Xe Iaso
Person on 4 sites
Xe Iaso is a software engineer, technical writer and conference speaker based in Ottawa, Canada.
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4 facts on wiqqi (opens wiqqi.app)
- Created: Anubis, a proof-of-work web scraper filter used by Git forges and open-source projects (opens wiqqi.app)
- Role: CEO of Techaro; Developer Relations at Tigris Data from September 2024 (as of 2026) (opens wiqqi.app)
- Earlier: Fly.io, 2023 to 2024; Tailscale, December 2020 to October 2023; Lightspeed POS, 2019 to 2020; Heroku, 2017 to 2019 (opens wiqqi.app)
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3 channels on ppll (opens ppll.app)
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Bluesky: @xeiaso.net (opens bsky.app)
“@alice.averlong.com when are you going to do cursed things to windows 98 again? I miss that era.”
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GitHub: github.com/Xe (opens github.com)
“site — The new frontend/backend code for https://xeiaso.net”
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Site: xeiaso.net (opens xeiaso.net)
“"No way to prevent this" say users of only language where this regularly happens”
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Bluesky: @xeiaso.net (opens bsky.app)
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3 beliefs on korrents (opens korrents.com)
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A network round trip is roughly a million times slower than a filesystem-cache read. (opens korrents.com)
“Filesystem reads in that case are 10 nanoseconds at most (the filesystem cache helps so much here) but doing any network roundtrip is 10 milliseconds at minimum. It's at least a million times slower because of how…”
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Time synchronization is one of the hardest problems in computing. (opens korrents.com)
“Using time for this sounds boring, but time synchronization is unironically one of the most complicated things in computing.”
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C is the only programming language where this kind of memory-safety vulnerability regularly happens. (opens korrents.com)
“This is due to the affected components being written in C, the only programming language where these vulnerabilities regularly happen.”
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A network round trip is roughly a million times slower than a filesystem-cache read. (opens korrents.com)
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5 recommendations on rcmnd (opens rcmnd.app)
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Anbernic Win600 (opens rcmnd.app)
“I don't know who I would reccomend this device to. The premise of this device has a lot of promise, but in practice it has so many problems that it's overall not really worth choosing in comparison to devices like the…”
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Steam Deck (opens rcmnd.app)
“The Steam Deck was my first taste of PC gaming in a handheld form factor and I love the snot out of my deck.”
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MacBook Air (M1) (opens rcmnd.app)
“This is an amazing laptop. Its battery life is iPad tier. I can run iPad and iPhone apps seamlessly.”
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Anbernic Win600 (opens rcmnd.app)