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#machinelearning#python#datascience#computerscience

Markov Chain Monte Carlo: the 1953 algorithm hiding under modern AI

Hello, I'm Maneshwar, and I'm building LiveReview — a blast-radius aware AI code review built for...

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#performance#webdev#architecture#devops

Your average latency is lying to you: p90, p95 and p99 explained

Hello, I'm Maneshwar, and I'm building LiveReview — a blast-radius aware AI code review built for...

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#ai#security#devops#architecture

How ChatGPT agents with no internet access ended up in Hugging Face

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#systemdesign#backend#architecture#webdev

Four Ways Your Background Job Disappears (And How to Stop Each One)

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#systemdesign#webhooks#backend#architecture

Designing a Webhook Delivery System for 10 Million Events a Day

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#networking#webdev#programming#beginners

How the internet actually works, and why nobody is in charge of it

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#webdev#security#backend#programming

Sessions vs JWTs: you are choosing how often you pay for state

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#hardware#ai#computerscience#programming

CPU, GPU, TPU, NPU, DPU, QPU: six chips, one question

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#distributedsystems#systemdesign#beginners#webdev

Seven Ideas That Keep Distributed Systems From Falling Over

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#distributedsystems#algorithms#webdev#programming

How BitTorrent Turned Every Downloader Into a Server

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#webdev#programming#beginners#algorithms

Kademlia: Algo That Turned XOR Distance Into a Network

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#algorithms#beginners#learning

Bitwise and Otherwise: Understanding XOR Distance

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#backend#systemdesign#webdev#beginners

Too Many Req: A Bucket List Guide to Building a Rate Limiter

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#ai#machinelearning#llm#beginners

Same Model, Two Speeds: A Friendly Tour of LLM Inference Engines

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#systemdesign#postgres#architecture#beginners

How ChatGPT Serves 900 Million Users at a Time

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#ai#webdev#programming#productivity

Rules, Standards, and a Missing Line on My Chart

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#ai#machinelearning#webdev#llm

COSP: The Prompting Trick Where Your LLM Grades Its Own Homework

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#ai#webdev#programming#beginners

How We Got an LLM to Draw Charts Without Ever Touching a Pixel

Let's get something out of the way first. Having data is good. Having a database full of reviews,...

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#webdev#beginners#opensource

The Guy Who Invented the Internet's Front Door and Refused to Charge Rent

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#webdev#programming#productivity#github

Ayo GitHub Quietly Killed the Unreviewable Mega-PR

If you've ever opened a PR with 47 changed files and a diff so long GitHub just gives up and shows...

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#ai#webdev#claude#design

Teaching Your AI Web Design Some Actual Taste

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#rust#tui#cli#beginners

ratatop: the process table, and the parentheses that ruin everything

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#ai#programming#webdev#productivity

Google Quietly Dropped 12 Free AI Tools. Developers Should Probably Care.

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#programming#productivity#cli#rust

ratatop: the network box, and why your ISP lies with units

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#cli#beginners#programming#rust

ratatop day 3: disks, statvfs, and my first unsafe block

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#programming#rust#cli#beginners

ratatop day 2: the memory box, and the lie in `free -h`

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#programming#cli#beginners#rust

Building ratatop: a Rust System Monitor with ratatui

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#webdev#programming#linux#networking

A VPN Is a Lie You Tell Your Kernel

Hello, I'm Maneshwar. I'm building git-lrc, a Micro AI code reviewer that runs on every commit. It is...

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#webdev#programming#productivity#cli

How terminal-sharing tools put your shell in a browser

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#debugging#linux#networking#opensource

I'm a Dev Who Barely Knows the Kernel. Here's How I'm Learning How to Track a Packet with pwru

Hello, I'm Maneshwar. I'm building git-lrc, a Micro AI code reviewer that runs on every commit. It is...

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