curl -fsSL https://zerobrew.rs/install | bash The installer updates your shell config. After it finishes, restart your terminal or run the source command it prints. Or via Homebrew: brew install zerobrewhq/zerobrew/zerobrew Update zerobrew If you used the standalone installer, rerun it: … Read more
About a billion Edge Functions run on Netlify every day — Sunweb personalizing pages, Loto-Québec routing traffic on a cookie check, and hundreds of thousands of other sites doing everything from personalization to routing to auth. All of it runs … Read more
By Jordan Andersen on 17/08/26 Not too long ago, I shared a post that I really liked by Disesdi Shoshana Cox. They went through the math of how many revolutionary tech companies we should have by now thanks to AI. … Read more
Other Date/Time Articles: A range of fast modulus techniques that beat compiler output 17 August 2026 Converting a day-count (“rata-die”) to the day-of-the-week (“weekday”) sounds like it should be so trivial, that there’s almost nothing to say about it. But, as it turns out, … Read more
Posted on 5 Aug 2026 by Boris Kolpackov Some months ago I read an article about a tool for snooping on slow build systems that can be used to find build bottlenecks. While the whole article is quite illuminating, this … Read more
When we shipped Auto Embeddings — the feature that turns any text column into a vector automatically, with no separate model service to run — the most common piece of feedback was about speed. The previous path went through SentenceTransformers … Read more
This article is both an introduction to a tool I have been working on called jsongrep, as well as a technical explanation of the internal search engine it uses. I also discuss the benchmarking strategy used to compare the performance … Read more
I don’t normally do follow-ups and never this quick. After posting that last article, it was fun to read the comments on Reddit and Hacker News as they rolled in. I even found other discussions. I couldn’t help wonder, “Could … Read more
This one is going to be a quick one as there wasn’t anything new discovered. In fact, I feel quite dumb. This is really a tale of “Do your research before acting and know what your goal is,” as you’ll … Read more
I’ve been building some software recently whose performance is very sensitive to the capabilities of the CPU on which it’s running. A portable version of the code does not perform all that well, but we cannot guarantee the presence of … Read more