Dyte (YC W21) Is Hiring Support Engineers (Latin America)
We are hiring software engineers who can work in a customer facing role. The role requires an engineer who is well versed in web and/or mobile technologies and will work alongside with our product engineering team to provide support to customers. This is not an entry level support position, you would be expected to write […]
Unscrambling the Hidden Secrets of Superpermutations
Introduction Four. Three. One. Five. Two. Nothing happens. The evil genius Derango is loading a cataclysmic computer virus that, when launched, will lock the entire world out of the internet. In five minutes, no one will be able to access their online bank accounts, networked video games or online TV shows ever again! Three. One. […]
Getting into Robotics as a Software Engineer
Most of my career has been working on web services and mobile apps but at some point this got old for me—in high school I was part of a soldering club and I had this lingering feeling that I wanted to get into ‘harder’ problems. Two years ago I started looking around for companies in […]
Cloud Egress Costs
An often overlooked cost of using cloud services is data egress. This is the cost of sending data out of the cloud provider’s network to the public internet. I’ve compiled a list of egress pricing for major cloud providers to help you understand the costs: Disclaimer: These cost estimates are based on several assumptions. Cloud […]
Pentominoku for Layla
Rules Normal sudoku rules apply Tile the grid (except for the shaded central cell) in pentominos Each pentomino shape is associated with a number from 1 to 9 (its pentominoku number) F: 6 L: 2 N: 3 P: 4 T: 5 U: 8 V: 7 W: 8 X: 9 Y: 1 Z: 9 The pentominoku […]
OPML Is Underrated
Building the DirectX shader compiler better than Microsoft?
This is a story nightmare about the messy state of Microsoft’s DirectX shader compiler, and trying to wrangle it into a nicer experience for game developers. In some respects, we now build the DXC compiler better than how Microsoft does. Setting the stage For Mach engine we’ve been building an experimental graphics API called sysgpu […]
Putting the pieces together: Meet Justin Yu ’25, Tetris world champion
Campus Life student spotlight Meet Justin Yu ’25, Tetris world champion By Russel Ismael and Josh Nix Feb. 8, 2024 Justin Yu ’25 wins the 2023 Classic Tetris World Championship. PHOTO COURTESY OF JUSTIN YU Justin Yu ’25 wins the 2023 Classic Tetris World Championship PHOTO COURTESY OF JUSTIN YU Name and Class: Justin Yu, […]
Curious tale of broken VPNs, the Year 2038, and certs that expired 100 years ago
Interview Back in late 2010, “Zimmie” was working in IT support for a vendor that made VPN devices and an associated operating system. He got a call on a Monday from a customer – a large specialty retailer in the US – about its VPN hardware that had stopped working over the weekend. After looking […]
Mixed reality gone in Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 26052
UPDATE 2/9: Added an important known issue for Dev Drive users. Please see the known issues below. Hello Windows Insiders, today we are releasing Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 26052 to the Canary and Dev Channels. Insiders in the Canary Channel will receive Build 26052.1000 while Insiders in the Dev Channel will receive Build 26052.1100 […]