8 January 2026

24 links · Thursday

A closer look at a BGP anomaly in Venezuela

There has been speculation about the cause of a BGP anomaly observed in Venezuela on January 2. We take a look at BGP route leaks, and dive into what the data suggests caused the anomaly in question.

Open Infrastructure Map

Open map of the world's electricity, telecoms, oil, and gas infrastructure, using data from OpenStreetMap.

The Q, K, V Matrices

At the core of the attention mechanism in LLMs are three matrices: Query, Key, and Value. These matrices are how transformers actually pay attention to different parts of the input. In this write-up, we will go through the construction of these matrices from t…

The Taste of OpenBSD

I started using OpenBSD last year. I discovered that it has excellent taste. This taste exists because there is no commercial pollution. The system is strict...

How I Handle My Finances Without a Monthly Salary

In my previous post, I talked about learning to deal with stress after walking away from a steady paycheck. This one is less philosophical and more practical. Think of it as me sharing how am I handling things in practice, the nuts and bolts, as I find my foot…

Is BDD Dying?

People keep asking me if BDD is dead. It’s not, but I sincerely believe that it needs to evolve. Let’s explore what that could look like.

Interesting Articles I've Read in 2025

Below are some interesting articles I’ve read in 2025. They fall into a few categories: the mathematics of data privacy, popular mathematics, politics, and nineteenth century philosophy. For data privacy, we look at how technical details may be hindering adopt…

Devaluation of work

I have talked to multiple developers that have told me about getting LLM-generated pull requests. The pain is that we have a situation where you ignore the act of getting code to work and instead focusing on the optics of good enough looking code.