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Magic floating-point numbers: NaNs(opens in new tab)

After following Laurie Kirk down a rabbit hole on subnormal numbers in the IEEE 754 float specification, I stumbled upon other interesting properties of floating-point numbers, specifically how NaNs (Not a Number) are represented in binary. After more than 10 ...

Building Trust with Sean Goedecke(opens in new tab)

What is it like to ship software in big tech? Sean gives us his experience from multiple companies and what he’s learned. It's probably not what you think. It doesn't matter if you're vibe coding features or bash-ing devops, we ...

237: FastAPI Cloud - Sebastián Ramírez(opens in new tab)

In this episode, Brian interviews Sebastián Ramírez, creator of FastAPI, about its rapid rise in developer popularity and the launch of FastAPI Cloud. Sebastian explains how FastAPI Cloud addresses deployment challenges small teams face. He shares his transition from open-source ...

Rustdesk Server on Ubuntu 22.04(opens in new tab)

As usual, I’m self-documenting a project while I work on it. Rustdesk is an open source remote control utility that caught my eye about a year ago; it’s cross platform and allows you to self-host your own “relay server” so ...