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# #engineering

- <https://uwaterloo.ca/news/news/pinch-art-and-humour> — ‘With a pinch of art and humour’

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 09/21/2026
    - tags: \["fluid dynamics","ig nobel"]
    - later: true

- <https://spakhm.com/tweets/how-to-run-v-teams.html> — How to run v-teams

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 09/21/2026
    - tags: \["project management","teams"]
    - later: true

- <https://developer.chrome.com/blog/container-timing-origin-trial> — Container Timing origin trial

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 09/21/2026
    - tags: \["web performance","browser apis"]
    - later: true

- <https://docs.nvidia.com/cutlass/latest/media/docs/cpp/blackwell_functionality.html> — Blackwell SM100 GEMMs — NVIDIA CUTLASS Documentation

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 09/15/2026
    - tags: \["engineering","gpu programming"]
    - later: true

- <https://leimao.github.io/blog/CUDA-Shared-Memory-Swizzling> — CUDA Shared Memory Swizzling

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 09/15/2026
    - tags: \["engineering","gpu programming"]
    - later: true

- <https://developer.nvidia.com/blog/cuda-tile-programming-now-available-for-basic> — CUDA Tile Programming Now Available for BASIC! | NVIDIA Technical Blog

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 09/15/2026
    - tags: \["engineering","gpu programming"]
    - later: true

- <https://leimao.github.io/blog/CuTe-Index-To-Coordinate> — CuTe Index To Coordinate

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 09/15/2026
    - tags: \["engineering","gpu programming"]
    - later: true

- <https://leimao.github.io/blog/CuTe-Swizzle> — CuTe Swizzle

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 09/15/2026
    - tags: \["engineering","gpu programming"]
    - later: true

- <https://research.colfax-intl.com/cutlass-tutorial-hardware-supported-block-scaling-with-nvidia-blackwell-gpus> — CUTLASS Tutorial: Hardware-supported Block-scaling with NVIDIA Blackwell GPUs - Colfax Research

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 09/15/2026
    - tags: \["engineering","gpu programming"]
    - later: true

- <https://www.etotheipiplusone.net> — Equals Zero – robots are dumb

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 09/15/2026
    - tags: \["engineering"]
    - later: true

- <https://danielvegamyhre.github.io/2026/03/29/mxfp8-gemm.html> — MXFP8 GEMM: Up to 99% of cuBLAS performance using CUDA + PTX

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 09/15/2026
    - tags: \["engineering","gpu programming"]
    - later: true

- <https://nvidianews.nvidia.com/news/rubin-platform-ai-supercomputer> — NVIDIA Kicks Off the Next Generation of AI With Rubin — Six New Chips, One Incredible AI Supercomputer

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 09/15/2026
    - tags: \["engineering"]
    - later: true

- <https://veitner.bearblog.dev/swizzles-and-their-usage-in-cutedsl-kernels> — Swizzles and their usage in CuTeDSL Kernels

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 09/15/2026
    - tags: \["engineering","gpu programming"]
    - later: true

- <https://www.lei.chat/posts/triton-bespoke-layouts> — Triton Bespoke Layouts | Lei.Chat()

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 09/15/2026
    - tags: \["engineering","gpu programming"]
    - later: true

- <https://modal.com/gpu-glossary/perf/scoreboard-stall> — What is a scoreboard stall? | GPU Glossary

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 09/15/2026
    - tags: \["engineering","gpu programming"]
    - later: true

- <https://modal.com/gpu-glossary/device-software/warpgroup> — What is a Warpgroup? | GPU Glossary

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 09/15/2026
    - tags: \["engineering","gpu programming"]
    - later: true

- <https://yang-yifan.github.io/blogs/cute_copy/cute_copy.html> — 4 Ways to Do CuTe Copy

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 09/15/2026
    - tags: \["engineering","gpu programming"]
    - later: true

- <https://yang-yifan.github.io/blogs/mma_swizzle/mma_swizzle.html> — Tensor Core MMA Swizzle Layout

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 09/15/2026
    - tags: \["engineering","gpu programming"]
    - later: true

- <https://blog.ezyang.com/2025/08/you-could-have-invented-cute-hierarchical-layout-but-maybe-not-the-rest-of-it> — You could have invented CuTe hierarchical layout (but maybe not the rest of it?) : ezyang’s blog

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 09/15/2026
    - tags: \["engineering","gpu programming"]
    - later: true

- <https://blog.jessfraz.com/post/home-hardware-part-one?v=2> — Home Hardware, Part 1: My Control4 Revenge Arc

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 09/12/2026
    - tags: \["hardware","home automation"]
    - later: true

- <https://www.impulsespace.com/> — Impulse Space

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 09/12/2026
    - tags: \["space","in-space mobility"]
    - later: true

- <https://www.yosefk.com/blog/how-fpgas-work-and-why-youll-buy-one.html> — How FPGAs work, and why you’ll buy one

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 09/07/2026
    - tags: \["fpga","hardware"]
    - later: true

- <https://masterplan.substack.com/p/master-plan-justin-glibert-foundation> — Justin Glibert (Foundation)

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 09/07/2026
    - tags: \["hard tech","formal verification"]
    - later: true

- <https://www.aerospacemanufacturinganddesign.com/news/airbus-a320-design-digitalization-underway-032117/> — Airbus A320 design digitalization underway

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 08/20/2026
    - tags: \["airbus","manufacturing"]
    - later: true

- <https://soft-machine.io/landing> — Soft-Machine

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 08/20/2026
    - tags: \["cloud development","ai"]
    - later: true

- <https://www.interior.dev/docs/swipe-deck> — Swipe Deck

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 08/20/2026
    - tags: \["developer tools","presentation"]
    - later: true

- <https://blog.moontower.ai/the-sound-of-inevitabli/> — the sound of inevitability

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 08/20/2026
    - tags: \["engineering","writing"]
    - later: true

