Tristan's Site - Tristan Hume

In this post I’ll attempt the fun stunt of designing a system that could serve the full production load of Twitter with most of the features intact on a single (very powerful) machine. I’ll start by showing off a Rust prototype of the core tweet distribution...

Ever since moving from NYC to SF to work at Anthropic I’ve been visiting NYC and working remotely quite often. So I designed myself a travel workstation that lets me get the best of ergonomics and packability.
It includes a few off-the-shelf items, and a custom-designed laser cut aluminum keyboard case that doubles as a lap-board to hold my keyboard and trackpad:...

Ever since I built my light sensor based latency tester, I’ve wanted to use it to illuminate where the added latency of remote desktop / display streaming systems really comes from. In fall of 2021 I was let into the beta program of a remote browser...

Last weekend I played with Samurai in the DEF CON CTF Quals where I worked on a crazy problem which involved exploiting a program binary for a made-up architecture, which was running on a VM written for a weird made-up parallel machine architecture,...