Adam
@adamg.computer
Software engineer. Mostly interested in Rust, data intensive systems and cats. jlm -> tlv -> ldn.
personally I'm not worried about LLM-induced brain rot, we've had LinkedIn-powered brain rot for years now and we're obviously doing great
January 3, 2026 at 10:40 PM
personally I'm not worried about LLM-induced brain rot, we've had LinkedIn-powered brain rot for years now and we're obviously doing great
Anyone who worked on @patrickhwillems.bsky.social's Bollywood video should be paid more to write more. It's one of my favorite things over the past few years, watched it like five times at this point.
youtu.be/BSRddWXSAA4
youtu.be/BSRddWXSAA4
January 2, 2026 at 6:16 PM
Anyone who worked on @patrickhwillems.bsky.social's Bollywood video should be paid more to write more. It's one of my favorite things over the past few years, watched it like five times at this point.
youtu.be/BSRddWXSAA4
youtu.be/BSRddWXSAA4
שוק התרבות הכי גדול שלי בלונדון זה שהכל סגור בכריסמס (כולל תחבורה לשדה תעופה), וב-1/1 הדבר היחיד שהצלחתי למצוא זה סניף של Gail's, לגמרי איבדתי את השריר של לתכנן דברים סביב השבת
3. ניסיתי אתמול (ב1/1) למצוא מתנה וזה היה סיוט לא נורמלי כי ליטרלי כל החנויות היו סגורות. אחת הערים הכי תיירותיות בעולם, באחד הימים הכי תיירותיים שלה בשנה, וכל הרשתות סגורות. כל הכבוד לצרפתים שהצליחו (לפחות בזה) להביס את הקפיטליזם.
January 2, 2026 at 6:10 PM
שוק התרבות הכי גדול שלי בלונדון זה שהכל סגור בכריסמס (כולל תחבורה לשדה תעופה), וב-1/1 הדבר היחיד שהצלחתי למצוא זה סניף של Gail's, לגמרי איבדתי את השריר של לתכנן דברים סביב השבת
I'm somewhat biased as I'm personally invested in Vortex (work for the company that originated it) and a fan of Polar Signals, but continuous profiling in production is just a must in any non-trivial software deployment, it's just so powerful
A simple 50-line code change saves us 30% of CPU across our whole infrastructure. This is the magic of system-wide profiling with @polarsignals.com. Easy to spot, easy to fix.
performance[vortex-array]: don't call is_valid to count bytes in varbinview by asubiotto · Pull Request #5814 · vortex-data/vortex
I noticed that the better blocks compressor uses count_referenced_bytes which calls is_valid on each view and results in an expensive scalar_at call. This was 30% of our system-wide CPU usage over ...
github.com
December 23, 2025 at 12:29 PM
I'm somewhat biased as I'm personally invested in Vortex (work for the company that originated it) and a fan of Polar Signals, but continuous profiling in production is just a must in any non-trivial software deployment, it's just so powerful
I took two weeks off, went to one museum, watched a few movies, bought a PS5 and played over 100 hours of Kingdom Come Deliverance 2, time well spent.
November 27, 2025 at 3:34 PM
I took two weeks off, went to one museum, watched a few movies, bought a PS5 and played over 100 hours of Kingdom Come Deliverance 2, time well spent.
all benchmarks are bad and all benchmark-based marketing is bullshit, and everyone should stop doing that
November 9, 2025 at 9:52 PM
all benchmarks are bad and all benchmark-based marketing is bullshit, and everyone should stop doing that
today on the orange site - the linux foundation is a conspiracy by ai grifters to avoid paying taxes by donating half-baked open source projects
September 11, 2025 at 8:04 PM
today on the orange site - the linux foundation is a conspiracy by ai grifters to avoid paying taxes by donating half-baked open source projects
Spent 4 hours getting some linker magic to the point of not breaking the build on macos (didn't do much else), only to realize I can just make it dissapear with the magic of macros.
But hey, at least now I know how to make the macos linker to not strip some unused symbols!
But hey, at least now I know how to make the macos linker to not strip some unused symbols!
July 31, 2025 at 10:09 PM
Spent 4 hours getting some linker magic to the point of not breaking the build on macos (didn't do much else), only to realize I can just make it dissapear with the magic of macros.
But hey, at least now I know how to make the macos linker to not strip some unused symbols!
But hey, at least now I know how to make the macos linker to not strip some unused symbols!
I've generally given up on having better code review experience in github (on the web), but I'll keep praying for private PRs because I like their diff
July 23, 2025 at 1:12 PM
I've generally given up on having better code review experience in github (on the web), but I'll keep praying for private PRs because I like their diff
@rust-lang.org-people, what's an open source project that you think has good error handling? I've been using thiserror for the past ~3 years in multiple codebases and I keep running into the same corners I'm unhappy with, and I want to read some new patterns/designs and get some better ideas
July 14, 2025 at 12:14 PM
@rust-lang.org-people, what's an open source project that you think has good error handling? I've been using thiserror for the past ~3 years in multiple codebases and I keep running into the same corners I'm unhappy with, and I want to read some new patterns/designs and get some better ideas
החלום האמיתי שלי הוא שכל לינקדאין יבואו לטוויטר כדי שפעם אחת יאמרו להם את האמת בפנים
June 29, 2025 at 5:36 PM
החלום האמיתי שלי הוא שכל לינקדאין יבואו לטוויטר כדי שפעם אחת יאמרו להם את האמת בפנים
watching the empire strikes back for the first time in 10+ years and I really think it doesn't get enough credit for how visually stunning it is
June 1, 2025 at 7:22 PM
watching the empire strikes back for the first time in 10+ years and I really think it doesn't get enough credit for how visually stunning it is
@rust-lang.org folks, whats the best way to hold a security sensitive string in memory? I'm tempted to to just rollout my own wrapper with zeroize and safe Display/Debug implementations but I'm wondering if there's a well maintained crate out there.
May 8, 2025 at 10:22 AM
@rust-lang.org folks, whats the best way to hold a security sensitive string in memory? I'm tempted to to just rollout my own wrapper with zeroize and safe Display/Debug implementations but I'm wondering if there's a well maintained crate out there.
@hankgreen.bsky.social I hope you understand that your suggestion on your last video to declare a new timezone that isn't just defined by an offset from UTC+some daylight savings time is deep existential horror content for basically every programmer out there.
May 4, 2025 at 8:13 AM
@hankgreen.bsky.social I hope you understand that your suggestion on your last video to declare a new timezone that isn't just defined by an offset from UTC+some daylight savings time is deep existential horror content for basically every programmer out there.
Reposted by Adam
Last month I worked on Apache Iceberg integration for Vortex, the results of which we presented earlier this month at Iceberg Summit.
I wrote a post about my experience bridging our Rust-based system to Iceberg and Spark
spiraldb.com/post/vortex-...
I wrote a post about my experience bridging our Rust-based system to Iceberg and Spark
spiraldb.com/post/vortex-...
Vortex on Ice
Using Vortex to accelerate Apache Iceberg queries up to 4x
spiraldb.com
April 30, 2025 at 2:51 PM
Last month I worked on Apache Iceberg integration for Vortex, the results of which we presented earlier this month at Iceberg Summit.
I wrote a post about my experience bridging our Rust-based system to Iceberg and Spark
spiraldb.com/post/vortex-...
I wrote a post about my experience bridging our Rust-based system to Iceberg and Spark
spiraldb.com/post/vortex-...
I sort of get twitter bots, but blusky bots are just so weird
April 21, 2025 at 7:43 PM
I sort of get twitter bots, but blusky bots are just so weird
Did google fonts always use the UN's declaration of human rights for its placeholder text?
April 20, 2025 at 8:03 PM
Did google fonts always use the UN's declaration of human rights for its placeholder text?
The best part was definitely it not making a difference
nothing says "I'm trying to improve my work-life balance" like re-running a benchmark at 1am because I realized there's a small difference I didn't account for (LTO level)
April 18, 2025 at 8:13 AM
The best part was definitely it not making a difference
nothing says "I'm trying to improve my work-life balance" like re-running a benchmark at 1am because I realized there's a small difference I didn't account for (LTO level)
April 17, 2025 at 11:50 PM
nothing says "I'm trying to improve my work-life balance" like re-running a benchmark at 1am because I realized there's a small difference I didn't account for (LTO level)
Wrote down some of my thoughts and lessons about working with object storage, especially if you want to get both high throughput and low latency. Spent so much time in the past ~5 years waiting on S3 requests, so hopefully this will help save others from similar fates.
spiraldb.com/post/so-you-...
spiraldb.com/post/so-you-...
