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Camilla Montonen @spimescape.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

People are suddenly excited about classifiers again and it feels like we have come full circle?

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ngrok @ngrok.com · 11/08/2026

Compression and LLMs are trying to solve the exact same problem: predicting what comes next. @anniesexton.com's interactive essay walks us through the basics of compression to reveal its surprising overlap with every language model you've ever used.

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Camilla Montonen @spimescape.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

Maybe @masnick.com is right and coding with LLMs will lead to a Geocities-que renaissance of the weird, the peculiar, the quirky on the web

A screenshot of a blog where each post is represented by a vintage postal stamp or piece of ephemera with a title and a date. The blog is titled "Dispatches" and has a tan/beige background reminiscent of old paper. The web design of the layout is generated with an LLM.

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Camilla Montonen @spimescape.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

Anyone have recommendations for user-friendly or even semi-user friendly GPU platforms where I could spin up a vLLM server without breaking the bank? Tried Modal, but my container image builds are breaking :(.

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Camilla Montonen @spimescape.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

Logged off of Twitter for prob the last time. It's not a place I've wanted to be for a long time. Even if you ignore all the other bullshit (and you shouldn't), the public tech agora of the 2010-2020 era is gone now. I miss the conversations. I hope they will continue somewhere in some form.

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halvarflake.bsky.social @halvarflake.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

In the last years, I spent some of my scarce free time writing up what I had learnt starting and running two companies, zynamics and optimyze The article is still work-in-progress, but I thought it's best to publish it now and iterate in public: thomasdullien.github.io/guides/entre...

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Halvar’s Guide to Entrepreneurship – Thomas Dullien / Halvar Flake

Thomas Dullien’s guide to software and SaaS B2B entrepreneurship.

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Camilla Montonen @spimescape.bsky.social · 21/06/2026

btw, slightly offtopic, but are there any simulations/calculations on whether algae could be used for carbon removal at an industrial scale?

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Camilla Montonen @spimescape.bsky.social · 20/06/2026

The fact that Claude allows me to be fairly productive (on small matters) in a codebase written in a language (Rust) that I have very little experience with is a small miracle. The downside is that I can only be productive in this codebase with Claude. If Claude is not working, neither can I.

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Camilla Montonen @spimescape.bsky.social · 20/06/2026

I sound like a broken record, but I really miss having an online place to discuss tech stuff. In spite of all its shortcomings, tech twitter c. 2010-2020 was really the peak.

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House & Field Negro Quarterly @morethanmud.bsky.social · 23/05/2026

the hungry observatory

black and white photo of domed observatory beneath a full moon; opened at the top resembling the pac man video game about to eat an energy dot

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Camilla Montonen @spimescape.bsky.social · 24/05/2026

Little did past me - furiously writing Twitter quitpieces for my blog- know that one day, I would come to sorely miss the place known as Tech Twitter.

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Cameron Blevins @cblevins.bsky.social · 03/04/2026

This is so, so well-articulated.

People call this friction "grunt work." Schwartz uses exactly that phrase, and he's right that LLMs can remove it. What he doesn't say, because he already has decades of hard-won intuition and doesn't need the grunt work anymore, is that for someone who doesn't yet have that intuition, the grunt work is the work. The boring parts and the important parts are tangled together in a way that you can't separate in advance. You don't know which afternoon of debugging was the one that taught you something fundamental about your data until three years later, when you're working on a completely different problem and the insight surfaces. Serendipity doesn't come from efficiency. It comes from spending time in the space where the problem lives, getting your hands dirty, making mistakes that nobody asked you to make and learning things nobody assigned you to learn.

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Camilla Montonen @spimescape.bsky.social · 01/12/2025

Really miss workplace environments where there is low ego and hierarchy and everyone is just learning from everyone regardless of experience or tech stack.

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Shannon Vallor @shannonvallor.bsky.social · 16/11/2025

I’ll bite. A machine that: 1. Experiences the world with us 2. Shares some truth-interest in the world (intellectual integrity & curiosity) 4. Forms ideas rather than barfs up chunks of algorithmically masticated text 5. Created to complement rather than devalue human intelligence and creativity

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Camilla Montonen @spimescape.bsky.social · 20/10/2025

This is how I learnt about GPUs without basically any background knowledge.

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flaneur2024.bsky.social @flaneur2024.bsky.social · 12/10/2025

modern LLM inference engines like vLLM & SGlang are becoming tough to dive into. to learn how these inference engines work, nano-vllm is a fantastic educational project—complete Page Attention & LLM scheduler in <1k loc.🤯 flaneur2020.github.io/posts/2025-1...

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A Walkthrough of nano-vllm | Flaneur2020

Recently, I’ve been delving into the architecture of production-grade inference engines. While projects like vLLM and SGLang are crazy sophisticated, …

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Camilla Montonen @spimescape.bsky.social · 12/10/2025

TIL that junk journaling is a thing!

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Camilla Montonen @spimescape.bsky.social · 12/10/2025

Microblogging like it's 2010s with vibes.

