We’ve made all CDN serving on Vercel 10% faster (P75), while reducing memory by 15%. Learn the behind the scenes of applying Bloom filters to this problem, while serving 1T monthly requests. vercel.com/blog/how-we...

𐐓𐑉𐐨𐐻 𐐶𐐮𐑋𐐮𐑌 𐑊𐐴𐐿 𐐸𐐷𐐭𐑋𐐲𐑌 𐐺𐐨𐐮𐑍𐑆 𐐰𐑌𐐼 𐑇𐐬 𐐮𐑌𐐻𐐲𐑉𐐮𐑅𐐻 𐐮𐑌 𐑄𐐯𐑉 𐑃𐐫𐐻𐑅, 𐐴𐐼𐐨𐐲𐑆, 𐐹𐐰𐑇𐐲𐑌𐑆, 𐐰𐑌𐐼 𐐸𐐪𐐺𐐨𐑆.

I see people get mad at genAI for the power it uses comparing it to bitcoin. It does use a significant amount of electricity, but let's compare: - driving to the library in my economy EV (1 kwh) - a single bitcoin transaction (1500 kwh) - generating a single image with stable diffusion (0.01 kwh)

I'm back on paternity leave for 5 more weeks. I took the first 6 weeks when she was newborn, now she's a cute 3-month old. My wife just started nursing school a week ago and so I've had all 8 kids to myself all day. So much fun and adventure! And I thought my day job was challenging.

"Wo unto you rich men, that will not give your substance to the poor, for your riches will canker your souls; and this shall be your lamentation in the day of visitation, and of judgment, and of indignation: The harvest is past, the summer is ended, and my soul is not saved!"

This one is still bugging me, it won't go away. But I'm constantly stuck on finding a good problem I can solve well. Market research is so hard, especially when people you're don't know what they need/want because they can't imagine it existing. We're too dependent on large free cloud services.

"And remember in all things the poor and the needy, the sick and the afflicted, for he that doeth not these things, the same is not my disciple."

I'm gonna be live teaching @jason.energy everything I've learned so far about Lua and how I've come to it from the land of JS this Thursday at 9am PT- come hang! codetv.dev/series/learn...

Office work is group convenience at the expense of individual effectiveness.

When my family moved to a northern Austin suburb years ago I had been working remote for several years already. I interviewed at a tech company in Austin and they loved my technical skills. But then something happened...

I don't think my solar is performing well today.

I don't know why, but this function implementation really makes me happy. It took me way too long to get it right, but it's just perfect now :D

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I keep getting this feeling like there is something I need to build and put out in the world (business or service or product) related to my various system designs, (rando, caify, nibs, encantis, etc...) but I can't, for the life of me, figure out what would actually be useful to most people.

Things I find while living with seven children, edition 2376: There is a small white pony bead with some tiny green plant potted in it. (Pencil for scale)

Lol, bluesky roast is obsessed with the dirt in my yard. Lots of interesting insights though. blueskyroast.com/roast/creati...

I'm very proud these folks are succeeding to make decentralized open source social nets mainstream. I tried with Manyverse and failed, but I realize that all the bold advocacy and predictions I did for decentralized open protocols was... after all correct.

Some light reading.

I'm finally reading up on AT protocol and realizing my short time working on IPLD and CAR with @why.bsky.team was very helpful in understanding it all. It's a great generic system, but I still wonder if it's efficient enough for my needs or if I should mix in some of my more optimized designs.

@pfrazee.com I was thinking about Beaker and wondering how much of that experience I can bring back. I don't want to maintain an electron app or fork chromium, but I am wondering if I can at least make sharable hyperdrives using a collection of AT Protocol records in place of hypercore?

After a month without a drop of rain (My yard became a dust bowl since we don't have grass yet), it's now been raining non-stop for a few days and I live in a mud pit! At least the temps are really nice!

I have a sudden influx of followers. Does anyone know if I'm part of some starter pack? Are you all interested in tech, homesteading, art, or something else?

Blue metal roof finally installed! Next step is white vinyl siding...

I'm allergic to cats, and yet we rescued this stray a while ago. He is the most snuggly and grateful kitty I've ever seen. I was working outside building a shed, and he walked up to me asking for snuggles. You can hear the purring across the room when I hold him like this.

I'm designing a 3d printed enclosure for a small P2P home server appliance thingy. I'm hoping to be able to put some neopixels inside so they can shine through the etching. What do you think?

Does anyone here understand what the indices in the 3rd column here mean? This is from the old DAT design for path based trees. blog.dat-ecosystem.org/dat-cryptogr... cc @pfrazee.com

Bluesky now has over 10 million users, and I was #33,674!

The walls of the storage shed are framed out. I ate dinner on site using a spool as a table.

Still digging, but getting close to done. Are the new wires big enough?

I've been digging today.

Asking for a friend... Are there any freelancer programmer sites that aren't completely biased in favor of the people looking to hire?

One of the plastic bits in my car's charger port fell off while on a road trip to Austin (500 miles away). Luckily the piece was jammed inside and I was able to pull it out and reattach it! I was so close to buying a 3d printer, reverse engineering the other piece and cloning it.

Sometimes I get very frustrated that my Modafinil medication is so hard to get. It's Schedule IV here in the US which means most local doctors refuse to even prescribe it!. However caffeine has a similar or worse risk/addiction profile and it's OTC and barely regulated when used as an ingredient.

This finally feels like a proper social network. I've had my first interaction where some stranger jumps into a conversation I'm having with a friend, throws up a strawman that looks like something I said and then attacks it and posts on their own profile how I'm such an idiot. It's been a while...

Number Line Branch xkcd.com/2956

I replaced my scary transfer box bypass in the 5th wheel with a proper breaker box so I could tap into the main power to power 3 mini splits and a clothes dryer.

The stars above do not seek recognition or praise; they simply shine. Likewise, we should focus on living virtuously, regardless of external validation.

Rate my setup.

I'm constantly explaining to people that generative AI optimizes for looking correct. It has no idea if something is actually correct. This is a problem when it starts writing code for us that looks right and appears right when run, but actually has extremely subtle bugs.

I'm in San Francisco for the week.

So how do I access DMs when logging in via the web interface? They work fine on the mobile app on my phone. I have no idea which password my google chrome uses to login to the web app.

I had a fun chat with my son today about computer science (in particular Enumerative Combinatorics and Discrete Math in general) We went through zigzag encoding as well as the differences between cantor pairing functions and alternatives.

The blue sky turned red. This is amazing for Arkansas!

Would anyone be interested in subscribing to a content feed where I post interesting experiments about computer science, robotics, and off-grid farming? I'm trying to gauge interest.

Software Testing Day xkcd.com/2928

@pfrazee.com what ever happened to the dat protocol? Is it still a good idea or have we all moved on? I'm looking for something lightweight for P2P syncing of data between devices. I like the idea of a PHAMT on top of some distributed log, but looking closely at dat, it seems really expensive.

Would anyone be interested in a book that teaches computer science aimed at grade-school kids but bring them up enough to understand binary serialization from ones and zeroes and various data structures and how/why they work? This will be illustration heavy and teach fundamentals.

I cooked black beans and rice.for supper today. I set up a table outside to cook since it was nice weather. Did you know that in sunlight, they are actually quite purple? 🟣

I'm heading to SFO to work with my colleagues in person for the first time in years. This is going to be a blast! ✈️ 🔼