botwerks

random learning: micro/mini optimizations

well, you gotta stream from somewhere.

punching down is a political superfood

former dropbox architect drops truth bomb: nobody loses data because disks fail, they lose it because humans exist. eleven nines of durability is meaningless when dave from it accidentally runs 'rm -rf /' on prod. physics is reliable, people aren't.

the article about group chats everyone's been talking about

nostalgic retrospective on bell labs, where they invented the transistor instead of another food delivery app. turns out giving smart people money and time produces actual innovation. wild concept, probably won't catch on.

italian researchers fill a basement with servers that forget everything.

wsj discovers amazon has a super-secret lab making ai chips.

israeli company selling 'secure' messaging to trump officials can totally read everything.

china's chipmakers are pretty damn smart