I’m Brad — HPC researcher, indie dev, and professional chaos engineer. I build in public: sparse matrices, simulations, debugging nightmares, and the occasional nuclear shitpost. If you enjoy the threads, tools, experiments, and unfiltered dev life, you can fuel the next

In research, it’s oddly satisfying to go from reading papers all day to finally getting raw data and metrics out of real code. If you’re in the grind, keep going.

As much as people complain about DDR5 prices, remember this: 1989: IBM PS/2 “portable” - 120MB disk - 8MB RAM - ~$8,000 1990: IBM P75 systems pushing ~$18,500. Perspective helps.

It ran out just now. Let's request 100G xD

That moment when you request 85G on Slurm for a long job and you’re already sitting at 83.7G used. This is less “resource planning” and more “faith-based computing.”

minigame: find the error in one of the comments.

I can’t be the only C++ dev who uses .hpp like my own library and keeps old-school .h files for pure includes only. The only .cpp file I have is for main. Please tell me I’m not alone.

Pick your fighter. No explanations required (but arguments encouraged). MPI | OpenMP | CUDA | ROCm

Gonna try daily driving this code editor for C++ work: https://t.co/OJP8bB0Ada Can’t find any videos on it, but so far it seems pretty cool. If anyone has insights on setting up build configs with Makefiles, let me know 👀

Reminder: even the people who motivate others need motivation too.

Apparently doing a balance transfer *inside Citi* triggers a fraud alert call. Like… you already know it was me?? I get the idea of fraud checks for big purchases, but this feels aggressively dumb.

When a prof doesn't know the answer to their own questions on an exam. 2 TA's walk in. TA 1: can you give us a key TA 2: don't do your job as a professor, it's ok, we don't need a key. TA 1's thoughts 💭 "You shut your GD mouth you SoB" I'm TA 1. Are my thoughts wrong?

Look at what I’m reading for fun for the next 2 hours: “Iterative Methods for Sparse Linear Systems.” Yes… this is my idea of entertainment...

Proctoring exams today because the professor’s sick. Didn’t realize “grad student” also came with the DLC: Substitute Adult.

Starting to hate using AI for even simple code help. Feels like I’m forgetting the basics and losing motivation to do what I used to love doing manually. Am I alone?

https://t.co/y0AGY1a3wO

Screw all the macbook and thinkpad peeps. I want this: gimme gimme gimme. True legend status: Run OpenMP on ALL THE CORES!

Gonna be in Toronto for New Year’s 👀 Any must-see spots or hidden gems I should hit while I’m there?

Life tip: stop acting like a zero in someone else’s sparse matrix called life. Be the one value worth storing.

Good morning with a throwback to an amazing time in the world. https://t.co/qanHsFDUjN

LaTeX is the most underrated language.