tao
@btao.org
🇩🇰 in 🏴 // software engineer // most recently: trust & safety engineering @ cinder.co
my signal username is very short (tao.01) and so i keep getting messages meant for other people… other taos, please collect your messages at your convenience
October 24, 2025 at 11:33 AM
my signal username is very short (tao.01) and so i keep getting messages meant for other people… other taos, please collect your messages at your convenience
unreasonably excited about this
At long last, @chris.blue and I have submitted the final manuscript of Designing Data-Intensive Applications, second edition, to the publisher. There is always more that could be improved but at some point we just have to call it done. Now it goes into production; probably shipping in ~4 months.
October 23, 2025 at 9:31 PM
unreasonably excited about this
> I also quietly suspect that there are so few good companies around that, if you have really high standards, starting one is easier than finding one, or I obviously wouldn’t have started one.
ludic.mataroa.blog/blog/i-am-ou...
ludic.mataroa.blog/blog/i-am-ou...
ludic.mataroa.blog
October 23, 2025 at 5:23 PM
> I also quietly suspect that there are so few good companies around that, if you have really high standards, starting one is easier than finding one, or I obviously wouldn’t have started one.
ludic.mataroa.blog/blog/i-am-ou...
ludic.mataroa.blog/blog/i-am-ou...
Reposted by tao
If you think that Signal is an op and totally backdoored, my recommendation is that you should plan all of your crimes over Telegram group chat.
October 23, 2025 at 5:26 AM
If you think that Signal is an op and totally backdoored, my recommendation is that you should plan all of your crimes over Telegram group chat.
“frogs boiling in nazi water” is the best description i’ve seen of X users
seeing some incredible screencap takes about platner and i'm starting to think that x users are frogs in boiling nazi water. really does something to your brain.
October 22, 2025 at 4:18 PM
“frogs boiling in nazi water” is the best description i’ve seen of X users
i tried (and failed!) to prompt-inject ChatGPT Atlas and Perplexity's Comet browsers on my personal website. turns out it's harder that i thought!
October 22, 2025 at 12:31 PM
i tried (and failed!) to prompt-inject ChatGPT Atlas and Perplexity's Comet browsers on my personal website. turns out it's harder that i thought!
since servo 0.0.1 was just released i thought i'd give it a go to see where it's at. this is just for curiosity; it's at an early stage and i'm not expecting anything near a daily driver!
October 20, 2025 at 9:08 PM
since servo 0.0.1 was just released i thought i'd give it a go to see where it's at. this is just for curiosity; it's at an early stage and i'm not expecting anything near a daily driver!
i see that signal's outage this morning has led some people to look towards matrix as an alternative... that may not be a good idea.
see especially the end of soatok's post here:
see especially the end of soatok's post here:
Security Issues in Matrix’s Olm Library - Dhole Moments
I don’t consider myself exceptional in any regard, but I stumbled upon a few cryptography vulnerabilities in Matrix’s Olm library with so little effort that it was nearly accidental. It…
soatok.blog
October 20, 2025 at 6:15 PM
i see that signal's outage this morning has led some people to look towards matrix as an alternative... that may not be a good idea.
see especially the end of soatok's post here:
see especially the end of soatok's post here:
closely followed by “here’s what nobody’s talking about:”
"it isn't just X—it's Y" is by far the most annoying ChatGPTism
October 20, 2025 at 4:19 PM
closely followed by “here’s what nobody’s talking about:”
this is so cool; very bullish on oxlint
⚓ Oxlint now supports plugins written in JavaScript ⚓
Developers can customize and extend Oxlint using JavaScript, but at a speed approaching Rust, due to 'raw transfer' between Rust and JS, and other breakthroughs
Many ESLint plugins can run without any modification.
Read the full post👇
Developers can customize and extend Oxlint using JavaScript, but at a speed approaching Rust, due to 'raw transfer' between Rust and JS, and other breakthroughs
Many ESLint plugins can run without any modification.
Read the full post👇
October 20, 2025 at 2:20 PM
this is so cool; very bullish on oxlint
> My core claim here is that most people, most of the time, are going to be terrible critics of your extreme idea. [...] If you take on any idea that stands out as weird and draws a lot criticism, most of that criticism will be wildly confused too.
The main way I've seen people turn ideologically crazy
Don't update positively on your extremist beliefs whenever you hear a bad argument against them
andymasley.substack.com
October 18, 2025 at 8:40 AM
> My core claim here is that most people, most of the time, are going to be terrible critics of your extreme idea. [...] If you take on any idea that stands out as weird and draws a lot criticism, most of that criticism will be wildly confused too.
the internet is good today meow.camera
meow.camera
October 17, 2025 at 8:45 AM
the internet is good today meow.camera
this is very cool: sandbox.cloudflare.com
Sandbox SDK
Run sandboxed code environments on Cloudflare's edge network
sandbox.cloudflare.com
October 17, 2025 at 8:02 AM
this is very cool: sandbox.cloudflare.com
this is interesting, but the fact that they wrote their own service to batch writes to clickhouse seems odd. i wonder if their experience would’ve been better with an actual event stream
www.unkey.com
October 16, 2025 at 7:58 AM
this is interesting, but the fact that they wrote their own service to batch writes to clickhouse seems odd. i wonder if their experience would’ve been better with an actual event stream