Andrew McElroy

Co-Founder & CTO @ American Binary. KK4HXE

[Kevin Kane @IamKevinPKane]

CEO & Co-Founder Kevin Kane representing AMERICAN BINARY in Singapore with Oracle.

Ask me about our work with Oracle and our two products we currently offer.

Oracle CTO blog on American Binary:

https://t.co/6dAbr555bS

PRODUCTS

1. Fully post-quantum encrypted Oracle Roving Edge (edge compute), meeting CNSA 2.0 requirements. No classical encryption.

https://t.co/oGYTGMqjm1

2. Fully post-quantum Remote Work VPN

Our VPN is 70% faster than Cisco VPN while also being fully post quantum, including a post quantum key exchange working over mobile networks and 5G.

Benchmarking: https://t.co/nx30pBZhsw

We offer unambiguous protection against Harvest Now, Decrypt Later, attacks from future quantum computers decrypting stored data in the future.

Also, ask me about the more than 20 network architectures that we support.

[Noble Brown🗡 @NobleBrown]

@PalmerLuckey CS Lewis said it before we could make a meme of it

[Mathelirium @mathelirium]

We rave about giants like Newton, Einstein, Bohr, Tesla, and Edison. But in terms of direct impact on our lives in the information age, nobody comes close to Claude Shannon.

In 1948, he dropped a straight 10/10 paper:

A Mathematical Theory of Communication.

His work has imbued us with the ability to send whispers across continents.
The paper doesn’t just suggest techniques, it draws the boundaries of reality for information... how far compression can go (entropy), the maximum rate a noisy channel can carry reliably (capacity), and why error correction isn’t optional if you want those whispers to arrive intact.

[DHH @dhh]

Next version of Omarchy will have a delightfully configured Tmux setup out of the box. Many terminals, including Ghostty, have panes and tabs built-in, but let me show you why I've still come to prefer Tmux.

[Andrew McElroy @sophrinix]

This is a very risky rewrite. https://t.co/a1Ckwr7baH

Everyone who touches a compiler or interpreter should really contemplate these words.

[The Lunduke Journal @LundukeJournal]

Microsoft has set a goal to “eliminate every line of C and C++ from Microsoft by 2030.”

What are they going to try to replace that C & C++ code with?

You guessed it. Rust.

And they’re going to use AI to do the “Rust re-write” at an insane speed.

“Our strategy is to combine AI *and* Algorithms to rewrite Microsoft’s largest codebases. Our North Star is “1 engineer, 1 month, 1 million lines of code”.

You read that right.

One million lines of code, per engineer, per month.

Pure insanity. This kind of decision making is common among those with a deeply held, delusional faith in the Cult of Rust.

Take battle tested code, and re-write it (without a clear benefit to the end user) at a recklessly rapid rate. Then force others to adopt that rewritten code before it is ready or properly tested.

All while holding a delusional belief that your new Rust code is superior in all ways, and is inherently bug free thanks to the divine nature of Rust.

We learned this from a post by Galen Hunt, Distinguished Engineer at Microsoft Research.

https://t.co/UQFk76ncXf

[Aakash Gupta @aakashgupta]

Let me explain exactly why VLC is free despite 6B downloads, because no one seems to get it.

VLC doesn’t make money because making money would destroy the only thing that made it reach 6 billion downloads in the first place.

The player grew through a specific distribution loop: tech-savvy users install it once, it works perfectly on every weird video file they throw at it, and they recommend it to everyone forever. IT departments deploy it across entire companies. A Reddit comment from 2009 still drives downloads in 2025 because the answer never changed.

That recommendation engine dies the second ads appear. Not slowly. Immediately.

The users who drive VLC’s distribution are the exact people who understand what ads mean. Your incentives just switched from “make the best player” to “maximize impressions.” They see it, stop recommending it, and your growth engine shuts off.

Run the actual numbers. VLC gets maybe 50 million active users daily across 6 billion total downloads. Typical video player ad rates run $1-3 CPM. Even if you served ads on every playback session, you’re looking at maybe $50-150 million annually at absolute peak optimistic assumptions.

Sounds like a lot until you realize what Kempf actually traded it for.

VLC reaching 6 billion people made Kempf the person who built the infrastructure everyone depends on. He runs a video consulting business. He built dav1d, an AV1 codec that powers modern streaming. Being “the guy who kept VLC free” opens every door in video technology. Clients pay him to solve problems because he proved he optimizes for quality over quick monetization.

“Former ad-supported media player executive” gets you exactly zero of that leverage.

The people celebrating Kempf’s ethics are missing the calculation. He didn’t sacrifice millions for principles. He rejected $150M in highly uncertain ad revenue to build permanent positioning worth multiples of that in everything else he touches.

VLC free generates more value for Kempf than VLC monetized ever could. The trade was never even close.

[The Lunduke Journal @LundukeJournal]

September, 26: Cloudflare rewritten in “memory safe” Rust.

The change is touted as “faster and more secure” because of Rust.

https://t.co/JqtUziMGpU

November, 18 (53 days later): Cloudflare has a massive outage, which took down large portions of the Internet, because of a memory error… in that Rust code.

https://t.co/jqNoYseJHS

[sukru tikves @stikves]

@JustDeezGuy Rewriting software is not only waste of effort, but it also brings previously fixed bugs back.

Why?

Because memory safety is only one class of bugs that we have.

(See what happened recently in ubuntu binutils, windows vista in the past, or many similar events in between)

[DHH @dhh]

"Bread, water, aesthetics.. that's the pyramid. You need beautiful things to sustain yourself. But when it comes to software, suddenly people feel the need to be Mr and Mrs Rational."

[DHH @dhh]

This is the root motivation behind most everything well-done in the world. Build for yourself first, so you can clearly gauge the quality, and you'll likely find others who share your sensibilities. This is the story of Rails and Omarchy alike.

[John Carmack @ID_AA_Carmack]

This is good advice.

[Theo - t3.gg @theo]

Hard to put into words how huge this is. Epic really did it. Apple's monopoly on payment processing is finally over. 🫡

[Jay Cummings @LongFormMath]

This must be tweeted every Halloween. I don’t make the rules

[Howard Lince III @HowardL3]

Follow-up https://t.co/1rjx9keuNY

[Andrew McElroy @sophrinix]

@CoenHees instant

[Andrew McElroy @sophrinix]

@bryan_johnson Predicting bioelectricity is well understood by 2400. Arbitrary modification of ones body plan becomes common place. 21st century will be seen as the era of being bad at solving pandemics, cancer, obesity, etc. https://t.co/AC7huvX73a

[Awesome Go Repositories @GolangRepos]

go-internals: A book about the internals of the Go programming language.
⭐️ 7466
#golang
https://t.co/Jx3CWByuOj

[Andrew McElroy @sophrinix]

Linux has a much healthier attitude with regard to trademark than a 4 letter word lang that has a r and and t in there somewhere. Please #linux halt the efforts of putting any code from this 4 letter lang in the kernel.
https://t.co/FU7AixRpSf

[Chris Bakke @ChrisJBakke]

Running a company:

2020: can you survive a pandemic?

2021: still here? we’re going to give all of your competitors $100m series A rounds.

2022: wow, you made it? okay, all engineers cost $600,000/year now.

2023: nice job! okay, we’re going to take away your bank account.

[Danny 🌻 @dadamitis]

Today we’re releasing research on brand new activity cluster we’re calling Hiatus. This actor has an affinity for target routers, to gather pcap and use as covert infrastructure.