Antón
@anton.galiglobal.com
Senior Software Engineer who's enthusiastic with Rust, data systems performance and streaming algorithms. Plus, I'm a big fan of reducing my carbon footprint 🌱
I don’t know what OpenAI changed this weekend, but ChatGPT and Cursor felt like a major downgrade. Even basic tasks failed, from image resizing scripts to Pokémon recognition. This is what makes working with big tech LLMs so frustrating: opaque updates and no changelog you can trust
December 28, 2025 at 2:13 PM
I don’t know what OpenAI changed this weekend, but ChatGPT and Cursor felt like a major downgrade. Even basic tasks failed, from image resizing scripts to Pokémon recognition. This is what makes working with big tech LLMs so frustrating: opaque updates and no changelog you can trust
One last article on my blog to close the year. My work setup has changed a lot lately, even the way I interact with software, so here are my ramblings about it.
Git and Markdown are all you need
A minimalist personal stack: Git for ownership, Markdown for content, and tiny scripts plus AI to automate daily notes, news, and publishing
blog.anton.galiglobal.com
December 26, 2025 at 4:12 PM
One last article on my blog to close the year. My work setup has changed a lot lately, even the way I interact with software, so here are my ramblings about it.
Pro Tip: Press Ctrl+g in Claude Code to open the prompt in your editor. This feature will also be available in the upcoming version of Codex
December 24, 2025 at 10:02 AM
Pro Tip: Press Ctrl+g in Claude Code to open the prompt in your editor. This feature will also be available in the upcoming version of Codex
A love letter from @rmoff.net to Raycast is something you can't miss if you use a Mac. Raycast is the only tool I miss when using Linux and I learnt many good tricks reading the article rmoff.net/2025/12/18/a...
A love letter to Raycast ❤️
rmoff.net
December 19, 2025 at 11:59 AM
A love letter from @rmoff.net to Raycast is something you can't miss if you use a Mac. Raycast is the only tool I miss when using Linux and I learnt many good tricks reading the article rmoff.net/2025/12/18/a...
io_uring for High-Performance DBMSs: When and How to Use It arxiv.org/html/2512.04...
io_uring for High-Performance DBMSs: When and How to Use It
arxiv.org
December 16, 2025 at 6:51 PM
io_uring for High-Performance DBMSs: When and How to Use It arxiv.org/html/2512.04...
Superb article about building a queue in Rust 👇
new post: abhikja.in/blog/2025-12...
December 13, 2025 at 8:00 AM
Superb article about building a queue in Rust 👇
I once told a PM "We aren't interested in this feature, so let's skip the meeting." He insisted we meet anyway. He didn't want to sell me, he wanted my technical feedback. Brendan published a great post about this exact dynamic and how Intel is actually listening www.brendangregg.com/blog/2025-11...
Intel is listening, don't waste your shot
Intel is listening, don't waste your shot
www.brendangregg.com
December 6, 2025 at 10:11 AM
I once told a PM "We aren't interested in this feature, so let's skip the meeting." He insisted we meet anyway. He didn't want to sell me, he wanted my technical feedback. Brendan published a great post about this exact dynamic and how Intel is actually listening www.brendangregg.com/blog/2025-11...
Someone is rewriting the OTEL Collector in Rust, and honestly it’s exciting to watch. The Arrow ecosystem, otel-arrow in particular, is slowly taking over the OTEL tooling, one crate at a time www.youtube.com/watch?v=xeQn...
Introducing a Lightweight Rust OpenTelemetry Collector - Mike Heffner & Ray Jenkins, Streamfold
YouTube video by CNCF [Cloud Native Computing Foundation]
www.youtube.com
December 5, 2025 at 6:24 PM
Someone is rewriting the OTEL Collector in Rust, and honestly it’s exciting to watch. The Arrow ecosystem, otel-arrow in particular, is slowly taking over the OTEL tooling, one crate at a time www.youtube.com/watch?v=xeQn...
My zone 2 run was quite fun today
November 27, 2025 at 8:38 PM
My zone 2 run was quite fun today
What a superb timeseries database implementation masterclass! 🤯 m.youtube.com/watch?v=r4Lk...
InfluxDB: The Evolution of a Time Series Database (with Paul Dix)
YouTube video by Developer Voices
m.youtube.com
November 25, 2025 at 10:20 PM
What a superb timeseries database implementation masterclass! 🤯 m.youtube.com/watch?v=r4Lk...
I've discovered stacked panes in zellij (a rust version of tmux) this weekend and I can't live without them anymore
November 24, 2025 at 7:10 PM
I've discovered stacked panes in zellij (a rust version of tmux) this weekend and I can't live without them anymore
Spent way too long getting eBPF + Rust working on mixed setups (ARM Macs, Windows, Linux). Wrote up the approach that finally made everything click. Lima, Aya templates, uprobe examples, everything that actually worked.
eBPF with Rust using Aya (from macOS, Windows, or Linux)
blog.anton.galiglobal.com
November 21, 2025 at 6:53 PM
Spent way too long getting eBPF + Rust working on mixed setups (ARM Macs, Windows, Linux). Wrote up the approach that finally made everything click. Lima, Aya templates, uprobe examples, everything that actually worked.
Sometimes life smiles back when you least expect it. I'm beyond happy to announce that I've joined Phoebe. I wasn’t planning to start this soon, but some opportunities simply cannot be missed 🚀
phoebe.ai
phoebe.ai
Phoebe - The immune system for your software
The immune system for your software. AI agents that continuously investigate live data, diagnose emerging issues and generate preemptive fixes.
phoebe.ai
November 21, 2025 at 9:47 AM
Sometimes life smiles back when you least expect it. I'm beyond happy to announce that I've joined Phoebe. I wasn’t planning to start this soon, but some opportunities simply cannot be missed 🚀
phoebe.ai
phoebe.ai
Closing an important phase today after three months working on projects at @fic-udc.bsky.social at @udc.gal. Grateful to the DB Lab and to the Green IA & algs chair for an inspiring journey. I’ll keep collaborating with the university but there are new exciting things ahead!
November 14, 2025 at 5:14 PM
Closing an important phase today after three months working on projects at @fic-udc.bsky.social at @udc.gal. Grateful to the DB Lab and to the Green IA & algs chair for an inspiring journey. I’ll keep collaborating with the university but there are new exciting things ahead!
My DS213J is 11 years old (and still working!). Time for an upgrade
November 11, 2025 at 7:37 PM
My DS213J is 11 years old (and still working!). Time for an upgrade
As I prepare my JUG talk and revisit Java 24 and 25, I appreciate how well the new concurrency tools fit together. Virtual Threads simplify threading, Structured Concurrency brings clarity to task management, and Scoped Values make context handling elegant. Java’s getting seriously fun to work with.
November 10, 2025 at 3:04 PM
As I prepare my JUG talk and revisit Java 24 and 25, I appreciate how well the new concurrency tools fit together. Virtual Threads simplify threading, Structured Concurrency brings clarity to task management, and Scoped Values make context handling elegant. Java’s getting seriously fun to work with.
This brought back memories. I built a similar setup at New Relic using Flink CDC and object storage. It was more efficient than Kafka + Kafka Connect for our workload. Temporal workflows seem like the natural next step I didn’t get to explore www.datadoghq.com/blog/enginee...
Replication redefined: How we built a low-latency, multi-tenant data replication platform | Datadog
Discover how Datadog engineered a scalable Change Data Capture (CDC) platform to replicate data across systems in near real time—reducing search latency by 87%, increasing availability, and powering d...
www.datadoghq.com
November 9, 2025 at 5:45 PM
This brought back memories. I built a similar setup at New Relic using Flink CDC and object storage. It was more efficient than Kafka + Kafka Connect for our workload. Temporal workflows seem like the natural next step I didn’t get to explore www.datadoghq.com/blog/enginee...
In hindsight, walking away from a stable job to focus on my health, my family, my engineering skills, and finding meaningful work was terrifying... but easily one of the best decisions I’ve ever made
November 7, 2025 at 10:25 PM
In hindsight, walking away from a stable job to focus on my health, my family, my engineering skills, and finding meaningful work was terrifying... but easily one of the best decisions I’ve ever made
It is interesting to see Google not only rewriting a CLI tool in Rust, but also embedding an ML model in it and using Tokio for async parallel processing opensource.googleblog.com/2025/11/anno...
Announcing Magika 1.0: now faster, smarter, and rebuilt in Rust
opensource.googleblog.com
November 6, 2025 at 10:11 PM
It is interesting to see Google not only rewriting a CLI tool in Rust, but also embedding an ML model in it and using Tokio for async parallel processing opensource.googleblog.com/2025/11/anno...
Kafka past community culture was one of the best parts for me. Very technical people, from multiple competing companies, collaborating and pushing the ecosystem forward together. The level of discourse was absurdly high. I could learn real things in every thread.
November 5, 2025 at 10:02 AM
Kafka past community culture was one of the best parts for me. Very technical people, from multiple competing companies, collaborating and pushing the ecosystem forward together. The level of discourse was absurdly high. I could learn real things in every thread.
I thought my next post would be something different, but this project ended up being enjoyable enough that it deserved a write up.
“Building LocalFirstPacer: a small running tool for someone you care about”
www.galiglobal.com/blog/2025/20...
“Building LocalFirstPacer: a small running tool for someone you care about”
www.galiglobal.com/blog/2025/20...
November 1, 2025 at 4:53 PM
I thought my next post would be something different, but this project ended up being enjoyable enough that it deserved a write up.
“Building LocalFirstPacer: a small running tool for someone you care about”
www.galiglobal.com/blog/2025/20...
“Building LocalFirstPacer: a small running tool for someone you care about”
www.galiglobal.com/blog/2025/20...
I may not be using Java often right now, but talking about the latest features is always worthwhile, and doing so in the local Java User Group is a bonus www.linkedin.com/feed/update/...
November 1, 2025 at 3:00 PM
I may not be using Java often right now, but talking about the latest features is always worthwhile, and doing so in the local Java User Group is a bonus www.linkedin.com/feed/update/...
Reading about Corrosion: a Rust project that replicates a SQLite database using a gossip protocol. Really cool intersection of SQLite, CRDTs and SWIM. I also appreciate how openly they document their gnarlier failure modes and war stories so far fly.io/blog/corrosi...
Corrosion
Corrosion is distributed service discovery based on Rust, SQLite, and CRDTs.
fly.io
November 1, 2025 at 12:33 PM
Reading about Corrosion: a Rust project that replicates a SQLite database using a gossip protocol. Really cool intersection of SQLite, CRDTs and SWIM. I also appreciate how openly they document their gnarlier failure modes and war stories so far fly.io/blog/corrosi...
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Discuss @galiglobal.com's post on Frontpage.
frontpage.fyi
October 31, 2025 at 8:41 PM
Just installed this for @frontpage.fyi @galiglobal.com its cool, so handy! #ATmosphere #atproto
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October 28, 2025 at 4:45 PM