AI Engineering •
Fix the PCIe Bottleneck in AI Training: How Built-in NICs Work
Fix the PCIe bottleneck in AI training with built-in NICs. Meta's MTIA 300 reclaims 1.2 TB/s by eliminating host CPU mediation.
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Web Engineering •
Use Postgres for everything in production: 5 swaps, 1 cliff
Use Postgres for everything and four of the five swaps hold. The queue is the one that death-spirals: 383,000 dead tuples and 300ms locks at 800 jobs/sec.
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Web Engineering •
Fix EEVDF latency regressions with sched_ext: Meta's 28% p99 win
Your p99 got worse after a kernel upgrade and nothing else changed? That is an EEVDF latency regression. Meta cut p99 28% with a two-pool sched_ext policy.
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LLM Engineering •
vLLM throughput tuning: configure these four flags, not a bigger GPU
vLLM throughput tuning starts with KV cache blocks, not a bigger GPU. The four flags that decide your tokens/sec, and the one that quietly backfires.
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LLM Engineering •
Run 70B LLM on 4GB GPU: AirLLM's Real Tradeoff
Run 70B LLM on 4GB GPU hardware with AirLLM's layer-by-layer inference. The VRAM math is real — you just pay for it in disk bandwidth. The honest tradeoff.
11 min read
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Web Engineering •
Streaming HTML Out of Order Without JavaScript (2026)
Streaming HTML out of order without JavaScript: how Declarative Partial Updates and Declarative Shadow DOM reorder content natively in Chrome 148.
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Web Engineering •
Cloudflare viNext: The $1,100 Next.js-on-Vite Rebuild
Cloudflare viNext rebuilt Next.js on Vite for $1,100 in 7 days: 4.4x faster builds, 57% smaller bundles, already powering CIO.gov in production.
27 min read
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AI Coding Agents & DX •
Qwen3-Coder: Run an 80B-Parameter LLM on Your Desktop
Qwen3-Coder runs 80B parameters on a desktop with only 3B active per token — and plugs into Claude Code. Why the cloud-only era of AI coding is ending.
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Web Engineering •
Node.js Pointer Compression: Cut Heap Memory ~50%
V8 pointer compression finally lands in Node.js: one Docker image swap cuts heap memory ~50%, improves P99 latency, and can save $80K-$300K a year.
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Web Engineering •
How to Fix Core Web Vitals: LCP, INP & CLS (2026)
A hands-on guide to optimizing Core Web Vitals (LCP, INP, CLS). Covers measurement, diagnosis, and specific fixes with before/after examples from real projects.
6 min read
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Web Engineering •
React Performance Optimization: 10 Proven Techniques
React performance optimization techniques — memoization, code splitting, virtualization, and 7 more battle-tested strategies from real apps.
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