BlockyMaster97

Just vibing related to computer parts, Miis, Minecraft, cars, trucks and drawings for fun.

[super nora＠新星急行 @noraexpress]

ＫＥ６５２の横に置かれていたのが
このボンネットトラック、このヘッドのミキサー車は見た事があったのだがトラックは初めて。大型車のボンネット車は魅力的ですな。

[Spencer Baggins @bigaiguy]

A French engineer who lives quietly in Paris has spent 30 years writing software that the entire internet now runs on without knowing his name.

He wrote the code that streams every YouTube video, every Netflix show, every TikTok clip. He wrote the code that runs the virtual servers underneath AWS, Google Cloud, and Microsoft Azure. He calculated more digits of pi than anyone in history. He has no Twitter. He has no marketing. He just keeps shipping.

His name is Fabrice Bellard.

Here is the story, because almost nobody outside the systems programming world knows what one man has built.

Fabrice was born in 1972 in Grenoble, France. He studied at École Polytechnique, the top French engineering school. He never went to Silicon Valley. He never built a startup empire. He just wrote code.

In 2000 he started a project called FFmpeg, an open-source multimedia framework for encoding, decoding, and streaming video. He was 28. The project did one thing nobody else had done well. It handled every video and audio format that existed, in one library, on every operating system. He led it himself for years.

Today FFmpeg is the invisible engine of the internet. YouTube uses it. Netflix uses it. VLC uses it. Chrome and Firefox use parts of it. Every Android phone, every iPhone, every smart TV, every video editing tool you have ever touched runs FFmpeg somewhere underneath. If you have watched a video on a screen in the last 20 years, Fabrice's code processed it.

He was not done.

In 2003 he started QEMU, a machine emulator and virtualizer. He wrote it solo until version 0.7.1 in 2005. QEMU lets you run any operating system on any other operating system. It became the foundation of modern virtualization. KVM, the Linux kernel hypervisor, runs on top of QEMU. Every major cloud provider, AWS, Google Cloud, Microsoft Azure, IBM Cloud, runs virtual machines on infrastructure built around it. The Quick Emulator is the most cited piece of cloud infrastructure code on Earth.

He kept going.

In 2001 he won the International Obfuscated C Code Contest with a small C compiler that grew into TCC, the Tiny C Compiler. TCC can compile and boot a Linux kernel from source in under 15 seconds. In 2004 he calculated the most digits of pi ever computed at the time, using a personal desktop computer and an algorithm he derived himself called Bellard's formula. In 2011 he wrote a complete PC emulator in pure JavaScript that runs Linux in your browser, a project called JSLinux that engineers still cannot believe is real.

In 2019 he released QuickJS, a small but complete JavaScript engine that fits where V8 cannot. In 2021 he released NNCP, a neural network based lossless data compressor that immediately took the lead on the Large Text Compression Benchmark.

Then he turned his attention to large language models. He built TextSynth Server, a web server with a REST API for running LLMs locally. He released ts_zip and ts_sms, compression utilities that use language models to compress text and short messages at ratios traditional algorithms cannot reach. He released TSAC, a very low bitrate audio compression system. In December 2025 he released Micro QuickJS, a new JavaScript engine for microcontrollers, separate from QuickJS, designed for environments with almost no memory.

Fabrice co-founded a telecom company called Amarisoft in 2012, where he serves as CTO. Amarisoft builds 4G and 5G base station software used by carriers and labs around the world. He has been running it for over a decade while continuing to ship personal projects from his own home page at bellard dot org

He has no Twitter. He has no Instagram. He gives almost no interviews. His personal website is a flat list of projects with no styling, no fonts, no marketing copy. Just titles and links.

A quiet French engineer who never moved to Silicon Valley wrote the code that quietly runs the internet.

He is still shipping.

[Mouyi @Mouyi_]

DQ区的岛建做好了！这块区域住的角色是DQ系列作品里的角色呢。想做出一些乡镇的感觉，下面靠近海岸的地方是稍微繁华一点的乡村集镇，过了桥以后是很有DQ风格的野外村庄和城堡。
路边的小桥也是想要做出DQ地图上那种，过了桥以后，会通往另一个区域的感觉…

[Mariaaaa @maria85691]

WEEKEND ART SHARE !! Hey artists! Time to show what you’ve been working on !!
1. Drop your artwork in the replies
2. Spread some love and support to fellow artists !
🚫No AI / No NFTs
#artmoots #smallartist #artshare

[ちゃんほた🌸 @hotahotasa45082]

Japan’s being dominated by globalism

Do you know who this woman is?

[Python Programming @PythonPr]

Beginner vs Professional

[BlockyMaster97 @BlockyMaster97]

@kangminlee A seed of invasion

[Masahiro @cw40pd6t]

#三菱ってこんなかっこいい車作ってたんだ

[Duke Zielinski @DeadShot31507]

@Publius_7_1776 ii see a lot of people saying that and forgetting that Eisenhower chose not to wear all of his ribbons. Here is an image of his wax figure at Madame Tussauds waxworks with his full ribbon rack

[Publius @Publius_7_1776]

Always a thing for the credentialist class to keep in mind.

[⛰️ NO MORE BAD NEWS ⛰️ @epikrisee]

THE BRAWLERS ARE BRAWLING

[Pirat_Nation 🔴 @Pirat_Nation]

Lexar’s regional manager for Australia and New Zealand, Chris Xia, says RAM prices could double by the end of the year.

According to Xia, today’s “discounts” and stable prices result mostly from distributors clearing old stock or sourcing products from other regions.

He warned that current prices do not reflect where the market is heading. Major memory manufacturers are focusing more production on AI and data center memory, leaving less capacity for consumer DDR4 and DDR5 modules.

If you’re planning to build or upgrade a PC soon, buying RAM sooner rather than later may not be a bad idea

[BlockyMaster97 @BlockyMaster97]

@AndrewEffi5358 @PythonPr Due to the lack of space in either variables

[BlockyMaster97 @BlockyMaster97]

@PythonPr Hello

[Ahilu @HinoZM7002]

680型のダンプが出てきた😳
しかも実動らしい

[BlockyMaster97 @BlockyMaster97]

@farman4x Undefined since 2⁰ is 0

[BlockyMaster97 @BlockyMaster97]

@DelusionPosting they hated the concept of DNA since it reminds them of their unchangeables

[山口 @zituyousha]

230セドリック 帰還
SUツインキャブ&5速になりました

[Out of Context Human Race @NoContextHumans]

China’s started using anti fatigue laser lights on some highways to keep drivers alert at night.

The idea is to stop drivers getting drowsy on long, boring night drives.