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Svix invites individuals to join their team in order to empower companies and create a world-class webhooks experience. They have received significant funding from prestigious investors like Y Combinator, Andreessen Horowitz, and Aleph. Svix is seeking smart, high-energy individuals who enjoy working with developers and share their values. The chosen candidates will have the opportunity […]
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In this web content, the author reflects on their personal view of the Open Source Initiative (OSI) and why they rarely think about it. They attribute the dominant cultural shift in programming to the JavaScript, Ruby, and Python communities, which they believe were responsible for building new structures and bringing coding to the masses. They […]
Downloading videos from YouTube can be a complex task due to the platform’s restrictions designed to protect its revenue from ad views. In this article, the author explains the technical details of YouTube’s security measures and how they can be bypassed. The process involves finding the video’s URL using the YouTube API and then transforming […]
Writing about what you learn is a powerful tool for deepening understanding and revealing gaps in knowledge. It enables a comprehensive exploration of a subject, leading to new insights and connections. Putting thoughts into words helps clarify understanding and identify areas of vagueness or incompleteness. Writing also allows for reflection, connecting new information with existing […]
Epsilla is an open-source vector database that focuses on scalability, high performance, and cost-effectiveness in vector search. It serves as the Hippocampus for AI, bridging the gap between information retrieval and memory retention in Large Language Models. Noteworthy features include high performance and production-scale similarity search for embedding vectors, a database management system with familiar […]
This web content provides a comprehensive guide to software engineering practices at Google. It covers various topics, including culture, knowledge sharing, leadership, measuring productivity, processes, testing, code review, documentation, tools, and more. The author emphasizes the importance of collaboration and teamwork, as well as the need for continuous learning and improvement. They also address issues […]
In the tragic story of the Überlingen disaster, two planes collided in mid-air, ripping away the hopes and dreams of young Russian students. This catastrophe could have been avoided if not for a fundamental blind spot in the global air traffic control system. The accident was a reminder of the divergent impulses between the Russian […]
The Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus, written by Ludwig Wittgenstein, is a significant philosophical work that explores the relationship between language and reality and sets the limits of science. It consists of 525 declarative statements and was published in 1921. Wittgenstein’s later works criticized some of the ideas presented in the Tractatus, but there are still connections and […]
Over the summer, the author spent their time building a garbage collector in Rust, a language designed to eliminate garbage collection. They explained that Rust’s standard library offers reference-counted garbage collectors, but they cannot handle cyclic references. So, the author aimed to create a garbage collector that can handle cyclic references and nearly any data […]
In this article, the author explains why Elixir uses a dot when calling anonymous functions. They start by discussing the limitation in the Erlang VM, which doesn’t allow functions to receive a variadic number of arguments. They then explore a fictional language that allows for multiple arities and functions stored in variables, similar to languages […]