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Tyler Hillery @tylerhillery.com · 16/09/2026

Madison Systems has our next talk scheduled and the topic is "The Evolution of Deterministic Simulation Testing" Sign up here: luma.com/nka6507v?tk=...

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Tyler Hillery @tylerhillery.com · 02/09/2026

Lots of talk on using AI for writing so here is a 100% human written blog post on how I started writing more without using AI for help. tylerhillery.com/blog/writing...

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Tyler Hillery @tylerhillery.com · 25/08/2026

Wrote about some thoughts I've had around SQL as a query language. tylerhillery.com/blog/i-love-...

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Tyler Hillery @tylerhillery.com · 17/07/2026

Just found out you can use bat for man pages, very nice

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Tyler Hillery @tylerhillery.com · 15/07/2026

Couldn't help but think of @jeffgeerling.com's video after reading this. youtu.be/v0DEI4Ad7Ik?...

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Tyler Hillery @tylerhillery.com · 29/06/2026

Another great Madison Systems paper discussion! Which one should we read next?

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Tyler Hillery @tylerhillery.com · 15/06/2026

The next Madison Systems paper discussion is scheduled. This time at the Memorial Union Terrace to enjoy the WI summer. Register Here: luma.com/xdmbcw2t?tk=...

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Tyler Hillery @tylerhillery.com · 12/06/2026

This is the paper that inspired me to get into systems programming www.usenix.org/system/files...

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Tyler Hillery @tylerhillery.com · 23/05/2026

Another great Madison Systems paper discussion!

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Tyler Hillery @tylerhillery.com · 15/05/2026

High signal to me is seeing a company landing page that doesn't have "AI" in it. I think @turbopuffer.bsky.social is a great example of this. You'd think a vector DB would be all over "AI" but nope. Just their core value backed up by metrics.

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Tyler Hillery @tylerhillery.com · 13/05/2026

I can't believe this, DC is a lie

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Tyler Hillery @tylerhillery.com · 09/05/2026

Reminder, Madison Systems is having another paper discussion in 2 weeks. This time, we'll be discussing: Scalability! But at what COST? luma.com/1enx2p3m

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Tyler Hillery @tylerhillery.com · 07/05/2026

I wrote about a particular part of ASCII that finally clicked for me today tylerhillery.com/blog/why-don...

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Tyler Hillery @tylerhillery.com · 03/05/2026

Perfect way to spend a Sunday

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Tyler Hillery @tylerhillery.com · 02/05/2026

What bogus, I always thought these numbers were tied to physical measurements

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Tyler Hillery @tylerhillery.com · 27/04/2026

Man I should have switched pypacktrends over to slot based pricing a while ago. Seems like once you get over the > 1TB scanned per month, bytes processed based billing isn't worth it

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Tyler Hillery @tylerhillery.com · 21/04/2026

You know it's serious when you bust out the debugger and start drawing diagrams

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Tyler Hillery @tylerhillery.com · 04/04/2026

Finally pulled the trigger on Math Academy. I haven’t taken a math course since Calc 2 in 2017, which was so hard for me I changed majors. My goal is to follow the foundations path through Discrete Mathematics.

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Tyler Hillery @tylerhillery.com · 28/03/2026

Great discussion today! A surprising amount of Ceph mentions and I had to bring up the napkin math repo a few times

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Tyler Hillery @tylerhillery.com · 24/03/2026

Madison Systems is having another paper discussion this Saturday on The Google File System. Hope to see you there! luma.com/zfh0lcxf

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Tyler Hillery @tylerhillery.com · 21/03/2026

I contributed SHOW CLIENTS metrics to the Prometheus PgBouncer exporter. Similar to pg_stat_activity, but for PgBouncer. Now you can monitor client connections over time. Wrote a bit about it: tylerhillery.com/blog/monitor...

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Tyler Hillery @tylerhillery.com · 20/03/2026

New blog post about the most important thing I've learned while ramping up on Node.js: Don't block the event loop. tylerhillery.com/blog/tyler-t...

