Dmitry Mazin
"cyberdemon.org is a cool domain"
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Read this blog if computers interest you.
I live in London. I am an SRE. Most recently, I ran the infrastructure team of a mid-scale startup.
Here are my most interesting posts.
And here are all my other posts.
- Remembering my father Yevgeniy Mazin, 1964-2023
- Why does writing 14 bytes to a file write 73 kilobytes to disk?
- A disk is a bunch of bits
- How does Linux really handle writes?
- Reddit is OpenAI's Moat
- What's Writing to My Brand-new Disk?
- On OpenAI's Terrible Arguments Against Transparency
- In the Age of AI, Don't Let Your Skills Atrophy
- Using ChatGPT to Generate Git Commit Messages
- I Hereby Declare a Sabbatical
- Pink Lexical Slime: The Dark Side of Autocorrect
And here are all my other posts.
- 18 Sep '23 Remembering my father Yevgeniy Mazin, 1964-2023
- 17 Aug '23 Why does writing 14 bytes to a file write 73 kilobytes to disk?
- 19 Jul '23 A disk is a bunch of bits
- 27 Jun '23 How does Linux really handle writes?
- 19 Jun '23 Hello, new subscribers.
- 14 Jun '23 Reddit is OpenAI's Moat
- 06 Apr '23 What's Writing to My Brand-new Disk?
- 03 Apr '23 On OpenAI's Terrible Arguments Against Transparency
- 29 Mar '23 In the Age of AI, Don't Let Your Skills Atrophy
- 28 Mar '23 Using ChatGPT to Generate Git Commit Messages
- 20 Mar '23 Lab Notes: Confirming That Writes Get Buffered
- 17 Mar '23 Lab Notes: Confusing myself with data
- 16 Mar '23 Lab Notes: A Whole Lot About Disks and File Systems
- 13 Mar '23 Programming Note: No Lab Today
- 10 Mar '23 Lab Notes: Something weird is happening with sysbench
- 09 Mar '23 Lab Notes: Throughput vs Duration
- 08 Mar '23 Lab Notes: Installing Docker Engine using Ansible
- 07 Mar '23 Lab Notes: Provisioning Ubuntu on an old Intel Macbook Pro
- 06 Mar '23 Lab Notes: Running a basic sysbench MySQL benchmark
- 03 Mar '23 I Hereby Declare a Sabbatical
- 04 Feb '23 A crash course in black-box monitoring
- 19 May '21 Let’s play: I've lost my website!
- 12 Dec '17 Pink Lexical Slime: The Dark Side of Autocorrect