It's been two whole years now. Leaving the office for the last time and setting out on your own adventure is a very special feeling I wish more people got to experience. There's really nothing quite like it.

We ran a randomized controlled trial to see how much AI coding tools speed up experienced open-source developers. The results surprised us: Developers thought they were 20% faster with AI tools, but they were actually 19% slower when they had access to AI than when they didn't.

A docker clone is a pretty nice exercise. Not terribly difficult with some basic systems programming experience, but demands a decent understanding of the underlying technology.

It's one of those days

One the one hand, my new read caching strategy seems to work pretty well. On the other hand, I think I have room for optimization here.

I'm redesigning some of the data structures in the index, and it's gonna be a real frickin' beast when I'm through with it. Modern NVMe drives are incredibly trippy. You can read almost any amount of data and it takes roughly the same time. You can read thousands of locations

I'll have these two boyos chasing me around in my dreams for weeks after I'm done with all this low-level i/o scheduling stuff.