I've had to add a method to my editor to remove all of the weird special characters that LLMs use

When you're unfamiliar, LLMs are a productivity boost. When you're deeply familiar, they're a bottleneck. Translating fast, abstract thought into step-by-step instructions slows you down.

I really do enjoy putting weird motd files on servers.

Looks like the Google Cloud incident report is out: status.cloud.google.com/incidents/ow5i… Summary: - On May 29, 2025, a new Service Control feature was added for quota policy checks. - This feature did not have appropriate error handling, nor was it feature flag protected. - On June 12,

How cool would it be to have some of David Lynch's coffee cups... Tempting...

CRUZ: no no no, that's not what I meant... TUCKER: you said Squidward is a squid. he's an octopus, Ted. he has a bulbous head and it’s confirmed in the DVD commentary. that's a fact. CRUZ [visibly sweating]: I - I mean symbolically, he... TUCKER: name one time he used ink. just

PebbleDB calls posix_fadvise(..., POSIX_FADV_RANDOM) to dissuade readahead. Perfect for some hardware; maybe wasteful when most of the SSTs could fit in the page cache? Anyone benchmarked a NORMAL or custom readahead build?

There were 3 different Semafor "vibe coding" articles in 3 days? Hard to tell if this is trend spotting or trend making to make this seem inevitable

Coding is still open to everyone: download a compiler and hack away. But the LLM era brings rent... tokens for prompts, credits for builds, "pro" tiers for context. Productivity rises, but so does the cost of entry. Will future young devs get priced out?

LLM Usecase - Drop a bunch of segfault / kernel errors in and let it explain which components are at fault

Flame graphs are great for performance profiling. They're also underrated as architectural maps. I've been using them to (try to) trace the hierarchy of caches behind a typical SLOAD.

TIL RLPx has a hard ceiling: the 3-byte length field limits every frame to 16,777,215 bytes (16 MB). That's a protocol limit, not just an arbitrary setting.

I think this is only the second time I've heard of the parliamentarian stepping in... this time it's to block Mike Lee's plan to sell millions of acres of federal land. He tried to tuck it into a tax bill apnews.com/article/public…

I'm more aware of LLM flattery now. I need to prompt it to be much more candid and skeptical

Happy Abso-Lutely Day to all who celebrate

Planning to stress-test a new KV layout: a memory-mapped, copy-on-write B+-tree index that points to an append-only value log (key -> (offset, len)). Hopefully we can trade a bit of disk for better page cache utilization and lower tail latency on random reads.

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