Non Fungible Taqleef

Ehhh... what bio?? As if I know myself...

[Non Fungible Taqleef @udspeaketh]

A numeric anagram is a number formed by rearranging the digits of a different number. Eg. 2002 and 2020.

[d👁️x👁️r @dexer_matters]

windows is not suitable for programming. i have no idea what the system is suitable for

[Tikhon Jelvis @tikhonjelvis]

people sometimes think "this guy is smart, he just have his shit together"

this is fundamentally backwards; the whole point of being smart is that you can get away with having your shit very far apart indeed

[Zach Weinersmith @ZachWeiner]

Artists: but I don't want to lose my job. I love it.

Mathematicians: but I don't want to lose my job. I love it.

Economists: LONG HAVE I AWAITED THIS HOUR! DESTROY ME, EFFICIENCY, AND LET UTILIZATION-ADJUSTED TOTAL FACTOR PRODUCTIVITY RISE ON THE WIND OF MY ASHES!

[Nux @mherlihy0816]

Someone asked if I was ready for the fall and it took me a second to realize they meant autumn and not the total collapse of society.

[james hawkins @james406]

accidentally said app instead of domain-specific harness and they kicked me out of SF

[God @TheTweetOfGod]

AI has the potential to wipe out the human race, but there are also downsides.

[Jonathan Jakubowicz @JoJakubowicz]

La inteligencia artificial no puede destruir un país en el que se va la luz.

[Lord Arse! @Lord_Arse]

If Winamp was actual hardware...

[Andy Ryan @ItsAndyRyan]

Me: I've finally finished my mural
Him: That's a relief
Me: No, it's definitely a mural

[Diario de un picateclas @devruso]

fabricante: hemos estimado unos 50 cierres al día y estamos probando la durabilidad de las pantallas con ese número

el usuario:

[Dylan O'Sullivan @DylanoA4]

Simone Weil’s greatest insight was that attention is the foundation of morality and that letting your attention span degrade is the first step on the road to hell

[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.

[UEFA @UEFA]

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[Non Fungible Taqleef @udspeaketh]

Do you remember when you joined X? I do! #MyXAnniversary

[রাজ শেখর @DiscourseDancer]

On 28 February 2002 a mob laid siege to former member of Parliament Ehsan Jafri’s house. He held them off for hours with his licensed rifle. The police arrived, led by K.G. Erda. The police fired 61 rounds at the mob. Every bullet missed. +

[Maarten Mortier @maartengm]

@WKCosmo All science eventually evolves to a point where it becomes impossibly frustrating to explain people how wrong they are.

[Non Fungible Taqleef @udspeaketh]

Beaut! 😍😍 https://t.co/meBPhIM5Ry

[Non Fungible Taqleef @udspeaketh]

Tukka
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[Non Fungible Taqleef @udspeaketh]

NYT's been treating me good so far
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