Computer Science & Software Engineering. Open source. Opinions are my own. No random DMs. https://blog.irrational.engineering/https://bsky.app/profile/irrational.engineeringhttps://bsky.app/profile/irrational.engineering/post/3lscxmvicjk26I finished reading Dr. John K. Ousterhout's A Philosophy of Software Design and wrote a short review of it. Overall, I found it to provide a good overview of design at a level appropriate for junior engineers. Still worth reading for seniors, too! https://blog.irrational.engineering/Book-Reviews/A-Philosophy-of-Software-Design-(Ousterhout)24 Jun 2025 01:39 +0000at://did:plc:qo2gv6dthmwafvvqkmfq3ezy/app.bsky.feed.post/3lscxmvicjk26https://bsky.app/profile/irrational.engineering/post/3locwcirddc2jSystem upgrades seem to take exactly as long as it takes for you to get nervous that it didn't work, plus one minute.04 May 2025 03:34 +0000at://did:plc:qo2gv6dthmwafvvqkmfq3ezy/app.bsky.feed.post/3locwcirddc2jhttps://bsky.app/profile/irrational.engineering/post/3ll4yhby2w22qGreat quick post about EBS volume limitations. If you have any EBS volumes, you should definitely alarm on latency. [contains quote post or other embedded content]24 Mar 2025 14:41 +0000at://did:plc:qo2gv6dthmwafvvqkmfq3ezy/app.bsky.feed.post/3ll4yhby2w22qhttps://bsky.app/profile/irrational.engineering/post/3lflwaclxh22iNvidia must be keeping driver installation near-impossible to get right to hold back AGI because the world is not ready yet13 Jan 2025 04:40 +0000at://did:plc:qo2gv6dthmwafvvqkmfq3ezy/app.bsky.feed.post/3lflwaclxh22ihttps://bsky.app/profile/irrational.engineering/post/3ldrdrt6cs22jAnd now that Casey's explainer is getting some visibility, Ben doesn't engage with it all, simply replying "I welcome improvements". Ben, you are making a fool of yourself, quit while you are ahead. This microbenchmark is utterly useless, no improvements can be made! [contains quote post or other embedded content]20 Dec 2024 21:36 +0000at://did:plc:qo2gv6dthmwafvvqkmfq3ezy/app.bsky.feed.post/3ldrdrt6cs22jhttps://bsky.app/profile/irrational.engineering/post/3ld2hcxhkzk22The AWS console's new Cloudscape UI is one of the worst UIs I have ever had the displeasure of using. So much money spent on engineering this crap and for what? It's a regression in every way (for the customer, not that AWS cares anymore). @quinnypig.com save me patron saint of AWS11 Dec 2024 19:08 +0000at://did:plc:qo2gv6dthmwafvvqkmfq3ezy/app.bsky.feed.post/3ld2hcxhkzk22https://bsky.app/profile/irrational.engineering/post/3lcm2oqhis22q@cmuratori.bsky.social did a great, short explanation of why that stupid languages benchmark from Ben Dicken is terrible https://x.com/cmuratori/status/1864546805150830878?t=lBIsHbczxyVZWvV6XZorhg&s=1906 Dec 2024 01:44 +0000at://did:plc:qo2gv6dthmwafvvqkmfq3ezy/app.bsky.feed.post/3lcm2oqhis22q