https://upstreamutopia.com Exploring Ideas and Technology https://upstreamutopia.com/articles?id=20260308-113858-future-peace-and-current-vi The recent bombings in Iran, Israel, Lebanon and other middle eastern countires raises an important question - how well can extreme violence through bombings be justifeid if it's b... 2026-03-08 11:38:58 +0000 UTC https://upstreamutopia.com/articles?id=20260121-093451-understanding-trump-and-mag Angela Merkel described Trump so:"He saw everything from the perspective of the property developer he was before entering politics," she wrote. "Each parcel of land could only be s... 2026-01-21 09:34:51 +0000 UTC https://upstreamutopia.com/articles?id=20260121-060942-vibe-coding-is-over,-now-ju I've been using Google Antigravity as well as Gemini and Claude Code to do a lot of coding lately, and I must say the quality is so good that it now goes way beyond what we human dev... 2026-01-21 06:09:42 +0000 UTC https://upstreamutopia.com/articles?id=20260110-150500-thoughts-on-writing-my-own- This blog isn't running on Wordpress, Hugo, Astro, or any other conventional blogging platform. It's running in a little golang container on Google Cloud Run, automatically pauses ... 2026-01-10 15:05:00 +0000 UTC https://upstreamutopia.com/articles?id=20260103-075344-blown-away-by-mozart's-don- I really didn't know what to expect going into the performance, but in the end I was blown away. It was like a bridge between the moral world of past ages (the original piece was a... 2026-01-03 07:53:44 +0000 UTC https://upstreamutopia.com/articles?id=20251231-062747-favorite-books-and-films-of-2 I try to read and watch as wide a variety of books and films as I can in a year, here are my favorites from 2025. Basically these are the books and films that I gave 5 out of 5 sta... 2025-12-31 06:27:47 +0000 UTC https://upstreamutopia.com/articles?id=20251229-065105-the-power-of-saying-no As Seneca wrote, we as humans tend to waste most of our time. This is how he put it in On the Shortness of Life:It is not that we have a short time to live, but that we waste a lot... 2025-12-29 06:51:05 +0000 UTC https://upstreamutopia.com/articles?id=20251213-131553-small-go-vs-rust-performanc This test is just with a small microservice with a REST API running on Go (gin framework) and Rust (rocket framework).Initial memory usageGOLANG = 11.8MRUST = 3.3MFirst call time t... 2025-12-13 12:06:58 +0000 UTC https://upstreamutopia.com/articles?id=20250625-102643-rust-performance-on-google- I really appreciated Richard Seroter's comparison of different programming language's size and performance on Google Cloud Run, and decided to do the same test with some more langu... 2025-06-22 11:06:58 +0000 UTC https://upstreamutopia.com/articles?id=20251228-144136-about This is just a blog about, well, anything that I want to write about. Mostly history, philosophy, technology, and literature, but anything really. Thanks for reading!... 2025-12-28 14:41:36 +0000 UTC