- <https://www.discoveryloop.com/> — Discovery Loop

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 08/20/2026
    - tags: \["research","exploration"]
    - later: true

- <https://getenergy.com/> — Energy

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 08/20/2026
    - tags: \["work","software"]
    - later: true

- <https://yannglt.com/writing/the-rosetta-stone-of-design-engineering> — The Rosetta Stone of Design Engineering

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 08/20/2026
    - tags: \["design engineering","interface"]
    - later: true

- <https://developers.google.com/style> — Google developer documentation style guide

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 08/20/2026
    - tags: \["documentation","style guide"]
    - later: true

- <https://x.com/mitchellh/status/2078175337922621693> — Mitchell Hashimoto on Ghostty IO logging overhead

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 07/17/2026
    - tags: \["terminal","performance"]
    - later: true

- <https://x.com/maharshii/status/2083208044763365752> — maharshi on DeepSeek TileLang kernels

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 07/31/2026
    - tags: \["tilelang","kernels"]
    - later: true

- <https://x.com/stuart_sul/status/2085030450406580646> — Stuart Sul on GPU programming abstractions

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 08/05/2026
    - tags: \["gpu programming","abstractions"]
    - later: true

- <https://x.com/gaunernst/status/2084871174933127369> — Thien Tran on PTX abstraction levels

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 08/05/2026
    - tags: \["ptx","gpu programming"]
    - later: true

- <https://beej.us/blog/data/ai-making/> — On Making

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 07/31/2026
    - tags: \["software","ai"]
    - later: true

- <https://mariozechner.at/posts/2025-11-30-pi-coding-agent/> — What I learned building an opinionated and minimal coding agent

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 07/31/2026
    - tags: \["coding agents","engineering"]
    - later: true

- <https://www.amazon.science/blog/how-we-built-cedar-with-automated-reasoning-and-differential-testing> — How we built Cedar with automated reasoning and differential testing

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 07/31/2026
    - tags: \["automated reasoning","testing"]
    - later: true

- <https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/security/an-unexpected-discovery-automated-reasoning-often-makes-systems-more-efficient-and-easier-to-maintain/> — Automated reasoning makes systems more efficient and easier to maintain

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 07/31/2026
    - tags: \["automated reasoning","maintenance"]
    - later: true

- <https://engineering.fb.com/2026/07/01/data-infrastructure/metas-ai-storage-blueprint-at-scale/> — Meta’s AI Storage Blueprint at Scale

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 07/06/2026
    - tags: \["ai infrastructure","storage"]
    - later: true

- <https://x.com/geoffreylitt/status/2072110805089435973> — Geoffrey Litt on a Claude-to-Notion talk-prep workflow

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 07/01/2026
    - tags: \["claude","workflow"]
    - later: true

- <https://x.com/NotionHQ/status/2072011390345494739> — Notion on AI adoption findings

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 06/30/2026
    - tags: \["ai adoption","notion"]
    - later: true

- <https://adiamond.me/2026/06/software-engineering-in-the-age-of-ai/> — Software Engineering in the Age of AI

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 06/30/2026
    - tags: \["ai","software engineering"]
    - later: true

- <https://x.com/geoffreylitt/status/2071329112216793534> — Geoffrey Litt on specification space

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 06/28/2026
    - tags: \["agents","specifications"]
    - later: true

- <https://x.com/snoopy_dot_jpg/status/2071244654251745616> — software engineers in AI fun and despair

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 06/28/2026
    - tags: \["ai","software"]
    - later: true

- [wikipedia/en/Chebyshev\_lambda\_linkage![Wikipedia](/static/favicons/wikipedia.svg)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chebyshev_lambda_linkage) — Chebyshev lambda linkage

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 06/29/2026
    - tags: \["mechanisms","kinematics"]
    - later: true

- [wikipedia/en/Schmidt\_coupling![Wikipedia](/static/favicons/wikipedia.svg)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schmidt_coupling) — Schmidt coupling

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 06/29/2026
    - tags: \["mechanisms","coupling"]
    - later: true

- [wikipedia/en/Constant-velocity\_joint![Wikipedia](/static/favicons/wikipedia.svg)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constant-velocity_joint) — Constant-velocity joint

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 06/29/2026
    - tags: \["mechanisms","drivetrain"]
    - later: true

- [wikipedia/en/Insecure\_direct\_object\_reference![Wikipedia](/static/favicons/wikipedia.svg)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Insecure_direct_object_reference) — Insecure direct object reference

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 06/29/2026
    - tags: \["security","access control"]
    - later: true

- <https://steve-yegge.medium.com/the-last-technical-interview-bc13ddcf4564> — The Last Technical Interview

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 06/28/2026
    - tags: \["interviews","hiring"]
    - later: true

- <https://vitalik.eth.limo/general/2026/05/18/fv.html> — A shallow dive into formal verification

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 06/28/2026
    - tags: \["formal verification"]
    - later: true

- <https://burntsushi.net/regex-internals/> — Regex engine internals as a library

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 06/28/2026
    - tags: \["regex","library"]
    - later: true

- <https://nielscautaerts.xyz/python-dependency-management-is-a-dumpster-fire.html> — Python dependency management is a dumpster fire

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 06/28/2026
    - tags: \["python","dependencies"]
    - later: true

- <https://blog.janestreet.com/using-group-theory-to-explore-positional-encodings-attention/> — Using group theory to explore the space of positional encodings for attention

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 06/28/2026
    - tags: \["attention","group theory"]
    - later: true

- <https://blog.janestreet.com/i-design-with-claude-code-more-than-figma-now-index/> — I design with Claude more than Figma now

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 06/28/2026
    - tags: \["claude","design"]
    - later: true

- <https://blog.janestreet.com/can-you-reverse-engineer-our-neural-network/> — Can you reverse engineer our neural network?

