How The Heck Does Shazam Work? (An Interactive Exploration)

[perthirtysix.com]Apr 23, 2026

Explore how Shazam and song identification work through interactive visualizations — spectrograms, constellation maps, hash fingerprints, and time-offset matching.

How The Heck Does GPS Work? (An Interactive Exploration)

[perthirtysix.com]Apr 22, 2026

An interactive exploration of how GPS works — from the speed of light and trilateration to the cheap clock problem and Einstein's relativity corrections.

What are skiplists good for? | Antithesis Blog

[antithesis.com]Apr 19, 2026

An exotic data structure and a whole lot of JOINs.

Migrating from DigitalOcean to Hetzner: From $1,432 to $233/month With Zero Downtime :: Isa Yeter

[isayeter.com]Apr 19, 2026

A real-world production migration from DigitalOcean to Hetzner dedicated, handling 248 GB of MySQL data across 30 databases, 34 Nginx sites, GitLab EE, Neo4j, and live mobile app traffic — with zero downtime.

The "Passive Income" trap ate a generation of entrepreneurs

[joanwestenberg.com]Apr 18, 2026

I had coffee last year with a guy - I won't use his real name - who told me he was "building a business." I asked what it did. Dropshipping jade face rollers. I made him say it twice. Jade face rollers. He'd found them on Alibaba for $1.20 each, and started selling them through Shopify for $29.99. Never used one himself. Didn't really know what they were for - something about lymphatic drainage? Reducing puffiness? He said "lymphatic" the way you say a word you've only ever read and never hea

Do You Even Need a Database? - DB Pro Blog

[dbpro.app]Apr 17, 2026

We built the same HTTP server in Go, Bun, and Rust using two storage strategies: read the file on every request, or load everything into memory. Then we ran real benchmarks. The results are more interesting than you'd expect.

Comprehension Debt - the hidden cost of AI generated code.

[addyosmani.com]Apr 17, 2026

Modern Microprocessors - A 90-Minute Guide!

[lighterra.com]Apr 16, 2026

A brief, pulls-no-punches, fast-paced introduction to the main design aspects of modern processor microarchitecture.

The Problem That Built an Industry // a.s

[ajitem.com]Apr 16, 2026

How a conversation on a plane in 1953 became the software that processes 10,000 flight bookings per second — and why it still does.

Let's talk space toilets! - by Maciej Cegłowski

[mceglowski.substack.com]Apr 15, 2026

A weekly-or-more deep dive on technical topics surrounding Mars exploration, from microbiology to rocket science and everywhere in between.

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