Mosquito Capital
@MosquitoCapital
SRE, hype skeptic. Sometimes write at http://mosquito.capital
A year ago this week, Twitter's new owner fired a bunch of people. Together, we made some guesses on what would (or wouldn't) happen in the first year after the mass employee culling/exodus. Let's look at how we did! 1/6 x.com/MosquitoCapita…
PREDICTIONS THREAD: Twitter Doomposting Edition "Do you think Twitter will die this week?" A lot of people have asked me that in the last 48 hours. And my answer is a pretty hard *no*, for many reasons. It's not impossible, but it's very unlikely. With that said...
One funny thing about working on billion dollar server fleets is knowing that the logic keeping the world running looks like if hung: reboot() if disk_full: reboot() if weirdbehavior: reboot() if remediations.count > 3: reimage() if remediations.count > 5: sendtorepair()
Gamedev tips that makes development faster! 🧵(1/5) 1 - To port to console just change .exe to .ps5
My first "welcome to San Francisco" moment was finding out, at their wedding, that my friends Joanna & Kylie had once been John & Kyle from rural Georgia, who met and fell in love in an IRC channel for Sonic Adventure DX
man this is actually adorable, childhood sweetheart transbians!!
It’s finally time to release my newest project: followthecrypto.org This website provides a real-time lens into the cryptocurrency industry’s efforts to influence 2024 elections in the United States.
With FreeBSD on Firecracker, you could boot the entire operating system for each network packet, and still have a better internet connection than most people had when FreeBSD 1.0 was released.
Network Configuration xkcd.com/2949
Feeling burnt out on tech. What's your favorite project from the last few years?
The hard parts of software are what come next. when you scope, integrate, scale, upgrade, instrument... when you extend it, understand it, and maintain it. Over the entirety of its lifetime. Generative AI isn't making this easier. If anything, it's making the real work harder.
Thinking today about my freshman Computer Science professor who noticed I wasn't in the final exam and called to check up on me. I was a troubled kid, but I'd just written down the wrong time. My entire life could have gone differently if he hadn't shown that little bit of care.
Reminds me of my favorite real disaster scenario story: > Man digging with excavator beside datacenter > Hits buried fiber, hard cut > Panics > Raises bucket and reverses > Takes out backup aerial fiber
Today's newsletter is the story of how Prabhakar Raghavan, Google's former head of ads - led a coup so that he could run Google Search, and how an email chain from 2019 began a cascade of events that would lead to him running it into the ground. wheresyoured.at/the-men-who-ki…