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Notes from the compression frontier.

July 17, 2026

How middle-out compression actually works

A plain-English tour of why starting from the densest region of entropy beats scanning a file end to end — and how it gets us a Weissman score of 5.2.

June 2, 2026

Lossless vs lossy: a founder's guide

When every bit matters and when it doesn't, and why "good enough" compression quietly costs enterprises millions a year.

May 9, 2026

Cutting cloud storage costs by 40% in an afternoon

The one-line change three of our customers made to shrink their object-storage bill without touching their application code.