Founder @ Byteful
Joined August 2024
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Years of building proxy software in-house in Rust and Go, going up against incumbents who've been at this much longer.
We won Proxyway's Newcomer of the Year 2026 🏆
Independent benchmark.
#1 out of all tested providers for residential latency, mobile latency, and residential success rate on popular targets.
All built in-house in Rust and Go.
Measured against providers who have been at this a decade longer 📈
Read more: byteful.com/blog/byteful-win…
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Jun 13
me realizing i have to run a company again now that a foreign government lobotomized my head of strategy, my financial forecaster, AND my entire customer support team
Jun 13
The US government, citing national security authorities, has issued an export control directive to suspend all access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5 by any foreign national, whether inside or outside the United States, including foreign national Anthropic employees.
The net effect of this order is that we must abruptly disable Fable 5 and Mythos 5 for all our customers to ensure compliance.
Access to all other Claude models is not affected.
We apologize for this disruption to our customers. We believe this is a misunderstanding and are working to restore access as soon as possible.
Read our full statement: anthropic.com/news/fable-myt…
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Jun 12
Did we really need a 75″ 8K TV to monitor our network ops Grafana dashboards…maybe.
Does it suspiciously line up with the start of the World Cup…definitely 😅
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Jun 11
UK AI startups raised £8.2bn in the first six months of 2026. That beats last year's full-year record. In half the time.
Five years ago the conversation was talent and companies leaking out of Britain. This week at London Tech Week it became obvious that's reversed.
The capital came back. And it's staying 🇬🇧
From AI to quantum, the UK is where tech businesses start - and scale. 🇬🇧
At #LondonTechWeek, Minister for AI @KanishkaNarayan hears why: world-class talent, leading universities, and a pro-innovation approach to regulation.
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Jun 10
I miss Succession so much I choose to pretend every movie with Jeremy Strong is just Kendall’s newest business venture
Jun 10
Jeremy Strong's voice as Mark Zuckerberg in ‘THE SOCIAL NETWORK’ sequel.
“I’m not 2 years out of a dorm room anymore Charlie!”
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Jun 10
😤🇬🇧get Britain building
gg @SteveReedMP
Jun 10
New: Steve Reed has just overruled Slough Council to approve the UK's largest data centre site near Heathrow.
The council had initially blocked it because of concerns about the Green Belt, so MHCLG called it in. The site has been designated as critical national infrastructure.
assets.publishing.service.go…
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Jun 10
me thinking about what to do after fable just cleared my kanban board
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Jun 10
Kanishka for PM
BREAKING: The UK AI Minister has announced a Best Designed Data Centre Prize to reward beautiful and well designed data centres, which The Royal Institute of British Architects and The Department for Science, Innovation and Technology will collaborate on.
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Timur Gok retweeted
Don't make me say it.
Jun 10
Cursor has just announced that London is going to be the location for its new European HQ.
It's hiring 200 roles in the city to cope with the growing demand for its product.
Every day another great company doubles on the city.
WE LOVE TO SEE IT.
Welcome @mntruell @ArVID220u
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Jun 9
Robots.txt is 32 years old, has no legal authority, and runs on voluntary compliance.
That's the beauty of it. A courtesy, not a wall. It still works, but it can't carry consent, copyright, infrastructure protection and crawler identity alone.
What it can't do is stop the pattern of the biggest platforms using it as a wall against everyone else while quietly licensing the same data themselves. The open internet only works if it stays open both ways.
ALT Google AI Overview screenshot stating robots.txt has its unofficial birthday on June 30, first proposed by Martijn Koster on the www-talk mailing list in 1994. Originally called "RobotsNotWanted.txt".
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Jun 9
We're doubling compute access for the UK's most ambitious AI startups.
The response since launch has been remarkable. In just three months, we have received more than 200 applications requesting over 67 million GPU hours.
Founders here are building frontier AI models, scientific discovery platforms, next-generation compute infrastructure, cybersecurity technologies, drug discovery tools, and other innovations with the potential to shape the next decade of economic growth and national capability.
