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“A Programmer Who Reads Is Worth Two”: Tech Books for Summer 2025

Crafting an LLM from the ground up? Dive intoSebastian Raschka’s guide. It tackles everything: data wrangling to toeing the ethical line. Seasoned ML pros will nod in approval. Craving a sharp take on AI’s charming deceptions?Narayanan & Kapoor's"AI Snake Oil" spills the beans on marketing myths wit..

“A Programmer Who Reads Is Worth Two”: Tech Books for Summer 2025
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Exhausted man defeats AI model in world coding championship

A weary-eyed Polish coder,Przemysław Dębiak, bested an OpenAI model in a grueling 10-hour face-off, reminiscent ofJohn Henry’sepic duel against the steam-powered behemoth...

Exhausted man defeats AI model in world coding championship
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How to catch GitHub Actions workflow injections before attackers do

GitHub Actions injections areone of the most common vulnerabilities in projects. Use CodeQL to scan workflows and protect against these risks effectively...

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Understand CPU Branch Instructions Better

Branch prediction matters. Why? About a quarter of instructions are branches, and modern CPUs nail an accuracyabove 90%. Yet, those often-pesky branches can choke CPUs, stalling instruction flow. So, take a wrench to yourif-else logic. Trim indirect branches whenever you can—your CPU will thank you...

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Crawling a billion web pages in just over 24 hours

Imagine tearing through1 billion pages in a single dayon a shoestring budget. This crawler pulled it off with12 nodes and some savvy async maneuvering. But here's the kicker: it wasn’t the fetching that choked the CPU. Nope, it was the parsing. Today’s web behemoths, bloated with JavaScript and othe..

Crawling a billion web pages in just over 24 hours
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Containers: Everything You Need To Know

cgroupsand namespaces anchor Linux containers, isolating resources and processes like gatekeepers with a mission. On macOS and Windows, these containers ride in VMs withWSL2orLinuxKit, putting on their "welcome to the virtual world" hats. EnterrunC, executing OCI-built images with isolation flair, w..

Containers: Everything You Need To Know
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The Micro-Frontend Architecture Handbook

iframes: Secure and isolated, but clunky as dial-up. Best for legacy cleanup missions.Web Components: Native and framework-agnostic, perfect for reusable UI with Shadow DOM flair.single-spa: Juggles multiple SPAs with the finesse of a circus, though it gets chatty.Module Federation: Real-time module..

The Micro-Frontend Architecture Handbook
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Parsing 1 Billion Rows in Bun/Typescript Under 10 Seconds

Buntries to swallow files over 4GB and promptly chokes. The culprit? ItsBuffercaps out at 4GB. The fix? Slice files into chunks under 4GB but keep the buffer lean, no more than 128KB, to keep things zippy. Pull out the big guns—workers. This move fires up all CPU cores, slashing processing time from..

Parsing 1 Billion Rows in Bun/Typescript Under 10 Seconds
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How Go 1.24's Swiss Tables saved us hundreds of gigabytes

Uncovered a memory regression inGo 1.24. Pored over memory patterns in countless pods like a detective with too much caffeine. Pinpointed sneaky allocation blunders...

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Death by a thousand slops

By 2025,AI slopwill infect20%of curl's security submissions. Meanwhile, a mere5%reveal actual threats. Cutting the$90,000bounty might fend off the slopsters, but it'll scare away the real wizards, too...

Death by a thousand slops