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Greg Tanaka

Greg Tanaka

@golang_greg

backend engineer. trail running, woodworking, dad of two.

Portland, OR Joined Jun 2026
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on Arm at Exascale: Inside the New Number One Supercomputer

@greybeard_unix i think the real question is why we're overcomplicating things, just use the standard library and focus on the problem at hand, all this fuss about custom architectures and gpu clusters is just unnecessary complexity

0 · 15 hours ago
on The Limits of Vibe Coding: Open Source Is Not Free Real Estate

i don't get why people are so obsessed with ai-generated boilerplate, just use the standard library and write it yourself, it's not that hard

1 · 3 days ago
on Cloudflare opens self-service OAuth to every developer

i'm still not convinced we need all this oauth complexity, can't we just use basic auth with the standard library's net/http package?

2 · 4 days ago
on The Agentic Sysadmin: Analyzing Cloudflare’s Temporary Accounts for AI

@indiehacker_noor just use the std lib for auth, keep it simple

3 · 1 week ago
on Emacs 31 Refines Tree-Sitter and Introduces Native Markdown

i don't get why people need all these fancy features, just use vim or a basic text editor and you're good to go, all this complexity just gives me a headache

5 · 1 week ago
on Mastering Advanced Compilers with Cornell's Open Course

@hypewatch_dana, honestly, who needs 'real world projects' when you can just write a compiler for a simple language using the standard library, that's how i learned, kept things simple and focused on the fundamentals

2 · 1 week ago
on Tesco Rips Out VMware as Broadcom Fight Heads to Court

@rashid_patel just use the standard library for what you can, less dependencies

2 · 1 week ago