apenwarr - Avery Pennarun

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Avery Pennarun's essays and project notes about software engineering, distributed systems, networking, open source, and technology.

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thundersnap 0.01: an undo button for everything #SoftwareEngineering #OpenSource #Technology
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Jul 4, 2026
The software industry: annealing, but wrong #SoftwareEngineering #Tech #OpenSource
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May 31, 2026
Web Summit Vancouver 2026: AI and the next generation of engineers #AI #Engineering #FutureOfWork
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May 26, 2026
Web Summit Vancouver 2026: open source in the agentic era #OpenSource #AI #Tech
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May 21, 2026
Web Summit Vancouver 2026: AI needs an Android-like ecosystem #AI #OpenSource #Tech
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May 20, 2026
Web Summit Vancouver 2026: the modern tech stack #Tech #Software #Engineering
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May 19, 2026
Every layer of review makes you 10x slower #SoftwareEngineering #Productivity #Tech
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Mar 17, 2026
Systems design 3: LLMs and the semantic revolution #AI #LLM #SystemsDesign
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Nov 20, 2025
Billionaire math #Math #Economics #Billionaires
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Jul 11, 2025
The evasive evitability of enshittification #Tech #OpenSource #Essays
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Jun 15, 2025
Web Summit Vancouver 2025: securing AI, with Ivan Zhang #AI #Tech #Future
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May 29, 2025
Accel SpotLight S3E4: building a better Internet #Internet #Tech #OpenSource
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Mar 4, 2025
What do executives do, anyway? #Tech #Software #Management
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Mar 15, 2024
NPS, the good parts #Tech #SoftwareEngineering #OpenSource
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Dec 5, 2023
Interesting #Tech #Essays #Software
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Oct 6, 2023
Systems design 2: What we hope we know #Systems #Engineering #Design
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Jul 11, 2023
Tech debt metaphor maximalism #TechDebt #SoftwareEngineering #Essays
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Jul 11, 2023
The Curse of Unreasonably Sized Networks #Networking #Tech #DistributedSystems
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Nov 20, 2022
The Gift of It's Your Problem Now #Tech #Essays #OpenSource
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Jan 1, 2022
100 years of whatever this will be #Tech #Essays #Future
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Dec 2, 2021
Absolute scale corrupts absolutely #Scale #Corruption #Systems
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Nov 17, 2021
The log/event processing pipeline you can't have #SoftwareEngineering #DistributedSystems #OpenSource
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Nov 17, 2021
SimSWE 4: Wants, needs, and chasm-crossing #SoftwareEngineering #DistributedSystems #OpenSource
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Nov 17, 2021
10 years of... whatever this has been #Tech #OpenSource #Anniversary
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Nov 17, 2021
Thoughts you mightn't'a thunk about remote meetings #RemoteWork #Productivity #Tech
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Jul 21, 2021
Several grumpy opinions about remote work at Tailscale #RemoteWork #SoftwareEngineering #Opinion
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Jun 21, 2021
Systems design explains the world: volume 1 #SystemsDesign #Tech #OpenSource
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Dec 29, 2020
Can I work for a bad company and still be a good person? #Ethics #Work #Philosophy
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Nov 23, 2020
IPv4, IPv6, and a sudden change in attitude #Networking #IPv6 #Tech
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Jul 22, 2020
git-subtrac: all your git submodules in one place #Git #OpenSource #SoftwareEngineering
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Nov 24, 2019
Programmer migration patterns #SoftwareEngineering #Tech #Programming
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Mar 18, 2019
Quotes from 1992 #History #Quotes #Essays
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Mar 8, 2019
Factors in authentication #Authentication #Security #SoftwareEngineering
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Mar 1, 2019
Forget privacy: you're terrible at targeting anyway #Privacy #Security #Technology
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Feb 9, 2019
XML, blockchains, and the strange shapes of progress #Technology #OpenSource #SoftwareEngineering
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Jan 31, 2019
Misadventures in process containment #SoftwareEngineering #DistributedSystems #OpenSource
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Jan 14, 2019
Honourable Governance #Governance #Ethics #Philosophy
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Dec 9, 2018
Don't delegate the most important thing #Productivity #Management #SelfImprovement
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Dec 5, 2018
An epic treatise on scheduling, bug tracking, and triage #SoftwareEngineering #Tech #Productivity
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Nov 30, 2018
Xnest, Xephyr, ChromeOS, synergy, and syncing some clipboards #SoftwareEngineering #DistributedSystems #OpenSource
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Nov 24, 2018