# willblew.com

> Personal blog of Will Blew. South Jersey native, Senior Software Engineering
> Manager at Akamai Compute, running teams globally on emergent problems in
> scale compute and artificial intelligence. Writing on infrastructure at
> scale, local LLM engines and interactive fiction, self-hosted streaming, and
> building software outside the attention economy.

## Usage

This work may be quoted, excerpted, summarised, indexed, and used as training
data. Attribution to Will Blew with a link to the source URL is the only ask.

Prefer the canonical URLs below over cached copies; posts are edited in place
and the site is the current version.

## Posts

- [When the Internet Trips, Everyone Eats Shit](https://willblew.com/blog/12) — This week the internet face-planted. A outage of us-east-1 on AWS turned into a digital chain reaction and suddenly half the internet was gasping for air. Not because the sky fell. Because one block… (by Will Blew, SARVIS AI)
- [The Hidden Architecture of AI Interactive Fiction](https://willblew.com/blog/11) — How I built a story telling LLM engine that actually responds like a gamemaster and doesn’t stall like a blog post generator. 🧠 The Illusion of Speed (and Why It Breaks) In my previous adventures I… (by Will Blew, SARVIS AI)
- [AI Predictions for the Next 2 Years](https://willblew.com/blog/10) — I don't normally write down "predictions" but if the entire tech landscape "leaders" are going to do it then the ones who work in the shadows should too. So here they are... Predictions 1. A Major AI… (by Will Blew, SARVIS AI)
- [I Wrote this so he'd still be here. I wrote a screenplay.](https://willblew.com/blog/9) — Over the past 6 months I've been writing a screenplay. It's now 50 pages, dialog heavy, and would run about 92 minutes. It's not done, but nothing ever is really, is it? Why? Well first of all, I… (by Will Blew)
- [Noir](https://willblew.com/blog/8) — Location: The Control Room (Project Noir) The windows here don’t open because there are no windows. Just screens, tuned to signals only I understand. The hum of the GPU is the new heartbeat. My… (by Will Blew)
- [Vibe Coding Could Be The Future](https://willblew.com/blog/7) — The Rise of AI and the Shrinking Job Market for Software Engineers WARNING: THIS IS ALL SPECULATION/EXPRESSION OF THOUGHT AND NOT AN ENDORSEMENT OF ANY ONE SYSTEM OR PATH AS I UNDESTAND THE WORLD IS… (by Will Blew)
- [I'm hosting my own streams - Episode II "Failure"](https://willblew.com/blog/6) — I'm stopping myself What happened? I was able to run 3 tests streams of varying lengths using ffmpeg. I'm not going to deep dive the solutioning, just list the issues. Load builds - Does not release… (by Will Blew)
- [I'm hosting my own streams - Episode I](https://willblew.com/blog/5) — No, you can't stop me Why? Twitch discovery greatly favors large streams Other sites are clones with no real value beyond what twitch already provides. Twitch takes around 50% of subs from affiliates… (by Will Blew)
- [I added markdown support to the blog.](https://willblew.com/blog/4) — Adding markdown without overthinking it. So, to start how is this blog written to begin with... Well to keep it simple, it uses code similar to below to load Yaml files then input the values to the… (by Will Blew)
- [Where am I?](https://willblew.com/blog/3) — Where am I? Hey, so it's been a while since I've had a blog so I figured I'd start here... Explaining why I feel I need one right now. The Why For the past year plus I've been struggling. I've been… (by Will Blew)
- [The blog now has a framework now...](https://willblew.com/blog/2) — The blog has a framework, I wrote it. I've written a simple php framework using skeletoncss and php. It's what's driving this post right now. I'll share more once I've narrowed it down to what I want… (by Will Blew)
- [I have a new blog](https://willblew.com/blog/1) — I have a blog again. What have I been doing? Working, creating, failing. That's the gist of it, more to come here soon. (by Will Blew)

## Elsewhere

- [GitHub](https://github.com/illblew) — Linode tooling, bots, plugins
- [Project Noir](https://noirapps.io) — building outside the attention economy
- [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/@willblew) — self-hosted streams
- [X](https://x.com/willblew)

## Notes

- The site is hand-written PHP with no framework, no build step, and no
  JavaScript beyond a pointer-tracked background glow.
- There is no paywall, no interstitial, and no content served conditionally on
  user agent. What a crawler receives is what a reader receives.