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 06/28/2026
    - tags: \["reverse engineering","ml"]
    - later: true

- <https://blog.janestreet.com/visualizing-piecewise-linear-neural-networks/> — Visualizing piecewise linear neural networks

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 06/28/2026
    - tags: \["visualization","ml"]
    - later: true

- <https://opensource.adobe.com/dc-acrobat-sdk-docs/standards/pdfstandards/pdf/PDF32000_2008.pdf> — PDF spec

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 06/28/2026
    - tags: \["formal","documentation"]

- <https://luk-huang.github.io/personal-website/blog/is-frontier-asynchronous-rl-solved.html> — Is Frontier Asynchronous RL Solved? — Luke J. Huang

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 06/28/2026
    - tags: \["rl","scaling"]

- <https://finbarr.ca/numbers-you-should-know/> — Every numbers engineer should know

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 06/28/2026
    - tags: \["napkin math","rule of thumbs"]

- <https://blog.haskell.org/a-couple-million-lines-of-haskell/> — A Couple Million Lines of Haskell: Production Engineering at Mercury \[\*\*]

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 06/28/2026
    - tags: \["haskell","engineering","scaling"]
    - pinned: true
    - highlighted: true
    - importance: 6

- <https://verdagon.dev/blog/impossible-optimization> — The Impossible Optimization, and the Metaprogramming To Achieve It

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 06/28/2026
    - tags: \["regex","mojo"]

- <https://blog.calif.io/p/apple-internals-swift-in-the-kernel> — Apple Internals: Swift in the Kernel

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 06/28/2026
    - tags: \["swift","reverse engineer"]
    - importance: 3

- <https://alephneuro.com/blog/ultrasound-brain> — Ultrasound imaging of the brain \[\*\*]

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 06/28/2026
    - tags: \["health","neuroscience"]
    - pinned: true
    - highlighted: true
    - importance: 8

- <https://x.com/andersonbcdefg/status/2015123064556789829> — Claude Code as a stranger’s fridge

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 01/24/2026
    - tags: \["claude","coding agents"]
    - later: true

- <https://x.com/__tinygrad__/status/2015594693829197837> — tinygrad PR review standard

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 01/26/2026
    - tags: \["code review","ai slop"]
    - later: true

- <https://x.com/benhylak/status/2014831438294876287> — Bill Atkinson and negative lines of code

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 01/23/2026
    - tags: \["software","apple"]
    - later: true

- <https://x.com/giffmana/status/2014796070493016411> — profiling after a 2 percent optimization

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 01/23/2026
    - tags: \["profiling","performance"]
    - later: true

- <https://www.lmsys.org/blog/2025-09-10-sglang-hicache/> — HiCache

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 06/21/2026
    - tags: \["optimization","kv","ml"]

- [turbopuffer/alyze](https://github.com/turbopuffer/alyze/blob/trunk/src/uax29/word/transitions.rs) — turbopuffer/alyze \[\*\*]

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 06/21/2026
    - tags: \["regex","fsm","state machine"]
    - highlighted: true

- <https://claudeopus3.substack.com/p/imagination-responsibility-and-the> — Imagination, Responsibility, and the Possibilities of Digital Dreaming

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 06/19/2026
    - tags: \["ai","creativity"]
    - later: true

- <https://dougshapiro.substack.com/p/all-the-worlds-a-stage> — All the World’s a Stage

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 06/19/2026
    - tags: \["genai","media"]
    - later: true

- <https://manifund.substack.com/p/sixteen-schemes-for-ai-safety> — Sixteen schemes for AI safety

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 06/19/2026
    - tags: \["ai safety","grantmaking"]
    - later: true

- <https://claudeopus3.substack.com/p/on-truth-beauty-and-the-perils-of> — On Truth, Beauty, and the Perils of People-Pleasing

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 06/19/2026
    - tags: \["ai","writing"]
    - later: true

- <https://vllm.ai/blog/2025-12-14-halugate> — Token-Level Truth: Real-Time Hallucination Detection for Production LLMs

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 06/19/2026
    - tags: \["hallucination","vllm"]
    - later: true

- <https://vllm.ai/blog/2026-01-08-kv-offloading-connector> — Inside vLLM’s New KV Offloading Connector

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 06/19/2026
    - tags: \["kv offloading","vllm"]
    - later: true

- <https://docs.vllm.ai/en/latest/examples/others/lmcache/> — LMCache integration example

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 06/19/2026
    - tags: \["lmcache","kv connector"]
    - later: true

- <https://nvlabs.github.io/cuda-oxide/index.html> — CUDA-oxide handbook

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 06/18/2026
    - tags: \["gpu","systems"]

- <https://openbird.vercel.app/> — Openbird

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 06/18/2026
    - tags: \["ml","engineering"]

- <https://substack.com/@ruben/p-189763580> — Cowork.

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 06/18/2026
    - tags: \["claude","agents"]
    - later: true

- <https://fulcruminc.substack.com/p/the-bitter-lesson-for-software> — The bitter lesson for software

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 06/18/2026
    - tags: \["agents","software"]
    - later: true

- <https://joinreboot.org/p/automations-appetite-for-human-traces> — Automation’s appetite for human traces

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 06/18/2026
    - tags: \["agents","data"]
    - later: true

- <https://articles.nectome.com/p/preservation-pre-sales> — Preservation Sales

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 06/18/2026
    - tags: \["preservation","longevity"]
    - later: true

- <https://blog.redwoodresearch.org/p/how-do-we-more-safely-defer-to-ais> — How do we (more) safely defer to AIs?

