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DEC 24TH, 2025 I work in Google Ads infrastructure in the past four years. Over time, I’ve seen one pattern came along again and again, causing endless pain for developers, that is, creating mini-frameworks. What is mini-framework? First, I’d like … Read more

Introduction Over the last decade, when working on databases with UUID Version 4 as the primary key data type, these databases have usually have bad performance and excessive IO. UUID is a native data type in Postgres can be stored … Read more

Credit: MirageC / Getty It can happen so easily. You’re excited about an experiment, so you sneak an early peek at the data to see if the P value — a measure of statistical significance — has dipped below the … Read more

In my opinion, one of the most important ideas in product design is to avoid the “nightmare bicycle”. Imagine a bicycle where the product manager said: “people don’t get math so we can’t have numbered gears. We need labeled buttons … Read more

It’s a strange time to be a software engineer. Large language models are very good at writing code and rapidly getting better. Multiple multi-billion dollar attempts are currently being made to develop a pure-AI software engineer. The rough strategy – … Read more

  In my opinion, you are safest using both a modem and a router that you purchased on your own. That is, avoid equipment from your ISP. I say this for a number of reasons: The devices shipped by ISPs … Read more

Short answer: turn it off and turn it back on Long Answer… Background The lifecycle of most spacecraft consists of a final phase where all the systems are tested to various levels of synergy. One of the most important and … Read more

Why do startups typically fail? It turns out that “avoiding those things” is already a plan for success. You have been told: Establish a vision. Set goals against the vision. Create actions that achieve the goals. Measure progress against the … Read more