Solax Lab

Learning to make quality video games and music

[Solax Lab @solaxlab]

https://t.co/tFW0WB7edV This album is so good, I'm not listening the next one named it with a 2 or 3... Virtual Vice track , Album 1, is peak aesthetic, I'll literally need to make my game that good looking and gameplay so I ask the right to use his music for it, if not accepted, will do my best with DAW

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

The future of cinema is going to be insane

[𝕏 Cuisines @XWorldCuisines]

Trying the Italian ice cream sundae
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[HOUSE PORN @HOUSEPORN___]

Who came up with this stupid idea? 💀

[Solax Lab @solaxlab]

https://t.co/lytscMUMNN

[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.

[Fľøkï @Dee_Floki]

The most brutal KFC restaurant located in Belarus

[ZUBY: @ZubyMusic]

If you want to achieve anything significant and out of the ordinary, you have to be OK with looking and sounding 'crazy' for some years.

[Natural Philosophy @Naturalphilosy]

“and don't forget: time is meant to be wasted, love fails and death is useless.”

— Charles Bukowski

[Solax Lab @solaxlab]

https://t.co/M3HSmeGEBU Grooving, yea Klaus Schulze and Pete Namlook beat stuff went S+ tier, but what if this level + UK Garage and basslife Style + Amen or so Breaks-A-lot, can you feel how S+ that would be! https://t.co/QgcKG91T5w

[Solax Lab @solaxlab]

now the real question is : is your dog an anime cutie like in [insert anime name here] and do woof woof saying things like in [insert anime here where they say things] ? ill try to philosophize on this important matter, i might find important information, also emina is reverse anime, something worth typing here. im up to something, philosopher truly missed the whole picture by not thinking in such an advanced manner like i do. ill write a book about for sure

[Solax Lab @solaxlab]

fuck ive done https://t.co/McclZZmVBM was cool achievement, now i did tiny bit of houdini 3d tutorials, but somehow procrastinate so much since 3 weeks, cant continue... tomorrow im suppose to study minimum 2-3 h, i want to do that very much but keep failing, so to myself after tomorrow, continue!