Shriram Balaji
@shrirambalaji.com
building distributed systems at @microsoft.com • tinkering with systems languages, databases and things on the web • musings at http://blog.shrirambalaji.com
beautiful gradients in the sky!
April 7, 2025 at 1:12 PM
beautiful gradients in the sky!
cod on a rainy sunday 🎮
December 1, 2024 at 11:57 AM
cod on a rainy sunday 🎮
reading up about thin vs fat LTO, and can't seem to find this clarity in blog posts or docs. source code with detailed technical documentation is really nice tho!
November 28, 2024 at 1:46 PM
reading up about thin vs fat LTO, and can't seem to find this clarity in blog posts or docs. source code with detailed technical documentation is really nice tho!
thanks to @anku.bsky.social's Porto, i was able to port over my tweets from the bird app.
buuut, due to some of the bird app's algo - i've had to link things in replies, which are no longer ported 🙁
buuut, due to some of the bird app's algo - i've had to link things in replies, which are no longer ported 🙁
November 19, 2024 at 6:01 PM
thanks to @anku.bsky.social's Porto, i was able to port over my tweets from the bird app.
buuut, due to some of the bird app's algo - i've had to link things in replies, which are no longer ported 🙁
buuut, due to some of the bird app's algo - i've had to link things in replies, which are no longer ported 🙁
active on 🦋
will probably miss some high signal accounts on here who haven’t still moved
will probably miss some high signal accounts on here who haven’t still moved
November 19, 2024 at 5:50 PM
active on 🦋
will probably miss some high signal accounts on here who haven’t still moved
will probably miss some high signal accounts on here who haven’t still moved
damn, wanted to be at @RustNationUK this time, next time maybe 🫠
November 19, 2024 at 5:50 PM
damn, wanted to be at @RustNationUK this time, next time maybe 🫠
glowing on a rainy night
November 19, 2024 at 5:50 PM
glowing on a rainy night
drums in this song hearing at full volume is pure bliss
November 19, 2024 at 5:50 PM
drums in this song hearing at full volume is pure bliss
damn, how do i search for this hotel?
@IndiGo6E you need to fix your app to not show the hotel, when you can’t fetch the hotels details.
@IndiGo6E you need to fix your app to not show the hotel, when you can’t fetch the hotels details.
November 19, 2024 at 5:50 PM
damn, how do i search for this hotel?
@IndiGo6E you need to fix your app to not show the hotel, when you can’t fetch the hotels details.
@IndiGo6E you need to fix your app to not show the hotel, when you can’t fetch the hotels details.
still blows my mind every time I look at it, a ps5 in 20mins - making it really really difficult to avoid impulsive buying @letsblinkit
November 19, 2024 at 5:50 PM
still blows my mind every time I look at it, a ps5 in 20mins - making it really really difficult to avoid impulsive buying @letsblinkit
don’t really have soft drinks, having this after a while and it tasted good
November 19, 2024 at 5:50 PM
don’t really have soft drinks, having this after a while and it tasted good
damn, how did I miss Mr.TigerBeetle following me
now i have to pickup zig
now i have to pickup zig
November 19, 2024 at 5:49 PM
damn, how did I miss Mr.TigerBeetle following me
now i have to pickup zig
now i have to pickup zig
we have 3 different toolchains to “unify”
the JS ecosystem now
2 of them VC backed, 1 of them was originally backed but has a sponsorship model after rebranding 🙃
have to thank languages that own their toolchains - go, rust 🫡
the JS ecosystem now
2 of them VC backed, 1 of them was originally backed but has a sponsorship model after rebranding 🙃
have to thank languages that own their toolchains - go, rust 🫡
November 19, 2024 at 5:49 PM
we have 3 different toolchains to “unify”
the JS ecosystem now
2 of them VC backed, 1 of them was originally backed but has a sponsorship model after rebranding 🙃
have to thank languages that own their toolchains - go, rust 🫡
the JS ecosystem now
2 of them VC backed, 1 of them was originally backed but has a sponsorship model after rebranding 🙃
have to thank languages that own their toolchains - go, rust 🫡
500usd for making my profile better? appreciate that there’s some valuable things in there, but spending 40k on a platform that i just signed up seems wild.
idk who the target audience is; definitely not me :)
idk who the target audience is; definitely not me :)
November 19, 2024 at 5:49 PM
500usd for making my profile better? appreciate that there’s some valuable things in there, but spending 40k on a platform that i just signed up seems wild.
idk who the target audience is; definitely not me :)
idk who the target audience is; definitely not me :)
made some progress on linkerland, started with a linker map file parser.
