Murph
murph.bsky.social
Murph
@murph.bsky.social
Distributed systems engineer. Talk to me about feed-serving systems!

Retweets are endorsements, hearts are true love. k1b2a / r-z30 haplogroups. Butlerian. He/him.
I need to buy a significant quantity of NAS hard drives 🤔
November 23, 2025 at 4:38 PM
Assembled my third @frame.work 13 🤷🏻‍♂️
April 3, 2025 at 4:18 AM
Reposted by Murph
It's 5 yrs today since lockdown started in England, but "We must never have lockdown again" is the wrong lesson.

Lockdowns are terrible but so are deadly pandemics.

Our choices 5 years ago were limited - we can & must do better in the future.

Do read my post.

open.substack.com/pub/christin...
We are learning the wrong lessons from lockdown
And unless we learn the right ones, we risk making the same mistakes in a new pandemic
open.substack.com
March 23, 2025 at 1:41 PM
Reposted by Murph
THIS IS HUGE! An HIV PrEP drug candidate in the form of a ONCE-yearly intramuscular injection has been shown to BLOCK HIV infections AND participants achieved AND maintained protection ABOVE the 95% efficacy threshold for UP TO 56 WEEKS. Phase III trials are scheduled for later this year! 🧪🧵⬇️
March 19, 2025 at 4:00 PM
Amazing
THIS IS INCREDIBLE! Cohen Children’s Medical Center has confirmed that it has successfully ELIMINATED sickle cell disease from Sebastien Beauzile, using the groundbreaking genetic treatment Lyfgenia. He has made HISTORY by becoming the FIRST in New York to be CURED of sickle cell anemia! 🧪🧵⬇️
March 15, 2025 at 9:03 PM
Brain Rot is setting in.
NEW 🧵 Is human intelligence starting to decline?

Recent results from major international tests show that the average person’s capacity to process information, use reasoning and solve novel problems has been falling since around the mid 2010s

What should we make of this?

www.ft.com/content/a801...
March 15, 2025 at 1:06 AM
Watched an AI struggle against a wild JS unit test today. After twenty minutes it successfully hooked up a debugger, that didn't help, it resorted to print statements ... then gave up and deleted the tests.
March 11, 2025 at 2:48 AM
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Big agenda
March 1, 2025 at 5:10 PM
AI and SQL were basically made for each other.

It understands and writes SQL better than I do, and it can read complex query plans casually and provide useful advice.
March 1, 2025 at 10:51 PM
This little four server cluster at the @frame.work event yesterday made me too happy and now I need one.

Notice the direct thunderbolt networking!
February 26, 2025 at 4:51 PM
I'm increasingly convinced that postgres is a scam.

Every time I see it actually used by regular people at any scale it's in this territory where you have to deeply understand the internals to tune and adjust things at some level that regular people never get to.
February 12, 2025 at 2:07 AM
Reposted by Murph
"Go Protobuf: The new Opaque API" by Michael Stapelberg (@zekjur.bsky.social) — go.dev/blog/protobu...
Go Protobuf: The new Opaque API - The Go Programming Language
We are adding a new generated code API to Go Protobuf.
go.dev
December 16, 2024 at 9:55 PM
2,000 days 😅
December 14, 2024 at 6:34 PM
Twitter has a really useful admin HTTP interface on every service instance (twitter.github.io/twitter-serv...) - a lot of the cool stuff seems to be based on a body of work called zpages (e.g. medium.com/opentelemetr...).
HTTP Admin interface — TwitterServer 24.2.0 documentation
twitter.github.io
November 30, 2024 at 6:26 PM
Hi.
November 14, 2024 at 3:26 AM