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@stephango.com I just found your blog today, really enjoying your writing 👍

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Gets me down that this is how many #Rust crates I need for open telemetry tracing to work smoothly! Maybe there's a way to cut down a few of them? But it's really a bit compatibility battle every time they make interface changes. Because as usual, they are all at major version 0.

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It's been a good holiday down at home in the southern hemisphere. 🌴

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Yesterday, I covered Virtual Consensus—today, let’s dive deeper into a crucial distinction: 👉 Failure-free ordering vs. Fault-tolerant consensus Decoupling these concepts can change how we think about consensus protocols. jack-vanlightly.com/blog/2025/2/...

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score-flyio is available! Convert Score workloads into Fly apps. score.dev/blog/communi...

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Really enjoying the docs.atuin.sh shell history + github.com/akinomyoga/ble.sh combo. It's so smooth when you get it setup how you like it 😎

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Kubernetes getting me down. Sometimes I wish it was more strongly opinionated and not so darn infinitely complex.

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When deploying to @fly.io and expecting it to be publically resolvable, don't forget to allocate an IP lest you sit trying to debug DNS resolution on your machine for some time... 🤦‍♂️

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I cannot fathom the time and energy that must have gone into the absolute gem of a blog post, much less the system its introducing. Even the one-off examples must have taken many hours. You should read it! It's a delight

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“Dear friend, you have built a Kubernetes” - this is a great write up of the slippery slope many people go down because they think k8s is too complex. Not saying it can work everywhere but this is a common story. (h/t to @timothysc.bsky.social for finding it) www.macchaffee.com/blog/2024/yo...

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This is why I like reviewing PRs that have a good description of what they are doing, how they are tested, as well as a demo of some kind.. Don't just copy the issue/ticket url or content and say "👍 good enough" morrisbrodersen.de/how-do-you-l...

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Oops, my server connected to the UPS was configured to shutdown when the UPS lost power... thus defeating the point of being able to disconnect power for a short time without downtime while moving the server cabinet. `sudo pwrstat -pwrfail -active off -shutdown off` fixed that.

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What does it mean for something to be Turing complete? I answer this question, and more, through a series of fully interactive Turing machine simulations! Play, pause, step forwards and backwards, and even write your own Turing machine programs in my latest blog post. samwho.dev/turing-machi...

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Good morning. Let’s talk about ✨burnout✨ It happens when we feel emotionally and physically drained from doing too much for too long. Prioritising self care is key to preventing burnout. Set boundaries, be self-compassionate and do what brings you joy and comfort. REST when you need it.

submitted 68 days ago • 7 comments

sesame street isn't supposed to make money. the post office isn't supposed to make money. not everything is supposed to MAKE MONEY

submitted 69 days ago • 1126 comments

8 hours of sleep last night, broken into 3 chunks but still, first time in 3 months with a newborn. 🥇

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I’ve been incubating this opinion for a long time, and it’s that having documentation separate to your product is a waste of time. The documentation should be _in_ the product, and it should surface itself when needed. I like to use the Rust compiler’s error messages as an example.

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After sending countless throwaway accounts to die on my PDS, this is finally good enough to ship: www.npmjs.com/package/blue... It's a CLI wizard for migrating your Bluesky account from one PDS to another. If you feed it the right credentials and have a stable connection, it should Just Work™.

submitted 72 days ago • 21 comments

new prompt; who dis? github.com/astromechza/.... * not for public consumption

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I love the voice @itseieio.bsky.social uses in the write up of eieio.games/blog/writing.... It starts off in this "naive" / "how hard can it be" voice and then suddenly you're deep in feistel cipher and reversable algorithms 😆

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#blogvent day 5 is here! I wrote about shipping things, even when you see others working on something similar to what you want to release. cassidoo.co/post/ship-it...

submitted 80 days ago • 10 comments

If you know how to wield it and you have a culture that supports it, a remote team is an absolute superpower: versatile, responsive, fast, collaborative, innovative. Certainly, I can't imagine doing it any other way at @oxide.computer!

submitted 79 days ago • 3 comments

Going to be a (not) fun 24 hours..

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Huh the Steampipe product suite looks really neat. Really broad coverage and is a great prototyping environment. Coupled with flowpipes for dashboarding and powerpipes for notification/action 🤔 steampipe.io

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This old 2017 xps 13 I use for personal stuff is really showing its age 😟. Even on a relatively light weight distro, useful IDE work needs more CPU and battery than is available.

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Here's my incredibly popular opinion that will never get any traction: Most software does not need new features. None. Zero. Zilch.

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😂 I love this. “The UX of LEGO Interface Panels”, a look at the fictional interfaces printed on 2×2 sloped bricks. interactionmagic.com/UX-LEGO-Inte...

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Seems like using the #duckdb wasm build to create an in browser Grafana datasource might be very neat 🤔. Espescially with the hive partitioning by time.

submitted 88 days ago • 2 comments

The more I switch back and forth between Go and Rust, the more I keep finding annoyances in Go rather than in Rust. This hour it's the crate "features" concept used to reduce the footprint and remove unneeded dependencies and complexity.

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