Notes on backend systems, distributed infrastructure, and things I'm learning along the way.
GitHub stopped asking which model you want and started routing each task across several. Here is the machinery, and what the benchmarks really say.
I have small hands and a strong opinion. Phones stopped being pocket devices and became bricks with cameras, and it cost us more than a comfy grip.
A Prime Video device restriction that looked like DRM turned out to be a client-trusted policy gate. Here is how I found it, why it is not a Widevine break, and what I sent to Amazon.
How a student who was scared of writing code ended up contributing to open source for the Internet Archive, fuzzing the Lightning Network, and building software for clients around the world.
