Charlie Haviland

[Max Zeigler @GrimnirsThegn]

Babies are great because simple stuff like this is *literally* the funniest shit they’ve ever seen in their life and you get to hit that bar like a million times in the first few years.

[Alex Cole @acnewsitics]

“I wouldn't wish it on anyone” may be the funniest possible ending to a career spent wishing essentially this exact experience on millions of other people.

[Have I Been Flocked? @HIBFlocked]

Gun ranges, dispensaries, abortion clinics, churches, immigration offices, union halls, psychiatrists, campaign offices, bail bondsmen, strip clubs, mosques, needle exchanges, hospitals, payday loans, casinos, newspaper offices, women's shelters, food banks, gay bars, ...

[Giokielicious @jokieliu]

why？

[Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @NYCMayor]

Benjamin Netanyahu is a war criminal.

[ElBuni @therealbuni]

Noruega elimino a brasil y el ejercito subió un video haciendo el festejo vikingo

[Total Football @TotalFootball]

The Norwegian team and fans doing the Row are just beautiful.

[Dr Rahmeh Aladwan @doctor_rahmeh]

Delivered by C‑section from her dead mother's body. 23 years old. 'israel' bombed and killed her. Buried them under rubble. The baby girl was named after her. Doctors gave her a 50/50 chance of survival. She died 5 days later and was buried next to her mum.

Check the date.

[Tamer Nahed @Tamer_Alnoaizy]

This video shows the truth I have been talking about, a truth that shocked the world and was reported by international media.

The young man was sitting in a café in central Gaza, in an area considered one of the safest in the city.

Despite being about 10 kilometers away from the front lines, he was struck by a direct bullet while sitting with his father in the café, and he died instantly during an ordinary moment of his life.

[Emelia @Astridueil]

Not a scene from a movie 💔

[maddie @madsssagascar]

im genuinely intolerant of religion like in a way that even progressives probably think is problematic. you have this made up idea of existence from a story book and you reject the reality of the world around you to the point of hate and violence. while looking stupid as fuck

[Yaa💤 @yaaa_az]

Genuine question. Is every country experiencing this or is this just a random Algeria Kansas subplot

[John Wight @JohnWight1]

The Mexicans are intent on saving this World Cup as a festival of people not capitalists.

[Freddy🇩🇪 @FreddyLA7]

The most surreal thing of our trip so far. Currently driving towards Louisiana and the radio station we were listening to started talking about our trip and played Ella Langley especially for us😭😭😭

[Gayest Tone @gayest_tone]

There’s basically two stories about the World Cup right now, it’s either

“US Customs hooks Tajik team up to the BallGrabber 7000 as they exit bus”

or

“59 year old man in Bentonville excitedly invites entire Congolese team to have breakfast with him at Waffle House”

[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.

[Codify @CodifyBaseball]

Since 2021, a guy who as an MLB batter is 1st in runs and total bases and 2nd in homers and triples and SLG and OPS and 4th in RBI and walks and 6th in OBP and 8th in stolen bases and 10th in AVG has also posted a 2.60 ERA in 536+ innings pitched.

Yes, he's an "all timer".