struggling to write my tech politics post, but here’s what feels like a major trick to improve your odds ~= talk to way more people ahead of time. there’s going to be a meeting where you pitch your proposal. there’s X people in the meeting who probably are ranked #2-5 by

the reason async rust feels impossible isn't the syntax or even the borrow checker. it's that rust refuses to let you live in the beautiful lie that makes go and nodejs so pleasant. go and node let you pretend concurrency is just "do multiple things at once" and handle all the

One of my unconventional beliefs is that games are probably one of the most complex pieces of software - almost all complexity built upfront. One single game built in a year or two can have as much business logic as a distributed system built up, layer by layer, over decades…

Our hackweek site runs on top of their nosql storage (for years, I wouldn’t do it again) and it’s so brittle and complex that I once tried to TDD the schema to little success. You gonna risk your customer data over a simple to run api layer?

Thought experiment: Most programming languages were designed in an era where mostly one programmer coded in isolation. If you were designing a language for modern collaborative programming/commenting/etc., what would you change? How would you *modify* existing languages?

it promotes bad security practices by default, along with a json format thats the worst possible way to make a document db just use some sql db, please!

probably the longest talk I’ve sat through for the entirety, but it was worth it! i really like to learn about the origins of systems, the history behind how things came to be and this is an awesome talk on oops.

youtu.be/jVC4DP-8xLM?si… such a nice talk! matklad - more like mat(chad)

Design for the illogical.

ok wow TBPN is so good! it’s like my tech twitter feed (-minus the BS and engagement farming) compressed into news. it’s become the thing i listen to passively, working out or when im on a short walk!

🪝 hooks - “just functions” 🤣 anything but, so much unnecessary cognitive overload, just to get some state working

Arnold Schwarzenegger’s rule on complaining:

super cool! inspiring and a great reminder that most of the top AI researchers are not, in fact, on twitter. most do not tweet, many do not have accounts the loudest people on here, the ones who post the most about AI, are typically just random anonymous tech bros

anyone i know hiring senior / staff product roles (remote)? please dm

everytime i sit to write down a blogpost that’s been on the drafts folder for months, i end up fixing a bug / style change on blog.shrirambalaji.com classic case of bike shedding

gpt-oss is a big deal; it is a state-of-the-art open-weights reasoning model, with strong real-world performance comparable to o4-mini, that you can run locally on your own computer (or phone with the smaller size). We believe this is the best and most usable open model in the

Harmony format is finally open-sourced. I still remember 3 years ago (before ChatGPT release) Shengjia Zhao, Daniel and I were brainstorming about the right abstraction for RL training, and that is the start point of the entire harmony library. github.com/openai/harmony

- work on an os - work on a linker - work on an esoteric pl at some point . . bit too time constrained now

thus is good advice especially in work environments in tech (and even more for remote) I think of it as adversarial honestly in that I used to do this only because I believed people would be dishonest and try to trick me or imply that I wasn’t trying

flightofthefox.proven jigglypuff’s hubby Ben Dicken I think the golden rule going forward is that: - per core CPU performance and per socket memory bandwidth are already (relatively) scarce and becoming scarcer, even working with NVMe - memcpys, e.g. to/from kernel page cache, will need to be eliminated, not only to not burn