A distributed systems reliability glossary
Not an article I guess, but this site has a very thorough glossary of concepts you might need when working on distributed systems. Definitely something I will keep bookmarked.
AI coders think they’re 20% faster — but they’re actually 19% slower
This article kind of went viral these last few weeks. I don’t know how good the study is, but it does reflect something I have thought about in other contexts. For example does using vim make me more productive? Or do I just feel more productive? I have kind of decided that it doesn’t matter. Feeling productive is important as well, and makes my work more enjoyable. If someone told me that I was actually 19% slower I might reconsider.
Fully Homomorphic Encryption and the Dawn of A Truly Private Internet
As a privacy concerned person having a fully encrypted internet seems appealing. Doing computation on encrypted data without decrypting it seemed like black magic to me until I read this article!