Software engineer at Reddit. ex-Facebook, ex-Google. I have opinions. They're my own, not my employer's.
Joined February 2008
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19 Apr 2024
hey @Vanguard_Group, this is a problem with your site. Despite your customer service agents' insistence, my trying a different computer or different browser isn't going to help. I want to give you money, but I can't!
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17 Jul 2023
I swear, if I ever figure out who gave Datadog sales my personal cell phone number...
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6 Mar 2023
.@seananmcguire I don't mean to tempt you, or anything, but this MTG auction seems like something you might appreciate. pwccmarketplace.com/premier-…
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14 Nov 2022
Need to understand your microservices? Curious about dependency management?
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Check out @whereistanya 's @SREcon talk, "Have You Tried Turning it off and Turning It on Again?":
usenix.org/conference/srecon…
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15 Oct 2022
Happiness is have a brand new RTX 4090 sitting on my desk. Sadness is not being able to find my PCIe 8-pin power cables to install it.
Brian Landers retweeted
10 Oct 2022
Look out for a spacecraft in St Pancras International station
ianvisits.co.uk/articles/loo…
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7 Oct 2022
Ordered some new @ADAM_Audio studio monitors with stands from @vintageking. Now the waiting begins...
7 Oct 2022
Today's compiler fun so far: wrote a very basic stack-based virtual machine, and a backend for my compiler that can generate instructions for it. So far it can handle print() and basic integer add/sub/mult/div expressions.
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7 Oct 2022
Continuing to work on the LLVM backend as well (trying to keep parity between my "wvm" backend and LLVM as I go). So far, so good.
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7 Oct 2022
idea for future me: write an LSP for the "wabbit" language with corresponding vscode extension.
7 Oct 2022
Having a blast in @dabeaz's "Write a Compiler" class.
In 4 days, wrote a lexer, parser, interpreter, and a very basic LLVM IR generator, all from scratch. Still a lot more to do, but I can now start with a text file and end up with a runnable MacOS binary.
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11 Sep 2022
.@ijustine since you mentioned System Preferences in your most recent MacOS video... I was today years old when I learned you could switch the icons to be in alphabetical order.
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7 Sep 2022
Finally updated my Unifi network and went from 9 devices to 7 (replaced USG, Cloudkey 2, and US-8-60W with a UDM-SE). So far so good.
2 Jul 2022
.@XfinitySupport
not sure this really qualifies as "up to 1200mbps" downloads. I usually hit 800-900mbps consistently on this connection. Yes, I've restarted my modem.
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30 Jun 2022
Presenting: the world's most expensive laptop performance monitor. @grafana agent on my Macbook Pro, sending metrics to our new #Mimir/@cortexmetrics cluster, running in @kubernetesio (around 60 pods), inside a decent-sized (shared, 50 node) #EKS cluster. Overkill? Nah!
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28 Jun 2022
Google Netops celebrates Pride (also, spot the point at which YouTube in Seattle got dramatically better)
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25 Jun 2022
Today's project: netflow from Unifi USG to Kafka to Clickhouse to Grafana, all running in Docker on my Synology NAS (except the USG, obviously). Cloudflare's go-flow made everything super easy.
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10 Jun 2022
this is probably my favorite of the cross sections. it's such a beautiful cable 😍 x.com/EMSL/status/1393056960…
14 May 2021
Cross section of a 10 Gbps USB-C USB 3.x cable, potted in resin for photography.
This cable has 8 shielded "micro coax" cables for its high speed signals, each of which is only 1 mm across.
Outtake from a photo shoot with @TubeTimeUS
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