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| Discussion of the Benefits and Drawbacks of the Git Pre-Commit Hook |
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| Pre-commit hooks catch secrets and fix formatting before bad stuff hits your repo. But if they’re clunky or slow, devs bail. Tools like Pre-Commit, Husky, and devenv are trying to fix that. devenv stands out - hooks are baked right into your Nix env, no extra glue scripts. |
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| State of AI Report 2025 |
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The 2025 State of AI Report just landed - China’s catching up fast on reasoning and coding. Models like DeepSeek, Qwen, and Kimi are starting to nip at OpenAI’s heels.
AI is thinking longer-term now. Reinforced reasoning and rubric-style feedback are pushing models into deeper, more deliberate planning. Embodied systems? Already moving. Gemini Robotics is out here running “Chain-of-Action” workflows in the real world. Think LLM meets robot arms.
Use is booming too. Forty-four percent of U.S. firms now pay for AI tools. Meanwhile, sovereign-backed multi-gigawatt datacenters are popping up. Scale like that screams industrial era. |
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| You already have a git server |
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A plain-old git repo on an SSH-accessible server can double as a lean deployment rig. Drop in some git hooks - like a post-receive - and every push can kick off static site builds or publish code on the spot. No extra tools. Just Git doing Git things.
Turns basic Git infra into a no-frills CI/CD pipeline. Cuts out the middleman. |
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| Measuring Engineering Productivity |
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| A former engineering leader lays out a no-nonsense framework for tracking team output without turning into Big Brother. Think: daily Slack updates, weekly GitHub changelogs, tight 1:1s, demo-fueled All-Hands, and auto-verified deploys. It leans on public artifacts, not peeking over shoulders - and puts the reporting work where it belongs: on managers. |
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| How I Reversed Amazon's Kindle Web Obfuscation Because Their App Sucked |
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A developer cracked Kindle Cloud Reader’s font obfuscation, sidestepping randomized glyph swaps with SVG rendering and SSIM-powered perceptual hashing to rebuild actual EPUBs. Amazon rotates font mappings every five pages, using finicky micro-paths to jam scrapers and derail OCR. It wasn’t enough.
System shift: DRM is getting messier. Text scraping is out. Image parsing is the new game. |
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| 100X Faster: How We Supercharged Netflix Maestro’s Workflow Engine |
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| The Maestro engine has been revamped for jaw-dropping improvement: a speed boost of 100X with overhead slashed from seconds to milliseconds. The groundbreaking redesign delivers massive performance gains, solving past workflow development hurdles and elevating user experiences sky-high! |
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| Build Your Own Database ✅ |
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LSM trees fix the mess naive key-value stores run into. They blend in-memory sorted indexes with append-only disk files to keep things snappy. Writes get logged, not scattered. Reads stay fast. When files pile up, compaction and segmenting kick in to keep storage lean.
This is a rewrite of the storage playbook. LSM trees lean hard into write performance and memory smarts. Systems like LevelDB and DynamoDB run on them for a reason: scale demands it. |
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