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michael.bacarella.com
Founded mobile media company that exited to Synchrony; ex-Jane Street; ex-Google; OCaml programmer; occasional shitpoaster
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my latest idle hobby is finding personal automation things I had written in Python or F# that consume 100MB of RAM and asking Claude to rewrite them in C++ so they consume 3MB instead surprisingly effective!

submitted 6 days ago • 1 comment

So! My static analysis of the DeepSeek Android app reveals it contains significant spyware and malware functionality that a normal chat app shouldn't have. Full technical details in my new blog post: michael.bacarella.com/2025/02/07/s...

submitted 15 days ago • 1 comment

Some of my quick thoughts about DeepSeek and the AI arms race michael.bacarella.com/2025/01/31/d...

submitted 23 days ago • 0 comments

why yes, business bank, I would love to have to download all of my statements for the year one-by-one and have them all named statement.pdf

submitted 31 days ago • 0 comments

if you look closely, tons of minor things are broken on various web sites during Christmas week the B teams can't figure it out, but they don't want to wake the A teams up to fix it

submitted 57 days ago • 0 comments

Kind of amazing how much WordPress Hacked Site Repair Services don't know about WordPress.

submitted 61 days ago • 0 comments

we're all here on bsky rewriting our blogs in BrianLang 0.4 while researchers at Google are doing quantum supremacy

submitted 74 days ago • 0 comments

if you find yourself editing a dependabot.yml file, stop right now and forget about it and use the open source renovatebot instead. it's so. much. better. github.com/renovatebot/...

submitted 78 days ago • 0 comments

the tech community on bsky has some of the greatest minds of our generation but it seems overly focused on tinkering with BrianLang 0.4 to build a personal blog can nobody figure out what world-improving things to work on? is our skillset actually not that impactful?

submitted 80 days ago • 1 comment

*enters hour three of ruthlessly optimizing his advent of code solution* "maybe I should rewrite this in x86-64 assembler?" I need to stop doing these.

submitted 80 days ago • 0 comments

starting a business where we use zero saas providers

submitted 81 days ago • 0 comments

dependabot: let me fix this security vuln for you! me: ok! dependabot: I have exposed 115 new vulns me: these aren't new. it looks like you... subverted our overrides rules? dependabot: 🥺 👉🏽👈🏽

submitted 81 days ago • 0 comments