{"id":17293,"date":"2026-10-01T16:48:48","date_gmt":"2026-10-01T23:48:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/?p=17293"},"modified":"2026-09-18T08:35:44","modified_gmt":"2026-09-18T15:35:44","slug":"this-is-unix-i-know-this","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/?p=17293","title":{"rendered":"This is Unix &#8211; I know this!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/rikarends\"><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/rikarends\">Rik Arends<\/a> created a really nifty code visualizer. It shows all your code in blocks and then lets you zoom in\/out and around the code in real-time rendering. It reminds me a bit of this project that showed live silicon blocks. (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.tomshardware.com\/tech-industry\/developer-builds-viral-3d-source-code-visualizer-that-consumes-21gb-of-ram-flies-around-2-5-million-lines-of-code-at-over-120-frames-per-second\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.tomshardware.com\/tech-industry\/developer-builds-viral-3d-source-code-visualizer-that-consumes-21gb-of-ram-flies-around-2-5-million-lines-of-code-at-over-120-frames-per-second\">Toms Hardware<\/a>)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I like this other quote, since it&#8217;s pretty much the truth these days:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Astra is my vp of engineering, fable is my team lead, and grok is the intern with LOTS of time<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-x wp-block-embed-x\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<div class=\"embed-x\"><blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Ironed out the last performance issues with my full 2.5m line codebase explorer. 120hz awesomeness. Can only upload 60fps video tho. Much nicer uncompressed <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/LUsrmVaI6L\">pic.twitter.com\/LUsrmVaI6L<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Rik Arends (@rikarends) <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/rikarends\/status\/2098710248164868534?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 12, 2026<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.x.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/div>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Here he shows off the 51 million lines of code in the Chromium codebase:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-x wp-block-embed-x\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<div class=\"embed-x\"><blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">51 million lines of code. Chromium codebase. Here you go. 120hz, 3gb ram use. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/HMPqiMXte9\">pic.twitter.com\/HMPqiMXte9<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Rik Arends (@rikarends) <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/rikarends\/status\/2100295688881852508?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 16, 2026<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.x.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/div>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/rikarends\"><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/rikarends\"><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rik Arends created a really nifty code visualizer. It shows all your code in blocks and then lets you zoom in\/out and around the code in real-time rendering. It reminds me a bit of this project that showed live silicon blocks. (Toms Hardware) I like this other quote, since it&#8217;s pretty much the truth these days: Astra is my vp of engineering, fable is my team lead, and grok is the intern with LOTS of time Here he shows off&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a class=\"btn btn-default\" href=\"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/?p=17293\"> Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Read More<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17293","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cool"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4WECr-4uV","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17293","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17293"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17293\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17294,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17293\/revisions\/17294"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17293"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17293"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17293"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}