Why is GitHub UI getting slower?(yoyo-code.com)

137 points by lr0 1 year ago | 67 comments

Code is run more than read (2023)(olano.dev)

102 points by facundo_olano 6 months ago | 70 comments

The surprising struggle to get a Unix Epoch time from a UTC string in C or C++(berthub.eu)

116 points by PascalW 1 year ago | 67 comments

100k TPS over a billion rows: the unreasonable effectiveness of SQLite(andersmurphy.com)

344 points by speckx 10 months ago | 124 comments

Blog post by Anders Murphy benchmarking SQLite at 100k transactions per second over a billion rows, arguing its embedded single-writer design helps it scale.

Why Common Lisp is now the best programming language(vivienhenz.com)

242 points by misterchocolat 20 days ago | 306 comments

Blog post arguing Common Lisp is the best programming language now that LLMs write code, because its image-based, interactive model shortens the feedback loop.

Understanding Objective-C by transpiling it to C++(jviotti.com)

81 points by ingve 2 years ago | 50 comments