When I was at Canva I had to get a batch job to run demographics analysis vision models on over 90 million images. It took a couple weeks, but felt like with the right infra it could be done in a couple hours.

The infra now exists :)

Hypervisor as a Library #rustlang seiya.me/blog/hypervi...

We won't tell you where the deep and cheap GPU capacity is, but we will teach you how to fish.

Is The Soul of a New Machine the best book about the computer industry because Kidder is..

- an outsider
- a full-time writer
- simply a first rate writer

Other industries have had ‘homegrown’ Pulitzers—medicine, law, finance, bilogy—but not computing.

LLMs have shifted my blog post drafting back to my static-site repository away from Notion. I can play with HTML and JS so easily during iteration with Cursor.

Markdown+Blocks is hamstringing.

Is there a SRE book but for startups? Google’s book is great but it doesn’t contend with the tradeoffs and constraints of a young growing startup.

History-posting once again: thundergolfer.com/blog/the-fir...

My brilliant @modal-labs.bsky.social colleague Charles won't stop until we're all pushing our GPUs to their limits: modal.com/blog/gpu-uti...

The Tom Brady of Youtube educational content is at it again. One of those rare lectures which deserves to be called enlightening. I hope @karpathy.bsky.social is steering clear of helicopters, submersibles, and smoking. We need him.

At @modal-labs.bsky.social your customer questions sometimes get a whole blog post :)

Why does an NVIDIA H100 SXM 80GB card offer 85.52 GB?

thundergolfer.com/blog/nvidia-...

Found out you get 220MiB more H100 HBM3e VRAM on Oracle Cloud compared to GCP. GCP's instances have more `reserved` memory and I can't figure out if this is configurable from the guest.

Wrote about how a warmed up container can be saved to disk and later restored for a 2.5x cold start performance boost. Saving live container processes to disk turns out to be pretty whacky and interesting!

modal.com/blog/mem-sna...

This contains the shortest and clearest explanation of S3’s $0.02/gib/month cloud economics that I’ve seen, and lots more good stuff.

tailscale.com/blog/living-...

Quick post about those 'latency numbers every programmer must know'. It became mostly an affirmation of
@sirupsen.bsky.social 's napkin-math repo (bookmark it).

New goal in 2025 is to write one software essay with the zany energy of an All Souls College essay prompt: Does the moral character of an orgy change when the participants wear Nazi uniforms?

thundergolfer.com/all-souls-so...

GPUs can be understood: modal.com/gpu-glossary...