aassad

Long time geek, taoist learner, Software developer, old child, FOSS advocate, Martial Artist...

[aassad @aassad]

Small clarification:

A log date is not just text.

It is a timestamp wearing a format.

Metarc separates the instant from its textual representation, encodes that structure, then lets zstd compress the transformed stream.

[aassad @aassad]

This morning, I compressed time.

Not metaphorically.

In logs, dates look like plain text:
2026-05-11 10:36:19

But they are actually : instant + format

Metarc compress this inner structure before zstd even sees the bytes.

Result on Loghub: up to 26.5% smaller than tar+zstd.

[aassad @aassad]

Want to try it?
→ Star the repo if you find it interesting
→ Create issues (Bug, Comments, Idea)
→ Test it on your own projects
→ Tell me your results

https://t.co/6TIDb8Ha1B

[aassad @aassad]

Metarc is now smaller than tar+zstd on every source-code repository I benchmarked.

Not by compressing bytes better.
By compressing structure first.

[aassad @aassad]

I’d love your feedback, especially on the methodology.
What would make this benchmark harder to fool?

[aassad @aassad]

Looking for real examples of repos that got messy after using AI (Lovable, Claude, Copilot, GPT, etc.).

If you have/know one where things became harder to maintain over time, drop a link 👇

Even small or partial repos are useful.

[aassad @aassad]

Metarc tries to compress structure before bytes.

I rewrote a 2016 compression idea in Go, and early results are promising:
much faster on real repos, with sizes often close to tar.gz.

It’s also turning into a playground for meta-compression ideas.
https://t.co/Zi2WIO9Cct

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https://t.co/5JT1wp3hiB

[aassad @aassad]

A pod can die OOMKilled without the neat “classic memory leak” curve people expect.

I wrote up a recent Go production case where the real issue was not just memory growth.

Link in reply.

#golang

[aassad @aassad]

Dylan Kawalec (@ChaoticBeautys) presents Goat Network and the founders club.
(And their tech stack resonates with me 😁)
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Bima talks about what makes a good stablecoin.
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[aassad @aassad]

@alipaints delivers a powerful talk about Spiderchain and Bitcoin.
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And the goodies, make this Hackaton even better.
(So happy to get my Bitcoin Genesis Block TShirt...)
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