Engineering

Writing bug reports should be easy, the hard part should be reading them.

Great programmers are not born; they are made - says Daniel Terhorst-North, the author of the viral Twitter thread on the best programmer he knows.

The resoning behind how I chose

Solar is in the process of shearing off the base of the entire global industrial stack – energy – and the tech sector still lacks a unified thesis for how to best enable, accelerate, an…

Wanna listen to this story instead? Check out this week's Better Offline podcast, "The Man That Destroyed Google Search," available on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and anywhere else you get your podcasts. UPDATE: Prabhakar has now been deposed as head of search, read here for more details. This is the story of how Google Search died, and the people responsible for killing it. The story begins on February 5th 2019, when Ben Gomes, Google’s head of search, had a problem. Jerry Dischler, then the VP

Workers had questions, leadership did not have answers

Since the late 1990s, the number of US publicly traded companies has plunged from just over 8K in 1996 to about 4.6K in 2022. (It’s bounced back...

An open letter calling for a hard fork of Rails to remove DHH's influence - Plan-Vert/open-letter

The video game Black & White is a very interesting example of a video game AI…

But it's also good — Musings about the last year of Roomy development, and more.

A practical look at what software architects really do, from connecting technology and business strategy to guiding organizations toward scalable decisions.

There's no kill switch on awesome. The personal blog of Sebastian Gebski.

Functional Programming in Ruby — State Ruby is, by nature, an Object Oriented language. It also takes a lot of hints from Functional languages like Lisp. Contrary to popular opinion, Functional …

SpacetimeDB is a unique "database", written in Rust, that was developed by Clockwork Labs, and a month ago made a bit of a splash with their promotional video. It's available on GitHub under a BSL 1.1 license. (This is notably not open-source, but instead source-available. More on that later.) But it's much more than just a database. In a press release, Clockwork Labs referred to SpacetimeDB as a, "production-ready, all-in-one backend solution for your multiplayer games". But we find out lat

Write faster code by understanding how it flows through your CPU

A guide to web scraping as an artistic and critical practice.

Update: We are diving deep into the Google API leak and what it means for marketers in our next episode of SparkToro Office Hours on June 27. Join Michael

I have found a lot of programmers that do not understand the Halting Problem and its implications, so here is my attempt to fix that.

Introduction

In the era of zero-click platforms, native content, and walled gardens, does anyone still send meaningful traffic to the open web? Is Google responsible

Pushing against a wall makes you stronger and does not bother the wall and is stupid

Distributed systems aren't just code; they're digital organisms. Explore how the Free Energy Principle and Markov blankets define modern software architecture.

Discover 9 ways AI-assisted coding rewires your development mindset: integration testing, architecture, modules, and strategies for managing cognitive load.

Learn how to design systems at scale and prepare for system design interviews

How Tech Billionaires Are Building a Post-Democratic America — And Why Europe Is Next

Sebastian's blog – Endless possibilities (a socio-technical API pattern)