I paired with AI and rewrote gifsicle over the holidays. A palette LUT trick to skip quantization, some SIMD, and a transparent pixel bug that doubled encode speed.

AWS, Google, and Azure have built walled gardens held together by egress bills. OCI's networking is 10x cheaper and it changes what you can actually build.

Most infrastructure content is vendor marketing or too abstracted to be useful. I want to write about the real stuff — patterns I've built, decisions I've made, and things I've learned by doing.