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Camilla Montonen @spimescape.bsky.social · 11/10/2025

Me after hearing that Python 3.14 has removed the GIL: "ah, finally increased throughput of pulling data from Big Query into my Jupyter notebooks." Also me: "ah, a new footgun to add to my repertoire"

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Camilla Montonen @spimescape.bsky.social · 11/10/2025

One of the design issues with Jupyter notebooks when it comes to heavy ML workloads is that the notebook server runs by default on the same machine as the kernel that executes the code.

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Camilla Montonen @spimescape.bsky.social · 11/10/2025

NVIDIA seems to invest a lot of engineering effort into making higher level libraries for writing efficient GPU code and yet everyone is flexing by rolling out their own CUDA kernels.

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Camilla Montonen @spimescape.bsky.social · 11/10/2025

I was looking for a solution to "migrate a container that is close to OOM" onto another node and found CRIU. Still a bit unclear if it supported on Google's GKE or not.

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Camilla Montonen @spimescape.bsky.social · 08/10/2025

Container image experts - is it possible to manually create a new layer by manipulation the files in the tar archive you get after running docker image save?

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Camilla Montonen @spimescape.bsky.social · 08/10/2025

One of the major design flaws of many notebook environments like Jupyter is that the kernel that does computations is not separate from the machine that runs the notebook server itself.

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Camilla Montonen @spimescape.bsky.social · 05/10/2025

When folks say they are going to build AGI - what exactly does that look like?

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Camilla Montonen @spimescape.bsky.social · 30/09/2025

I am very much a beginner in this space but napkin math for systems problems is quite a lot of fun!

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Camilla Montonen @spimescape.bsky.social · 30/09/2025

I use k8s extensively in the AI/ML space and would love to see a k8s that is more geared towards ML pipeline or batch job needs. The reason we stick with k8s despite the shortcomings is the sheet number of cloud services and oss platforms that integrate with k8s out of the box.

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Camilla Montonen @spimescape.bsky.social · 30/09/2025

Interesting but it looks like it also targets services so perhaps not so suitable for ML batch jobs. "Running a shared-nothing architecture at the edge, we needed a simple way to scale HTTP/TCP based containers without the overhead of complex infrastructure or additional dependencies. "

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Chris @chris.blue · 24/06/2025

Is anyone working on a K8s alternative? Kinda curious.

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Camilla Montonen @spimescape.bsky.social · 30/09/2025

What is the best place to ask noob questions related to the Linux kernel?

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Camilla Montonen @spimescape.bsky.social · 21/09/2025

Any webmasters here? I recently discovered that the crawler with the user agent ChatGPT-User does not appear to respect robots.txt, but it also could be that I just misconfigured my robots.txt. Anyone else had a similar experience?

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Camilla Montonen @spimescape.bsky.social · 17/09/2025

Are there are any k8s community initiatives that aim to improve container cold start times on clusters?

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Camilla Montonen @spimescape.bsky.social · 14/09/2025

Computer vision folks, what is the current SOTA when it comes to circle detection in images?

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Camilla Montonen @spimescape.bsky.social · 14/09/2025

I thought that the ultimate winners of the current era would be the chip manufacturers and the infra software layers, but this gave me some new perspectives to think about.

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Camilla Montonen @spimescape.bsky.social · 14/09/2025

London friends, I hope you are staying safe.

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Gavin Lucan @swordgav.bsky.social · 14/09/2025

Kindness is punk as fuck.

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Camilla Montonen @spimescape.bsky.social · 13/09/2025

Makes me sad that Glitch was shutdown!

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Camilla Montonen @spimescape.bsky.social · 06/09/2025

It's been weird watching the vibe shift (literal) in tech over the past decade. A few years ago it was 'leet' to know low-level stuff and esoterica about your fav programming lang.

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Camilla Montonen @spimescape.bsky.social · 06/09/2025

Some stats from the world of AI search engines: In a period of 2 weeks, users performed nearly 50 000 queries of my website using ChatGPT or other AI assisted methods. Out of those queries, 860 ended up visiting my site after their interaction with the website via AI.

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Camilla Montonen @spimescape.bsky.social · 01/09/2025

I want to explore from first principles how one goes about checkpointing and restoring a simple Linux process (say a very simple C program or a simple Python program), but I have no clue where to start reinventing this wheel.

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Camilla Montonen @spimescape.bsky.social · 31/08/2025

This is what re-reading something I wrote at night feels like in the morning.

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Camilla Montonen @spimescape.bsky.social · 30/08/2025

How does OOM termination of a process work in the Linux kernel?

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Camilla Montonen @spimescape.bsky.social · 30/08/2025

I run a small niche website with about 30k monthly users and in the past few months, bot traffic (some from well-known actors in the space that do respect robots.txt, others without even an identifying user agent) has been putting a serious strain on the infrastructure.

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Gergely Orosz @gergely.pragmaticengineer.com · 30/08/2025

I'm researching what is happening in the tech jobs market. If you're a hiring manager recruiting, or an experienced eng on the job market, would love to hear what you see. DMs open. (Feels like a weird market. I suspect data on eg jobs doesn't reflect what's on the ground)

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Camilla Montonen @spimescape.bsky.social · 29/08/2025

Remote work is the reason I have been able to stay in tech for over a decade.

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