Links — #systems

DuckDB isn't just fast (Feb 7, 2026)
A whistlestop tour of the cool bits of DuckDB
#essays #systems
ffs (Feb 7, 2026)
Mount semi-structured data (like JSON) as a Unix filesystem.
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Mecha Comet (Feb 7, 2026)
Modular Linux handheld with snap-on extensions. ARM64, AMOLED, GPIO breakout, open-source throughout.
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Cosmopolitan Libc (Feb 7, 2026)
Build-once run-anywhere C library. One binary that runs on Linux, Mac, Windows, FreeBSD, OpenBSD, and NetBSD.
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WebVM - Linux virtualization in WebAssembly (Feb 7, 2026)
Linux virtual machine, running in the browser via HTML5/WebAssembly. Networking and graphics supported.
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0x.tools (Feb 7, 2026)
Always on Profiling for Production Systems
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Huge binaries (Dec 29, 2025)
The problems of dramatic binary scale that academia doubts exist but industry lives with daily.
#systems
Life of an inference request (vLLM V1) (Jun 29, 2025)
How vLLM serves large language models efficiently at scale — at the intersection of AI and systems programming.
#ai #systems
Falsehoods Programmers Believe About Aviation (Jun 7, 2025)
In the spirit of Patrick McKenzie's classic piece on names — false assumptions about aviation data types and schemas.
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