Royal Sloth

I was curious just how much traffic a front-page HN post generates and found this excellent post: https://blog.royalsloth.eu/posts/how-much-traffic-comes-from-the-front… In their case traffic peaked just under 10000 requests per hour. (RoyalSloth's blog survived the hug while hosted on Hetzner's smallest 1 vCPU instance.)

This is obligatory read: https://blog.royalsloth.eu/posts/it-takes-a-phd-to-develop-that/ Later, Microsoft fixes the issue but fails to give Muratori credit. After backlash, they went back and gave him a footnote: https://devblogs.microsoft.com/commandline/windows-terminal-preview-1-… (atlas release section) GitHub thread in question: https://github.com/microsoft/terminal/issues/10362#issuecomment-862844… And this gem: https://github.com/microsoft/terminal/issues/10362#issuecomment-862852…

If someone is curious about this data, I made a little analysis a while ago - Nobel Prize in numbers: https://blog.royalsloth.eu/posts/nobel-prize-in-numbers/#section-prize…

They're referring to a situation described here[1] (HN discussion [2]). [1]: https://blog.royalsloth.eu/posts/it-takes-a-phd-to-develop-that/ [2]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28743687

Hi, I come across a lot of blogs when I curate for my newsletter Interesting Things [1]. Just looking through the links that have been curated in the past month or so, I would suggest: Tech - https://wasteofserver.com/ - https://tonsky.me/ - https://brianschrader.com/ - https://blog.thea.codes/ - https://fasterthanli.me/ - https://jvns.ca/ - https://blog.royalsloth.eu/ Non-tech - https://www.drorpoleg.com/ - About work and society - https://staysaasy.com/ - About tech work - https://www.nateliason.com/ - About life in general - https://andymatuschak.org/ - https://craigmod.com/ - https://perell.com/ And, of course, shameless plug: https://bengtan.com ---- [1] https://bengtan.com/interesting-things

> compiler having a hard time vectorizing operations and reorganizing data structures Reminds me of a recent blog post on exactly this topic. Apparently the Jai language might make some progress on this point. • https://blog.royalsloth.eu/posts/the-compiler-will-optimize-that-away/ • Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27010965

Yesterday there was a blog post by someone receiving HN traffic on a cheap Hetzner instance: https://blog.royalsloth.eu/posts/how-much-traffic-comes-from-the-front…

Which active ones do we have now? - Jvm: Eclipse, NetBeans, JavaFX (still a thing?), Swing/AWT - Flutter/Dart: not really/ready for desktop - C/C++: Qt (not really free), GTK+ (ugly non-Linux), others...? - Haxe Here's a post[0] that describes the current state: > People will say “But there’s WxWidgets, but there’s GTK, but there’s Qt” as if someone is looking for ice cream and everyone is going “But there’s frozen shoe leather, but there’s frozen peas, but there’s an empty refrigerator” -- /u/shawncplus [0] https://blog.royalsloth.eu/posts/sad-state-of-cross-platform-gui-frame…

That doesn't seem to be accurate. [0] [1] Microsoft consistently does mistakes that put its customers at risk, like being unable to secure their development environment so that when encryption keys leak in a badly sanitized dump into the dev environment they are almost immediately misused by other state actors against the US federal agencies. [2] How can you trust anything that comes out of the development if you cannot be reasonably sure about the security of it? And we cant really trust Microsoft reports either because of "Inaccurate public statements" (euphemism for lying). [0] And if you argue with Andres Freund and the XZ discovery recently, he is really a Citus guy. Yes, that is now part of Microsoft but I guess you get my point of him not being directly hired by Microsoft AFAIK. Microsoft as an organization could and should really do a lot more for security and privacy than they do. But first the culture would need to be that there actually is a lot of low hanging fruit instead of searching for excuses. [3] For instance, Windows Updates could be more reliable, predictable in how long they run and much faster overall. Windows could detect and stop ransomware much better. Microsoft could make Windows Server Core cheaper and have a separate more expensive license for the "full fat" Windows Server with desktop services. That would put some pressure on organizations to do the right thing and reduce the attack surface area. [0]…

That is a meme that people repeat a lot, but it turns out to be wrong: https://cr.yp.to/talks/2015.04.16/slides-djb-20150416-a4.pdf (though see https://blog.regehr.org/archives/1515: "This piece (...) explains why Daniel J. Bernstein’s talk, The death of optimizing compilers (audio [http://cr.yp.to/talks/2015.04.16/audio.ogg]) is wrong", citing https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9397169) https://blog.royalsloth.eu/posts/the-compiler-will-optimize-that-away/ http://lua-users.org/lists/lua-l/2011-02/msg00742.html https://web.archive.org/web/20150213004932/http://x264dev.multimedia.c…