My favorite essays of life advice
https://www.benkuhn.net/weeklyessays/
Life is short • There is no speed limit • How to Be Successful • You and your research •...
The unreasonable effectiveness of one-on-ones
https://www.benkuhn.net/11/
When I started dating my partner, I quickly noticed that grad school was making her very...
Firecracker: start a VM in less than a second
https://jvns.ca/blog/2021/01/23/firecracker--start-a-vm-in-less-than-a-second/
Hello! I spent this whole past week figuring out how to use Firecracker and I really like it...
History and effective use of Vim
https://begriffs.com/posts/2019-07-19-history-use-vim.html
This article is based on historical research and on simply reading the Vim user manual cover to...
Good Logging
https://henrikwarne.com/2020/07/23/good-logging/
To check if a program is doing what it should, you can inspect the output from a given input....
No observability without theory
https://blog.danslimmon.com/2019/05/03/no-observability-without-theory/
When we look for concrete things we can do to increase observability, it almost always comes...
How to Manage Connections Efficiently in Postgres, or Any Database
https://brandur.org/postgres-connections
You start building your new project. You’ve heard good things about Postgres, so you choose it...
Mailing lists vs Github
https://begriffs.com/posts/2018-06-05-mailing-list-vs-github.html
Most fledgling open source projects use Github or Gitlab to collaborate on code. However there’s...
Some notes on userspace routing
http://www.daemonology.net/blog/2019-11-27-Some-notes-on-userspace-routing.html
For reasons which will be immediately apparent to anyone who has read my earlier blog...
Standard Errors and Confidence Intervals
http://gregorygundersen.com/blog/2021/02/16/standard-error/
The standard deviation is a measure of the variation or dispersion of data, how spread out the...