Burning1always
@burning1.bsky.social
Systems Architect. Author of Loom V2 (595k EPS Relay) & The Loom (LBF).
I built a lossless global firehose on a Ryzen 3600 with 95% CPU headroom.
🚀 1-week sprint to prove 100x efficiency is possible. 📬 Open to high-stakes infra roles or consulting. 🦀⚡️
I built a lossless global firehose on a Ryzen 3600 with 95% CPU headroom.
🚀 1-week sprint to prove 100x efficiency is possible. 📬 Open to high-stakes infra roles or consulting. 🦀⚡️
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I am pulling back on The-Loom and Loom-v2.
These were completed in 4 days and 12 hours respectively as a scientific exercise to verify a claim: that you can handle 595k EPS on a $30/mo consumer budget.
Hypothesis verified. Logic is open source. Back to the sidelines for now. 🥂
These were completed in 4 days and 12 hours respectively as a scientific exercise to verify a claim: that you can handle 595k EPS on a $30/mo consumer budget.
Hypothesis verified. Logic is open source. Back to the sidelines for now. 🥂
I am pulling back on The-Loom and Loom-v2.
These were completed in 4 days and 12 hours respectively as a scientific exercise to verify a claim: that you can handle 595k EPS on a $30/mo consumer budget.
Hypothesis verified. Logic is open source. Back to the sidelines for now. 🥂
These were completed in 4 days and 12 hours respectively as a scientific exercise to verify a claim: that you can handle 595k EPS on a $30/mo consumer budget.
Hypothesis verified. Logic is open source. Back to the sidelines for now. 🥂
January 27, 2026 at 1:26 PM
I am pulling back on The-Loom and Loom-v2.
These were completed in 4 days and 12 hours respectively as a scientific exercise to verify a claim: that you can handle 595k EPS on a $30/mo consumer budget.
Hypothesis verified. Logic is open source. Back to the sidelines for now. 🥂
These were completed in 4 days and 12 hours respectively as a scientific exercise to verify a claim: that you can handle 595k EPS on a $30/mo consumer budget.
Hypothesis verified. Logic is open source. Back to the sidelines for now. 🥂
Just stay with it. I promise it gets good.
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January 27, 2026 at 3:17 AM
Just stay with it. I promise it gets good.
Sometimes I write unsafe Rust just to feel something.
January 27, 2026 at 3:09 AM
Sometimes I write unsafe Rust just to feel something.
Me: "Last night I dreamt I was a pointer."
The Borrow Checker: "Whose pointer? For how long? And did you have written permission to change anything while you were there?"
The Borrow Checker: "Whose pointer? For how long? And did you have written permission to change anything while you were there?"
January 27, 2026 at 1:36 AM
Me: "Last night I dreamt I was a pointer."
The Borrow Checker: "Whose pointer? For how long? And did you have written permission to change anything while you were there?"
The Borrow Checker: "Whose pointer? For how long? And did you have written permission to change anything while you were there?"
While other systems are building horizontally. We are taking on a vertical approach to every problem. The objective. Squeeze literally every ounce of compute out of consumer grade equipment as possible.
January 27, 2026 at 12:40 AM
While other systems are building horizontally. We are taking on a vertical approach to every problem. The objective. Squeeze literally every ounce of compute out of consumer grade equipment as possible.
The goal is to finish the whole suit. To become provider, relay, and archiver for less than the cost of 2 large pizzas a month. When it's all said and done. My system will be the local mesh network of the at protocol and we will have effectively solved true decentralization across the network.
January 27, 2026 at 12:37 AM
The goal is to finish the whole suit. To become provider, relay, and archiver for less than the cost of 2 large pizzas a month. When it's all said and done. My system will be the local mesh network of the at protocol and we will have effectively solved true decentralization across the network.
Optimization was the goal I just didn't think it would work this well. To be honest my brain is officially drained. I think my contributions to the ecosystem should help us bring about true decentralization. We just had to fix the data problem. I will be weaving "The-Loom" into "Loom-V2" soon.
