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What is a token and why does it cost so much? - Computerphile
youtube.comMost Secure Way to Store Auth Tokens
Where should your auth token live so an XSS bug can't steal it? Here's how to build auth that survives the crazy non-secure world we live in.
Drunk Post: Things I’ve Learned as a Senior Engineer
luminousmen.substack.comThe mask that compiles to nothing: how HotSpot's JIT learned to reason about bits
questdb.comOne of the fastest growing repo on github
Calw-Code is one of the fastest-growing repos in the world
When Claude's source code was leaked, some developers studied it and recreated this AI.
Claw--Code written mostly in Rust
How Oracle's Secret Algorithm Came into the Public Domain After Patent Expiration, Making Sorting 5x Faster for Open-Source Databases and Boosting Performance for AWS and Other Cloud Companies
Orasort, a sorting algorithm from Oracle, came into the public domain in 2024 after its patent expired, providing massive benefits to open-source software.
Nordstjernen Web Browser 1.0.18 released
Nordstjernen is a web browser, written from scratch in C. Focused on supporting the HTML and CSS standards.
What ORMs have taught me: just learn SQL
wozniak.caWindows dev tools have quietly gotten really good and nobody talks about it
Feels like most dev discourse assumes Mac/Linux by default, but the Windows tooling situation (WSL, terminal, package managers) has improved a ton the last couple years. Anyone else building daily on Windows and just not mentioned it because nobody asks?