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2026

The Last Honest Database

After three decades of churn, Postgres is still the only one willing to tell you the truth — and a few quiet reasons that won’t change anytime soon.

Member-onlyApr 255.2K84Programming

In BytecodebyM. Okonkwo

How GPUs Quietly Ate the Datacenter

Power, water, and the new geography of compute. A tour of the racks, the substations, and the small towns that ended up hosting half the internet.

Member-onlyApr 223.4K52Infrastructure

In Compiler NotesbyS. Lindqvist

The Compiler That Could

Two years inside the LLVM project. On modular IR, exhaustion, and the small acts of patience that keep open-source compilers alive.

Apr 191.8K41Compilers

In Towards SoftwarebyP. Vance

A Letter to My Past Self About Microservices

Five regrets, two surprises, and one diagram I wish someone had drawn for me in 2017. A field-tested apology in twelve sections.

Member-onlyApr 1612.4K210Architecture

In Distributed DiariesbyT. Mei

Time Is a Lie

Clocks drift, logs lie, and consensus is a polite fiction. A field guide to keeping your sanity in distributed systems.

Member-onlyApr 122.7K63Distributed Systems

In BytecodebyF. Dehghani

Reading Code Like Poetry

On the underrated discipline of reading more software than you write — and what you learn about your own taste when you do.

Apr 099.8K118Software Craft

In Plain Text PressbyK. Dravid

Plain Text Is the Final Frontier

Markdown won. Then it kept winning. A short history of the formats that actually outlived their hype, and what that tells us about software longevity.

Apr 051.4K27Tools