How to Solve: AAC Heavyweight M1 (Savage)
FFXIV raid mechanics explained in plain language.
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Xe Iaso
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10 posts in the last 90 days · newest 4 Oct
You can run git on object storage if you re-make packfiles
It sure seems that a bunch of companies are trying to ship a git product of some kind as of late. Wonder why that is. Either way, I’m building a Git server backed by object storage as an open-source project. It sounded simple enough to start: Git looks like a filesystem, so…
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Everyone should slow down AI development except for me
The power of science is staggering! Every day we're making new advancements in the field of generative artificial intelligence via judicious application of large language model inference technology. However, as we approach the next critical threshold in capability, we must look…
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It took a year to ship WebAssembly in Anubis
After a year of work, hundreds of commits, 5 generations of pull requests, dozens of tests, rewriting part of Anubis in Rust, the first compiler bug of my career, and at least three times making my tower run out of ram I think I have finally done it. The next version of Anubis…
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Conflict resolution is “fun”
One of the hardest problems in distributed systems is conflict resolution, or the same basic problem as merge conflicts in Git. Git merge conflicts happen when your branch differs from upstream in a way that Git can’t easily work its way around so it exposes both sides of the…
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"No way to prevent this" say users of only language where this regularly happens
In the hours following the release of CVE-2026-41992 for the project GNU gzip, site reliability workers and systems administrators scrambled to desperately rebuild and patch all their systems to fix decompressing two files in the same invocation of gzip (that's possible???) an…
How to make VS Code go back to the old UI
What do you wanna bet someone's gonna get promoted for deleting this workaround from the code?
Anubis continues to expose new ways people configure webservers
TL;DR: if admins turn off browser features, those features won't work in confusing ways that are annoying to debug
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