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2026

There's no point at which turning your brain off will workoriginal ↗
18 Sept 2026
How well do agents use test/verification techniques?original ↗
7 Sept 2026
How accurate have Ed Zitron's AI skeptic predictions been?original ↗
1 Sept 2026
Bug blindnessoriginal ↗
30 Aug 2026
There's no reason for software to be slow anymoreoriginal ↗
21 Aug 2026
The benchmarkpocalypseoriginal ↗
17 Aug 2026
How does programming language affect token efficiency and correctness?original ↗
9 Aug 2026
Bad benchmarks and evals: Senior SWE-Bench, napkin math, and winter tiresoriginal ↗
23 Jul 2026
Agentic test processes, LLM benchmarks, and other notes on agentic coding from Galapagos Islandoriginal ↗
3 Jul 2026

2024

Steve Ballmer was an underrated CEOoriginal ↗
28 Oct 2024
How good can you be at Codenames without knowing any words?original ↗
11 Aug 2024
A discussion of discussions on AI biasoriginal ↗
16 Jun 2024
What the FTC got wrong in the Google antitrust investigationoriginal ↗
26 May 2024
How web bloat impacts users with slow devicesoriginal ↗
16 Mar 2024
Diseconomies of scale in fraud, spam, support, and moderationoriginal ↗
18 Feb 2024
Why it's impossible to agree on what's allowedoriginal ↗
7 Feb 2024
Notes on Cruise's pedestrian accidentoriginal ↗
29 Jan 2024
Why do people post on [bad platform] instead of [good platform]?original ↗
25 Jan 2024

2023

How bad are search results? Let's compare Google, Bing, Marginalia, Kagi, Mwmbl, and ChatGPToriginal ↗
30 Dec 2023

2022

Transcript of Elon Musk on stage with Dave Chapelleoriginal ↗
11 Dec 2022
Chat log exhibits from Twitter v. Musk caseoriginal ↗
1 Oct 2022
Futurist prediction methods and accuracyoriginal ↗
12 Sept 2022
In defense of simple architecturesoriginal ↗
6 Apr 2022
Why is it so hard to buy things that work well?original ↗
14 Mar 2022
Misidentifying talentoriginal ↗
21 Feb 2022
A decade of major cache incidents at Twitteroriginal ↗
2 Feb 2022
Cocktail party ideasoriginal ↗
2 Feb 2022

2021

The container throttling problemoriginal ↗
18 Dec 2021
Some thoughts on writingoriginal ↗
13 Dec 2021
Some latency measurement pitfallsoriginal ↗
6 Dec 2021
Major errors on this blog (and their corrections)original ↗
22 Nov 2021
Individuals matteroriginal ↗
15 Nov 2021
Culture mattersoriginal ↗
8 Nov 2021
Willingness to look stupidoriginal ↗
21 Oct 2021
What to learnoriginal ↗
18 Oct 2021
Some reasons to work on productivity and velocityoriginal ↗
15 Oct 2021
The value of in-house expertiseoriginal ↗
29 Sept 2021
Measurement, benchmarking, and data analysis are underratedoriginal ↗
27 Aug 2021

2020

Against essential and accidental complexityoriginal ↗
29 Dec 2020
How do cars do in out-of-sample crash testing?original ↗
30 Jun 2020
Finding the Storyoriginal ↗
2 Jun 2020
A simple way to get more value from tracingoriginal ↗
31 May 2020
A simple way to get more value from metricsoriginal ↗
30 May 2020
How (some) good corporate engineering blogs are writtenoriginal ↗
11 Mar 2020
The growth of command line options, 1979-Presentoriginal ↗
3 Mar 2020
Suspicious discontinuitiesoriginal ↗
18 Feb 2020
95%-ile isn't that goodoriginal ↗
7 Feb 2020
Algorithms interviews: theory vs. practiceoriginal ↗
5 Jan 2020

2019

Files are fraught with periloriginal ↗
12 Jul 2019
Randomized trial on gender in Overwatchoriginal ↗
19 Feb 2019

2018

Fsyncgate: errors on fsync are unrecovarableoriginal ↗
28 Mar 2018

2017

Computer latency: 1977-2017original ↗
24 Dec 2017
How good are decisions? Evaluating decision quality in domains where evaluation is easyoriginal ↗
21 Nov 2017
How out of date are Android devices?original ↗
12 Nov 2017
UI backwards compatibilityoriginal ↗
9 Nov 2017
Filesystem error handlingoriginal ↗
23 Oct 2017
Keyboard latencyoriginal ↗
16 Oct 2017
Branch predictionoriginal ↗
23 Aug 2017
Sattolo's algorithmoriginal ↗
9 Aug 2017
Terminal latencyoriginal ↗
18 Jul 2017
The widely cited studies on mouse vs. keyboard efficiency are completely bogusoriginal ↗
13 Jun 2017
Startup options v. cashoriginal ↗
7 Jun 2017
How web bloat impacts users with slow connectionsoriginal ↗
8 Feb 2017

2016

HN comments are underratedoriginal ↗
23 Oct 2016
Programming book recommendations and anti-recommendationsoriginal ↗
16 Oct 2016
Hiring and the market for lemonsoriginal ↗
9 Oct 2016
I could do that in a weekend!original ↗
3 Oct 2016
Is dev compensation bimodal?original ↗
27 Sept 2016
How I learned to programoriginal ↗
12 Sept 2016
Notes on concurrency bugsoriginal ↗
5 Aug 2016
Some programming blogs to consider readingoriginal ↗
18 Apr 2016
Google SRE bookoriginal ↗
11 Apr 2016
We only hire the trendiestoriginal ↗
21 Mar 2016
Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality review by su3su2u1original ↗
1 Mar 2016
su3su2u1 physics tumblr archiveoriginal ↗
1 Mar 2016
Sampling v. tracingoriginal ↗
24 Jan 2016
We saw some really bad Intel CPU bugs in 2015 and we should expect to see more in the futureoriginal ↗
10 Jan 2016

2015

Normalization of devianceoriginal ↗
29 Dec 2015
Big companies v. startupsoriginal ↗
17 Dec 2015
Files are hardoriginal ↗
12 Dec 2015
Why use ECC?original ↗
27 Nov 2015
What's worked in Computer Science: 1999 v. 2015original ↗
23 Nov 2015
Infinite diskoriginal ↗
1 Nov 2015
Why Intel added cache partitioningoriginal ↗
4 Oct 2015
Slowlockoriginal ↗
30 Sept 2015
Steve Yegge's prediction recordoriginal ↗
31 Aug 2015
Reading postmortemsoriginal ↗
20 Aug 2015
Slashdot and Sourceforgeoriginal ↗
31 May 2015
The googlebot monopolyoriginal ↗
27 May 2015
A defense of boring languagesoriginal ↗
25 May 2015
Advantages of monoreposoriginal ↗
17 May 2015
We used to build steel mills near cheap power. Now that's where we build datacentersoriginal ↗
4 May 2015
Reading citations is easier than most people thinkoriginal ↗
29 Mar 2015
Given that we spend little effort on testing, how should we test software?original ↗
10 Mar 2015
What happens when you load a URL?original ↗
7 Mar 2015
Goodhearting IQ, cholesterol, and tail latencyoriginal ↗
5 Mar 2015
AI doesn't have to be very good to displace humansoriginal ↗
15 Feb 2015
CPU backdoorsoriginal ↗
3 Feb 2015
Blog monetizationoriginal ↗
24 Jan 2015
What's new in CPUs since the 80s?original ↗
11 Jan 2015
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