George Chiramattel

The 9650 PCIe Gen 6 SSD achieves up to 28GB/s sequential read and 14GB/s sequential write. And 4080’s memory bandwidth (716.8GB/s). close to 25x slower.

I understand this is really fast storage speeds, but can someone explain how this SSD can help with "AI training and inference acceleration"?

How is the story going so far?

Figma is going public today (31 July). Here's their tech stack, at a high-level, from the deepdive with CTO Kris Rasmussen in The Pragmatic Engineer back in 2023:

The full deepdive on how Figma operates from an engineering point of view: newsletter.pragmaticengineer.com/p/inside-fig...

PlanetScale for Postgres early access — PlanetScale Sign up for the PlanetScale for Postgres private preview waitlist

More invites to the PlanetScale for Postgres private preview go out today. Sign up for the waitlist:

planetscale.com/postgres

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Latest version available on brew is `1.18.5` 🚀

Updating dagu with brew seem to be broken · Issue #1153 · dagu-org/dagu Steps to reproduce brew upgrade dagu ==> Upgrading 1 outdated package: dagu-org/brew/dagu 1.17.4 -> 1.18.3 ==> Fetching downloads for: dagu ==> Fetching dagu-org/brew/dagu ==> Downloading https://g...

@dagu-org.bsky.social - I see a new version of Dagu released on Github - v1.18.0 🎉

But I am having trouble installing this version with brew.
More details here: github.com/dagu-org/dag...

Vanilla JavaScript support for Tailwind Plus Every UI block in Tailwind Plus is now fully functional, accessible, and interactive, even if you don't use a framework like React or Vue.

Tailwind just released a set of interoperable web components!

If you use a framework other than React, or no framework at all, this is huge.

tailwindcss.com/blog/vanilla...

Serverless Statusphere: a walk through building serverless ATProto applications on Cloudflare’s Developer Platform Build and deploy real-time, decentralized Authenticated Transfer Protocol (ATProto) apps on Cloudflare Workers.

Real-time, decentralized social apps — without running a single server. Here’s how to build and deploy an atproto app on Cloudflare Workers. blog.cloudflare.com/serverless-a...

GitHub - cwida/FastLanes: Next-Gen Big Data File Format Next-Gen Big Data File Format. Contribute to cwida/FastLanes development by creating an account on GitHub.

New data oriented file format just dropped.

FastLanes, "like Parquet, but with 40% better compression and 40× faster decoding". 👀

Seems it can exploit correlations between columns and have fully SIMD friendly encodings to help with vectorization.

github.com/cwida/FastLa...

fstrings.wtf - Python F-String Quiz Test your knowledge of Python's f-string formatting with this interactive quiz. How well do you know Python's string formatting quirks?

How well do you know Python’s f-strings? I built a thing inspired by JavaScript’s Date constructor quiz but for Python. fstrings.wtf

Thanks for letting me know of the issue. I updated the website to remove those characters, so it should be working now.

U+202A & U+202C are not visible, yet the cursor jumps over it when selecting the text.

Solution: Fix the handle text in an editor that shows the unicode text.

In my case, when I paste the text in terminal or in a text editor like Sublime.

bluecrawler.com Handle history checker fails when you paste profile handles from Bluesky profile page

I found this issue when I was trying to use @bluecrawler.com's 'handle history checker'.

As you can see in the screenshot, when I pasted my handle that I copied from my own profile page, the tool failed.

That is because of the invisible unicode text in the copied handle.

Example profile page in Bluesky. If you try to select and copy the handle (in this example, `@georgeck.me`), you will get (U+202A & U+202C) added to the selected text

TIL: When you copy a Bluesky handle from someone's profile page, it includes invisible Unicode characters (U+202A & U+202C).

This is because, the web app wraps handles in HTML like:
‪@username‬

This is a problem if you try to use the copied handle directly, for e.g. in an API call.

I gave a talk earlier this year at the internal Microsoft Performance Symposium called "Five True Things", and the goal was to convey some really basic properties about computers today. A short thread to recap them:

Blue Crawler Blue Crawler is a free website that provides the latest Bluesky stats.

