Will Jordan Infrastructure, distributed systems, and binary formats. https://willjordan.us/ 2026-09-02T00:00:00Z Will Jordanwill.jordan@gmail.com Predicting the Go Linker https://willjordan.us/writing/predicting-the-go-linker/ 2026-09-02T00:00:00Z 2026-09-02T00:00:00Z The Go linker amplifies a one-line edit into megabytes of changed bytes. Nearly all of them are predictable from the old binary, so a patch carries only what the prediction misses: 1.1 KB for a one-line change, 80 KB for a Prometheus release. Slicing Chrome's Zucchini Patches in Half https://willjordan.us/writing/slicing-zucchini-patches/ 2026-08-30T00:00:00Z 2026-08-30T00:00:00Z Chrome's Linux executable is 291 MB. Zucchini, the differ inside Chrome's own updater, produces a 5.9 MB patch between two adjacent stable releases; predicting the new binary instead of diffing it gets the same pair to 2.3 MB, byte-for-byte exact. Long Live Global Heroku https://kedge.dev/blog/long-live-global-heroku 2026-08-20T00:00:00Z 2026-08-20T00:00:00Z Why agent-made software needs an erosion-resistant platform contract, replicated state, and disposable compute. Published on kedge.dev. The Serverless Server https://fly.io/blog/the-serverless-server/ 2022-06-30T00:00:00Z 2022-06-30T00:00:00Z A technical analysis of how AWS Lambda works, and what it implies for the serverless products that come after it. Published on the Fly.io blog.