Stories by birdculture

Selfhost Your Mail (In 2026)

Everybody Wants to Be a Dev

Calm technologies that excite me

Canva uses S3 for logged-in session management

Dcmake: A new CMake debugger UI

Analytics Are Lying to You

Unicode Variation Selector-15 and some of my tears

Proxying inference requests in 6ms with Pingora, Envoy, and Spanner

Unranked, Systemd, Crawls

Prefactoring: Clear the Way for Your New Feature

SIMD for Collision

Slash Pages

JavaScript Date Is Lying to You – the traps that keep shipping to production

KDE for Enterprise Needs a Strong PIM Infrastructure

Thoughts on Integers (2023)

"No AI" Statements Are More Than Mere Statements

Proxying inference requests in 6ms with Pingora, Envoy, and Spanner

Five Moments in Snapping History

The Long Road to Bottomless Postgres: Neon, Pg_mooncake, Pg_tier, Pg_lake

Meta Garbage Collection: Using OCaml's GC to GC Rust

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