If Britain wants to be an AI maker, not an AI taker, we need to back our most promising startups with the compute they need to build at the frontier.
Today's announcement at @LDNTechWeek does exactly that.
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Jun 5
It's easy to become "just a prompter" with AI. Output without the fundamentals underneath.
What we've found at @Byteful: the people who actually understand what they're doing get amplified the most by these tools. Higher resolution into a problem. More ways to solve it.
So we give the team an unlimited books budget. No approval needed. They use it a lot.
Kaizen.
ALT A shelf of well-used technical books in Byteful's office, including Clean Code, Clean Architecture, TCP/IP Illustrated, Designing Data-Intensive Applications and Building Microservices.
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Jun 3
New scraping rules for the biggest scraper in town 👀
The @CMAgovUK just made publishers able to opt out of @Google's AI features while staying indexed in normal search. A world first. 9 months for Google to implement.
Before this, opting out of AI effectively meant losing your search ranking too. That's no longer the case.
ALT Screenshot of a UK Government press release titled "CMA secures fairer deal for publishers and improves Google search services in UK", dated 3 June 2026. The subhead reads: "Conduct requirement introduced today gives publishers more control and stronger bargaining power over the use of their content." Issued by the Competition and Markets Authority.
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Jun 2
410ms global residential latency in Proxyway's 2026 report ⚡
We were at 690ms in September. ~40% faster in 6 months.
Built proxy software in-house from the ground up in Rust and Go. The multi-year bet is starting to pay off 🛠
ALT Proxyway response time chart. Byteful ranks fastest at ~0.41s residential proxy response time, ahead of 13 other providers ranging from 0.5s to nearly 2s. Competitor names blurred.
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Jun 1
The kind of details I notice every time I'm in the dashboard. Small but they add up fast.
Two small dashboard details that save more time than they should⚡
Smart file naming: exports are named based on your selection. No more "list (3).csv"
Smartpath onboarding: first time using it? The dashboard explains what it does right there. Video, docs, one click.
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Byteful was featured in Proxyway's 2026 Proxy Market Research Report 📊
Across 13 providers and months of independent testing, the most respected benchmark in our industry.
Here's how we ranked 🧵👇
ALT Cover slide of Byteful's carousel introducing the Proxyway 2026 Market Report with a globe graphic and the Proxyway logo at the bottom.
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May 28
Proxyway 2026 report is out 🎉
We over-index on engineering vs sales/marketing. Still probably a mistake. But the results:
🥇 Fastest Residential pool, global ( 100ms)
🥇 Best Residential success on Google, Amazon, IG
🥇 Fastest Mobile global pool
proxyway.com/research/proxy-…
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May 27
Wisdom Wednesday returns 🧙♂️
This week the brilliant Max Madden walked us through Golang performance profiling. Tracing, flamegraphs, pprof.
Turns out the fastest way to improve a residential proxy network is not always a big rewrite.
Sometimes it is finding the tiny bottleneck that shows up billions of times.
That is where the real wins hide.
ALT Four software engineers in a bright, modern office gathered for an informal presentation. One team member sits at a white desk with code visible on a dual-monitor setup, turned in his ergonomic chair to speak. Three colleagues sit opposite him in office chairs, listening attentively.
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May 27
You probably missed the most important thing from Google I/O last week.
Not Gemini 3.5. WebMCP.
> Sites expose backend APIs directly to agents via .well-known/mcp
> Agents stop reading the DOM and talk to the backend instead
> @Google ships it, @AnthropicAI built the protocol
@sundarpichai called it the "agentic Gemini era." WebMCP is what that actually looks like.
The WebMCP API will enter origin trial starting in Chrome 149 → goo.gle/4u57Wlf
It's a proposed web standard that lets you expose structured tools, like JS functions and HTML forms, to browser-based agents, enabling them to know exactly how and where to interact with your site.
#GoogleIO
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May 26
Glad to see all engineering time at @byteful is paying off in product experience🔥
> Ultra Low latency
> Great geographic coverage
> Smartpath to reduce unnecessary data spend
Big thanks to @datawookie for the detailed review: datawookie.dev/blog/2026-05-…
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