If you were to build your own database today, not knowing that databases exist already, how would you do it? In this post, we'll explore how to build a key-value database from the ground up.

(This text is very long. Maybe too long. You can find a PDF and an EPUB of it below.The current version of this text will always live at https://web3.tante.cc) By tante [email protected]Version 1.0Date: Dec 17th 2021License: CC-BY-SA 4.0 Introduction I had hoped that I wouldn’t have to write this thing, that blockchains and NFTs and […]

In this article, Louis Lazaris describes and demonstrates some interesting HTML attributes that you may or may not have heard of and perhaps find useful enough to personally use in one of your projects.

In this not-so-short article we will try to go a full cycle from exploring the CPU, building an assembler, building the core of the Forth VM and finally building a reasonably useful Forth interpreter.

Scientific article which suggests that quantum particles are "linked" together by proving that one branch of a split beam of photons is affected by filters which are only applied to another independent branch.

Everything digital costs something physical. It’s time for a digital conservation movement.

When browsing on the "normal web", it is increasingly required to disable at least part of your antifeatures-blockers to access content.

Wanna listen to this story instead? Check out this week's Better Offline podcast, "The Man That Destroyed Google Search," available on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and anywhere else you get your podcasts.

This is the story of how Google Search died, and the people responsible for killing it.

The story begins

This was originally titled “I miss when computers were fun”. But in the course of writing it, I discovered that there is a reason computers became less fun, a dark thread woven through a number of events in recent history. Let me back up a bit.

A programming paradigm to replace SOLID

In this post, we’ll talk about how to establish a peer-to-peer connection between two machines, in spite of all the obstacles in the way.

Things You Should Know About Indexes and Transactions. This post covers internal workings of indexes and transactions of RDBMSs.