I'm a yak coiffeur based in London. I counterfeit tiny desk concerts at Spotify Typeform Cloudflare Goldman Sachs Apple 👻 .

I work on mostly on operating systems and build tools.

projects & experiments

• JetStream

  Jetstream is a RPC framework for Rust, based on the 9P protocol and QUIC.

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• okLinux

  it's ok.

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• bldy

  bldy is an experimental build tool. Experimental means I use it to do experiments on build patterns, it's not suitable for human consumption.

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• Harvey

  Harvey is an experimental operating system based on the MIT-licensed release of Plan 9.

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thoughts rss_feed

• okid

  a month ago

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• adhd find

  4 months ago

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• l33t coding; the origins

  4 months ago

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• next level l33t coding interview, the last coding question you'll ever need to ask a candidate

  4 months ago

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• this is fine

  4 months ago

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• late capitalist software

  4 months ago

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• ok software

  4 months ago

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• Yet Another Yak Shave ⸻ Vol I

  4 months ago

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• Considered Harmful Considered Harmful

  6 months ago

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• Apples to Potatos

  8 months ago

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• Content Defined Chunking

  2 years ago

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• Progressive Distributed Apps

  2 years ago

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• So you think you can build a build system?

  2 years ago

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• microclouds

  4 years ago

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• I cut the power!

  4 years ago

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• riffing with acme

  4 years ago

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• trace 9p

  4 years ago

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• 9P

  4 years ago

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• Vampira

  5 years ago

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• Ergonomy of building software

  5 years ago

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• bldy and Harvey

  8 years ago

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• build is now buildy

  8 years ago

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• Fixing Harvey's bugs Automagically

  8 years ago

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• Learn you some build

  9 years ago

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• Build internals

  9 years ago

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• Build as a Library

  9 years ago

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• Why not make?

  9 years ago

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• GraphQL and g2sd

  9 years ago

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• Python from go

  11 years ago

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• OPC Sample Code

  11 years ago

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• How to bypass SSL validation for Exchange Webservices Managed API

  16 years ago

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• URLs, hashes

  16 years ago

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talks

• WASM on the Server

  WASM on the Server with @zackbloom

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• GraphQL on the Edge

  GraphQL on the Edge, more specifically on Cloudflare

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• Serverless Progressive Web Apps using React with Cloudflare Workers

  Let me tell you the story of how I learned that you can build Progressive Web Apps on Cloudflare’s network around the globe with one JavaScript bundle that runs both in the browser and on Cloudflare Workers with no modification and no separate bundling for client and server.

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