Crosscurrent Code

Essays on technology, culture, and change from the Middle East.

Independent writing by Jad Madi on AI, open source, systems, digital sovereignty, and the human consequences of technical change.

Lead Story

Mounting Remote Disks Over Plain HTTP: Contributing to fs-relay

A reflection on 20 years of Linux network mounts, why Muayyad Alsadi's fs-relay beats s3fs and NFS by 10x, and the upstream work on SQLite locking and v0.2.0.