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From the editor’s desk
A day for checking what you trust: certificate bundles, Tor exits, statistics a chatbot hands you, and the books of a company heading for an IPO. Update your CA bundles before you read the rest.
From the Stacksessays worth rereading
A crash course in compilers
Ramsey Nasser's tour of lexing, parsing, analysis and code generation is the right primer for a week when Cloudflare ported the whole TypeScript compiler to Rust. It explains why type checking dominates the wait, and why a faithful port is a much harder job than a new compiler.
IncrementAn engineer's guide to cloud capacity planning
Patrick McKenzie on forecasting what you will need before you need it. Anthropic's leaked S-1 shows the same problem at a scale nobody imagined, with a lab expecting to spend over $750 billion on cloud while its suppliers ration it.
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