Sat Sep 21
I’ve been on a bit of a frustration-driven quest to solve a problem I frequently encounter working on the search engine, that is, reading data from disk. You’d think this would be a pretty basic thing, but doing this in a way that is half-way performant is surprisingly hard and requires avoiding basically all the...
Every problem at every company I’ve ever worked at eventually boils down to “please dear god can we just hire people who know how to write HTML and CSS.” This UX is awful? That UI looks old? Accessibility busted? Performance bad? Design team can’t ship stuff? Customers annoyed by tons of bugs? Everything takes too...
A few years after writing the letter Gaylord achieved his dream and became a Tram driver on the Broken Hill Steam Tram This is a letter H recently submitted as homework. Hopefully posting it here won't set off stupid Turnitin before the teacher marks it (it didn't - he passed!). It is from the time of the Broken...
Can you fit an NVMe solid-state drive into a computer that was made long before NVMe was invented? And should you?