archi_techi

Interested in modern architecture, and the technology and tools used in design and AR/VR

[Spencer Baggins @bigaiguy]

A teenager in the United States started publishing software at 14 in 1998, built the entire online infrastructure for the Occupy Wall Street movement in 2011, joined Google as a software engineer, quit in 2018, and then spent five years writing a C library that does something the entire industry said was impossible.

Then she combined it with llama.cpp and shipped the easiest way on the planet to run a large language model on any computer.

Her name is Justine Tunney.

Here is the story, because almost nobody outside the low level systems world knows what one engineer has built.

Justine was born in 1984. She started writing and publishing software at 14, back when distribution meant uploading binaries to BBS systems and chat networks. She picked up the handle jart, which she still uses on GitHub today. She did the work most teenagers her age were not doing. She read the systems programming literature. She studied compilers. She fell in love with C.

In July 2011 she registered the @occupywallst Twitter handle and the occupywallst dot org domain. Within weeks the protest movement that began in Zuccotti Park in New York had become a global phenomenon, and her infrastructure was the digital backbone of the entire thing. She handled the social media, the website, the donations, the coordination. She built the platform that pushed the movement to reach millions.

After Occupy she joined Google as a software engineer. She worked on TensorBoard, the visualization tool for TensorFlow, and on site reliability for Google infrastructure. She stayed for years. Then in 2018 she left Google Brain to work on a personal project.

The project was called Cosmopolitan Libc.

Cosmopolitan does something most C programmers would tell you is mathematically impossible. It lets you compile a C program once and have the resulting binary run natively on Linux, Windows, macOS, FreeBSD, OpenBSD, and NetBSD with no modification. One file. Six operating systems. No virtual machines. No interpreters. No recompilation. The technique she invented is called Actually Portable Executable.

The implications are wild. Cosmopolitan binaries violate every assumption about how operating systems load programs. They are at once a Windows PE file, a Linux ELF binary, a macOS Mach-O binary, and a shell script. The same bytes run on every platform.

For five years she worked on it mostly alone. She funded the development partly through Mozilla's MIECO program, which sponsored her work on Cosmopolitan 3.0, released on October 31, 2023.

A month later she shipped llamafile.

llamafile is what happens when you combine Cosmopolitan with llama.cpp. You take any LLM weights file in the standard GGUF format, you wrap it in Justine's binary, and you get a single file that runs on six operating systems without installation. No Python. No CUDA setup. No dependency hell. Just one file that you double click and it works.

Mozilla launched it as an official project of their innovation group on November 29, 2023. It went viral immediately. The repository, hosted at github .com/mozilla-ai/llamafile, now has 24,600 stars. The license is Apache 2.0.

Justine kept shipping. She added GPU support to Cosmopolitan, a task systems engineers thought would require rewriting the whole thing. She added dlopen support, another thing nobody else had figured out. She wrote whisperfile, a single file version of OpenAI's Whisper speech-to-text model based on the same architecture.

Her GitHub profile lists projects most engineers would consider impossible. sectorlisp, a Lisp interpreter that fits in a boot sector. blink, the tiniest x86-64-linux emulator on Earth. bestline, a teletypewriter command session library. redbean, a complete web server inside a single zip file.

A teenager who shipped software in 1998 grew up to write the C library that the entire local AI movement now runs on top of.

She did most of it alone, and most people scrolling AI Twitter cannot name her.

