Sam Khawasé
@samkhawase.com
Engineering leader @Cloudflare.social GirlDad, Taleb’s Surgeon, Ex-Farmboy 🌾 Writings: https://open.substack.com/pub/sevenseas Web: https://samkhawase.com Location: Berlin 🧸
Email is Crazy. My latest article on the wild ecosystem on Email. samkhawase.com/blog/email-i...
Email is crazy
A deep dive into how email actually works — SMTP, MTAs, SPF/DKIM/DMARC authentication, spam filtering and TLS — traced step by step from Alice to Bob.
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i think migrating away from Vercel hosting is a solid idea. i moved my Next.js blog to Cloudflare (for free) and have been very happy with that with Next.js 16+ committing to deployment adapters (and Vercel adapter using the same API), we should hold their feet to the fire on the ease of migration
- How we decreased GitLab repo backup times from 48 hours to 41 minutes: Karthik Nayak, Manuel Kraft (@gitlab.com) - Cross-compiling Zig on an old Kindle: @samkhawase.com - The art of SQL query optimization: Jan Nidzwetzki - My AI Skeptic Friends Are All Nuts: Thomas Ptacek (fly.io)
Feels nice to wake up and see your post on Hacker News front page ☺️
Sam Khawasé@samkhawase.com · last yr.I took a hiatus from social media and vowed not to sign back in unless I had produced something worth sharing. I hacked my old kindle device and created a school dashboard for my daughter using @cloudflare.social platform. Totally worth it 💯.
I took a hiatus from social media and vowed not to sign back in unless I had produced something worth sharing. I hacked my old kindle device and created a school dashboard for my daughter using @cloudflare.social platform. Totally worth it 💯.
The internet needs more visual explainers and there’s no one better than @samwho.dev to help you get started 💯
Sam Rose@samwho.dev · last yr.Have had a couple of takers on this and it is tremendously fun and productive. I’m totally serious: if you’re making a visual explainer with web technology and you want expert feedback for free from someone with a proven track record making this content, DM me.
Dear BlueSky community: 🦋 What cool hackable electronic stuff should I get from Shenzhen? (E.g. eInk displays, ESP32s?) My friend is in Shenzhen and told me they can get me something on their way. Please RT for wider reach if you like.
What this poor farmer had for lunch today. मालवणी चिंभोरी कालवण/ कुर्ले आंबोट (Not safe for #rust devs)
Being on a team that is moving fast and getting shit done is one of the best feelings in the world. As my coworker @gsiener.bsky.social says... it's not "happy engineers ship fast"; it's that engineers who ship fast ARE HAPPY ENGINEERS. It's not the whole story, but it's a lot of it. ☺️
“My best engineers come from obscure places like Coimbatore and Kolhapur, not from top universities with a pedigree ” Dr. APJ Abdul Kalam, Missile man and former President of India.
Charity Majors@charity.wtf · last yr.The IEEE republished a lightly edited version of my recent essay, "In Praise of 'Normal' Engineers". 🙌 spectrum.ieee.org/10x-engineer The greatest engineering orgs in the world are not the most pedigreed or top heavy, but the ones where normal engineers can move the business forward, day by day.
We have Girls Day in Germany which is a public-private collaboration that tries to bring the change. Many companies participate in it enthusiastically and there’s genuine support. It’s a good start in my opinion. www.girls-day.de
Cat Hicks@grimalkina.bsky.social · last yr.I am going to write an opinion paper called "psychologists should stop researching getting girls to code and research changing software cultures"
It’s Thursday and this week I’ve: - Jailbroke an ancient arm-gnueabi device. - Wrote Zig code for it and debugged using ancient gdb - Wrote Golang code as usual - Wrote C++ - Reviewed Python code and SQL query performances. …while being an EM. I think I need help. 😵💫
Does anyone know if project Euler is good for 10yo kids? Are there any other such projects that use programming to solve maths problems?
I wrote some Zig code today and cross compiled it for an old arm-gnueabi platform. I was pleasantly surprised by the ergonomics and maturity of the language. What’s more impressive was it integrated with my NeoVim perfectly and showed me meaning linter hints on save. 💯
Do I have a sticker for that? YES, I DO HAVE A STICKER FOR THAT 😍
Justin Huff@jjhuff.social · 2y agoDeployment fear ages like a fine wine.
I stay away from US political discourse because it’s not something that I can influence, but that press conference at the Oval Office just made it clear that 4chan edgelord takeover of that country is complete. What a shitshow
Movie you've watched more than 6 times, gifs only
a man in a leather jacket stands in a field of yellow flowers .
Alt: Legendary scene from DDLJ with Shahrukh Khan wearing a leather jacket standing in a mustard field of yellow flowers, with his arms open for Simran.
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Brittany Ellich@brittanyellich.com · 2y agoMovie you've watched more than 6 times, gifs only
If you see this, quote post with a beach photo from your gallery if you have one.
That “almost” is doing quite some heavy lifting. Come back to me when your AI can grow some crops, make food for us, and clean our houses.
Chris Short@chrisshort.net · 2y agoAnthropic chief says AI could surpass “almost all humans at almost everything” shortly after 2027 #SuggestedRead #devopsish arstechnica.com/ai/2...
Health, Family, Friends are the three invaluable jewels you’ll need. Philosophy will help you be at peace with yourself. Life is absurd. If you’re not having fun, you’re trying too hard and need to relax.
luna@imlunahey.com · 2y agopeople over 30 quote this with some life advice for the rest of us?
My LIS-BER flight got delayed by 2 hours. Due ton night curfew at BER, it was redirected to Hannover airport. After a tiring bus ride from Hannover, the bus driver told us he can’t stop anywhere in the city and has to drop us only at the airport! We literally came via A100 but nope, Das Regeln 😡
From a historical perspective: The response from US, unsurprisingly, is very similar to the imperialist days of Gunboat diplomacy and Boxer rebellion. The problem with that is there’s no 8 Nation Alliance + cannon fodder from Colonies to back that up.
Mark Riedl@markriedl.bsky.social · 2y agoDistillation is violation of Terms of Service. That is not Intellectual Property theft. It’s up to the company to enforce TOS, not the government. Outputs of AI stems are not copyrightable either. Oh, and OpenAI might be violating copyright anyway.
If you're in the Berlin area, come and join the "All in Kubernetes" meetup today and hear me speak about how we got a hold on cross-zone traffic in Kubernetes! See you there! 👋
All in Kubernetes - Berlin Edition · Luma
Details This is the first event from the "All in Kubernetes" event series. This group is focused on using Kubernetes for everything. All in Kubernetes. Data,…
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Baffling to see the disclosure around DeepSeek Last I checked the tech industry, we celebrate small teams pushing the industry forward, coming up w novel ways to build software more efficiently. And sharing it. Yet now there's a class of folks who think this is some bad thing?
