Newsfeed 2024

created: 2024-01-01 | updated: 2024-04-27
April 2024 Leaving Rust gamedev after 3 years by LogLog Games 2017 Letter to Shareholders by Jeffrey P. Bezos Intrinsic or Teachable? First, there’s a foundational question: are high standards intrinsic or teachable? If you take me on your basketball team, you can teach me many things, but you can’t teach me to be taller. Do we first and foremost need to select for “high standards” people? If so, this letter would need to be mostly about hiring practices, but I don’t think so.

Go good reads

created: 2022-09-18 | updated: 2024-02-08
#go
Index Performance Generics Others Performance Go 1.22 inlining overhaul pprof documentation A Deep Look Into Golang Profile-Guided Optimization (PGO) Profiling and Execution Tracing in Go What I learned pprof can diff with go tool pprof -http=:8080 -diff_base <file2> <file1> How to Write Accurate Benchmarks in Go Not resetting or pausing the timer Making wrong assumptions about micro-benchmarks Not being careful about compiler optimizations Being fooled by the observer effect Obscure Go Optimisations - Bryan Boreham Take-aways Slice-to-interface cast will allocate.

Newsfeed 2023

created: 2023-01-05 | updated: 2023-12-23
December 2023 The Big Cloud Exit FAQ by @dhh This isn’t some archaic knowledge that’s been lost to the ages. We might not know exactly how the pyramids were built, but we do still know how to connect a Linux machine to the internet. I think many of us are forgetting this. “buy the baseline, rent the spike” 100% agree. Constant Propagation in Compiler Design In simpler words, we can say that if some value is assigned a known constant, than we can simply replace the that value by constant.

Career

created: 2023-01-29 | updated: 2023-06-24
Reflections on Career Advancement: Understanding the Power of Relationships and Reputation Anyone can become a Director by working hard enough. To become a Sr. Director, someone needs to push you. To become a VP, several people need to pull for you. Check job postings weekly and ensure you have at least one job interview a year. Almost no one applying for a certain position lacks the qualifications. People who can hardly go wrong even if chosen with eyes closed are the ones who get the interview opportunities.