ben linsay

this is why I can never log off

2025.12.20

What we are working on right now: blog.exe.dev/meet-exe.dev We all need more virtual machines. We keep building software to work around the fact that VM infrastructure is clunky. Let's have good VM infrastructure instead.

SKULL OF THOMAS AQUINAS: TAKE A LEFT NOW PRIEST: No, the GPS says we have to keep going— SKULL: I KNOW A SHORTCUT PRIEST: Do you remember the last ti— SKULL: FOR THOSE WITH FAITH, NO EVIDENCE IS NECESSARY; FOR THOSE WITHOUT IT, NO EVIDENCE WILL SUFFICE

This composition had eluded me for nearly a decade, but yesterday I was finally able to capture it. A train rolled through just as the Duquesne Incline was crossing over the tracks in #Pittsburgh, creating a picture perfect winter scene. It was worth the hours and hours I've waited over the years.

WSL stands for Worcestershire Sauce for Linux,

I came back from Sync Conf and shocked how many people are building text editors and the struggles they had with yjs. So rather than wait for my cofounder to finish his blog, I’ll just give a quick rundown on what we do for live collab editing.

From my friend Kyle. This is essential reading for all Americans. aphyr.com/posts/397-i-...

andrew cuomo retire forever bitch

gnu cowutils

I’m petrified about today’s science news. Genetically modifying crabs to have cheetah genes? This could go sideways fast.

Systems Distributed. June 19-20, Amsterdam. https://systemsdistributed.com/

At AWS, I led the team that built EC2's Nitro virtualization stack— C code deployed to 500K servers. Biggest lesson? Pre-production testing has limits. You must embrace safe production testing. My new blog explains how Nitro did it, and how Junction brings this to any Kubernetes team.

God, it's so dumb that we can't just do all of this stuff transitcosts.com/north-east-c...

Recently, one of our testing tools at AWS found an issue with transaction visibility in PostgreSQL, where the order that transactions become visible differs between the primary and replicas. Sergey Melnik dives deep on the AWS Database Blog: aws.amazon.com/blogs/databa...

From 8 Trabalhos de Neide Dias de Sá Neide Dias de Sá Published by Do Autor, São Paulo, 1970

23/4/25 - nocturn

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2025.04.04

There's no reason a language like this needs to just stay in a cartoon. Here's a working implementation of this language, built in @racket-lang.org: github.com/shriram/xkcd...

2025.03.06

IR is such a US-coded discipline that you have loads of analysts and journalists with IR backgrounds still churning out wordcount about what Trump will do with US hegemony even as the geopolitical reality looks more and more like this:

I'm just a wolf who's intentions are good oh lord please don't let me eat Red Riding Hood

On the other hand

2025.02.19

same. went straight through to voicemail, no hold. fellow NYers: call the number below, identify yourself as a constituent, state your zip code, and say that you're calling to ask that the governor remove the mayor. it'll take less than 60 seconds

13/2/25 - nocturn

If you're coming to KubeCon EU, my co-author Ian and I will be speaking about starting and scaling platform engineering teams sched.co/1txG8

they are having some impossible architecture adjacent problems over at the utah teapot factory

2025.02.05

The program is up and tickets are live at www.hytradboi.com/2025/#program. I'll keep updating this thread as the last 10 talks hit camera-ready.

every algorithm ever written is a compiler, except for compilers, which are databases

beach boys voice Indexing json b My co-founder and me Around postgress tables we did roam Drinking all night Got into a fight

nice stateless service you’ve got there. would be a shame if someone snuck some state into it www.junctionlabs.io/blog/dns-and...

bsky.app/profile/timo...

2025.01.25

SOCRATES: I am wiser than this man; he fancies he knows something, although he knows nothing— DARRYL, SOCRATES' FRIEND (Editor's note: There is no historical evidence that Socrates actually had a friend named Darryl. This is likely a character invented to facilitate the joke.): fuck him up socrates

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