Most performance problems come down to how you use memory.
And this paper is still the best place to understand it:
• How RAM actually works
• CPU caches (and why they make or break performance)
• Practical optimization techniques
• Tools to measure what's really happening
Written by Ulrich Drepper (Red Hat).
Almost 20 years old and still holds up.
100% free:
https://t.co/l1LFpfu8Jd
FGED volumes 1 and 2 each had crowd funding campaigns that provided a way for supporters to get perks like acknowledgments in the books, autographed copies, and licenses to my software. I wasn't planning to run a campaign for FGED3, but I understand some people would still like access to these perks this time around, and I'd be willing to run a campaign to make them available. What do you think?
My family is donating another $400,000 to the Zig Software Foundation. Zig is exceptional software. I use AI every day. Zig has one of the strongest anti-AI policies in open source. We disagree on some things, but respect doesn’t require agreement. https://t.co/gaOuwjDDtm
What are the mysterious eight bytes that show up in-between some Windows heap allocations? In this follow-up to last month's video on @raysan5's snippet, we go further down the rabbit hole to figure out exactly who's writing the bytes and what they mean:
https://t.co/PUnQu7V287
My new interview with @Jonathan_Blow is OUT NOW.
We dive deep into why @SinkingStarGame took 10 years to develop, the incredible new demo, game design philosophy, the success of indie games in 2026, if he’ll ever retire, and so much more!
Watch here: https://t.co/vVMQaep1bk
It's been 3 months since the 100x vibers started 100x vibin'! So, post your 25-years-of-work-equivalent project here, so we can signal boost and everyone can celebrate the Life's Work that you did in 3 months. Looking forward to it, Let's Go!!!
Hunk is very good. It has completely replaced any other local diff viewer for me. It looks good, its speedy, good keyboard shortcuts, good mouse support for fallback. Great software @bentlegen. https://t.co/6HH5DPO5mO
Today we released the new version of our AI. It is the best AI for every purpose and we are also very responsible. Give us more money now. Here are some charts showing this AI is exactly the same as the previous one, except we juiced the benchmarks by epsilon:
so... I audited Garry's website after he bragged about 37K LOC/day and a 72-day shipping streak.
here's what 78,400 lines of AI slop code actually looks like in production.
a single homepage load of https://t.co/TqaEZsF44N downloads 6.42 MB across 169 requests.
for a newsletter-blog-thingy.
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BREAKING: MIT just completed the first brain scan study of ChatGPT users & the results are terrifying.
Turns out, AI isn't making us more productive. It's making us cognitively bankrupt.
Here's what 4 months of data revealed:
(hint: we've been measuring productivity all wrong)