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As someone who once in a while dabbles in Linux systems programming, is there any reason to use signalfd over timerfd when all you want is a timer? The article suggests you can use signals as timers, …

Luckily, there are ways to reduce syscalls (like Generic Segmentation Offload and other tricks[1]). But I agree that not having things run in the kernel makes it more challenging for high-throughput s…

Maybe using English as a programming language ("transpiled" to a lower level language using an LLM)?

> the nonsense they pick up on blogs and conferences Thanks for this bit. As I gain more experience, I grow less and less patient with many blogs and conference talks. Often authors are just very e…

Your comment left me thinking, so I went to double-check the meaning of the word evidence in a dictionary (after all, I'm not a native English speaker). I found this one as the first entry: "…

Here's some stuff that falls under overhead: writing blog posts (this one took me at least 10 hours to write), networking, sales conversations, keeping my own knowledge up to date. It's not …

Could you tell more about the companies, the roles and the salary ranges? Those are very interesting data points.

My case was made difficult by the fact that I was only open to 3 days / week contracts. And maybe also because I'm trying to find something outside of full stack development, while at the sa…

I know it's a cliché, but it's true that you receive more than you give ;)

I'm not going to engage in the eternal atheists vs believers debate, but I'm trusting here that my experience is based upon reality (i.e. I've found convincing evidence). I don't e…

Yeah, I'm making an effort to avoid being preachy, but since God does play a genuine role in the story, people might as well hear about it (otherwise I'd be hiding crucial information to und…

I'm happy you liked it!

I don't know about levels.fyi (they want me to register / upgrade to see what salaries are like in Amsterdam), but I gave some more details in another comment: https://news.ycombi…

I don't mind answering that question, but I'm not sure it has a place in the article (maybe I'll modify it later if I change my mind). My expectation is that in The Netherlands you coul…

I wrote this article based on my last 3 years as a contractor with increasingly interesting clients (I'm currently doing open source Rust work for ISRG, the makers of Let's Encrypt). I'…

Yeah, I'm a huge fan of C# for web stuff. I'd take it over Rust any day, unless there are strong reasons to want a systems language.

Here in The Netherlands I've seen it extensively used (and I'm using it myself in some projects, though nowadays the bulk of my work is in Rust)

Interesting to see this here... I unexpectedly transitioned from full-stack development to paid open source systems programming a bit more than a year ago. It would have been quite more difficult with…

I liked "The Dream Machine", which also tells how computers came to exist

It now is :) I contacted the author and added it as a guest article on my blog ( https://ochagavia.nl/blog/low-latency-logging-in-rust/ )…