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Holden Karau, a San Francisco tech worker, built a platform called Fight Health Insurance to help users generate health insurance appeals using AI. The platform aims to make filing appeals faster and easier for patients facing denial of claims. Karau, a trans woman who loves motorcycles, enjoys getting insurance providers to follow rules they try […]
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The author recounts their experience fixing a bug in the Chromium/Google Chrome web browser related to integration between Devtools and network requests in worklets. They had to build Chromium from scratch, delve into the massive codebase, and make adjustments to the code to resolve the issue. Surprisingly, the fix involved ensuring the correct scope was […]
Dokku is a cost-effective, easy-to-use open-source Platform as a Service (PaaS) that allows you to turn a VPS into a powerful serverless platform that you own. Similar to Heroku, Dokku offers features like automatic SSL certificate management, basic auth support, easy scaling, and the ability to handle various types of applications. You can deploy applications […]
To bootstrap Rust, the author has embarked on a monumental project called Dozer, a Rust compiler written in pure C. This ambitious endeavor aims to eliminate reliance on C++ in the bootstrap process, ensuring Rust can be compiled from the ground up using only C. By following a complex chain of bootstrapping starting from a […]
The author dives into the use of the “vmsplice” system call to speed up data transfer through Linux pipes. They explore how using vmsplice can significantly boost performance, with some solutions reaching speeds up to 208.3 GiB/s. The author delves into the technical aspects of data transfer, comparing writing to cache versus writing to a […]
The blog addresses the misrepresentation of Telegram as an “encrypted messaging app” when it fundamentally lacks default end-to-end encryption. Despite CEO Pavel Durov’s emphasis on Telegram’s security, the platform does not automatically provide encryption for most conversations. The process of activating the optional end-to-end encryption feature for “Secret Chats” is convoluted, involving multiple clicks and […]
Cinder, a US-based tech company, is facing the challenge of North Korean nationals suspected of working for the North Korean government applying for engineering roles. These applicants work remotely via third countries to funnel money back to their government, potentially violating sanctions. With co-founders from CIA backgrounds, Cinder is uniquely positioned to handle this issue. […]
The author, a longtime Emacs user diving into EmacsLisp and extensions, encountered the controversial ideas that EmacsLisp sucks and Emacs is dying on the #emacs IRC channel. Arguments include differences from Scheme, CommonLisp, Haskell, and flaws in the Emacs APIs, like lack of lexical scoping and object system. Contradictory views arise regarding the role of […]
Intel is facing layoffs as experienced CPU architects leave to create RISC-V startup AheadComputing. Co-founded by former Intel employees Debbie Marr, Mark Dechene, Jonathan Pearce, and Srikanth Srinivasan, the firm aims to develop open specification core IP. The founders boast impressive resumes with extensive experience in CPU design, and Intel background. Though AheadComputing’s website is […]
The author delves into the different versions of UUIDs, providing insights on their generation and recommended use cases. While many may default to using v4 for random IDs, the author suggests considering v7 for IDs needing to be sorted, such as database keys. Surprisingly, v7 is noted as an improvement on v1 and v6, implying […]