Congrats!

Chrome lets you flush the socket pool manually, that was sufficient

Ok I KNOW that keepalive is a cornerstone of http/2 and for like 99.999% of cases you want connection reuse. That being said is there any browser at all that allows you disable keepalive behavior? I just want to test something 😭

Dang, that’s way better than my dishwasher!!

Damn! I just hit 300 today

Lastly, computers are cool as hell and I love learning about them

This is more obvious, but - if, instead of hard-coding the stride lengths in code, we read them as command-line args, the compiler loses the ability to optimize the stride=1 case as aggressively. In this case also, stride=1 takes ~2x as long to run as stride=16.

Stumbled upon something else related to this experiment. Seems as though the `stride=1` case is as fast as `stride=16` largely because of autovectorization. Compiling with `-C opt-level=z` shows that it really takes 2x as long for `stride=1`, apples-to-apples (`stride=16` is never autovectorized)

I have no idea how widespread this is or is going to be, but on a recent 15hr flight I had great Starlink-powered WiFi for free, for pretty much the whole duration. I would have paid for this without hesitation.

Too kind! Thank you for taking the time to read and leave feedback!

I didn’t end up experimenting with it, but I thought about including a section on trying to madvise around the issue! Maybe another quick addition to the appendix 🤔

Waste Watch now (33 min) | How many CPU instructions does Python take to do one CPU instruction?

This is a paid series, but Casey Muratori talks a lot about that specific disconnect here:

www.computerenhance.com/p/waste

I’m hoping to write more this year, so if you read this please let me know what you think!

I was trying to reproduce a simple benchmark recently and it sent me down on a side quest to better understand a small part of how computers manage memory.

I did a little write-up here:

tverghis.space/posts/page-f...

I love @tldraw.com

Hooked up to the internet (for free!) via Starlink on a 15hr flight is so sweet 👌 speeds are entirely respectable, I’m actually getting a LOT of work done

Thought it might be fun to reproduce the results in this great article from 15(!) years ago

igoro.com/archive/gall...

Even repro’ing the first example (and making mistakes) has taught me so much about memory access patterns.

Working on a write up!

compression claims another victim

I like this shot of today’s misty morning cruise along the Kinabatangan river
(I know nothing about photography, I shot this on my iPhone in cinematic mode with no post-processing)

Sunday side-quest: fixing LSP support for a framework I’ve never used for a language I rarely use in an editor I sometimes use. Is this the curse of holiday programming?

This isn't exactly what you were looking for, I think - but if you're just doing some local testing (eg: using test accounts with fake email accounts), I was able to run MailHog on the same machine to good effect (also can view sent emails via browser).

tverghis.bearblog.dev/local-emails...

Read, interact with everything, and enjoy another piece of art from @samwho.dev!

GitHub Wrapped 2024 - Your Coding Year in Review Like Spotify Wrapped, but for your GitHub activity! See your top languages, commit streaks, most productive days, and more in an engaging story format. Get your 2024 coding year in review now.

2025 goal: 11 stars 😎

git-wrapped.com/profiles/tve...

Hi! As a big fan of your other work, I’d love to participate in this, if it’s open to the public.

(I can’t seem to DM you)

Did a little data wrangling for a little side-quest at work and it was... fun? Frustrating, but fun (in the end)

I'd love to read this!

Agree! As someone building tools (more for my own edification than anything else) on top of atproto, it feels like there’s a DX layer missing. I’ve been able to scrounge around other repos to learn what I need, but a cohesive SDK would go a long way in enabling more people to build on atproto

Local emails when testing your PDS Using MailHog for local email testing when setting up an atproto PDS

Trying something very new - I wrote a really tiny blog post

tverghis.bearblog.dev/local-emails...

I’m hoping to continue jotting down all the neat tools, findings and learnings I come across as I stumble through my projects. Let me know what you think!

Today's small win: set up my own PDS that's going to be a test-bed for fun experiments/tools (and it actually works!). To be fair, the instructions github.com/bluesky-soci... made it incredibly easy. Took longer to set up the mail service

That was fun! Thanks for sharing this game!

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