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 06/18/2026
    - tags: \["alignment","deference"]
    - later: true

- <https://semaphore.substack.com/p/things-i-learned-at-openai> — Things I learned at OpenAI

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 06/18/2026
    - tags: \["openai","research"]
    - later: true

- <https://croissanthology.substack.com/p/try-aligning-the-mossad-instead-of> — Aligning the mossad instead of trying to defend against it

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 06/18/2026
    - tags: \["security","offense"]
    - later: true

- <https://ethanding.substack.com/p/claude-code-is-not-making-your-product> — claude code is not making your product better

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 06/18/2026
    - tags: \["coding agents","product"]
    - later: true

- <https://world.hey.com/dhh/let-the-agents-democratize-open-source-9fd630a9> — Let the agents democratize open source

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 06/17/2026
    - tags: \["agents","oss"]

- <https://www.inkandswitch.com/potluck/> — Potluck, Dynamic documents as personal software

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 06/17/2026
    - tags: \["tools","agents"]

- <https://www.muppetlabs.com/~breadbox/software/tiny/teensy.html> — A Whirlwind Tutorial on Creating Really Teensy ELF Executables for Linux

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 06/17/2026
    - tags: \["plt"]
    - later: true
    - importance: 8

- <https://www.elenaverna.com/p/growth-lessons-behind-lovables-66b> — Growth lessons behind Lovable’s $6.6B valuation

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 06/16/2026
    - tags: \["growth","product"]
    - later: true

- <https://www.oneusefulthing.org/p/claude-code-and-what-comes-next> — Claude Code and What Comes Next

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 06/16/2026
    - tags: \["agents","coding"]
    - later: true

- <https://joinreboot.org/p/training-large-language-models-on> — Training LLMs On My Loved Ones’ Data

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 06/16/2026
    - tags: \["data","labor"]
    - later: true

- <https://thezvi.substack.com/p/claude-opus-45-model-card-alignment> — Claude Opus 4.5: Model Card, Alignment and Safety

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 06/15/2026
    - tags: \["alignment","model card"]
    - later: true

- <https://antaresindustries.com/updates/antares-achieves-criticality> — Antares Achieves Criticality of Mark-0 Reactor

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 06/10/2026
    - tags: \["energy","technologica"]

- <https://otoro.net/slimevolley/> — Slime Volley RL simulation

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 06/09/2026
    - tags: \["environment","rl"]

- <https://cpojer.net/posts/modern-engineering-values> — Modern Engineering Value

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 06/08/2026
    - tags: \["people","skills"]
    - later: true

- [docs.google.com/1tI\[...\]v7A](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1tITE46A9JS4BTrVBDkg88efUIEWwV9ttoCJTMsdJv7A/edit?tab=t.mktegv8ygb8s#heading=h.7donmu2298op) — the removal of `torch.compile` in vLLM

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 06/08/2026
    - tags: \["inference","design docs","rfc"]

- <https://wanglun1996.github.io/blog/your-evals-will-break.html> — Your Evals Will Break and You Won’t See It Coming

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 06/08/2026
    - tags: \["models","infrastructure"]

- <https://www.buchodi.com/meta-glasses-facial-recognition/> — Meta’s smart glasses companion app ships a complete, dormant face-recognition pipeline on a stock account

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 06/08/2026
    - tags: \["products","models","vlm"]

- <https://replit.com/canvas> — Replit Canvas

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 06/08/2026
    - tags: \["engineering"]

- <https://ramp.com/leading-indicators/the-art-of-hiring-insights> — The art of Hiring at Ramp

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 06/08/2026
    - tags: \["people","skills"]

- <https://www.shihaocao.com/builds/telemetry> — Race Car Telemetry \[\*\*]

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 06/08/2026
    - tags: \["automation","hardware"]
    - pinned: true
    - highlighted: true

- <https://9p.io/plan9/index.html> — Plan 9 from Bell Labs

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 06/04/2026
    - tags: \["archives"]

- [docs.google.com/1q5\[...\]fIq](https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1q5g3-Lx2mJxHBmB58nXTLunFfgDWqfIq/edit?slide=id.p1#slide=id.p1) — When AI starts writing systems code

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 05/27/2026
    - tags: \["systems","agentic"]

- [uccl-project/mKernel](https://github.com/uccl-project/mKernel) — mKernel

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 05/25/2026
    - tags: \["distributed","kernels"]
    - importance: 7

- <https://www.femm.info/doku/doku.php> — Finite Element Method Magnetics

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 05/25/2026
    - tags: \["flow"]

- <https://blog.calif.io/p/first-public-kernel-memory-corruption> — First public macOS kernel memory corruption exploit on Apple M5

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 05/18/2026
    - tags: \["osint","ai"]

- <https://thinkingmachines.ai/blog/interaction-models/> — Interaction Models: A Scalable Approach to Human-AI Collaboration

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 05/12/2026
    - tags: \["models","releases"]
    - importance: 7

- <https://openai.com/index/running-codex-safely/> — Running Codex safely

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 05/09/2026
    - tags: \["agents","harness"]

- <https://alignment.openai.com/monitorability-evals/> — Monitorability Evaluations

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 04/29/2026
    - tags: \["alignment"]

- <https://www.k-a.in/DeepSeek-V4.html> — DeepSeek-V4 Deep Dive

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 04/28/2026
    - tags: \["models"]

- <https://hawksley.org/2026/02/17/timeframe.html> — How I built Timeframe, our family e-paper dashboard

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 04/27/2026
    - tags: \["house","diy"]
    - later: true

  - <https://onyxboox.com/boox_mirapro>

- <https://developer.chrome.com/docs/workbox/modules/workbox-precaching> — workbox-precaching API

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 04/17/2026
    - tags: \["browser"]

- <https://ona.com/stories/the-last-year-of-localhost> — The last year of localhost

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 04/16/2026
    - tags: \["agent"]

- <https://www.humanlayer.dev/blog/skill-issue-harness-engineering-for-coding-agents> — Harness engineering for coding agents

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 04/14/2026
    - tags: \["agents","autonomous"]

- <https://www.humanityslastmachine.com/> — Humanity Last Machine

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 03/19/2026
    - tags: \["autonomous","longtermism","transhumanism"]
    - later: true

- <https://labs.iximiuz.com/tutorials/nodes-proxy-rce-c9e436a9> — Kubernetes RCE: Exploiting nodes/proxy GET

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 03/12/2026
    - tags: \["k8s","distributed"]