January 26, 2026 at 5:48 PM
Optimization was the goal I just didn't think it would work this well. To be honest my brain is officially drained. I think my contributions to the ecosystem should help us bring about true decentralization. We just had to fix the data problem. I will be weaving "The-Loom" into "Loom-V2" soon.
Social data shouldn't cost a ton of money 🚫💰
I built Loom V2 to prove that a single $100 consumer CPU (Ryzen 3600) can handle the entire global ATProto firehose with 95% headroom.
Zero-copy. AVX2. Core pinning. 🦀⚡️
My mission: Making truth affordable.
github.com/ybzeek/Loom-V2-The-Sovereign-Relay
I built Loom V2 to prove that a single $100 consumer CPU (Ryzen 3600) can handle the entire global ATProto firehose with 95% headroom.
Zero-copy. AVX2. Core pinning. 🦀⚡️
My mission: Making truth affordable.
github.com/ybzeek/Loom-V2-The-Sovereign-Relay
GitHub - ybzeek/Loom-V2-The-Sovereign-Relay: A high-performance, zero-copy AT Protocol Relay engine. Built in Rust with AVX2 acceleration and strict core affinity to run global-scale infrastructure on...
A high-performance, zero-copy AT Protocol Relay engine. Built in Rust with AVX2 acceleration and strict core affinity to run global-scale infrastructure on consumer hardware. - ybzeek/Loom-V2-The-S...
github.com
January 26, 2026 at 5:41 PM
Social data shouldn't cost a ton of money 🚫💰
I built Loom V2 to prove that a single $100 consumer CPU (Ryzen 3600) can handle the entire global ATProto firehose with 95% headroom.
Zero-copy. AVX2. Core pinning. 🦀⚡️
My mission: Making truth affordable.
github.com/ybzeek/Loom-V2-The-Sovereign-Relay
I built Loom V2 to prove that a single $100 consumer CPU (Ryzen 3600) can handle the entire global ATProto firehose with 95% headroom.
Zero-copy. AVX2. Core pinning. 🦀⚡️
My mission: Making truth affordable.
github.com/ybzeek/Loom-V2-The-Sovereign-Relay
I did it. Ive built the fastest .car parser ever.
at 4.7GB/s I caught the dragon.
at 4.7GB/s I caught the dragon.
January 26, 2026 at 3:45 PM
I did it. Ive built the fastest .car parser ever.
at 4.7GB/s I caught the dragon.
at 4.7GB/s I caught the dragon.
you have to get as close to the metal as possible. if you want the network to truly be decentralized you have to get away from the high level languages.
January 26, 2026 at 3:16 PM
you have to get as close to the metal as possible. if you want the network to truly be decentralized you have to get away from the high level languages.
Guys its not the data. the data isn't the problem. its how we handle it thats the problem. Im gonna crack this problem and im gonna prove beyond any doubt that we can truly have a truly decentralized network. be ready for the beginning of a whole new paradigm in computing.
January 26, 2026 at 3:01 PM
Guys its not the data. the data isn't the problem. its how we handle it thats the problem. Im gonna crack this problem and im gonna prove beyond any doubt that we can truly have a truly decentralized network. be ready for the beginning of a whole new paradigm in computing.
I did it. I just wrote probably what could be considered the fastest .car parser to ever exist.
January 26, 2026 at 2:57 PM
I did it. I just wrote probably what could be considered the fastest .car parser to ever exist.
I'm gonna try to build something that may break everything you ever thought was possible.
January 26, 2026 at 1:44 PM
I'm gonna try to build something that may break everything you ever thought was possible.
If it happened on the firehose, it's in the Loom. Period.
January 26, 2026 at 12:49 PM
If it happened on the firehose, it's in the Loom. Period.
Wait...did i accidentally create a WAL buffer that could be plugged into any application in the ecosystem?
