Back in May 2025 Fatoni, Edgar Wasser and Juse Ju released their new collaboration album BAWRS.
I had ordered that on vinyl.
The problem: I couldn't play it. I didn't own a record player.
This was the fourth vinyl in my collection, with no way to listen to it.
The album wasn't available for streaming yet, as it wasn't officially released.
In December I had the chance to give a lightning talk at work. I couldn't attend the lightning talk session in person, so I had to prerecord it.
That's when I came up with a little story about music.
It has become a tradition for me to look at the year that's about to end.
I did so in 2024, 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016, 2015 and 2014.
Let's look at 2025 now.
It all started rather inconspicuous:
The Data Engineering team filed a bug report about a sudden increase in schema errors at ingestion of telemetry data from Firefox for Android.
The data we were seeing was surprising and couldn't be explained by the code.
An incident was called and multiple people started working, mitigating the issue and ultimately tracking it down to a compiler bug.
Intrigued by algorithmic symphonies from one line of code
I completely overengineered a compiler that takes in
a (binary) arithmetic expression and turns that into a program that generates sound.