AlexanderFridriksson

Adventurer, knower of random facts, persistently curious.
Database guy and storyteller

[shipra @shipranotes]

Get addicted to neuroplasticity, subconscious reprogramming, delusional optimism, game theory, quantum physics, cognitive biases, systems thinking, epigenetics, and first-principles thinking. I promise it will change your life.

[bunny.net 🐰 @BunnyCDN]

Update on the PHP vulnerabilities: Fixes for CVE-2026-109618 and CVE-2026-109619 are now available. Patch PHP as soon as possible.

Bunny Shield has added a new multipart nesting WAF rule alongside existing upload-progress protection. Both block matching requests only in blocking mode.

More details 👇

[Brandon Morse @TheBrandonMorse]

This anime is the show everyone who is sick of Hollywood slop has been asking for and too few know exists or won't watch it because it's anime.

You NEED to watch this show.

[Musculine Mind @MusculineMindz]

you should talk to people like you're already mid conversation

[sui @birdabo]

pewdiepie’s character development needs to be studied.

> dropped out of university.
> worked odd jobs while uploading gaming videos.
> became the biggest YouTuber.
> got into reading books.
> got into drawings (insanely good)
> got into philosophy.
> moved to Japan and started family vlogs.
> got into tech.
> deep into linux.
> installed arch.
> replaced all his google services.
> learned coding.
> bought tons of GPUs.
> made his own local data center.
> trained his own LLM.
> distilled OpenAI’s Sol into his local model and got banned twice lmao.

[NetworkChuck @NetworkChuck]

Consistency beats talent. Every time.

I used to think I needed to be the smartest guy in the room. Turns out showing up every single day and doing the unglamorous reps is the actual cheat code for certs, for coding, for anything hard.

[Harry Mack @harrymack]

Flow Patterns 101

[Lina Seiche @LinaSeiche]

In defense of excellence.

[Arjun Chopra @arjunchopra19]

@bunnycdn is seriously one of the most underrated companies in tech.
Fast, affordable, ridiculously easy to use, and everything just works. Every time I use another one of their products, I end up liking them even more.
Absolutely love what you guys are building, @bunnycdn. 🐰❤️

[Igor bedesqui @bedesqui]

why's the the influencer giving good career advice????

anyways, @theo told you to build cool shit that solves YOUR problems

[Carl Lerche @carllerche]

Three years ago, trying to use Rust for web apps was crazy talk. Today is very different than three years ago. Announcing Topcoat, a batteries-included Rust framework for building reactive web applications:
https://t.co/EFlB5z3dYn

[Glauber Costa @glcst]

I am excited to announce that we are officially writing a new version of Postgres. In Rust - and creating the LLVM of databases in the process.

In the span of a year, we have rewritten SQLite. Keeping the compatibility, increasing its feature set. MVCC, Types, (Live) Materialized Views, among other things. In the process of doing that, we have realized: At the end of the day, what makes SQLite special is that it compiles SQL to a database-specific bytecode. So why can't we compile *Postgres* to the same bytecode?

Turns out we can. I ran an experiment called pgmicro as a way to prove this hypothesis, and it works very well. It is time to make this official, and put the weight of Turso behind it. We shall give the world a modern take on Postgres. Wire compatible, but built on a new architecture.

We have already heard of others wanting to extend this. MySQL? Redis? the sky is the limit. What can we do if we do for databases what LLVM did for compilers? To prove how powerful the SQLite bytecode is, we are actually running DOOM compiled to the unmodified SQLite instruction set. And because Turso runs natively in the browser, you can play the game in your browser. With the database executing it.

Read the full story below! 👇

[Aporia @aporia9n]

If Canary Wharf had Dubai / HK taxes, people would literally fight to live there.

Top-tier infrastructure, 20 min from central London, 2h from half of Europe, English-speaking, rule of law, global finance ecosystem.

Even today, Canary Wharf is probably one of the most interesting developments in any Western capital: you get Asian-city levels of convenience and cleanliness, then 20 min later you’re back in old London with the history, chaos, culture, pubs and museums.

