walking across the williamsburg bridge for the first time :)

happy systems reading group about simdjson :)

++ a couple more people out of frame, what a nice turnout for learning about hella fast performance engineering tricks

new blog post: how at work, we built static IPs for serverless functions via WireGuard VPNs. with some diagrams explaining how container networking works! :D

modal.com/blog/vprox

ok unfortunately it seems like std::autodiff / enzyme-rust isn't able to differentiate through loops, or vector/array operations which kind of makes it hard to do any linear algebra :(

even differentiating through vec![x; 64].iter().sum() is too hard

woah automatic differentiation in rust actually works! :o — had to try it to believe it. going to play with this a bit and see what I can differentiate

this thanksgiving, in a gesture of goodwill, I would like to share with you the unicode proposal for “shaking face” www.unicode.org/L2/L2021/212...

am I late to the party?? anyway @antirez.bsky.social is here and maybe I should be here too

happy Thanksgiving y’all, sending love and warm food :)

I found the signs at the airport today had surprisingly good type. look at the P in Tampa, nice and snug bbox overlap with Florida, and the diagonals