So you want to use Object Storage
Tips and lessons learned from building systems directly against object stores
spiraldb.com
April 16, 2025 at 12:59 PM
Wrote down some of my thoughts and lessons about working with object storage, especially if you want to get both high throughput and low latency. Spent so much time in the past ~5 years waiting on S3 requests, so hopefully this will help save others from similar fates.
spiraldb.com/post/so-you-...
spiraldb.com/post/so-you-...
I still don't like Python, but uv is just a magical experience
April 4, 2025 at 10:34 AM
I still don't like Python, but uv is just a magical experience
My favorite pastime is to comment on my own PRs to try and explain what I was doing/thinking.
My second favorite pastime is opening a ton of small PRs that have more description than meaningful code changes.
My second favorite pastime is opening a ton of small PRs that have more description than meaningful code changes.
March 28, 2025 at 10:00 PM
My favorite pastime is to comment on my own PRs to try and explain what I was doing/thinking.
My second favorite pastime is opening a ton of small PRs that have more description than meaningful code changes.
My second favorite pastime is opening a ton of small PRs that have more description than meaningful code changes.
האם אני עכשיו הבנאדם שמשתף דברים של העבודה ברשתות חברתיות? כן.
האם זה מגניב ומעניין? כן, ובכללי הייתי רוצה לכתוב יותר על דברים כאלה אבל אם היה לי כוח ו/או זמן הייתי כותב יותר קוד
האם זה מגניב ומעניין? כן, ובכללי הייתי רוצה לכתוב יותר על דברים כאלה אבל אם היה לי כוח ו/או זמן הייתי כותב יותר קוד
Turns out, all researchers should use rust for their reference implementations.
blog.spiraldb.com/alp-rust-is-...
blog.spiraldb.com/alp-rust-is-...
ALP Rust is faster than C++
How well-defined casting semantics in Rust allow for 20-50% faster ALP compression
blog.spiraldb.com
March 18, 2025 at 11:52 AM
האם אני עכשיו הבנאדם שמשתף דברים של העבודה ברשתות חברתיות? כן.
האם זה מגניב ומעניין? כן, ובכללי הייתי רוצה לכתוב יותר על דברים כאלה אבל אם היה לי כוח ו/או זמן הייתי כותב יותר קוד
האם זה מגניב ומעניין? כן, ובכללי הייתי רוצה לכתוב יותר על דברים כאלה אבל אם היה לי כוח ו/או זמן הייתי כותב יותר קוד
finally deleted twitter from my phone, hoping more of the technical conversation will move here and leave the rest of it behind, that was basically the only reason to stay there.
March 18, 2025 at 11:06 AM
finally deleted twitter from my phone, hoping more of the technical conversation will move here and leave the rest of it behind, that was basically the only reason to stay there.
פיד גיימרים - מחפשים לקנות מחשב חדש? מאז שעברתי לאנגליה המחשב מעלה אבק ואשמח למכור אותו למישהו שיהנה. יש בו 3080 של אסוס ו3900XT, אומנם כבר ממש לא state of the art אבל ממש מספיק לכמעט כל משחק בשוק (כולל cyberpunk לא באולטרה).
גם יש לי מסך 4K 144Hz שאשמח למכור
גם יש לי מסך 4K 144Hz שאשמח למכור
March 10, 2025 at 3:45 PM
פיד גיימרים - מחפשים לקנות מחשב חדש? מאז שעברתי לאנגליה המחשב מעלה אבק ואשמח למכור אותו למישהו שיהנה. יש בו 3080 של אסוס ו3900XT, אומנם כבר ממש לא state of the art אבל ממש מספיק לכמעט כל משחק בשוק (כולל cyberpunk לא באולטרה).
גם יש לי מסך 4K 144Hz שאשמח למכור
גם יש לי מסך 4K 144Hz שאשמח למכור