Ethan Smith

Projects & Proposals

• the-cooperative-os How trusting your software could make everything faster, and why we stopped. July 2026
• clean-room-web A clean-room redesign of the web stack, and a proof that a simpler one was possible. 2026

Writing

• Why Shared Memory Doesn’t Compose Shared memory optimizes for a bottleneck that disappeared with the 486 — what you pay for now is coordination, and you pay it invisibly. July 9th 2026

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