January 26, 2026 at 12:02 PM
Wait...did i accidentally create a WAL buffer that could be plugged into any application in the ecosystem?
Working on a Zero-Copy Merge utility for The Loom. Currently, weaver rotates files at 2GB/15min intervals; the goal is to losslessly consolidate these into unified 'Daily Archives' without the re-serialization overhead. Essential for long-term cold storage.
I built The Loom, a Rust suite for archiving @atproto.com Jetstream data.
• Rehydration (4.4M events/15s) • 5.8:1 compression (LBF v5) • Search/grep runs in ~14MB RAM
Uses binary shuttle headers for instant temporal slicing. Just a fast, local data tool.
github.com/ybzeek/The-L...
• Rehydration (4.4M events/15s) • 5.8:1 compression (LBF v5) • Search/grep runs in ~14MB RAM
Uses binary shuttle headers for instant temporal slicing. Just a fast, local data tool.
github.com/ybzeek/The-L...
GitHub - ybzeek/The-Loom: A high-throughput, database-free ingestion engine for the AT Protocol (Bluesky) Firehose, engineered for consumer hardware constraints.
A high-throughput, database-free ingestion engine for the AT Protocol (Bluesky) Firehose, engineered for consumer hardware constraints. - ybzeek/The-Loom
github.com
January 26, 2026 at 5:43 AM
Working on a Zero-Copy Merge utility for The Loom. Currently, weaver rotates files at 2GB/15min intervals; the goal is to losslessly consolidate these into unified 'Daily Archives' without the re-serialization overhead. Essential for long-term cold storage.
I built The Loom, a Rust suite for archiving @atproto.com Jetstream data.
• Rehydration (4.4M events/15s) • 5.8:1 compression (LBF v5) • Search/grep runs in ~14MB RAM
Uses binary shuttle headers for instant temporal slicing. Just a fast, local data tool.
github.com/ybzeek/The-L...
• Rehydration (4.4M events/15s) • 5.8:1 compression (LBF v5) • Search/grep runs in ~14MB RAM
Uses binary shuttle headers for instant temporal slicing. Just a fast, local data tool.
github.com/ybzeek/The-L...
GitHub - ybzeek/The-Loom: A high-throughput, database-free ingestion engine for the AT Protocol (Bluesky) Firehose, engineered for consumer hardware constraints.
A high-throughput, database-free ingestion engine for the AT Protocol (Bluesky) Firehose, engineered for consumer hardware constraints. - ybzeek/The-Loom
github.com
January 26, 2026 at 1:27 AM
I built The Loom, a Rust suite for archiving @atproto.com Jetstream data.
• Rehydration (4.4M events/15s) • 5.8:1 compression (LBF v5) • Search/grep runs in ~14MB RAM
Uses binary shuttle headers for instant temporal slicing. Just a fast, local data tool.
github.com/ybzeek/The-L...
• Rehydration (4.4M events/15s) • 5.8:1 compression (LBF v5) • Search/grep runs in ~14MB RAM
Uses binary shuttle headers for instant temporal slicing. Just a fast, local data tool.
github.com/ybzeek/The-L...
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Nobody told me I couldn't do it so I did it.
January 25, 2026 at 10:15 AM
Nobody told me I couldn't do it so I did it.
Alright time to start a 24hr backfill and see if the system can keep up. If the system doesn't crash and the rotations work correctly then I'll be releasing this into the ecosystem.
January 25, 2026 at 9:57 AM
Alright time to start a 24hr backfill and see if the system can keep up. If the system doesn't crash and the rotations work correctly then I'll be releasing this into the ecosystem.
What if I said I have effectively democratized firehose archival therefore solving the witness problem.
January 25, 2026 at 9:04 AM
What if I said I have effectively democratized firehose archival therefore solving the witness problem.
Making some of these architectural decisions can be stressful as hell sometimes.
January 25, 2026 at 7:51 AM
Making some of these architectural decisions can be stressful as hell sometimes.