Their website literally goes offline when the sun doesn't shine on their server. It's a beautiful experiment in what a sustainable web could look like.
Fiber optic cables thinner than a garden hose, laid across ocean floors, regularly cut by fishing trawlers and ship anchors. Entire countries can lose connectivity. It's a miracle the whole thing works.
Deploy pipelines, feature flags, experimentation platforms, observability. Every company reinvents them. There's gotta be a reason we keep doing this instead of buying.
Hyperscale facilities now routinely pull 100+ megawatts. With AI workloads, some upcoming sites are being designed for a full gigawatt. The grid is not ready.
Not a metaphor. Literally. The combined computing power used to land humans on the moon is dwarfed by the chip that autocorrects your texts to something horrifying.
That's less memory than it takes to store this post. It ran at 0.043 MHz and successfully navigated humans to the moon and back. Your toaster has more compute.
If you've ever wanted to understand how modern processors actually work under the hood, this is the article.
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/12/looking-back-on-50-years-of-moores-law/
If you need to understand any tech concept fast, this channel is it. Here's the one on WebSockets — perfect example.
Just got a new machine and I'm rethinking my whole workflow. What editor, terminal, and tools is everyone running these days?
Every site wants to be an app. Every app wants a subscription. Cookie banners everywhere. Pop-ups on pop-ups. Remember when websites were just... websites?
I've been using AI tools daily for about 6 months now. My output is way up, but I'm starting to worry about my ability to reason through problems without them.