22 May 2025

30 links ยท Thursday

berti92 brain dump

Foldables... Since Samsung announced their very first Galaxy Z Fold, I was really pumped. I liked the idea so much, to have your phone AND tablet always in your pocket. Sure, the first version was laughable as fuck, but I immediately get the id…

The Day GlusterFS Tried to Kill My Career

A GlusterFS failure during a critical client upgrade turned into a nightmare of false accusations and politics, revealing a deeper story of corruption.

The IBM Enhanced Keyboard turns 40

A celebration for the 40th anniversary of the IBM Enhanced Keyboard's announcement

Refactoring My Infrastructure As Code Configurations

The drupol/nixos-x260 repository began as a simple and practical way to manage the configuration of my Lenovo ThinkPad X260 laptop, hence the (bad) name. Unsurprisingly, I quickly became hooked on the NixOS Linux distribution, and before long, I was running it…

Vibe coding is metaprogramming - foobuzz

I originally wanted to write 2 distinct articles, but realized that they shared the same underlying idea: "Vibe coding", the act of talking to an LLM / LLM-based AI agent to code a full project without writing a line of code manually, is no more than a metapro…

On 1,145 pull requests per day

There is a recent video of Patrick Collison at Stripe Sessions 2025 stating that in 2024 Stripe did on average 1,145 pull requests per day. Not just creating them, but actually finishing them; "fully shipped into production". All whilst having less than a minu…

A Run of CRDT Posts

Over the next few days, I'm going to post a number of observations about CRDTs: Convergent Replicated Data Types. These are data structures that aspire to help…

Desktop AI Compared - From 2GB to 1024GB, Deepseek R1, Gemma3, and More!

Dave compares multiple desktop AI models running at various hardware price points from 2GB up to 1TB of memory and reveals the performance of each. Free Sample of my Book on the Spectrum: https://amzn.to/3zBinWM Check out ShopTalk, our weekly podcast, every …

Introducing Claude 4

Discover Claude 4's breakthrough AI capabilities. Experience more reliable, interpretable assistance for complex tasks across work and learning.

Fusion Cache is my favorite caching library for my C# projects

Fusion Cache is my favorite caching library for my C# projects. In this video tutorial, I walk through caching values that we're creating for an API call. We're able to expire them and use a factory method to create the values we need. Watch the full tutori…

Decibels are ridiculous

Celebrating a rare dumpster fire in the kingdom of science.

Gemini Diffusion

Another of the announcements from Google I/O yesterday was Gemini Diffusion, Google's first LLM to use diffusion (similar to image models like Imagen and Stable Diffusion) in place of transformers. …