For the past few years I’ve been the most senior developer on my teams in Atlassian, in both position (Principal Engineer) and time (almost 9 years) – this means I usually take on the responsibility of managing our software architecture. … Read more
There are so many brilliant posts on GPT-3, demonstrating what it can do, pondering its consequences, vizualizing how it works. With all these out there, it still took a crawl through several papers and blogs before I was confident that … Read more
Supporting imagery Model Le Wii U.Released on 18/11/2012 in America, 30/11/2012 in Europe and 08/12/2012 in Japan. Motherboard MotherboardInteresting how there’re lots of empty space, I presume the design had to be wide enough to accommodate the disc drive and … Read more
Auckland photographer Charles Brooks was (and is) primarily a cellist. In fact, since childhood, he has dedicated himself to music, and in the last twenty years, he has performed all over the world with various orchestras. Being in close contact … Read more
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Supporting imagery A quick introduction Released a year before its main competitor, the Xbox 360 was already claiming technological superiority against the yet-to-be-seen Playstation 3. But while the Xbox 360 might be the flagship of the 7th generation, it will … Read more
The mass adoption of microservices has forced more engineers to understand the implications of that decision within their systems. I often see these 8 fallacies generally ignored or downplayed when discussing system design. I thought it might be fun to … Read more
I am very happy to introduce our first Arc Note with Simon Willison who is going to be talking about Datasette, SQLite and the challenges of building a server-side web application that also works in both Electron and WebAssembly. Its … Read more
Architects look at thousands of buildings during their training, and study critiques of those buildings written by masters. In contrast, most software developers only ever get to know a handful of large programs well—usually programs they wrote themselves—and never study … Read more
April 18th, 2022 Some time ago I noted that The x86 architecture is the weirdo. (And by x86 I mean specifically x86-32.) I was reminded by the compiler folks of another significant place where the x86 architecture is different from … Read more