Daily Shaarli
July 29, 2025
A follow up on the Dropbox sync engine rewrite, or why they introduced brotli compression.
A talk from Casey Muratori who is pushing his ideas on software architecture. This one is very interesting on the long history detour it does. Shows well how we keep rediscovering stuff which sometimes go back to the early times of computer science.
Good insight into why Dropbox rewrote its sync engine for desktop clients.
This is still a good framework to think about what motivate developers in a team. Not everyone is the same.
It's likely the best explanation of the YAGNI acronym I know. Explains quite well when it applies or not.
This is still a valid approach. I regularly encounter cases where the type tag pattern would have been welcome.
Neat little introduction to use your shell properly.