I loved @mitchellh’s dev logs on ghostty so I might start doing it for my own projects as well (apparently it’s a thing in gamedev, which i didn’t know about)
(link in thread)
I loved @mitchellh’s dev logs on ghostty so I might start doing it for my own projects as well (apparently it’s a thing in gamedev, which i didn’t know about)
(link in thread)
November 19, 2024 at 5:49 PM
made some progress on linkerland, started with a linker map file parser.
I loved @mitchellh’s dev logs on ghostty so I might start doing it for my own projects as well (apparently it’s a thing in gamedev, which i didn’t know about)
(link in thread)
I loved @mitchellh’s dev logs on ghostty so I might start doing it for my own projects as well (apparently it’s a thing in gamedev, which i didn’t know about)
(link in thread)
came across this blogpost about linker scripts by @DrawsMiguel and it was a good read!
curious though, is it possible to write linker scripts like this to link rust files (that are not of the crate-type=staticlib)?
I tried manually linking a couple of…
curious though, is it possible to write linker scripts like this to link rust files (that are not of the crate-type=staticlib)?
I tried manually linking a couple of…
November 19, 2024 at 5:49 PM
came across this blogpost about linker scripts by @DrawsMiguel and it was a good read!
curious though, is it possible to write linker scripts like this to link rust files (that are not of the crate-type=staticlib)?
I tried manually linking a couple of…
curious though, is it possible to write linker scripts like this to link rust files (that are not of the crate-type=staticlib)?
I tried manually linking a couple of…
building "linkerland" - a tool to visualize and parse linker map files. needed this for the blog, and couldn't find any reliable tools that did this well.
just wrote down what I intend to do, and might share things I learn along the way here. maybe I'll use egui + ratatui for…
just wrote down what I intend to do, and might share things I learn along the way here. maybe I'll use egui + ratatui for…
November 19, 2024 at 5:49 PM
building "linkerland" - a tool to visualize and parse linker map files. needed this for the blog, and couldn't find any reliable tools that did this well.
just wrote down what I intend to do, and might share things I learn along the way here. maybe I'll use egui + ratatui for…
just wrote down what I intend to do, and might share things I learn along the way here. maybe I'll use egui + ratatui for…
Talking at @conf42com on August 22. See y'all there 👋
November 19, 2024 at 5:49 PM
Talking at @conf42com on August 22. See y'all there 👋
started writing up on memory allocators, specifically arena allocators in rust.
lots of good material that I've read in the last couple of weeks. I'll try to explain my understanding in the next post.
(eta I've set myself is 2 weeks from now, let's see)
lots of good material that I've read in the last couple of weeks. I'll try to explain my understanding in the next post.
(eta I've set myself is 2 weeks from now, let's see)
November 19, 2024 at 5:49 PM
started writing up on memory allocators, specifically arena allocators in rust.
lots of good material that I've read in the last couple of weeks. I'll try to explain my understanding in the next post.
(eta I've set myself is 2 weeks from now, let's see)
lots of good material that I've read in the last couple of weeks. I'll try to explain my understanding in the next post.
(eta I've set myself is 2 weeks from now, let's see)
chill karo Neha, I filed it with @Quicko_official and it was relatively seamless
November 19, 2024 at 5:48 PM
chill karo Neha, I filed it with @Quicko_official and it was relatively seamless
if someone handed over their phone and it had this font, I would return it back to them immediately to prevent myself from throwing it away
Rosemary is the ugliest looking default interface font in Samsung devices imo and I still see it around - my eyes burn looking at it 🤮
Rosemary is the ugliest looking default interface font in Samsung devices imo and I still see it around - my eyes burn looking at it 🤮
November 19, 2024 at 5:48 PM
if someone handed over their phone and it had this font, I would return it back to them immediately to prevent myself from throwing it away
Rosemary is the ugliest looking default interface font in Samsung devices imo and I still see it around - my eyes burn looking at it 🤮
Rosemary is the ugliest looking default interface font in Samsung devices imo and I still see it around - my eyes burn looking at it 🤮
since 4o-mini is out, i don’t think paying for it makes sense for me anymore.
I’d probably pay for it if @openai had pricing based on usage (through credits) instead of a standard subscription model
I’d probably pay for it if @openai had pricing based on usage (through credits) instead of a standard subscription model
November 19, 2024 at 5:48 PM
since 4o-mini is out, i don’t think paying for it makes sense for me anymore.
I’d probably pay for it if @openai had pricing based on usage (through credits) instead of a standard subscription model
I’d probably pay for it if @openai had pricing based on usage (through credits) instead of a standard subscription model
interns thriving on topmate huh. this will never not be funny 🤣
November 19, 2024 at 5:48 PM
interns thriving on topmate huh. this will never not be funny 🤣
After working on a blog about understanding linking in Rust for about a month, it's finally out:
November 19, 2024 at 5:48 PM
After working on a blog about understanding linking in Rust for about a month, it's finally out: