Thx, great read about Yemen from Maciej Cegłowski https://idlewords.com/2014/07/sana_a.htm

An open course on building high performance LLM inference engine! Hope to finish by the end of April

https://github.com/jmaczan/tiny-vllm

I love this article, the edge cases are where the seeming “simplicity” of floating-point numbers breaks down

Recently wrote a chapter in tiny-vllm course about floats in context of LLM inference, much shorter and not that deep as this one, for anyone interested in topic you might like it too https://github.com/jmaczan/tiny-vllm?tab=readme-ov-file#how-...

Honestly there is a lot for room of improvement in torch-webgpu for performance. Needs involvement of community but the opportunities are definitely there

Overall I think it’s a good perspective and worth reading to learn your perspective and experience. Just for anyone who doesn’t come from a good place, please be kind to yourself. You probably really need to work exceptionally hard and need to have top 1% resume. And articles like this can be quite depressing. Don’t let it you down

The author tries to be mindful about it and I appreciate it, but from a perspective of someone from a shithole it still might feel bad

Referring to:

> I've never gotten a job by applying to it. It's always been referrals or someone reaching out to me. So honestly, my resume is shit compared to my peers. I'm terrible at interviewing, and I've never done LeetCode. This is not a brag; it's just not my style. Am I a nepo baby? I don't know. Was I a morale hire? I'm pretty disagreeable. Was it merit? Also not sure

> I recognize that not everyone has access to the same networking opportunities, and the traditional job application process can be a valid and necessary path for many. But social media, when used correctly, is a great way to get an opportunity

Good for the maintainer, hope they find peace and do things just for their fun, without needing to deal with comments like that anymore

Stepping away from the project would be fine.

Archiving a project which has other maintainers is an overreaction.

Not really. If there are other maintainers who have ownership of the project they can just unarchive it themselves. If not, then he'd have to appoint a successor first, which would mean doing more work for free. So the best solution is just to archive it and let the community fork it if they're interested in continuing development.

Also your phrasing of "would be fine" implies that there are things that are not "fine" to do when doing work for free for the public benefit, which is exactly the sort of entitled attitude that makes many (myself included) uninterested in open sourcing their own projects.

So in some sense we start recreating an operating system, or at least the userspace, within the Claude code. There was some name for this pattern but I can’t recall

Inner platform effect https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inner-platform_effect

It’s some sort of machine inside of a machine I think. Wait, I got it: a simulated machine!

Emacs?

Can confirm that it also happens in other complex systems! Still a lot of good time and the novelty factor helps with pushing through

Congrats and happy for you, you had a lot of fun and did something genuinely interesting

I’m recreating a tiny version of vLLM in C++ and CUDA from scratch (high throughput LLM inference server)

https://github.com/jmaczan/tiny-vllm