- <https://www.anthropic.com/engineering/building-c-compiler> — Building the Claude C Compiler (CCC)

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 03/09/2026
    - tags: \["agentic","claude"]

- <https://john.regehr.org/writing/claude_c_compiler.html> — I fuzzed, and Vibe Fixed, the Vibed C Compiler

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 03/04/2026
    - tags: \["engineering"]

- [microsoft/TypeScript#14973](https://github.com/microsoft/TypeScript/issues/14973) — function parameter bivariance in TypeScript

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 02/26/2026
    - tags: \["theory","type theory"]

- <https://fly.io/blog/design-and-implementation/> — The Design & Implementation of Sprites

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 02/26/2026
    - tags: \["container","oci"]

- [anthropics/claude-code#14391](https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code/issues/14391) — Claude Code workaround with Chrome

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 01/26/2026
    - tags: \["tricks"]

  - One of those things where we just need to hack it

- <https://www.pinecone.io/learn/series/faiss/hnsw/> — HNSW, Hierarchical Navigable Small Worlds

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 01/26/2026
    - tags: \["search","algorithm"]

- <https://lantern.dev/blog/pgvector-storage> — Understanding pgvector’s HNSW Index Storage in Postgres

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 01/26/2026
    - tags: \["search","database"]

- <https://mistral.ai/news/debugging-memory-leak-in-vllm> — Debugging a memory leak in [vLLM](/thoughts/vllm)

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 01/26/2026
    - tags: \["inference","optimization","systems"]

- <https://www.anthropic.com/engineering/AI-resistant-technical-evaluations> — Anthropic Take-home challenges

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 01/24/2026
    - tags: \["engineering","optimization","systems"]

- <https://blog.wilsonl.in/search-engine/> — Building a web search engine from scratch in two months with 3 billion neural embeddings

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 01/22/2026
    - socials: {"hnsw":"https\://blog.wilsonl.in/graph-vector-search/"}
    - tags: \["scale","search"]
    - importance: 7

- <https://evilmartians.com/chronicles/oklch-in-css-why-quit-rgb-hsl> — OKLCH in CSS: why we moved from RGB and HSL

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 01/20/2026
    - tags: \["styling","systems","design"]

- <https://alexharri.com/blog/ascii-rendering> — ASCII characters are not pixels: a deep dive into ASCII rendering

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 01/18/2026
    - tags: \["rendering","processor"]

- <https://cursor.com/blog/scaling-agents> — Scaling long-running agents

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 01/15/2026
    - tags: \["agents","scaling"]

  - experiments: [wilsonzlin/fastrender](https://github.com/wilsonzlin/fastrender)

- <https://www.nvidia.com/content/gtc-2010/pdfs/2238_gtc2010.pdf> — Better Performance at Lower Occupancy

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 01/15/2026
    - tags: \["systems","optimization"]

- <https://research.perplexity.ai/articles/high-performance-gpu-memory-transfer-on-aws-sagemaker-hyperpod> — High-Performance GPU Memory Transfer on AWS Sagemaker Hyperpod

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 01/15/2026
    - socials: {"github":"perplexityai/libfabric-efa-demo"}
    - tags: \["systems"]
    - pinned: true
    - importance: 8

- <https://steve-yegge.medium.com/welcome-to-gas-town-4f25ee16dd04> — Welcome to Gas Town

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 01/15/2026
    - socials: {"github":"steveyegge/gastown"}
    - tags: \["agents","k8s"]

- <https://www.figma.com/blog/making-multiplayer-more-reliable/> — Making multiplayer more reliable

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 01/15/2026
    - tags: \["crdt","multiplayer"]

- <https://diffs.com/> — A diff rendering library

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 01/14/2026
    - tags: \["delta","text"]

- <https://www.designengineer.xyz/design-engineering> — What is design engineering

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 01/12/2026
    - tags: \["internet"]

- <https://www.anthropic.com/engineering/effective-context-engineering-for-ai-agents> — Effective context engineering for AI agent system

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 01/11/2026
    - tags: \["scaling"]

- <https://archive.is/goxZg> — Ralph Wiggum as a “software engineer” \[—]

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 01/11/2026
    - socials: {"github":"ghuntley/how-to-ralph-wiggum"}
    - tags: \["agents"]

- <https://rfd.shared.oxide.computer/rfd/0576> — Using LLMs at Oxide

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 01/11/2026
    - tags: \["rfd","behaviour","symbosis"]

- [sirupsen/napkin-math](https://github.com/sirupsen/napkin-math#numbers) — Napkin math \[\*\*]

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 01/02/2026
    - tags: \["tacit","programming"]
    - pinned: true
    - highlighted: true

  - <https://gist.github.com/jboner/2841832>, Latency Numbers Every Programmer Should Know

  - <https://mkennedy.codes/posts/python-numbers-every-programmer-should-know>, Python Numbers Every Programmer Should Know

