System Architecture

I wish there was a counter running that told me how many screenshots and screen recordings I've taken over the years, but I'm into the tens of thousands easily. As a passionate Mac screenshotter, here are my keyboard shortcuts for the Mac that I think you should copy

A random sequence in an innocuous GPS message field is likely encrypted traffic from the U.S. military's system for remotely updating cryptographic keys around the world.

AI context graph startup Jedify has raised $24 million in an A-round to further develop its bringing ...

Our 64-bit Intel and AMD processors have evolved over decades. When you compile a Go program for a 64-bit Intel or AMD processor, the compiler targets, by default, a nearly 20-year-old instruction set. The binary that comes out runs on essentially any x64 chip, but it also leaves on the table every instruction that was … Continue reading How much do amd64 microarchitecture levels help in Go?

The keyword in politics these days is ‘sovereign’. What few will admit is that it is effectively the adoption of the American strategy: Make America Great Again. In other words, reindustrialization of key sectors of the economy. The UK used to be a computing champion. Our chip designs (ARM) originated from the UK. Canada had … Continue reading Sovereign

Webmention is an open web standard (W3C Recommendation) for conversations and interactions across the web, a powerful building block used for a growing distributed network of peer-to-peer comments, likes, reposts, and other responses across the web.

Decentralized tools to build community online. The intercommunal net where communities govern, pool funds and stay safe on their own terms.

How RSigma turns 3,800+ community detection rules into SQL queries for TimescaleDB

Why we chose Elixir over Go, Rust and Node for a high-performance Bluesky DataPlane - and how a small Rust NIF and in-process fan-out made it the right fit.

Open Catalogs are similar to the Hive Metastore before, an index for what tables you have in your data lake.

Applying blockchain primitives to dataset versioning, provenance, and integrity assurance

Views are PostgreSQL's cleanest abstraction and its most rigid. Rewrite rules, attribute numbers, and the dependency catalog turn column changes into teardowns.

A blog mostly about Clojure programming

Review your AI agent's code changes in a browser with inline comments and round-to-round diffs. Comment on specific lines, the agent fixes them. Single binary, works locally, any agent.

Two battle-tested patterns for keeping any two datastores — consistent. One you probably know. One you should.

The underappreciated gem of /proc/pid/mem

Loris Cro's Blog

When I was building my own serverless runtime, the first major decision I had to make was: how will the host and the VM communicate? It…

Email Series: Part 1

Sound more intelligent on the internet with these quick and easy tips.

Secure programming for the AI era

How a Slack shout-out, a dusted-off academic theory, and a spaghetti monster led an AWS team to crack an elusive code—and deliver greater reliability and performance for customers.

A modern, COBOL-inspired language for the JVM. Inspired by COBOL — not COBOL.

An agent shows up at your API. It has a verifiable identity, a clear purpose, and a list of scopes it would like. Your existing API management platform canno...

A high-level introduction to db9.ai: serverless Postgres, files, branching, and agent-native workflows in one backend.

Someone calls you at work and says, “Don’t tell anyone, but…” If you are like most people, there are one or two people you will pass it along to with the same admonishment. …

The universal .discovery layer for AI agents. DNS-AID has 2 repositories available. Follow their code on GitHub.

This blog post tells the story about how a nightly entity sync evolved from microservices and queues into a scalable batch architecture —…