Neat tool for checking when an account joined Bluesky: bluecrawler.com/tools/bluesk...

I wanted to know when I joined.

YouTube video by Jeff Geerling There are three types of Mac users

You can DIY upgrade the M4 Pro Mac mini's internal SSD to 4TB—for almost half Apple's upgrade pricing (but still 3x what normal M.2 NVMe SSDs cost 🙄)

How does that compare to external Thunderbolt 5 storage? A video: www.youtube.com/watch?v=cqmP...

You can create zalgo text with:

- Online generators (search "zalgo text generator")
- Programming scripts that randomly insert combining chars
- Manual Unicode insertion (tedious!)

Jake's post is perfect - a warning about error-prone code that looks literally corrupted.

Chef's kiss! 👨‍🍳💋

Unicode has "combining characters" - special marks designed to stack on base letters (like é = e + ´).

But if you add LOTS of random combining marks, you get this chaotic "glitched" effect:

Normal : behavior
Zalgo. : b̶͎͆e̴̛̟͖͠havior

The text is still readable to screen readers!

Saw this brilliant corrupted Node.js warning by @jakebailey.dev and wondered how it's made - so, I looked it up.

Post link:
bsky.app/profile/jake...

It's called "zalgo text" and uses Unicode combining characters! Here's how it works... 🧵👇

Bredbox, my Pocket clone - two things to know:

1. Completely written by AI. Great test for upping my Copilot skills.
2. Starting with what Pocket provided, but I have lots of ideas to improve it.

Sign up for test run notifications: https://bredbox.app

ATmosphere Report – #124 Bluesky adds more notification settings, on chatbots and Bluesky, and a proposal for Auth Scopes brings new questions on sources of authority.

ATmosphere Report - this week's bluesky and atproto news:

- More notification settings for Bluesky
- How atproto is becoming a place to build multiperson LLM chatbots
- Bluesky's proposal for Auth Scopes also introduces new questions for governance

connectedplaces.online/reports/atmo...

Ooh, my Chrome DevTools extension for debugging Scroll-Driven Animations is approaching 3000 users …

- Live Minimap (!)
- ScrollTimeline and ViewTimeline support
- CSS and WAAPI SDAs supported
- Plays nice with `position: sticky`
- Visualize and edit the animation-ranges

👉 brm.us/sda-debugger

RustDesk is a wonderfully useful remote desktop and support tool. It's even better paired with Tailscale, which handles the details that normally require self-hosting.

Dosa, aloo masala, tomato and coconut chutney This is a classic South Indian dish: a crisp rice and lentil dosa filled with spiced mashed potato and gunpowder, served with tomato chutney and coconut chutney. The dosa’s light and crunchy, the aloo...

I'm totally biased, but is there anything better than a crispy Masala Dosa, or plain Dosa with coconut chutney? 😋

Found this easy-to-follow recipe that actually works: www.andy-cooks.com/blogs/recipe...

Video version for visual learners:
youtu.be/_x0SYjQAH2A

Looking for a simple way to run workflows without the complexity? Check out @dagu-org.bsky.social

- Single binary, zero dependencies
- Built-in scheduling, retry logic, and web UI

I use it to run @hncompanion.com bot.

Perfect for when you need reliability without the overhead of heavier tools.

Loved the energy at this meetup.

There were demos from @skylight.social, @sprk.so, @germnetwork.com and others.

The initial talk @knowtheory.net introduced us to the variety of apps that are being launched on the AT Protocol.

And finally, we also got a tour of the Internet @archive.org.

I am planning to attend. Looking forward to it.

Bay Area ATProto Meetup · Luma Let's build the future of the social web! AT Protocol is the open-source social layer powering Bluesky and the emerging "Atmosphere" of social apps like…

Hey out there to our Bay Area ATProto nerds and ATProto curious friends. @germnetwork.com and ATProto Community Fund are hosting an ATProto meetup at the Internet @archive.org this coming Tuesday July 8th! Come on out, hack and chat: lu.ma/mf4n7jbi

After all, today is the first day of the second half of 2025.