Hello 👋

I'm a software engineer with reverse-engineering chops.

• You cannot improve what you cannot measure.
• Use the right tools for the job.
• Decouple flaky software
• Your database should mirror the reality
• Store everything; storage is cheap but data is not
• Evaluate each of your actions through the lens of your current goal
• Don't obsesss too much over optimization; CPU-time is cheap, brain-time is not.
• Reverse-engineer life
• Have boring code
• Pick boring technology
• Be humble; there is always something to learn by listening to others
• Take a walk when the next step is not clear.
• Great work is done in isolation.
• Be a maniac

Of course, picking the right tools for the job is the most important part.

But here is a list of technologies that I use and love along with a small comment.

• Telemetry: Grafana, VictoriaMetrics, (Loki — I don't love it but it does the job)
• Orchestration: Kubernetes (on Hetzner Cloud to save $$$)
• Programming languages
  • TypeScript (Absolutely love it. Yes, the tooling is questionnable, but the type system gives me goosebumps)
  • Python (I hated it, then I was put to work into a Python codebase, and now I am a bit more measured.)
  • Go (I use it when I need performance or want to mimic TLS/h2 perfectly)
  • Kotlin (always useful when automating Android apps 😃)
  • Bash
  • SQL
• Databases: I love PostgreSQL and had a bad experience with MongoDB early on. I am fascinated by distributed databases like Cassandra. I recently started using ClickHouse. (a few weeks later: I love ClickHouse!) (on the other hand, my experience with MongoDB was not the best...)
• Queues: I like RabbitMQ, but the boilerplate is a bit too much for me...

These are technologies I wish to adopt but couldn't get the chance to play around with them enough yet.

• Trigger
• XState

• Beeminder - to force me to do the boring tasks
• Todoist — to remember me to do the boring tasks
• A good old notebook! — to help me reason about the interesting tasks

• CommonCog
• LessWrong
• Beeminder's blog
• Sam Altman's blog
• Paul Graham's blog
• Antoine Vastel's blog
• TimescaleDB's blog
• puppeteer-extra's wiki
• the puppeteer-extra community
• Prescience's dark-knowledge (and all Prescience's work)
• niespod's browser-fingerprinting cheatsheet

... and other projects that I forgot about

Telegram: @clouedoc

Mail: [email protected]

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