[Paul Graham @paulg]

If you want something from someone, make it clear what. It's not imposing to ask explicitly for something; it's imposing to be vague and make the recipient work to figure out what you want.

[Adam Shuaib @adamshuaib]

After 15 years of investing, we realised that truly exceptional founders have something impossible to fake: deeply unconventional lives.

We analysed 15,000 founders using five binary signals to measure this: odd hobbies, early signs of exceptionalism, extreme life choices, unusual geographies, non-linear careers. These sum to give a 0-5 score per founder. Whether someone started coding at 10, speaks five languages, climbed Everest or quit a safe job to live in Chile, the signal was deviation from the mean.

Rather than focusing on IQ or EQ, we call this metric the Outlier Quotient, or “OQ”. When forecasting founder success, it turns out that OQ was the single most predictive variable in our entire classification model, trained on ~70 different factors.

Our OQ score had zero correlation with having worked at a top-tier company or attending an elite university. The signals most VCs rely on aren’t just noisy, they’re blinding. The best founders don’t signal like everyone else, they don’t think like everyone else, and they certainly don’t build like everyone else.

If you want to spot breakout talent before the rest of the market, stop screening for conformity. Back the founders the system was built to filter out.

[Ti Morse @ti_morse]

My first interview with @lulumeservey, Founder of Rostra.

0:07 How to Destroy a Terrorist Group
3:01 What Makes a Great Cult Leader
4:42 Unleashing Palmer Luckey
7:34 Why Elon Is Unpredictable
10:41 Demanding a Hardcore Culture After the X Acquisition
13:41 How Napoleon Rallied Troops to Volunteer for a Suicide Mission
18:24 Choosing Who to Alienate
20:59 Picking Someone to Fight For
22:59 Deterrence and Shaping Incentives
25:19 Why Google Had an Activist Problem
29:12 Tyrant Mode: Stopping a Leaky Culture
32:11 Building Loyalty
35:58 Why Visuals Are So Powerful
37:40 Time to Train AlexNet: Jensen Huang and Inventing Metrics
39:36 Why People Root for You
42:15 Recruit Based on the Spirit Not the Letter
43:20 The Three Levels of Story
51:01 Secret Truths and Trusting Yourself
55:25 Cicero’s Impossible Trial
58:11 Offense vs Defense
1:03:44 The Roman Concept of Auctoritas

[Chris Laub @ChrisLaubAI]

A Rust dev just killed Headless Chrome.

It's called Obscura. The open-source headless browser purpose-built for AI agents and scrapers at scale.

Chrome vs Obscura:

- Memory: 200MB+ → 30MB
- Binary: 300MB+ → 70MB
- Page load: 500ms → 85ms
- Startup: 2s → Instant
- Anti-detect: None → Built-in

Single binary. No Node, no Chrome, no dependencies.

Stealth mode is brutal:

→ Per-session fingerprint randomization (GPU, canvas, audio, battery)
→ 3,520 tracker domains blocked by default
→ navigator.webdriver masked to match real Chrome
→ Native function masking so detectors can't sniff it out

Drop-in replacement for Puppeteer and Playwright over CDP. Zero code changes.

If you run agents or serious scraping at scale, this repo prints money.

100% Opensource.

[Camus @newstart_2024]

Stop telling kids to “make eye contact” or “stand up straight.”

Vanessa Van Edwards has three much smarter body language hacks that actually work:

1. Ask them to notice the other person’s eye color — it gives a real reason to look up and connect.

2. Hands first — always approach with your hand out so you clearly signal how you want to be greeted (handshake, high-five, fist bump, or wave).

3. Superhero cape — roll your shoulders back and maximize the space between your ear and shoulder. It instantly makes kids look more confident and credible.

She uses these herself on Zoom, in photos, and in real life.

Small changes. Big difference.

What’s one tiny body language trick you wish someone had taught you earlier?