In the month since I posted this latency chart for my search engine project bsky.app/profile/tavi... I've managed to eek out another 57x speedup on the p99 -> 12µs. 450x faster than the original chart.

In case you are in the camp of “Andrew Tridgell is vibefucking rsync” please read this.l and adjust your priors. medium.com/@tridge60/rs...

@mark-carney.bsky.social please ensure C-22 goes back to the drawing board. This is not ok www.michaelgeist.ca/2026/05/the-...

Been going "tiger style" with perf optimizations. 10x speedup between first image and second/third. Now p50@ 26µs p95@ 271µs p99@ 695µs :)

Having fun making my new incremental search tool very fast p75 @ 82μs, p95 @ 515μs

Noisy teenage ravens in the park

@carlbergstrom.com have you seen www.imdb.com/title/tt2642...? It's on Prime Video atm (appropriately directed by Vance *Crofoot*)

@shriram.bsky.social your "ghost" wrote a review github.com/tavisrudd/ii.... Feel on point?

Finally

Have loved whales since I was a child and this filled me with wonder

Made a new tool over the weekend github.com/tavisrudd/ss...

@mark-carney.bsky.social it was treasonous for them to meet with team Trump. Prosecute

@www.stephendiehl.com I've been learning Lean over the past month and just stumbled across Zero to QED last night. It's phenomenally good.

Anyone know a great math coach experienced with twice exceptional kids? DM me if you do My son is in grade 6 and his EA has been teaching him integration by parts today

Yikes. My wife's uncle lived here till recently and I've spent a week in one of these buildings www.cbc.ca/news/world/h...

I've just started www.audible.com/pd/On-Xi-Jin... So far it's excellent as was his last book The Avoidable War

A new paper with Bogdan Georgiev, Javier Gomez-Serrano, and Adam Zsolt Wagner: "Mathematical exploration and discovery at scale" arxiv.org/abs/2511.02864. Further discussion is at terrytao.wordpress.com/2025/11/05/m...

Last night we gathered community builders to ideate on how we can rebuild Vancouver’s once-thriving meetup scene. 🥳 What resources can we pool for the betterment of the ecosystem? 🤔 It was a total blast and we are collating our findings and planning Stage 2. 📈 If you’re an organizer, REACH OUT 🤝

Looking back at my son's kindergarten notebook and laughing at his answer to "How was your weekend?" ... "I made 16,384 triangles" Claude figured out what he was talking about. Quadtree triangles. Divide a triangle in 4, 7 times: 4^7=16,384

Wicked fox

Huge Lion's Mane Jellyfish we found on the beach near Port Hardy this summer

And I thought I was taking tmux too far youtu.be/6V3KnjiBuhU?...

Polyglot Conference was quite good today. Nice to meet people from a wide variety of backgrounds doing cool stuff in Vancouver www.polyglotsoftware.com

Polyglot Conference Vancouver 2024: Real Talk About AI, Industry Hubris, and the Art of Unconferencing The recent Polyglot Conference in Vancouver was a unique experience, focused on genuine discussions rather than traditional presentations. Attendees engaged in insightful conversations about AI's…

Continuing on the #PolyglotConf post I made yesterday, here's a bit of a summary of - IME - seemed like the prominent conversations. I'd be curious what your take is on the industry hubris around AI. compositecode.blog/2025/10/13/p...

Wrote a post yesterday about predictions in AI from a session at #PolyglotConf in Vancouver. It's 22 predictions, I'd like to know what predictions you have too - whether doom & gloom or if you've got a rosier outlook. compositecode.blog/2025/10/12/t...

The #polyglotunconf afterparty was held at the False Creek Yacht Club. The organizers did a great job at making the weather nice 😎 Had a good time connecting with some very interesting folks. This is a great conf for bringing together people from many different walks of computing life.

Just finished #polyglotunconf 🎉 300 people showed up and collaboratively created a multi track conference. I went to sessions on building an eng team post-AI, LoFi software, self-hosting, and managing context in enterprise. Met a TON of new people. Now off to the afterparty 🍻

2026 Polyglot early bird tickets www.polyglotsoftware.com

There's a group of Polyglot Unconference folk wanting to gather for food and drinks tonight before the conference tomorrow. If you're interested, look in our shared doc for "pre-party" in the schedule

www.amazon.ca/Rise-Machine... is an excellent and timely read

Respect youtu.be/VaeI9YgE1o8?...

My son was showing me a bunch of dragon characters in a game and asking me to rank them to find the one I like the least. None of his. These. Zoom in

it's time for coffee when I start typing 'rm x y' when I intended 'rg x y'