Mark Hansen, a Google Maps engineering manager in Sydney, writes practical technical guides on profiling Linux binaries with perf and backing up Google Photos with restic, plus occasional photography posts. Readers get step-by-step commands and the reasoning behind his tradeoffs.
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The Pragmatic Engineer is a newsletter by Gergely Orosz covering Big Tech and startup engineering from the inside, with deep dives into AI tooling spend, developer infrastructure, and industry events. Readers get practical, data-backed analysis useful for software, AI, and engineering leaders.
A practitioner's account of a costly Codex usage-limit bug and a mis-sized plan upgrade, told with first-hand logs and corrected billing details. Follow-up issues give hands-on guidance on making agent limit watchers credit-aware and on choosing reasoning effort levels, backed by benchmark measurements.
Latent.Space is a technical newsletter and podcast covering how leading AI labs build agents, models, inference infrastructure, and AI for science. Recent issues cover open-source inference economics, how AI-native engineering firms structure compensation, and programmable GPU data centers.
Weekly digest of Simon Willison's blog covering hands-on experiments with LLMs and coding agents, event live blogs, and short notes on new releases and tools. Readers get practical write-ups of what he built, what he learned, and roundups of links, quotes and open source releases.
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