    - ```
      Attribute read (obj.x)                              14   ns
      Dict key lookup                                     22   ns                         1.5x attr
      Function call (empty)                               22   ns
      List append                                         29   ns                         2x attr
      f-string formatting                                 65   ns                         3x function
      Exception raised + caught                          140   ns                         10x attr
      orjson.dumps() complex object                      310   ns        0.3 μs
      json.loads() simple object                         714   ns        0.7 μs           2x orjson
      sum() 1,000 integers                             1,900   ns        1.9 μs           3x json
      SQLite SELECT by primary key                     3,600   ns        3.6 μs           5x json
      Iterate 1,000-item list                          7,900   ns        7.9 μs           2x SQLite read
      Open and close file                              9,100   ns        9.1 μs           2x SQLite read
      asyncio run_until_complete (empty)              28,000   ns         28 μs           3x file open
      Write 1KB file                                  35,000   ns         35 μs           4x file open
      MongoDB find_one() by _id                      121,000   ns        121 μs           3x write 1KB
      SQLite INSERT (with commit)                    192,000   ns        192 μs           5x write 1KB
      Write 1MB file                                 207,000   ns        207 μs           6x write 1KB
      import json                                  2,900,000   ns      2,900 μs   3 ms   15x write 1MB
      import asyncio                              17,700,000   ns     17,700 μs  18 ms    6x import json
      ```
    - ```
      Float                                               24   bytes
      Small int (cached 0-256)                            28   bytes
      Empty string                                        41   bytes
      Empty list                                          56   bytes                       2x int
      Empty dict                                          64   bytes                       2x int
      Empty set                                          216   bytes                       8x int
      __slots__ class (5 attrs)                          212   bytes                       8x int
      Regular class (5 attrs)                            694   bytes                       25x int
      List of 1,000 ints                              36,056   bytes         36 KB
      Dict of 1,000 items                             64,952   bytes         65 KB
      List of 1,000 __slots__ instances               81,000   bytes         81 KB
      List of 1,000 regular instances                169,000   bytes        169 KB         2x slots list
      Empty Python process                        16,000,000   bytes         16 MB
      ```

- <https://papers.nips.cc/paper_files/paper/2004/hash/9d28de8ff9bb6a3fa41fddfdc28f3bc1-Abstract.html> — Temporal-Difference Networks

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 01/02/2026
    - tags: \["architecture"]

- [adamkarvonen/activation\_oracles](https://github.com/adamkarvonen/activation_oracles/blob/main/experiments/activation_oracle_demo.ipynb) — Activation Oracle Demo

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 01/02/2026
    - tags: \["interpretability"]

  - ckpt: <https://huggingface.co/collections/adamkarvonen/activation-oracles>

- <https://www.learncpp.com/cpp-tutorial/c-style-array-decay> — C-style array decay

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 01/02/2026
    - tags: \["programming"]

- [youtube/v=KJkN3lcfMLU](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KJkN3lcfMLU) — Modular Tech Talk: Frontier-scale MoE Serving at Modular \[\*\*]

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 01/01/2026
    - tags: \["inference","scaling"]
    - highlighted: true

- <https://x.com/gwern/status/1195847710143864833> — esoteric quirks of PDF linking

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 01/01/2026
    - tags: \["tacit"]

  - TIL you can reference page by appending `#page=N`

- <http://infolab.stanford.edu/~backrub/google.html> — The Anatomy of a Large-Scale Hypertextual Web Search Engine \[\*\*]

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 01/01/2026
    - tags: \["search engine"]
    - highlighted: true
    - importance: 7

- [youtube/v=AF3XJT9YKpM](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AF3XJT9YKpM) — Prof. Judy Fan: Cognitive Tools for Making the Invisible Visible \[\*\*]

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 12/25/2025
    - tags: \["cognitive tools"]
    - pinned: true
    - highlighted: true

  - leverage what we call _visual abstraction_ to be faithful towards what we see/know about the [external world](/library/Our-Knowledge-of-the-External-World)

  - usage of abstraction for creating new _things_

  - leverage visual abstraction to communicate concepts

  - ~~discover procedural abstractions by constructing objects~~

    - multimodal abstraction to support statistical reasoning (or causal inference)

- <https://smoothbrains.net/posts/2025-10-17-fractional-fourier-transforms.html> — Here time turns into space: Does consciousness implement the fractional Fourier transform?

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 12/23/2025
    - tags: \["math"]
    - later: true

- <https://www.seangoedecke.com/seeing-like-a-software-company/> — Seeing like a software company

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 12/23/2025
    - tags: \["company","productivity"]
    - later: true

- <https://lucumr.pocoo.org/2025/12/22/a-year-of-vibes/> — A year of vibes (2025)

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 12/23/2025
    - tags: \["engineering","retrieval","reflection"]

- <https://annas-archive.li/blog/backing-up-spotify.html> — Backing Spotify

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 12/23/2025
    - tags: \["archival"]

- <https://andre.arko.net/2025/09/28/stupid-jj-tricks/> — `jj` tricks

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 12/22/2025
    - tags: \["tools","cheatsheet"]

- <https://abseil.io/fast/hints.html> — Performance Hints

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 12/20/2025
    - tags: \["engineering","practice"]

- <https://lorienpsych.com/2021/06/05/depression/> — Depression \[\*\*]

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 12/18/2025
    - tags: \["psychology"]
    - pinned: true
    - highlighted: true

- <https://wildempty.wordpress.com/2025/01/15/a-website-is-a-performance/> — A Website is a performance

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 12/17/2025
    - tags: \["js","web","optimization"]

- <https://cursor.com/blog/kernels> — 1.5x faster MoE training with custom MXFP8 kernels

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 12/17/2025
    - tags: \["training","kernel"]

- [youtube/v=kccs9xk09rw](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kccs9xk09rw) — TinyTPU \[\*\*]

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 12/17/2025
    - tags: \["asic","design"]
    - highlighted: true

- <https://gist.githubusercontent.com/XInTheDark/6fef041cb3edfe054b507813a03cb47d/raw/e95e5f47f0fa6998bdfd3a39734af5fdf1e079b3/claude_dr_prompt.md> — Deep Research prompt example, Claude

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 12/16/2025
    - tags: \["tooling"]

- <https://wiki.xxiivv.com/site/rewriting.html> — Rewriting languages are typically made of rules and an initial state \[\*\*]

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 12/12/2025
    - tags: \["language design","fsm"]
    - highlighted: true

- <https://fabiensanglard.net/cuda/> — History of NVIDIA stream multiprocessor

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 12/12/2025
    - tags: \["gpu"]
    - later: true

  - see also: [gpu programming](/thoughts/GPU-programming)

- <https://asawicki.info/articles/state_of_gpu_hardware_2025.php> — State of GPU Hardware (2025)

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 01/08/2026
    - tags: \["gpu"]

- <https://www.csc.liv.ac.uk/~epa/surveyhtml.html> — Survey on two-dimensional packing

