XOR’ing a register with itself is the idiom for zeroing it out. Why not sub?
Matt Godbolt, probably best known for being the proprietor of Compiler Explorer, wrote a brief article on why x86 compilers love the xor eax, eax instruction. The answer is that it is the most compact way to set a register to zero on x86. In particular, it is several bytes shorter than the more obvious […]
San Diego rents declined more than 19 of 20 top US markets after surge in supply
San Diego rents have gone down since this time last year, according to a new report by Zumper, a rental platform that tracks rental data nationwide. The median rent for a 1- and 2-bedroom apartment in San Diego declined by 5.6% and 7.5%, respectively. The report found that there was about a 15% increase in […]
Drunk Post: Things I’ve Learned as a Senior Engineer
Everything your mentor wants to say but HR won’t let them A few years ago, a data engineer on r/ExperiencedDevs got drunk and wrote down everything he learned in 10 years of engineering. The original account is deleted, but the post captures something real — the kind of honesty you only get after a few […]
Zindex – Diagram Infrastructure for Agents
example.scene.json { ”schemaVersion”: ”0.1”, ”scene”: { ”id”: ”payments-arch”, ”units”: ”px” }, ”elements”: [ { ”id”: ”api”, ”kind”: ”node”, ”nodeType”: ”service”, ”shape”: ”roundedRect”, ”label”: ”API Gateway” }, { ”id”: ”queue”, ”kind”: ”node”, ”nodeType”: ”queue”, ”label”: ”Job Queue” }, { ”id”: ”e1”, ”kind”: ”edge”, ”from”: { ”elementId”: ”api” }, ”to”: { ”elementId”: ”queue” }, ”router”: ”orthogonal” } […]
I don’t want your PRs anymore
I really appreciate that you’re enjoying the software I’m maintaining and want to help. But we need to rethink this collaboration, because I feel like we’re increasingly wasting each other’s time. Why I don’t want to merge your PR# Since I don’t really know you, I always have to assume that you might be trying […]
Framework Laptop 13 Pro
🗲 Testing conducted by Framework in April 2026 using Framework Laptop 13 Pro tested with Intel® Core™ Ultra X7 358H Processor, Intel® Arc™ B390 graphics, 2.8K touchscreen display, 32GB memory and 1TB storage, with display brightness set to 250nits, display refresh rate set to 60Hz, speaker volume as 30%, Dolby Atmos® disabled, and wireless enabled. […]
Cal.diy: open-source community edition of cal.com
Warning Use at your own risk. Cal.diy is the open source community edition of Cal.com and it is intended for users who want to self-host their own Cal.diy instance. It is strictly recommended for personal, non-production use. Please review all installation and configuration steps carefully. Self-hosting requires advanced knowledge of server administration, database management, and […]
Britannica11.org – a structured edition of the 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica
Encyclopædia Britannica, 11th Edition Articles Contributors Topics Ancillary Encyclopædia Britannica Eleventh Edition · 1910–1911 ∼◆∼ Fully searchable, cross-referenced, and annotated
The Vercel breach: OAuth attack exposes risk in platform environment variables
Detection Logic for SIEM Implementation The following detection patterns map to the confirmed attack chain stages. Each pattern describes the observable behavior, the log source to instrument, and the conditions that should trigger investigation. Organizations should translate these into rules native to their SIEM platform (Sigma, Splunk SPL, KQL, Chronicle YARA-L) after validating field names […]
Trellis AI (YC W24) Is hiring engineers to build self-improving agents
Trellis builds and deploys computer use agents to get patients access to life-saving medicine. Our computer-use AI agents process billions of dollars worth of therapies annually with patients in all fifty states. We do this by automating document intake, prior authorizations, and appeals at scale to streamline operations and accelerate care. We classify medical referrals, […]