March 2026

I Wish Young Semiconductor Engineers Could Build Wealth Just by Doing Their Job by damnang2 (Translated from Korean)

Investment is certainly important too, but I wish we had a social structure where semiconductor engineers in their 20s could build some degree of wealth just by being dedicated to their main job.

Productivity and Excessive Vitamins by 향로 (Translated from Korean)

Is our current business structure one where revenue grows proportionally as the development team’s output increases?

It is a list of my favorite music. I will update it from time to time.

Raw Chicken Price History

Go 1.26 interactive tour by Anton Zhiyanov

My highights

• Vectorized operations (experimental)
• Goroutine leak profile (experimental)

Why is calling my asm function from Rust slower than calling it from C? by Ohad Ravid

Promoted your best developer to manager? Congratulations. You just destroyed two careers. by Matt Watson

Engineers optimize for code quality. Managers optimize for human potential. These are fundamentally different skill sets.

I once watched a team’s velocity drop by half after hiring their best engineer. by Alex Di Mango

Teams don’t scale through individual brilliance. They scale through collective momentum.

The engineers who actually multiplied output never looked like rockstars. They wrote boring, obvious code that anyone could maintain. They approved pull requests that were good enough, not perfect. They spent time pairing with people who were stuck instead of cranking out features alone.

Amazon S3 quietly became a concurrency control system. by Raul Junco

People often ask how we balance speed and quality at @tryramp. by Eric Glyman

We don’t. Because speed is how you get to quality.

December 2025

On Metastable Failures and Interactions Between Systems by Aleksey Charapko

Fault-tolerance is hard, and in the case of metastable failures, maybe next-to-impossible and/or expensive. I have a hunch that we may not be able to avoid metastable failures entirely in large, non-trivial systems that are also economical to operate, because of these “forced” actions that systems sometimes have to take. However, the three strategies above remain effective mitigation approaches. Just replace “avoid” with “avoid as much as possible.”

A catastrophic accident has struck the Mars outpost. Communication with Earth is completely severed. Only a handful of survivors remain.

Marsettler is a simulation where players shape the story of these survivors. Your journey becomes a narrative—a story worth sharing.

What’s in v0.0.0

• Autonomous AI: Characters find iron mines, extract ore, and haul it to the warehouse on their own
• Behavior Tree System: The architecture powering AI decision-making
• Resource Management: Mines deplete and disappear when exhausted

Run Simulation