Bridgy Fed is roughly 20k lines of code. If you add in all the other parts of the stack that we own – granary, arroba, lexrpc, etc – it’s 51kloc total. (Excluding tests; those add another 81kloc.) I’m not really proud of this, or embarrassed. Just wanted to put it out there for anyone who […]
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Seen at Finnegan’s Wake, Cole Valley, SF. Marked Canterbury Posters. Haven’t found a source online yet.
Surprising but true: in 2025, all net new electricity generation added worldwide was clean, ie non greenhouse gas emitting. 99% was renewable! 75% solar, 24% wind. It was actually over 100% total. We added 849 TWh of generation overall in 2025, an increase of 4.5%, but GHG emitting (ie fossil fuel) generation shrank by 0.2%. […]
Much of my career boils down to: All code is liability. Minimize it. Feedback loops are everywhere. Speed them up; do them more. We’re bad at predicting the future. Avoid it. More tests. Hire smart, motivated people, then get out of their way. Find the right thing to turn off and on again.
The world is a comedy to those that think; a tragedy to those that feel – Horace Walpole
Huge, and surprising, and important: dementia is down by almost half over the last 40-50y! (Also reconfirms that amyloid beta was largely a red herring, APOE4 is real, and – news to me – the shingles vaccine seems preventative!)
every packet is an adventure
TIL: “valley-free” routing
Of all the themes in The Matrix , one of my favorites is the requirement of a land line to call the operator and exit the Matrix. Cordless phones, cell radios, wireless networking…none of it can be trusted. When you’re doing serious business, you need good old fashioned copper. And not just any land line, either. Inevitably, they end up using anonymous land lines. The front desk phone in a hotel…