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You should never be angry at work

I try not to give a lot of prescriptive advice about working in tech companies. There are many ways to be successful, and every company works differently. If…

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Robot comment classifier

Tagger walks the entire collection to locate flagged clusters. Skip it altogether when the cached, dirty-tracked flag count says there are none (the usual case): nothing needs marking, so the walk is pure waste. When the count is stale (e.g. right after an...

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OTel Isn't Going Well (And I Made A Spreadsheet About It)

For years now one of the most reliable complaints I hear when I try to drag a team off their vendor specific SDK and onto OpenTelemetry is some variation of: "why does it seem like this isn't done yet?" Vendor SDKs for observability are, to put it...

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Stop Making TUIs

I’m on a kick lately getting my friends to try building native user interfaces. I built my first serious Mac application a few months ago, and since then I’ve built more native UI thingies than in my entire career prior to that. Let’s take a quick tour.

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Compile-Time Improvements in LLVM 23

LLVM 23 has seen substantial compile-time improvements of -6.75% (sqlite3: -10.53%) in -O3 builds. This article describes the major sources of these improvements.