Another day in the algorithmic art studio.

Temple Gate of Zojo-ji in Shiba, by Nakamura Fusetsu, 1890

When that pile is crashing down (AWS, CloudFlare) we see that even the experts have poor grasp of what’s going on in the system.

The Newtonian equation here is probably “manage more complexity than you created in the first place”

According to Cybersecurity Ventures Steve Morgan, the annual cost of #SoftwareSupplyChainAttacks will reach a massive $138 billion by 2031, up from the $60 billion price tag such #Cyberattacks are expected to carry in 2025. mattermost.com/blog/top-cyber…

Replicator Iterator Bufferophagous Omnivorous. Why don’t we use Latin to classify primitives in computer science?

A 1100-tonne giant lands home in ITER 🛬 From the Assembly Hall to the Tokamak pit, the first European Vacuum Vessel sector completed a short yet challenging journey. The time lapse by ITER shows just how impressive the operation was. Brilliant teamwork and skill!👏

The entire Cloud/SaaS story had a lot of happy-path cost optimization. The particular glitch that triggered the domino effect may be irrelevant relative to the fact that the effect reproduces.

The history goes in circles in more ironic ways. The design of Java RMI came out of the same company (Sun Microsystems) which produced the classic Note on Distributed Computing which outlined all the flaws of such a design. waldo.scholars.harvard.edu/sites/g/files/…

Performance Hints Over the years, my colleague Sanjay Ghemawat and I have done a fair bit of diving into performance tuning of various pieces of code. We wrote an internal Performance Hints document a couple of years ago as a way of identifying some general principles and we've

Mathematician Joel David says current AI models are basically zero help for mathematics They produce garbage answers, then argue they're correct when you point out the exact error "if i were talking to a person who argued like that, i'd stop talking to them"

In fact, yes. In practice, no. Design decisions are too immaterial and we have to “have something to show for it”, so we agreed to count LoCs. Now, we are is a puzzling situation.

2025 had 2-3 internet scale outages. What are your bets for 2026?

Arguments for a syncable data exchange format replicated.wiki/blog/args If you spent quarter a century in this industry, you probably know one or two billionaires. You may also know one or two guys who “broke the internet” with some ridiculous bug. I’ve met a guy who did it twice…

My ProtocolBerg talk on the Merkle construction git (and most blockchains) are using and why it makes git fight itself. Beagle implements the LSM+Merkle approach replicated.wiki/blog/partII.ht… (also in the talk) watch.protocol.berlin/65a90bf47932eb…

Beagle revision control system: database, not a filesystem (git is a fs). Key-value store, binary JSON, URIs, AST. Very standard, very extensible. github.com/gritzko/librdx… At this point point, Beagle self-hosts, forks, merges and greps real fast (trigram based)

We released air.dev — a new Agentic Development Environment by JetBrains. Claude, Gemini, Codex, and Junie side-by-side with you — powered by code insight, beautiful UI, and vast development tooling. But underneath there's a technological iceberg. Let me walk

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