Kenton Varda
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Engineer at Cloudflare who designed Workers, Durable Objects and Cap’n Proto; earlier the primary author of Protocol Buffers v2 at Google, and co-founder of…
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8 facts on wiqqi (opens wiqqi.app)
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4 channels on ppll (opens ppll.app)
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26 beliefs on korrents (opens korrents.com)
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Even the best benchmarks have bias: it is hard to make one representative of real-world performance and easy to misread one that is not. (opens korrents.com)
“Even the best benchmarks have bias and tradeoffs. It's difficult to create a benchmark that is truly representative of real-world performance, and all too easy to misinterpret the results of benchmarks that are not.”
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Synchronous database queries help avoid subtle bugs, because every await is a chance for the state of the world to change underneath the code. (opens korrents.com)
“More importantly, though, synchronous queries help you avoid subtle bugs. Any time your application awaits a promise, it's possible that some other code executes while you wait. The state of the world may have changed…”
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A local SSD might as well be treated as one more layer of the memory cache hierarchy. (opens korrents.com)
“Even if it does have to go to disk, it's a local SSD. You might as well consider the local disk as just another layer in the memory cache hierarchy: L5 cache, if you will.”
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Even the best benchmarks have bias: it is hard to make one representative of real-world performance and easy to misread one that is not. (opens korrents.com)
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9 recommendations on rcmnd (opens rcmnd.app)
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Money Stuff (opens rcmnd.app)
“here's my understanding, which comes almost entirely from reading Money Stuff, a daily column by Matt Levine. If you are a tech person who wants to learn about finance, I recommend it!”
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TypeScript (opens rcmnd.app)
“With that said, I strongly recommend using TypeScript with Cap'n Web.”
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Claude Code (opens rcmnd.app)
“I really recommend trying it rather than assuming. There's no learning curve, you just install Claude Code and run it in your repo and ask it for things.”
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Money Stuff (opens rcmnd.app)