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Sam Rose

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Sam Rose

@samwhoo

That guy who writes visual essays about software at samwho.dev. Developer Educator @ngrokHQ.

Joined August 2009

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Sam Rose
@samwhoo
Dec 26, 2025
Hi 👋 I’m Sam, I create visual essays about programming. My posts from 2025: - samwho.dev/reservoir-samp… - samwho.dev/big-o/ - ngrok.com/blog/prompt-ca… I also appeared on other folks’ websites: - simonwillison.net/2025/Dec/19/sa… - writethatblog.substack.com/p/sam-rose-on-…
Sam Rose
@samwhoo
Dec 24, 2024
Hi 👋 I'm Sam, I create interactive visualisations about programming. My posts from 2024: - samwho.dev/bloom-filters - encore.dev/blog/queueing - samwho.dev/turing-machines I also appeared on 2 podcasts : - hanselminutes.com/953/computer-s… - youtube.com/watch?v=ur9clT…
Sam Rose
@samwhoo
2h
It used to be that folks using vim because it was the fast option but I just tried nvim with LazyVim and it is _noticeably_ slower than Zed at basically everything.
Sam Rose
@samwhoo
19h
I found a real bug in Kubernetes through webernetes, my port of Kubernetes to TypeScript. 😅 github.com/kubernetes/kub… Should I do a write-up of the problem and how I found it? It’s quite a bad bug, and the way I found it was quite silly.
Liveness probe failure container restart leads to container starting up with started=true and...
From github.com
Sam Rose
@samwhoo
Aug 6
@IanLandsman @aarondfrancis I like this 2 episodes per week thing. Every week from now on, yes? Yes. Great. Good talk.
Sam Rose
@samwhoo
Aug 1
A “randomizer” speedrun for AI agents: drop them in a VM where every binary is randomly aliased to a different binary and get them to complete a simple task. Is this anything?