Today is turning out to be a go-down-the-rabbit-hole day. This one is about Byzantine fault tolerance relying on a core principle of majority consensus (quick read) maddevs.io/glossary/byzantin…
Loved the genuine frustration mixed with insights - made me laugh out loud a few times. Kept re-reading sections packed with intricate details. Now I have new tabs open from all the references. Really well written.
My habits of finding a restaurant are changing quickly.
Used to be places like Google Maps, or review sites.
Now I go to Perplexity and ask "what are restaurants suitable for {even type} with {number of people} near {location of choice}"
Works very well IME
Deepseek is AI that costs pennies.
Unitree is Robots that cost less than a MacBook. DeepSeek Unitree G1 = the future of cheap, scalable digital labor. It’s not science fiction anymore. ❤️🤖
Cursor is good but it feels a little pretentious. Windsurf feels like a pair programmer that understands your coding vibe. That's hard to articulate precisely but captures what I feel.
So the Typescript announcement (porting their compiler to Go) got me reading into VLQ encoding, and I wrote down what I learnt
dinguva.substack.com/p/vlq-e…
youtube.com/watch?v=mIbA2ymC…
Absolute pleasure to watch @viktorklang and @BrianGoetz take a first pass at Java Serialization (take 2). This is pre JEP folks and love where it is going.
I wonder how it'll fit with Protobuf/Avro etc, from the looks of it, it should work well as long as you can write "adapters".