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A brief history of our serverless future

Just over ten years ago, Tim Wagner walked down a chain-link fenced office corridor towards The Chop…

Fast, lazy container loading in Modal.com

Sharing my August 2024 talk at NYC Systems.

The Pull Request Self-Review

Out of the crooked timber of humanity...

Computers are fast

Do you know how much your computer can do in one second?

The Wonderful LLMs

Praise for ChatGPT after one year of use.

Computing Cultural Literacy

What every programmer needs to know.

Infinite AMA

A ChatGPT that answers questions just like me.

Create an email newsletter from an RSS feed with Modal

I built an automated email newsletter feature for my blog. Learn how to set it up for yourself.

A 3-piece Masterclass on technical writing

And this info-tainment doesn't even cost $30 a month.

2022 Wrapped

Reading, moving, and goals for 2023.

Create a personal dashboard with Modal webhooks

Learn how to add live stats to your static personal website, integrating with Spotify, Goodreads, and Github.

The first 99,999 writes are free: Or, why lazy StringIO.write() may sprint into a memmove wall

Debugging a Python StringIO performance oddity for fun and practice.

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