Alex Mackenzie

Hello! - I'm Alex Mackenzie, a dev & partner @ Tapestry. Below you'll find breakdowns of technical topics, research & pontifications.

WebGPU Primer

Bringing Back "Serious Software"

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Nix Primer

Containers without containers

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Speaking at eBPF Summit '22

eBPF is Infra++

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Remaking Pokemon Yellow in Godot

Alex used Godot, it was super effective.

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Deno Primer & Isolate Clouds

"node_modules, the heaviest object in the universe"

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Advice Aggregated

A perpetually evolving doc of the advice I've received or inherited about the business of VC.

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eBPF Primer

“Some say software is eating the world, I would say that: BPF is eating software”

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Developer Tool Acquisitions

A perennial document attempting to capture the history of developer tools acquisitions. PRs welcome!

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Developer Tool Business Models

A perennial document attempting to capture the history of developer tool business models. PRs welcome!

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Developer Tool History

A perennial document attempting to capture the history of developer tools. PRs welcome!

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Developer Tool Metrics

Every (public!) developer tool usage/revenue metric I've come across + sources.

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Gaming Acquisitions

A perennial document attempting to capture the history of gaming acquisitions. PRs welcome!

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Gaming Metrics

Every (public!) gaming usage/revenue metric I've come across + sources.

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Learning Computers

A collection of the best resources, primers and tutorials that I've come across about our mechnical counterparts.

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Security Business Models

A perennial document attempting to capture the history of security business models. PRs welcome!

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Federated Learning Primer

"pip install the-worlds-data"

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DevRel Aggregated

"It's not even wrong"

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Firm Building Aggregated [wip]

A perpetually evolving doc of the resources I've received or collected about building a venture firm.

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Industry Indexes [wip]

WIP - Expect end of September.

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A Perennial Request for Startups [WIP]

\>> [2023-01-02] Modern DWH-backed notebooks meet spreadsheet interfaces.

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Venture History

WIP / Evolving doc.

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OpenAI's VPT [wip]

WIP - Expect end of Sep.

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Devtool Market Maps [WIP]

Build Tools - https://mesonbuild.com/

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