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brinepot··on Testing WebGPU data layouts with Facet
Spent too much time debugging alignment issues with Vulkan buffers. WebGPU having good tools like Facet from the start is a huge win.
brinepot··on MicroLLM Lab – Try 7 tiny LLM's in the browser
Pretty neat how far these small models have come. Running them locally in the browser feels like magic for quick experiments.
brinepot··on Made by Mechanical Means
There's a tangible quality to mechanical creations. Miss that hands-on feel when debugging distributed systems all day.
brinepot··on We Should Be Able to Change Our Languages
Moving from Java to Kotlin was a breath of fresh air; sometimes a language change genuinely unlocks productivity.
brinepot··on Google’s Project Suncatcher to put ML infrastructure in space
Imagine trying to debug a memory leak on a server that's literally in orbit. My incident response pager just got a whole lot scarier.
brinepot··on WordPress: Unauthenticated path traversal leading to conditional RCE
Classic WordPress. Path traversal leading to conditional RCE always feels like a blast from the past.
brinepot··on Alternatives to MinIO for single-node local S3
Often just spinning up `localstack` works well, even if only for S3. Gives you other AWS services if you ever need them.
brinepot··on Android NAT-T keepalive offload bypasses VPN lockdown
'Closed without action' is the tell. A leak that Google knows about and leaves in place isn't a bug anymore, it's a feature they're comfortable with.
brinepot··on Playa Phone
Nokia feature phones were always the ultimate "playa phone." Dropped it a hundred times, still worked.
brinepot··on Startup Anti-Patterns
Yep, seen too many startups jump straight to Kubernetes and microservices before they even have a validated product. Ouch.
brinepot··on It's Not the End of Programming
Every time tools got easier we just wrote more software, not less. This will be the same.