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Software engineer. I like databases and systems.

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Building The Web: A History of Web Architecture tl;dr I’m writing a book about the history of web architecture. The audience will be engineers and anyone who wants to deep dive on how architectures have evolved over time. It will focus on the pract...

We seem to be at an inflection point in software development, so it feels like a good time to look at the last 35 years or so of web infra and the architectures it enabled! I’m writing a book about the history of web architecture: paulosman.me/2026/03/05/b...

05.03.2026 15:15 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

That is the BEST feeling. When our daughter made friends with the kid across the street: perfection!

28.02.2026 21:27 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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Sephora Tots Are Coming Millennials created the wellness economy, and now it wants their children as customers.

File this under “indistinguishable from parody” www.theatlantic.com/health/2026/...

25.02.2026 21:01 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

The real impact of LLMs will be that we’ll all have to remember how to write software with a very low memory footprint.

18.02.2026 19:02 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Building the Web Ideas that Built the Web

Getting a doman and building a site makes your side project real, right?! (First chapter in progress): buildingtheweb.dev

15.02.2026 17:19 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
SFP+ Support on the Honeycomb LX2 A few years ago, I bought a SolidRun Honeycomb LX2. The LX2 is a 16-core ARM board (NXP LX2160A) with four SFP+ ports and a 1GbE RJ45. Paired with the extremely nice looking Lone Industries L5 mini it...

Adventures in getting SFP+ ports working on my Honeycomb LX2 paulosman.me/2026/02/07/s...

07.02.2026 23:12 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Shipping When You're Not Sure I recently had to write a query planner for a graph store. The query planner wasn’t terribly complicated - it used some simple heuristics and estimates to decide whether it would be better to execute ...

Wrote a quick blog post about running code paths in parallel to validate results and measure improvements: paulosman.me/2026/01/26/s...

27.01.2026 17:53 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Where I'm at with AI We’re in new paradigm territory with generative AI. A lot of commentary falls into the skeptic, evangelist, or doomsdayer categories, or are practical but narrow takes. In this article, I’ll discuss m...

I tried to write a nuanced take on the current state of AI code gen tools: paulosman.me/2026/01/18/w...

20.01.2026 13:55 👍 9 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0

I peed in a urinal next to Craig Nelson once.

30.12.2025 23:32 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Are people trying to take this hill? I’m with you - it is bricked if it is now e-waste. Otherwise it’s just in a temporality fucked up state.

24.11.2025 02:07 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

As my general two cents: don't cancel your WIRED subscriptions.

Best culture, best newsroom of anywhere I've worked. I love the living shit out of these folks, and they don't deserve to be negatively impacted by a decision that was made by the parent company, not them. And it's only $2 a month.

06.11.2025 18:39 👍 941 🔁 168 💬 23 📌 16
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Opinion | Mamdani’s Victory Is Less Significant Than You Think

The New York Times quickly sending out Douthat to argue that Mamdani’s victory doesn’t really matter is so predictable it borders on self-parody.

Remember, folks: Every time the Right wins an election, it’s an undeniable expression of the will of the people. If a lefty wins, it’s just a blip.

05.11.2025 17:27 👍 8530 🔁 1826 💬 259 📌 132

Gonna start scanning Trulia for all those panic sale brownstones now that the rich people are leaving New York 😂

05.11.2025 18:08 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Quebecois are truly the masters of cursing.

05.11.2025 16:51 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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05.11.2025 02:41 👍 86733 🔁 18274 💬 3165 📌 2371

I can't believe Hot Girls for Cuomo exists! So disgusted!

hotgirlsforcuomo.com

24.10.2025 18:07 👍 44 🔁 8 💬 5 📌 1
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None of this is real and it doesn't matter - Raw Signal Group The difference between the theater of work and actual work.

This newsletter does a great job describing what I find so boring about a lot of the LLM hype: www.rawsignal.ca/newsletter-a...

06.08.2025 20:11 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Southern states start earlier and let out earlier. Same in texas, Louisiana, etc. NY schools are normal.

06.08.2025 20:08 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Love to watch the New York Liberty get the sweep. Natasha and Sabrina are both incredible. 🗽🏀

19.07.2025 01:13 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Eagerly awaiting @kirstengillibrand.bsky.social's conspicuous silence on this!

17.06.2025 17:25 👍 16 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0
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Trump administration wants to un-fire nuclear safety workers but can’t figure out how to reach them The individuals, who work in an agency that oversees the nation's nuclear stockpile, had been fired on Thursday and lost access to their federal government email accounts.

Trump administration wants to un-fire nuclear safety workers but can’t figure out how to reach them

www.nbcnews.com/politics/nat...

15.02.2025 18:47 👍 2589 🔁 760 💬 282 📌 340

You bet - feel free to DM me

31.01.2025 18:23 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
A man carries a coffin with a skull on the front and spray painted on the side "we're here we're queer we hate the fucking president"

A man carries a coffin with a skull on the front and spray painted on the side "we're here we're queer we hate the fucking president"

ACT UP, 1990

20.01.2025 19:55 👍 21049 🔁 6910 💬 50 📌 97
I knew one day I’d have to watch powerful men burn the world down – I just didn’t expect them to be such losers

I knew one day I’d have to watch powerful men burn the world down – I just didn’t expect them to be such losers

Can a headline alone be eligible for a Pulitzer?

17.01.2025 21:08 👍 78143 🔁 17067 💬 751 📌 550
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Liz Fong-Jones on LinkedIn: Mailfrawd is Kevin Crawley, Staff Engineer at Meta A real-life case study in anonymous internet harassment and insider threat: I have previously vouched for Kevin Crawley as a skilled communicator and…

A real-life case study in anonymous internet harassment and insider threat: I must sadly retract my endorsement of Kevin Crawley, as I have recently learned he is a Kiwi Farms member. I believe he may pose a safety risk to his colleagues, or even to his employer.

www.linkedin.com/posts/efong_...

18.11.2024 17:35 👍 876 🔁 285 💬 53 📌 39
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BOOK — KATHLEEN HANNA

Reading Kathleen Hanna’s autobiography is giving me fucking life right now. Highly recommend. kathleenhannaofficial.com/book

13.11.2024 14:25 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Some places have managers, not bosses, also you still don’t have reports, right? :)

10.11.2024 20:41 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Let’s face it, the bosses are always watching, but the spaces are framed differently is all

10.11.2024 15:56 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

So LinkedIn is where we pretend to be normal cause the bosses are watching and here is for getting personal and doing shit posting right? :)

10.11.2024 15:56 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 3 📌 0