Automerge is a local-first sync engine for multiplayer apps that works offline, prevents conflicts, and runs fast.

We recently ran across a strange higgs-bugson that manifested itself in a critical system that stores and distributes the firm’s trading activity data, called Gord. (A higgs-bugson is a bug that is reported in practice but difficult to reproduce, named for the Higgs boson, a particle which was theorized in the 1960s but only found in 2013.) In this post I’ll walk you through the process I took to debug it. I tried to write down relevant details as they came up, so see if you can guess what the bug is while reading along.

This post is all about speculative compilation, or just speculation for short, in the context of the JavaScriptCore virtual machine.

I recently wrote about Async Pool, one of my favorite JavaScript / TypeScript helpers, and today I want to share an even simpler yet extremely useful utility

A write-ahead log is not a universal part of durability

Using systemd to avoid having to write some risky code

Official website of the Pimalaya project.

Featureful zsh prompt.

This article presents the program earlyoom to prevent a Linux system to lock up in low memory situations.