The Daily Index — Thursday, June 5, 2025 · TLDR Index

OPINIONS & ADVICE

TLDR Web Dev

TLDR Web Dev

WHY I WROTE THE BEAM BOOK

"The BEAM Book" is a technical resource for Erlang and Elixir systems. The process of writing it was tough, with the author having to deal with canceled publishing deals and periods of stalled progress. The motivation derived from understanding the BEAM and the support from the community kept them going.

happihacking.com · 6 min

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WRITING A POSTMORTEM: AN INTERVIEW EXERCISE I REALLY LIKE

Mapbox used a blameless postmortem as a take-home exercise. This type of exercise is great for assessing a candidate's writing ability, empathy, and critical thinking skills, compared to an in-person coding interview.

danielputtick.com · 11 min

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CURSOR 1.0

Cursor 1.0 has big upgrades, including the BugBot for automatic code reviews and the general availability of Background Agent, a remote coding assistant. The update also integrates with Jupyter Notebooks, allowing code changes directly within cells, and introduces a beta feature called Memories, allowing the tool to recall and reference past conversations.

cursor.com · 3 min

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THE ART OF SQL QUERY OPTIMIZATION

Plan Explorer is a tool developed to visualize and analyze PostgreSQL query optimization decisions. It iterates over a search space, executes SQL queries, and generates diagrams showing query plans, estimated costs, and actual execution times, both in a browser with PGlite or through a proxy to a real PostgreSQL server.

jnidzwetzki.github.io · 12 min

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WHEN MEMORY WAS MEASURED IN KILOBYTES: THE ART OF EFFICIENT VISION

In the early days of computer vision, when memory was extremely limited, researchers at Inria developed "An Efficient Chain-Linking Algorithm" to extract meaningful information from images. This algorithm, created by the PASTIS team, processed images line by line, storing only a few lines at a time, making it memory-efficient. The code's dynamic memory allocation was ingenious and was necessary.

softwareheritage.org · 6 min

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EXPLAINER FOR LOCAL NETWORK ACCESS

The Chrome Secure Web and Network team has proposed a new "Local Network Access" feature to mitigate security risks from websites probing and attacking devices on local networks. It will require user permission before a website can make requests to a private IP address or loopback, unlike the previous Private Network Access (PNA) proposal which relied on preflight requests. This approach involves gating local network requests behind a permission prompt, giving users more control over which sites can access their local network.

github.com · 20 min

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DOUBLING DOWN ON OPEN SOURCE

Langfuse is doubling down on its open-source commitment by releasing all remaining product features, including LLM-as-a-judge evaluations and prompt experiments, under the MIT license.

langfuse.com · 4 min