When I was at Google I built https://gcping.com/ for fun to measure latency to each cloud region. I'm honestly surprised it's still up!

https://cloudping.info/ measures latency to multiple major cloud providers. I built it after leaving AWS. I plan to keep it running for many years.

Like your gcping.com, I originally named mine awsping.com. Then someone on HN informed me that the name is forbidden by AWS's rules, so I renamed it [0].

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2288250

    me-central2 (Doing business with Saudi Arabia supports slavery and atrocities.)  119 ms ▶
    me-west1 (Doing business with Israel supports atrocities.)  85 ms 

Extremely based.

looks like someone at GCP saw this comment lol :(

https://github.com/GoogleCloudPlatform/gcping/pull/209

https://github.com/GoogleCloudPlatform/gcping/commit/91c3f8a...

Well it turns out you don't even need a backend for this, you get the ~same results getting 404s from regional GCS buckets.

https://imjasonh.github.io/playground/gcping/ now hosted on GH pages

Pretty neat. Man, I love my internet connection. ~40ms to the nearest, and I live way out in the country. Thank you EU-funded projects!

There are a ton of European results in yours that do not appear in the post's site. Is that because those are colocated?

Yes. Some Google Cloud zones are in Google's own data centers and some are in third-party data centers. I vaguely remember them at some point also listing those third-party data centers somewhere, but I can't find it now and might be misremembering.

Why surprised?

Useful working tools tend to get sunset by google before long. Google earth pro is getting killed this January, get your downloads in.

Imagine I am in Nigeria, London and Berlin are always the least latency paths for me, Africa is huge man!

https://imjasonh.github.io/playground/palette-swap/ swaps colors in a provided image in wasm, entirely locally in your browser, to benchmark portable SIMD vs non-portable archsimd vs non-SIMD.

Portable SIMD is ~11% slower than non-portable SIMD in this case, but both are ~5x faster than non-SIMD.

> all of these homage shirts are amazing

You can't just say that without sharing those too!

Brian, I know you lurk and post here but i'd love to see those designs make their way to the store so the general public can purchase them.

Heh, yeah, we're hearing that a lot. We'll find a way of getting these out to people, but we're still debating the best way to do that (running an online store isn't zero work -- but it's also not an unsolved problem!). Stay tuned!

Awesome. I'm not in a position at my company to move the needle much in terms of buying, but I would love to support you guys any way I can.

I had Fable one-shot the same demo from the same weights on an iPhone 15 Pro and it decides in ~40ms.

Excellent read, I loved it.

Incidentally, the image seems to be the one the resort uses on their website! https://oanresort.wixsite.com/chuuk

thanks, and yea, it should be solved easily by passing the img to google lens, the website is the first result, but I found a fun opportunity to solve it in different way

nah we'll verb anything

Fun easter egg: the barcode on the cover (the one on the left at least) is for the book's ISBN.

Can you imagine how annoying it would be for checkout workers to have a giant barcode with a different product on the front of a book!

https://www.nola.com/news/hurricane/weather-satellite-goes-1... explains a bit more what this is, and what this means.

> The main NOAA satellite for tracking Atlantic, Gulf Coast hurricanes is out until further notice

> GOES-19 is the main instrument used to identify tropical waves as they strengthen and move over the Atlantic, Caribbean and Gulf of Mexico, providing real-time tracking for forecasting.

Already been done https://grit-scm.com/

I fell down a YouTube hole and watched all of these Derail Valley playthroughs: https://youtu.be/JSONttyEJ4o

Highly recommend if you like having something interesting on in the background.