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2026 9

  1. thundersnap 0.01: an undo button for everything
  2. 2026-07-04
  3. The software industry: annealing, but wrong
  4. The software industry: annealing, but wrong
  5. Web Summit Vancouver 2026: AI and the next generation of engineers
  6. Web Summit Vancouver 2026: open source in the agentic era
  7. Web Summit Vancouver 2026: AI needs an Android-like ecosystem
  8. Web Summit Vancouver 2026: the modern tech stack
  9. Every layer of review makes you 10x slower

2025 5

  1. Systems design 3: LLMs and the semantic revolution
  2. Billionaire math
  3. The evasive evitability of enshittification
  4. Web Summit Vancouver 2025: securing AI, with Ivan Zhang
  5. Accel SpotLight S3E4: building a better Internet

2024 1

  1. What do executives do, anyway?

2023 4

  1. NPS, the good parts
  2. Interesting
  3. Tech debt metaphor maximalism
  4. Systems design 2: What we hope we know

2022 2

  1. The Curse of Unreasonably Sized Networks
  2. The Gift of It's Your Problem Now

2021 7

  1. 100 years of whatever this will be
  2. Absolute scale corrupts absolutely
  3. The log/event processing pipeline you can't have
  4. 10 years of... whatever this has been
  5. SimSWE 4: Wants, needs, and chasm-crossing
  6. Thoughts you mightn't'a thunk about remote meetings
  7. Several grumpy opinions about remote work at Tailscale

2020 3

  1. Systems design explains the world: volume 1
  2. Can I work for a bad company and still be a good person?
  3. IPv4, IPv6, and a sudden change in attitude

2019 8

  1. git-subtrac: all your git submodules in one place
  2. Programmer migration patterns
  3. Quotes from 1992
  4. Factors in authentication
  5. The log/event processing pipeline you can't have
  6. Forget privacy: you're terrible at targeting anyway
  7. XML, blockchains, and the strange shapes of progress
  8. Misadventures in process containment

2018 11

  1. Honourable Governance
  2. Don't delegate the most important thing
  3. An epic treatise on scheduling, bug tracking, and triage
  4. Xnest, Xephyr, ChromeOS, synergy, and syncing some clipboards
  5. mtime comparison considered harmful
  6. The good feeling from bad feedback
  7. redo, buildroot, and serializing parallel logs
  8. I simulated California housing and learned... about simulators
  9. A little bump in the wire that makes your Internet faster
  10. SimSWE part 2: The perils of multitasking
  11. Books that explain (parts of) how the world really works

2017 3

  1. Event horizon
  2. git basically gives you superpowers. However, like any new superhero
  3. People keep telling me I should write a book with all this stuff I

2015 1

  1. All Natural MIMO

2006 1

  1. A day in the life of power management

Undated 1

  1. Rss