Mondeep

developer (couldn't buy a career outta consuming sport all day) ■ since there's way too much that we don't know of, □ hence opinions (or lack thereof) personal.

[All About Argentina 🛎🇦🇷 @AlbicelesteTalk]

Leo Messi: "I’m not really into texting, not with my friends, my mom, or my family. I’m bad at keeping in touch through messages. When I see people in person, it feels like no time has passed.

"It’s not that I don’t care. Of course I care about my parents. I just find texting tiring: replying, waiting for a reply, then answering again. I don’t enjoy that.

"That’s why I sometimes step away from messages. Honestly, texting can annoy me at times.” @NicolasOcchiato

[l feII in Dior @LIRIO_AG]

“Ay no, tarjeta gris otra vez”.

[Netflix India @NetflixIndia]

Lionel Messi = The GOAT 🐐

[OGi 🐐 @BCNOgi]

Didn't even clock Messi started crying after he scored. I'm so fucking moved man. I'm crying with you Leo. We love you.

[Iain Cameron @theiaincameron]

Iraq v Norway is the World Cup’s only group-stage match where each team has two completely different language families as *official* languages.

Iraq has Arabic and Kurdish (Semitic and Indo-European). Norway has Norwegian and Sámi (Indo-European and Uralic).

Stay tuned for more cutting-edge, geography-based World Cup analysis.

[Jimmy @FCBJimmy_]

I apologize in advance if this applies to you but I sincerely believe that if you think Ronaldo was ever close to Messi, you are of an objectively lower mental status than me, something akin to a sea urchin or maybe a mussel.

[Mike Tyson @MikeTyson]

⚽️

[Shruti @heyshrutimishra]

Elon just created 4,400 millionaires in a single day.

400 of them are now worth over $100 million.

These aren't VCs. They're SpaceX employees, and the list includes welders, technicians, and cafeteria staff, because for two decades the company paid every level of the workforce in stock instead of higher salaries.

Juan Hernandez immigrated from Mexico and took a $28 an hour contractor welding job in 2015. He says he didn't even know what SpaceX was. The company gave him a $10,000 equity grant and let him buy more shares through payroll deductions. That stake is now worth $880,000.

Trevor Hise's parents wanted him to take a stable job at General Electric. He picked SpaceX instead, stayed 12 years, and accumulated over 100,000 shares. At the $135 listing price that's $13.5 million. He's 37 and semiretired. His words: "The magnitude of this has been ridiculous."

The most telling detail came before the listing. Over 100 employees quietly banded together and negotiated a group wealth management deal covering up to $5 billion, because none of them had ever needed a wealth manager before.

Software IPOs have minted millionaires for 30 years. This is the first one where the money went to the factory floor.

[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.

[Ed Zitron @edzitron]

Uber’s COO has said that it’s getting “harder to justify” its AI costs because there was no way to show a link between AI spend and any meaningful increase in useful features. This is the first time I’ve seen a company say this directly.

https://t.co/xUhZvtpwah

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

When doggos think they’re home alone.

[Roshan Rai @RoshanKrRaii]

Bro didn’t even think twice before giving away mattresses from his shop worth lakhs in fire rescue operations in Delhi.

Takes special kind of selflessness and heroism to do this.

Absolute Hero, Mohammed Riyazuddin 👏

[The Best @TheBestqueenx]

They found a way to make their neighbors' party more fun.

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

Stunt rider Tyler Bereman jumps 6 islands across 2,300 feet of open water.

[📹 Red Bull / Apple]

[Football Vibes @FotballVibes]

Give this man the job 😭

[The Nalanda Index @Nalanda_index]

असम से आई यह तस्वीर सिर्फ एक घटना नहीं, बल्कि इंसानियत की सबसे खूबसूरत मिसाल है। ❤️

एक मानसिक रूप से अस्वस्थ युवक भूख लगने पर बिना निमंत्रण एक शादी में पहुंच गया। वह चुपचाप मेहमानों के बीच बैठकर खाना खाने लगा। वहां मौजूद लोगों ने न उसे रोका, न उसका मज़ाक उड़ाया, न ही उसे अपमानित किया।

लेकिन इसके बाद जो हुआ, उसने सबकी आंखें नम कर दीं... 🥺

खाना खाने के बाद उस युवक ने अपनी फटी हुई जेब में हाथ डाला और 10 रुपये निकालकर दुल्हन को शगुन के रूप में दे दिए।

शायद वो 10 रुपये उसकी पूरी जमा-पूंजी थे।

जिस इंसान के पास देने के लिए कुछ नहीं था, उसने भी देने की खुशी चुनी। यही तो असली अमीरी है।

आज जब दुनिया अक्सर स्वार्थ और दिखावे में उलझी नजर आती है, तब ऐसी छोटी-छोटी घटनाएं याद दिलाती हैं कि इंसानियत अभी जिंदा है।

अमीर वह नहीं जिसके पास सबसे ज्यादा पैसा हो,
अमीर वह है जिसके दिल में सबसे ज्यादा प्यार और सम्मान हो। ❤️🙏

इस युवक ने 10 रुपये नहीं दिए...
उसने इंसानियत की कीमत बता दी। ❤️

[culture jpeg @culturejpg]

Muhammad Ali’s legendary "knockout" by a child is still one of the most wholesome sports clips ever

[NO CONTEXT HUMANS @HumansNoContext]

I wanna be him when I’m old

[mare⁸¹ 🐨 @sereneilto]

imaginate no ver la fórmula 1 y perderte estas obras maestras del cine

[Hood Wild @hoodwild_]

He caught her mother recording her while she played with her child and didn't think much of it. But her mother had a video of them doing the exact same thing decades ago, when she was still little🥹

[Football Tweet ⚽ @Footballtweet]

These fellas imitate video game players. 🤣

HOW DO THEY DO THAT? 🤯