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Ask HN: What are your favorite technical blog posts?
https://stripe.com/blog/online-migrations
By favorite, I mean posts that are insightful and deep.
Above is just one example that I like a lot found very useful. There are of course many others. Please share yours:)
- in9 3y agoLately, I've been enjoying a lot of posts in this blog right here: https://eugeneyan.com/writing https://eugeneyan.com/writing My company just hired some new VPs from Amazon, and the writings in that blog convey a bit of the Amazon WOW. It's pretty insightful stuff. Also, many posts from Julia Evans :D More concretely, here are a few blog posts I go back to occasionally: https://doordash.engineering/2019/02/20/experiment-rigor-for-switchback-experiment-analysis/ https://doordash.engineering/2019/02/20/experiment-rigor-for... https://www.unofficialgoogledatascience.com/2019/12/humans-in-loop-forecasting-integrating.html https://www.unofficialgoogledatascience.com/2019/12/humans-i... https://www.unofficialgoogledatascience.com/2016/10/practical-advice-for-analysis-of-large.html https://www.unofficialgoogledatascience.com/2016/10/practica... https://eugeneyan.com/writing/ml-design-docs/ https://eugeneyan.com/writing/ml-design-docs/ https://eugeneyan.com/writing/what-i-do-before-a-data-science-project-to-ensure-success/#first-draw-the-map-to-the-destination-one-pager https://eugeneyan.com/writing/what-i-do-before-a-data-scienc... https://www.fharrell.com/post/addvalue/ https://www.fharrell.com/post/addvalue/ https://www.fharrell.com/post/stat-ml2/ https://www.fharrell.com/post/stat-ml2/
- ac2u 3y agoThe Crash Bandicoot development diaries. It's a collection of many blog posts, but an entertaining read of working under not only technical, but also artistic and business restrictions. https://all-things-andy-gavin.com/2011/02/02/making-crash-bandicoot-part-1/ https://all-things-andy-gavin.com/2011/02/02/making-crash-ba...
- WallyFunk 3y agoRecent one that just got posted: https://engineering.fb.com/2023/12/19/core-infra/how-meta-built-the-infrastructure-for-threads/ https://engineering.fb.com/2023/12/19/core-infra/how-meta-bu... Good deep dive.
- larmstrong 3y agoI really like Gaffer on Games. I haven’t found a lot of good content that goes into the nuts and bolts of net code like he does. https://www.gafferongames.com/ https://www.gafferongames.com/
- NukedOne 3y agoI'll share a couple: - Branch prediction https://danluu.com/branch-prediction/ https://danluu.com/branch-prediction/ - How fast are Linux pipes anyway? https://mazzo.li/posts/fast-pipes.html https://mazzo.li/posts/fast-pipes.html - NAT Slipstreaming v2.0 https://samy.pl/slipstream/ https://samy.pl/slipstream/
- sandreas 3y agohttps://www.binwang.me/2023-12-14-ZFS-Profiling-on-Arch-Linux.html https://www.binwang.me/2023-12-14-ZFS-Profiling-on-Arch-Linu... https://gaultier.github.io/blog/x11_x64.html https://gaultier.github.io/blog/x11_x64.html https://diy.viktak.com/2022/04/home-made-tpm2-0-module.html https://diy.viktak.com/2022/04/home-made-tpm2-0-module.html https://r.bluethl.net/how-to-design-better-apis https://r.bluethl.net/how-to-design-better-apis https://crystalverse.com/sodium-chloride-crystals/ https://crystalverse.com/sodium-chloride-crystals/ https://twitter.com/Kristy_Viers/status/1287189581926981634 https://twitter.com/Kristy_Viers/status/1287189581926981634
- ozgrakkurt 3y agohttps://itnext.io/modern-storage-is-plenty-fast-it-is-the-apis-that-are-bad-6a68319fbc1a https://itnext.io/modern-storage-is-plenty-fast-it-is-the-ap...
- swah 3y agohttps://programmingisterrible.com/post/139222674273/write-code-that-is-easy-to-delete-not-easy-to https://programmingisterrible.com/post/139222674273/write-co... is the kind of stuff I'd love to have one per day