Favorite part is when one of these quiet old men says: "we just accept everyone for who they are. It's nice how we all get along even if we are so different." While this cast wouldn't exactly pass the silicon valley DEI test, it's 100% true what he says. #bastutibasel #kaj

Poor site is completely overloaded. Whatever you do... DO NOT retweet this, it will only make it worse. #scibot #scihub

Blog: Otava 0.8.0 * released. Supports all active python versions, and completely rewrites the core algorithm implementation. In other news, we publshed playground.otava.apache.org This demo app lets you compare Otava with other algorithms. *ASF Incubator blog.nyrkio.com/2026/06/06/c…

Somewhat drunk man waiting for the same morning train singing "Ville Peltonen, Ville Peltonen..." ❤️ #mm95 #og #tupuhupulupu #seonsiina #sinivalkoisetsilmalasit #ihanaa

Nice to hear how others do #ContinuousBenchmarking. Armendra Kumar was among the thirty thousand recently laid off from Oracle. He is looking for new performance engineering jobs. If you need someone to automate benchmarks in your CI, I can warmly recommend.

Right now, billions of people are watching videos. Most of them are being processed by code one man wrote alone in 2000. 🤯 You’ve probably never heard his name. >Meet Fabrice Bellard. >A French programmer working solo >In 2000, built FFmpeg alone ~ the engine behind YouTube, Netflix, Spotify, WhatsApp, Instagram, TikTok, Chrome, Firefox, VLC, and Discord >NASA even runs FFmpeg on the Perseverance rover on Mars 🚀 >In 2003, built QEMU alone ~ the foundation of every Android emulator and most cloud virtualization on Earth >Wrote the Tiny C Compiler. Self-hosting. >One of the fastest C compilers ever built. >In 2009, broke the world record for calculating Pi ~ 2.7 trillion digits on a single desktop PC >Won the International Obfuscated C Code Contest 3 times >Discovered a new mathematical formula to calculate digits of Pi at age 25 >Co-founded Amarisoft in 2012 ~ runs full 4G/5G base stations entirely in software on a normal PC 🔥 >Won the Google-O’Reilly Open Source Award >Never worked at Google. Never worked at Meta. Never worked at any Big Tech company. One man. The hidden backbone of modern computing. Absolute Legend 🐐

Heippa! Hieno kuva. Kirjoitan kirjaa MySQL:n historiasta ja tulin kysymään että oliko näillä tapahtumilla minkälainen yhteys, että MySQL oli myyty Sunille alkuvuodesta 2008? Riippumatta vastauksesta, niin saakohan tätä kuvaa käyttää kuvituksena?

Any of #slush08 sponsor around for #slush15 ? Be proud of what your help early on has led to.

Just in: Tim Cook is stepping down as CEO of Apple. I wish Trump would also step down. Of course, I’m comparing apples to oranges.

Name 3 popular and time tested distributed consensus algorithms that weren't invented within 50km from Stanford university.

Only an absolute fool would think this is only about a few square kilometers.

blog post: And now for something completely different: IngoDB blog.nyrkio.com/2026/04/08/a…

UA UAV operator saw an injured russian fascist plead for his life as he was about to be blown up. Instead of finishing him off, the operator re-equipped the drone with a bottle of water and a note with instructions on how to surrender to Ukraine.

Cheap Shaheds caused billions in damage to US and Gulf assets. A $1 billion US early warning radar was hit. At least one $300 million air defence radar was destroyed. Both were clearly visible in satellite imagery for two months before being struck. 7/

2.5 years ago, I started a SQLite rewrite as a side quest. Today I'm backporting fixes to a release branch to address issues customers are experiencing as they work towards running it in production. Reminds me of my Scylla days and the shift when you don't just build, but also start maintaining. That time when people gradually move from trying it out to actually depending on it. Turso is growing up!