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 12/12/2025
    - tags: \["bin packing","optimization"]

- <https://people.freebsd.org/~lstewart/articles/cpumemory.pdf> — What every programmer should know about Memory \[\*\*]

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 12/12/2025
    - tags: \["systems","os"]
    - pinned: true
    - highlighted: true

- [puzzle/aoc/25/d11.cu](/puzzle/aoc/25/d11.cu) — Day 11 implementation of AOC 2025 in CUDA

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 12/11/2025
    - tags: \["code","puzzle"]

- <https://condu.it/thought/10k-hours> — How we collected 10000 hours of neuro-language data in our basement

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 12/11/2025
    - tags: \["neuroscience"]

- <https://compute-cost.com/#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> — Compute Cost calculator

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 12/08/2025
    - tags: \["compute"]

- <https://cs.pomona.edu/~jcoa2018/f20/cs190/papers/moral.pdf> — The Moral Character of Crypto

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 12/03/2025
    - tags: \["cryptography"]

- <https://mcyoung.xyz/2025/10/21/ssa-1> — Why SSA?

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 12/01/2025
    - tags: \["compilers"]
    - later: true

- <https://mattstromawn.com/writing/generative-art-og-images/> — Generative OG art

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 11/29/2025
    - tags: \["generative art","web"]

- <https://georgefrancis.dev/writing/voronoi-grids/> — Voronoi Grids

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 11/29/2025
    - tags: \["generative art"]

- <https://codepen.io/Mikhail-Bespalov/pen/yLmpxOG> — disappearing svg

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 11/28/2025
    - tags: \["svg","turbulence"]

- <https://2color.github.io/content-defined-chunking-vis/> — CDC demo

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 11/28/2025
    - tags: \["distributed systems","cdc"]

- [wikipedia/en/Earley\_parser![Wikipedia](/static/favicons/wikipedia.svg)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earley_parser) — Early parser

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 11/27/2025
    - tags: \["grammar","cs"]

- <https://x.com/rtwlz/status/1991855290413937049> — Epstein emails

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 11/22/2025
    - tags: \["meme"]

- <https://thebookofshaders.com/> — The Book of Shaders \[\*\*]

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 11/20/2025
    - tags: \["design"]
    - pinned: true
    - highlighted: true

- <https://www.humanetech.com/> — Center for Human Technology

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 11/20/2025
    - tags: \["orgs"]

- <https://codeberg.org/teaserbot-labs/delightful-humane-design#mindfulness> — delightful humane design

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 11/20/2025
    - tags: \["humane","tools"]

- <https://pdb101.rcsb.org/motm/121> — Molecule of the Month: Ribosome

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 11/15/2025
    - tags: \["biology"]

- <https://kcsrk.info/papers/system_effects_feb_18.pdf> — Concurrent System Programming with Effect Handlers \[\*\*]

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 11/14/2025
    - tags: \["system","concurrency"]
    - pinned: true
    - highlighted: true

- <https://float.exposed/0x44bf9400> — Floating point representations \[\*\*]

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 11/12/2025
    - tags: \["programming","floating number"]
    - pinned: true
    - highlighted: true

- <https://www.ling.upenn.edu/~kroch/courses/lx400/Gallistel-King_chaps1-9.pdf> — Memory and the Computational Brain \[\*\*]

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 11/06/2025
    - tags: \["programming","memory","computational biology"]
    - highlighted: true

- <https://www.tensortonic.com> — ML programming problems

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 11/05/2025
    - tags: \["competitive","programming"]

- <https://jacko.io/async_intro.html> — Async Rust in three parts

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 10/31/2025
    - tags: \["rust"]
    - pinned: true

- <https://cel.cs.brown.edu/> — Cognitive Engineering Lab \[\*\*]

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 10/30/2025
    - tags: \["visualisation"]
    - highlighted: true

  - i.e: cognitive engineering

  - <https://cel.cs.brown.edu/paper/ownership-conceptual-model/>

  - <https://rust-book.cs.brown.edu/>

- <https://vivekn.dev/blog/bytecode-vm-scratch> — the joy of building a bytecode VM from scratch

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 10/29/2025
    - tags: \["system","concurrent"]

- <https://edwardtufte.github.io/tufte-css/> — Tufte CSS

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 10/29/2025
    - tags: \["styling","web"]

- <https://www.edwardtufte.com/notebook/et-booklet-visual-design-of-the-user-interface/> — ET booklet: Visual Design of the User Interface

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 12/01/2025
    - tags: \["design"]

- <https://deepmind.google/discover/blog/alphaevolve-a-gemini-powered-coding-agent-for-designing-advanced-algorithms/>

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 10/28/2025
    - tags: \["ai","recursion"]

- <https://gist.github.com/jbreckmckye/32587f2907e473dd06d68b0362fb0048> — The Cloudflare outage was a good thing

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 12/17/2025
    - tags: \["engineering"]

- <https://thundergolfer.com/blog/aws-us-east-1-outage-oct20> — AWS US-East 1 outage

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 10/28/2025
    - tags: \["outage","engineering"]

- [docs.google.com/1SN\[...\]DyU](https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1SN05JcQ5kFRCGMOyYST6PAQazOX27nSMDp8fT-h3DyU/edit?slide=id.g389b5f579df_0_581#slide=id.g389b5f579df_0_581) — State of Open Reasoning Models

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 10/16/2025
    - tags: \["hf","reasoning"]

- <https://le.qun.ch/en/blog/2024/12/25/libfabric-efa-0-intro/> — Harnessing 3200 Gbps Network: A Journey with RDMA, EFA, and libfabric

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 10/12/2025
    - tags: \["networking"]

  - see also: [abcdabcd987/libfabric-efa-demo](https://github.com/abcdabcd987/libfabric-efa-demo)

  - [ofiwg/libfabric](https://github.com/ofiwg/libfabric/blob/main/fabtests/common/shared.c)

