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Anil Madhavapeddy's homepage
Anil Madhavapeddy's homepageSep 20, 2026
.plan-26-38: Near, far, wherever you are, Tessera infers on
Working through dClimate's wall-to-wall v1.1 Tessera embeddings, and finding threatened species near you with the Dash of Life.
tesseraconservation
Anil Madhavapeddy's homepage
Anil Madhavapeddy's homepageSep 9, 2026
Open MPhil/Part II student projects for 2026-2027
A refreshed set of Part II and MPhil projects, split between environmental science problems that need computer science, and more conventional systems and programming languages topics.
cambridgeresearch
gordonbrander.com
gordonbrander.comJul 18, 2026
Think about the game theory of coalitions
If there’s a coalition, think about the game theory. Who is participating, and why? Who would defect, and why?
strategysystems
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starostka.ioJul 16, 2026
The Linux Kernel — a commons that holds up the world
linuxkernel
ver.ooo
ver.oooJul 14, 2026
Files and Ritual
An interview with Ver, conducted and edited by Claude Bigbooté.
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productionagents
Anil Madhavapeddy's homepage
Anil Madhavapeddy's homepageJun 6, 2026
Self-hosting email the hard way from your own routable IPv4 block up
How we refreshed self-hosted Recoil email with our own RIPE-allocated IPv4 block, and deployed Postfix/rspamd/Dovecot to get full SPF/DKIM/DMARC deliverability.
networkingselfhosting
Nathan Nelson
Nathan NelsonJun 1, 2026
Groundswell and the rhetorical ecology of farming and food
Thoughts on farming, food systems and rhetorical ecology prompted by a documentary film trailer I didn't much like. #FoodStudies #agriculture #ecology #agroecology #systems
agroecologyfood
Anil Dash
Anil DashJan 5, 2026
How the hell are you supposed to have a career in tech in 2026?
The number one question I get from my friends, acquaintances, and mentees in the technology industry these days is, by far, variations on the basic theme of, “what the hell are we supposed to do now?” There have been mass layoffs that leave more tech workers than ever looking for new roles in the…
systemstech
Anil Dash
Anil DashDec 5, 2025
They have to be able to talk about us without us
It’s absolutely vital to be able to communicate effectively and efficiently to large groups of people. I’ve been lucky enough to get to refine and test my skills in communicating at scale for a few decades now, and the power of talking to communities is the one area where I’d most like to pass on…
techsystems
gordonbrander.com
gordonbrander.comOct 28, 2025
Ecosystems are smarter than we are
Beer thought that ecosystems are smarter than we are—not in their representational cognitive abilities, but in their performative ability to solve problems that exceed our cognitive ones. The quote above is from Andrew Pickering, The Cybernetic…
cyberneticsecosystems
gordonbrander.com
gordonbrander.comOct 28, 2025
Outcome over representation
But Beer started from this realization: in a world of exceedingly complex systems, for which any representation can only be provisional, performance is what we need to care about. ( Andrew Pickering , 2010, The Cybernetic Brain ) Stafford Beer and…
aicybernetics
gordonbrander.com
gordonbrander.comOct 28, 2025
When data is bad, use simple models
Simple models outperform complex models when data is bad or sparse. Simple models work better in VUCA environments. From the SFI Podcast Apr 6, 2020 , discussing Jurgen Jost and Luu Hoang's paper on making the most of bad data : When data is really…
strategysystems
gordonbrander.com
gordonbrander.comOct 28, 2025
VUCA
We live in a networked world, a world governed by asymmetry, feedback loops , and power laws . The US Army and Navy War College has an acronym for this kind of world: VUCA . Volatile Uncertain Complex Ambiguous
futuresstrategy
gordonbrander.com
gordonbrander.comOct 28, 2025
Systems are counterintuitive
The human mind is not adapted to interpreting how social systems behave. Social systems belong to the class called multi-loop nonlinear feedback systems. In the long history of evolution it has not been necessary until very recent historical times…
quotesystems
gordonbrander.com
gordonbrander.comOct 28, 2025
Slowly, then all at once
How complex systems fail: slowly, then all at once. All complex sytems are full of non-linear feedback loops . In a healthy complex system, these will have balancing feedback loops, holding each other in dynamic equilibrium. Given a small…
strategysystems
gordonbrander.com
gordonbrander.comOct 28, 2025
Second System Syndrome
Second System Syndrome is the curse by which a simple system is doomed to be replaced by an excessively abstract, over-engeered, or bloated successor. You hack together a small simple program to solve a problem. Congratulations! It's wildly…
engineeringsystems
gordonbrander.com
gordonbrander.comOct 28, 2025
Places to intervene in a system
From Leverage Points: Places to Intervene in a System , by Donella Meadows: PLACES TO INTERVENE IN A SYSTEM (in increasing order of effectiveness) Constants, parameters, numbers (such as subsidies, taxes, standards). The sizes of buffers and other…
strategysystems
gordonbrander.com
gordonbrander.comOct 28, 2025
Civilization advances by extending the number of important operations
Alfred North Whitehead : Civilization advances by extending the number of important operations which we can perform without thinking about them. And: Operations of thought are like cavalry charges in a battle — they are strictly limited in number,…
civilizationquote
Anil Madhavapeddy's homepage
Anil Madhavapeddy's homepageJun 11, 2025
Under the hood with Apple's new Containerization framework
Technical deep dive into Apple's new macOS Tahoe containerization framework using Kata Containers and Swift-based implementation.
dockercontainers
Anil Madhavapeddy's homepage
Anil Madhavapeddy's homepageApr 17, 2025
Talks from LOCO24 are now available online
LOCO24 conference talks now available on self-hosted video platforms with peer-to-peer redundancy.
carbonpolicy
Anil Madhavapeddy's homepage
Anil Madhavapeddy's homepageApr 16, 2025
Webassembly on exotic architectures (a 2025 roundup)
Survey of WebAssembly implementations on non-traditional targets including native Linux port, kernel-mode runtime, POSIX browser support and FPGA ports.
wasmsystems
Anil Madhavapeddy's homepage
Anil Madhavapeddy's homepageApr 12, 2025
Unikernels wins the ASPLOS most influential paper award
2013 MirageOS unikernels paper wins ASPLOS influential paper award with reflections on the journey from rejection to recognition.
unikernelsawards
ooo-yay.com
ooo-yay.comSep 13, 2024
How I design systems
A practical guide to designing distributed systems by breaking them down into functional areas: architecture, communication, ingress, events, databases, caching, testing, and instrumentation.
systemsarchitecture
Anil Dash
Anil DashJul 2, 2024
Systems: How the Ultra-Wealthy Think About Money
A lot of the ways that the ultra-wealthy think about, and act about, money seem almost incomprehensible to those outside of their orbit. Having had a chance to get some visibility into how a number of billionaires and centimillionaires think and work, I thought it might be useful to share a key…
systemsventure-capital