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There is no eBPF for macOS and DTrace requires root. This paper documents what remains: sample, xctrace, the undocumented kpep event catalogue, and a method for identifying the unnamed counter slots that xctrace exports.
A practical framework for measuring data quality, understanding its costs, and focusing on what actually matters for the people who use the data.
A grab bag of Postgres connection/session defaults (and one Linux I/O gotcha) that make your app safer, more predictable, and easier to debug.
Hacking go to add string.String() for fun and profit
Reverse engineering Peec.ai, mapping it to SerpApi + DataForSEO, and running the economics + TAM math.
Run Postgres in Docker and connect to it via a Unix domain socket from another container (macOS + Docker Desktop friendly).
Here's how I built a static, build-time indexed, MDX-powered blog.