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Hey Wayne, I bought wheretheheckdidmytaxesgo.com and will make it live after work today. Sorry about the profanity! It’s just how I felt after seeing the stats firsthand :)

fun fact I discovered in this process: if the US just went back to 2019 spending (with 2025 tax revenue), there would be a $780B surplus.

I’ve been consumed by building https://emberdb.com https://github.com/kacy/ember over the last few months. It’s a drop-in replacement for Redis written in Rust. Most if not all of …

Hi folks, I'm anxious & excited to share Ember: a low-latency, memory-efficient distributed cache written in Rust. I designed it as a drop-in replacement for Redis, but with some m…

I grew up in a poor town that sourced water from the Cape Fear river. There were two major factories in our immediate area: one that made paper and the other made industrial chemic…

We’ve been using a Meilisearch for the last six months or so and have been delighted with its performance and usability. It uses a fraction of the resources as Elasticsearch, and t…

Because it's a helpful contribution to the the engineering community?

the n+1 graphql problem is more difficult than most people realize. graphcdn makes it incredibly easy to globally scale a backend application with dynamically changing queries. of …

This dismissive take is the biggest bull case for me. GraphCDN is a killer product with an impressive business and a sharp team. Excited to see what's next for them.

I've probably been streaming SomaFM off and on for the last 15-20 years. Thanks for the reminder to donate!

Very cool and congrats on what you’ve built! This is something I’ve been looking for. Any plans to do iCloud syncing and maybe a mobile app?

If you're curious how it's built, here are the two main libraries: https://github.com/codealchemist/webamp-ipfs https://github.com/captbaritone/webamp

If it's at the stage where they're talking to partners, and it's expected to ship in less than a year, I'd argue that those are pretty clear indications that this isn't a skunkwork…

Page 184 looks like it has some of the info you’re looking for

Fitbit | Infrastructure Engineer | San Francisco, CA (Remote USA ok) | Full-time | https://grnh.se/f13deb511 Our tooling for Infrastructure Engineering is largely written in Python…

I wonder if Jack is a victim of a SIM port hack?

They shut off service this morning. Even though we’ve all moved on to Slack or Mattermost, let’s all reflect on their legacy.

Also showing up on a traceroute to spotify.com for me.