The Stranger

Engineer, veteran, martial artist, and writer by choice.
Trying to live the Buckaroo Banzai lifestyle.

[Erikaaa @ErikaCA47]

Look who’s on Bannon today! The same Bannon who worked with Jeffrey Epstein to undermine Trump 1.0.

Trita Parsi from the Quincy Institute, everyone. Yeah, that Soros organization.

Yup. The same one Joe Kent just got a writing contract with. Wake up! 🤯🚨

[Mor Edge Insight @MorEdge_Insight]

I love older British humor

Dark humor at its very best 🤣

[The Stranger @eviljinious1]

@aurora_g96 That voice

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@ChrisinLiuzhou @RodDMartin Says the CCP bandwagoner

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@RMC19861987 @TrendPolCa :)

[The Stranger @eviljinious1]

@RMC19861987 @TrendPolCa From Trump whisperer to Trump fluffer

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@TrendPolCa Elbows down

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@BasilTheGreat @CatsforBrexitUK

[The Stranger @eviljinious1]

Socialist retards

[Washington Free Beacon @FreeBeacon]

Graham Platner was recruited to run for Senate by a pair of socialist political operatives, Daniel Moraff and Leanne Fan, who determined that another prospective candidate had “a skeleton in the closet.”

The Wall Street Journal published a rare interview with the duo on Sunday who revealed they paid “a whole chunk of money” to vet Platner but managed to turn up neither his Nazi ink nor many of his Reddit posts.

[Hillel Fuld @HilzFuld]

This is the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth.

[The Stranger @eviljinious1]

@fordnation

[Kevin Edward Proulx @kevineproulx]

Toronto after Doug Ford

[AnarchistOwl @Owls_4_America]

#SaveStargate

@BaronDestructo @MichaelShanks @JoeFlanigan @rachel_luttrell @amandatapping @iamchrisjudge @dhewlett @actualApophis @AmazonMGMStudio

[Keith @happy_keith]

When Khan & Starmer refuse to answer questions this explains why

[🏴‍☠️ 𝔾𝕦𝕟𝕟𝕚𝕖 𝕄𝕒𝕕𝕔𝕒𝕥 🏴‍☠️ @GunnieMadcat]

City folk are learning why us country folk want guns for self defence. Bambi and friends dont give a F@%$ about your feelings.

[Rodi =AMERICAN @PaintingRodin]

Candice Owen’s after trip to Russia.

[Rabbi Poupko @RabbiPoupko]

All these children were kidnapped or murdered by Palestinians on October 7th.

Not in a war zone. Not in the vicinity of war. In their homes and cribs.

[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.

[The Stranger @eviljinious1]

@zauberberg188 @_bonjourno_ past the point of no return. That will never happen