[Solvaix @Solvaix]

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[Gabriele Corno @Gabriele_Corno]

This happened four nights ago in a Tennessee shelter. The puppy is Rocky, a seven-month-old Pit Bull seized from a terrible situation last week. Covered in scars and healing wounds. Absolutely traumatized. Won't eat. Won't move from the corner. Just shakes constantly and flinches at every sound. The older dog is Bailey, a thirteen-year-old Labrador who's been at shelter for six years. Never adopted because he's "too old" and has expensive medical needs. Staff put them together because the facility was at capacity.
Security footage from 11:20 PM shows Bailey waking up, watching Rocky trembling in the corner, then slowly standing. Bailey has severe arthritis. Moving is painful. But he walked carefully across the kennel.
Laid down beside Rocky. Wrapped his body around him protectively. By morning, Rocky had stopped shaking. Was pressed against Bailey's side. Actually sleeping peacefully for the first time since arriving.
Shelter director Maria told: "Bailey has done this with nineteen scared, traumatized dogs over six years. He's never been adopted because he's senior, moves slowly, and needs daily medication. But he's comforted nineteen broken souls just by lying beside them and showing them what gentle feels like." Sometimes the one nobody adopts carries the greatest gift-teaching the terrified what safety looks like.

[Amazing Physics @amazing_physics]

The Devil Horns Solar Eclipse
Is one of the rarest sunrise ever photographed and was stunning.

[archi_techi @WhoreYield]

@GBC_Press Your right. It's an ugly city

[Parametric Design @_parametric]

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[archi_techi @WhoreYield]

@AiwithYasir Which bank or financial institution do you suggest that has modern security practices and controls?

[archi_techi @WhoreYield]

@GBC_Press Yes. I get all my best information from Iranian politicians

[El Enmascarado 𝕏 | Money Maker @ElEnmascarado_X]

Un hombre compró un televisor Samsung de 1.500 dólares hace tres años.

Veía Netflix. Veía YouTube. Pensaba que la imagen se veía bien. Asumía que así era como debía verse un televisor.

Un amigo suyo, instalador profesional de sistemas de cine en casa y especialista en calibración de televisores, entró en su apartamento y solo necesitó cinco segundos para mirar la pantalla.

—«Llevas viendo todo en modo demostración. Tienes activado el suavizado de movimiento. El modo de ahorro de energía está reduciendo el brillo un 40 %. Tu televisor hace una captura de lo que aparece en la pantalla cada 30 segundos y vende esos datos de visualización a los anunciantes. Y estás usando un panel de 1.500 dólares con el mismo modo de imagen que utiliza Best Buy bajo luces fluorescentes para que los televisores llamen la atención en la tienda.»

Cambió 9 ajustes en solo 12 minutos.

La imagen parecía la de un televisor completamente distinto. Desapareció el efecto «telenovela». Los colores se volvieron naturales. El televisor dejó de espiarlo.

Estos fueron todos los cambios que hizo.

[Mel Larkey @SauerkrautCop]

The battle is based on metabolic properties. The cat can screw with the snake all day, because it is built for endurance. The snake has a limited amount if strikes before its muscles run out of energy or overheat. This was over before it began. Once the cat sees the snake, it was decided. The only way the snake can win is to eat the cat’s kittens.

[🇺🇸𝓒𝓱𝓪𝓭🇺🇸𝓗𝓪𝓻𝓻𝓲𝓼𝓸𝓷🇺🇸 @Texas_jeep__guy]

Don’t try to physically challenge Haaland. He’s a beast. ⚽️😎🔥👊🏼

[Ultras Clips @ultras_clips]

🚨🇳🇴 The Vikings have taken over Miami Beach 🚣

[Center Ball @Centerball_X]

The Reality of Portugal, Argentina, France and Norway in the 2026 World Cup 🏆

[NinjaNeews @NinjaNeews]

Résumé de France Paraguay #WorldCup #WorldCup2026 #france #paraguay #mbappé

[Leonardo Dias @leonardodias]

Isso não é gol, é poesia. Gol mais bonito da Copa, jogada mais bonita da Copa, sequência de passes mais perfeita da Copa. Disparado.

[archi_techi @WhoreYield]

The poison of Argentina is about 100x that of Cabo Verde

[ernessssttt @DS_RivanEM]

@ofootball__ Thank you legend!

https://t.co/JnkZLHvXcX

[Interior Design Architecture @Interiorarchdes]

Which would you choose from?