops layer underneath is what produced 4lm.

Sometimes GC-based languages are just the better tool.

Rust has a very useful function that has no body.

According to the announcement of Rust 1.26 in May, 2018, the elevator pitch is this: This type signature says “foo is a function that takes…

DevOps is the professional practice of frequent, continued, and iterative improvements through measurable changes, the goal of which is to become a high-velocity organization thus improving business outcomes.

The way `ls` determines how to color outputs has tremendous influence on its runtime

An advent calendar that has a nice vim tip behind every door.

Ted M. Young surveys academic papers regarding the pros and cons of Test Driven Development.

A brief history of Vim and why I prefer it over all other editors and IDEs.

Ralf Jung sheds light on what pointers really are — they are neither simple nor just plain integers.

Alexandra Noonan describes how Segment moved from monolith to microservices and back again to a monolith. Segment offers an API that…

In Rust 1.27 the iterator combinators and have been stabilized. Both allow to iteratively apply a function to elements of an iterator…

Yesterday’s note on The Secret Life of Cows shows how to use as function return type when the function may return an owned type or a…

Sometime software engineers focus too munch on code an too little on deliverying value for their customers

Pascal Hertleif gives a comprehensive introduction to the type and discusses when and how to use it: One very cool use-case for Cows is…

How to pass an `Option<Function Pointer>` in Rust and why.

Eric Weiss explains the fallacies that might occur when you focus too much on the process and to little on the principles of Agile Software Development.

Rebecca Parsons (CTO at ThoughtWorks) speaks about whether to adopt microservices or not.

Ron Jeffries suggest to recall the Agile movement’s principals instead of folling yet another Agile Software Developemnt process.

Florian Leibert (CEO of Mesosphere) sat down with Steve Klabnik to talk about the rapid adoption of Rust and its role in DevOps.

I have very ambiguous feelings about Docker. I used to love it. Then I used to hate it. Nowadays I mostly ignore it. The reason why? Well…

… and that’s perfectly fine.

Uncle Bob argues that FP and OO work nicely together and both concepts are desirable.

Netflix’s Brendan Gregg explains what we’re doing wrong monitoring CPU utilization

There is no difference in the importance or relevance of production and test code. It is both code that helps you deliver the requested functionality to your client.

Sylvain Wallez summarizes his experiences with Go

What and how to iterate in Rust and how to use combinators.

Sometimes you hold on a reference even though you’re sure the reference is not used anymore. Nevertheless, the borrow checker does not let…