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Guess, to the nearest order of magnitude, how fast your computer is at running different programs! Source: https://github.com/kamalmarhubi/one-second — rachel

Container images can be quite large, and creating a copy every time you start a new container would be slow and wasteful. This post explains a solution to this problem: overlay file systems! — nicholasbs

The story of writing a humorous window manager that bounces windows around the screen. — porterjamesj

rbspy is a profiler for Ruby. It lets you profile Ruby processes that are already running. You give it a process ID, and it starts profiling. It's a sampling profiler, which means it's low overhead and safe to run in production. — nicholasbs

This is a clear, fun, and fascinating essay that explains how neural networks can get image classification woefully wrong. — nicholasbs