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Tyler Hillery @tylerhillery.com · 04/03/2026

I noticed this SQLite query averaging ~90ms event though package_name is the PK, the table has ~865k rows and is ~166MB. Param is a prefix pattern like 'duck%'. Any guesses why it was still that slow?

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Tyler Hillery @tylerhillery.com · 25/02/2026

What a night to blow some snow

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Tyler Hillery @tylerhillery.com · 12/02/2026

You got to be kidding me, even directories are files!? internals-for-interns.com/posts/filesy...

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Tyler Hillery @tylerhillery.com · 12/02/2026

Up ~10k unique visitors on my personal site compared to last year

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Tyler Hillery @tylerhillery.com · 10/02/2026

Homelabbing is a slippery slope...

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Tyler Hillery @tylerhillery.com · 09/02/2026

Also, just found out @readwise.bsky.social has built in support for pdfs and it's really good

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Tyler Hillery @tylerhillery.com · 06/02/2026

I used AI to contribute to an OS project, mise, and I would lying if I said I fully understood the code it generated. I decided to write about my experience. Open source is getting flooded with AI slop, I hope this shows a better way to contribute. tylerhillery.com/blog/using-a...

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Tyler Hillery @tylerhillery.com · 01/02/2026

This weekend's rabbit hole was so fun I had to write about it. I went from cheap mini PCs on eBay to learning how Chick-fil-A and Home Depot run Kubernetes inside their stores. tylerhillery.com/blog/running...

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Tyler Hillery @tylerhillery.com · 30/01/2026

Using Quarto for my blog was one of the best decisions ever made. Just found out today it has native support for mermaid diagrams

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Tyler Hillery @tylerhillery.com · 30/01/2026

Shelving just came in, the mini rack is complete!

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Tyler Hillery @tylerhillery.com · 30/01/2026

One of the advantages of building data centers in Wisconsin is that cooling can be handled simply by opening a window for about eight months of the year. www.wpr.org/news/4-wisco...

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Tyler Hillery @tylerhillery.com · 27/01/2026

Love the work @schier.co is doing with @yaak.app, happy to support him!

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Tyler Hillery @tylerhillery.com · 26/01/2026

Wrote my first link blog (inspired by @simonwillison.net) reacting to @swizec.com's "The future of software engineering is SRE" tylerhillery.com/blog/link-bl...

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Tyler Hillery @tylerhillery.com · 20/01/2026

New Tyler Tries is out! This time I wrote about my experience developing my first chrome web extension Read Here: tylerhillery.com/blog/tyler-t...

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Tyler Hillery @tylerhillery.com · 19/01/2026

My mini rack is coming together, just waiting on shelving!

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Tyler Hillery @tylerhillery.com · 06/01/2026

Haleakalā sunrise was amazing

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Tyler Hillery @tylerhillery.com · 23/12/2025

Can’t wait to show off my new homelab setup on r/homelab

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Tyler Hillery @tylerhillery.com · 17/12/2025

Would you look at that, new ClickBench #1 is a project from the other two co-organizers of Madison Systems 👀 Probably a sign for you to subscribe to our luma calendar for upcoming events! luma.com/madisonsystems

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Tyler Hillery @tylerhillery.com · 13/12/2025

So proud of my wife taking 5th at the NPC National Championships bodybuilding competition ♥️

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Tyler Hillery @tylerhillery.com · 07/12/2025

The talk was great! The recording will be on YouTube within the next couple of weeks

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Tyler Hillery @tylerhillery.com · 26/11/2025

SF may have Waymo but does it have the USPS NGDV?

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Tyler Hillery @tylerhillery.com · 09/11/2025

Thanks again to @xiangpeng.systems and @abigalekim.bsky.social for helping co-organize! I finally figured out why this image felt so familiar…

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Tyler Hillery @tylerhillery.com · 09/11/2025

What a turnout for the first ever Madison Systems meetup. I'm blown away by the systems talent and interest in Madison! Make sure to subscribe to the Madison Systems Luma calendar for updates on future events: luma.com/madisonsystems

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Tyler Hillery @tylerhillery.com · 20/10/2025

I did Postgres dirty with this one

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