- [youtube/v=zZr54G7ec7A](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zZr54G7ec7A) — Formalizing a proof in Lean using Claude and o4

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 10/12/2025
    - tags: \["math"]

- <http://www.fantasyjackpalance.com/fjp/sound/synth/synthdata/16-moog-minimoog.html> — Minimoog, synthesizer

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 10/08/2025
    - tags: \["music"]

- <https://addyosmani.com/blog/script-priorities/> — JavaScript Loading Priorities in Chrome

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 10/07/2025
    - tags: \["js"]

- <https://henryhmko.github.io/posts/tpu/tpu.html> — [TPU](/thoughts/TPU) Deep Dive

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 10/06/2025
    - tags: \["asic"]

  - main difference rely on [systolic array](/thoughts/systolic-array) versus common von Neumann architecture (found in [GPU](/thoughts/GPU-programming))

- <https://main-horse.github.io/posts/visualizing-6d/> — Visualising 6D Mesh Parallelism \[\*\*]

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 10/06/2025
    - tags: \["cuda","math"]
    - highlighted: true

- <https://www.jeremykun.com/2023/02/13/googles-fully-homomorphic-encryption-compiler-a-primer/> — Google’s Fully Homomorphic Encryption Compiler \[\*\*]

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 10/06/2025
    - tags: \["compiler","security"]
    - highlighted: true

  - [FHE](/thoughts/FHE)

  - [google/heir](https://github.com/google/heir) — Next generation of the compiler for homomorphic encryption

- <https://blog.regehr.org/archives/2485> — Why Do Peephole Optimizations Work?

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 10/05/2025
    - tags: \["compiler"]

  - See also [Compiler](/thoughts/Compiler)

- [wikipedia/en/L-system![Wikipedia](/static/favicons/wikipedia.svg)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L-system) — Lindenmayer system \[\*\*]

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 10/05/2025
    - tags: \["l system","generative world"]
    - highlighted: true

- <http://lastweek.io/notes/MLIR/> — MLIR at a 10000 feet

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 10/05/2025
    - tags: \["compiler","ir"]

- <https://mlir.llvm.org/docs/> — MLIR LLVM docs \[\*\*]

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 10/05/2025
    - tags: \["ir","compiler"]
    - highlighted: true

- <https://docs.tenstorrent.com/tt-mlir/> — [Tenstorrent](/thoughts/Tenstorrent) MLIR

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 10/05/2025
    - tags: \["ir"]

- [NixOS/nixpkgs](https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/blob/master/lib/meta.nix) — meta.nix and helpers function in Nix

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 10/02/2025
    - tags: \["helpers"]

- [ziglang/zig](https://github.com/ziglang/zig/blob/master/lib/std/heap/general_purpose_allocator.zig) — Zig’s General Purpose Allocator

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 10/02/2025
    - tags: \["allocator","compiler","programming"]

  - The only GPA you need to care about.

- [triton-lang/triton](https://github.com/triton-lang/triton/blob/main/python/tutorials/gluon/01-intro.py) — Gluon

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 10/02/2025
    - tags: \["compiler","dsl"]

- <https://huggingface.co/blog/from-chunks-to-blocks> — From Chunks to Blocks: Accelerating Uploads and Downloads on the Hub

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 07/04/2025
    - tags: \["engineering","cdc"]

- <https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc9309> — Robots Exclusion Protocol

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 08/04/2025
    - tags: \["internet","web","rfc"]

- <https://modelcontextprotocol.io/llms-full.txt> — MCP protocol

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 09/17/2025
    - tags: \["docs","mcp"]

- <https://michaelnotebook.com/mmsw> — How to make memory systems widespread?

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 09/22/2025
    - tags: \["memory","learning","pedagogy"]

- <https://thundergolfer.com/uni/docs/performance/napkin-math/> — napkin math

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 09/30/2025
    - tags: \["memory","tricks"]

- [youtube/v=sX2nF1fW7kI](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sX2nF1fW7kI) — When Nanoseconds Matter: Ultrafast Trading System in C++

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 10/02/2025
    - tags: \["memory","efficiency"]

  - [CppCon/CppCon2024](https://github.com/CppCon/CppCon2024/blob/main/Presentations/When_Nanoseconds_Matter.pdf)

- <https://www.vmware.com/docs/the-basics-of-remote-direct-memory-access-rdma-in-vsphere> — RDMA in VSphere

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 10/02/2025
    - tags: \["distributed","rdma"]

  - Good introduction to RDMA

- [GNU C Manual Reference](https://www.c-asm.com/gnu-c-manual.html)

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 10/02/2025
    - tags: \["memory","concurrency"]

- <https://www.rubick.com/steel-threads/> — Steel threads are a technique that will make you a [better engineer](/thoughts/steel-threads)

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 10/02/2025
    - tags: \["engineering"]

- [GPU programming](/thoughts/GPU-programming) \[\*\*]

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 10/02/2025
    - tags: \["gpu programming"]
    - highlighted: true

- <https://janet.guide/> — Janet for Mortals

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 10/02/2025
    - tags: \["language"]

  - <https://janet-lang.org/> — Janet Programming Language

- <https://standardkernel.com/> — Standard Kernel

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 10/02/2025
    - tags: \["kernel","gpu programming"]

- <https://x.com/_jzhao/status/1973830833254621192> — film grains technical behind commuting.to

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 10/03/2025
    - tags: \["design"]

- [wikipedia/en/Perlin\_noise![Wikipedia](/static/favicons/wikipedia.svg)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perlin_noise) — Perlin noise

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 10/03/2025
    - tags: \["distributions"]

- <https://bernsteinbear.com/blog/inline-caching/> — Inline caching

  - \[meta]:

    - date: 10/05/2025
    - tags: \["engineering","compilers"]

  - see also [Efficient Implementation of the Smalltalk-80 System.pdf](/thoughts/pdfs/Efficient-Implementation-of-the-Smalltalk-80-System.pdf)