Thorsten Ball
Author of interpreterbook.com and compilerbook.com. Working at Sourcegraph. Previously Zed. Programming where the rubber hits the road. Writing Register Spill at: registerspill.thorstenball.com
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- Light switch in McCaw Hall backstage bathroom
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- Inspiring read. It feels like a 2025 version of “one needs to build a compiler to get along with being swe” :) Do you have a top N things to read on fine tuning, for those non-data-scientist engineers, who aren’t there yet?
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- Fuck It, We're Doing Five Microphone Icons
- Sigh, I misremembered the title... theonion.com/fuck-everyth...
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- Some of the anti-AI stuff feels a bit like when people would say "don't use Wikipedia as a source." It's just like anything else, a piece of information that you weigh against multiple sources and your own understanding of its likely failure modes
- As as longtime Wikipedian (and former employee in the Wikimedia Foundation's Communications team), I agree. A lot of the hate and bad press we got in the 2000s (and still sometimes more recently) was indeed similar.
- The parallel don't just include hyperventilating about reliability, impact on students etc., but also e.g. "competes with copyright industry professionals and puts them out of their job" (we plausibly "killed" Brockhaus and various other paid reference works, by making knowledge accessible for free)
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- Another fun magic trick! Differential Coverage for Debugging research.swtch.com/diffcover
- A lot of my infra workflows live in Slack threads, docs, or buried in shell history. That sucked. I've been building Atuin Desktop. Local-first, CRDT-powered, executable runbooks - with integrated terminals, sql queries + monitoring blog.atuin.sh/atuin-deskto... Lmk if you have any questions <3
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