Colin Dismuke
Engineer and runner.
Perth, Western Australia. Everything I make lands here first: photographs, short notes and found links in the stream, longer essays, what I’m reading, a training log kept for the long view, and projects at every stage of finished. More about me.
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Building a 30-petabyte storage cluster near San Francisco to hold 90 million hours of video for training computer-use models, which cost $354k yearly versus $12 million on AWS—achieved by skipping enterprise-grade redundancy and writing 200 lines of custom Rust instead of using Ceph.
Douglas Weber leaves Apple to spend years engineering a single, ultimate coffee brewing device, aiming for something built to last a lifetime rather than replaced yearly, and the film follows his obsessive design process.
Yoni Rechtman Sep 18, 2026 4 1 Share Thinking about AI safety which is ultimately inextricable from the underlying business. What’s happening now around text and coding models is obviously coming soon to physical AI.
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