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Cloud in a Bottle: making self-hosting accessible to everyone
Your open-source personal cloud: containerized apps, unified auth, good UX. Self-hosting should feel like using a smartphone that serves webapps, not a sysadmin side job.
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AI handles incidents, engineers lose touch with their systems
AI-assisted incident response can lower MTTR while leaving engineers less prepared for the complex incidents automation cannot solve.
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The efficient frontier of LLM inference
Inference techniques either move a deployment along the latency–throughput frontier or push the entire frontier out, creating more efficiency to allocate.
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We could save petabytes of cache storage with Zstandard and Pingora
Could we get more cache space with the same hardware? We prototyped compression inside Cloudflare's cache to find out.
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It takes 5 cloud services to hear my doorbell
It all started in the winter of 2024. There was a burglary in our apartment building and we decided we needed to invest in our home’s security. The …
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I used AWS cognito for a startup. I wouldn't do it again
I let AWS Cognito gaslight me for three weeks so you don't have to. Here's the unfiltered autopsy.
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Launching Route 53 Files
Four decades ago, when the Berkeley Internet Name Domain Server launched, it stored DNS records in "zone files". You could edit these files in vi , but BIND had to be told to reload them before your changes took effect. Later, other DNS servers came along, like Daniel Bernstein's tinydns, which served records directly…
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Run OpenBSD on DigitalOcean for $4/month
My homepage now runs on OpenBSD with httpd(8) and Let's Encrypt via acme-client(1) . I previously hosted it on GitHub Pages and then eventually moved to Cloudflare Pages because both options were free and easy. Free and easy is cool, and I understand that writing software full-time leaves us wanting absolutely nothing…
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Monzo Stand-In
Our customers reasonably expect to be able to spend on their card, make bank transfers and pay their bills 24 hours a day, 365 days a year. Their lives don’t have downtime for maintenance so nor should we. We dedicate a lot of our engineering effort to minimise the risk of downtime during technical migrations and…
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OTel isn’t going well
For years now one of the most reliable complaints I hear when I try to drag a team off their vendor specific SDK and onto OpenTelemetry is some variation of: "why does it seem like this isn't done yet?" Vendor SDKs for observability are, to put it charitably, idiot-
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We rebuilt the Linux MicroVM stack on Apple Silicon
Firecracker needs KVM and therefore a Linux host, and the image tooling around it needs loop mounts and Linux userland. We rebuilt the stack on Apple's Virtualization.framework to boot the same OCI images as microVMs on macOS and on Linux.
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Bun 1.4
Bun 1.4 rewrites Bun in Rust, ships built-in headless browser automation (Bun.WebView), Bun.Image, Bun.markdown, JSON5, JSONL, Terminal and cron APIs, Node.js 26.3.0 compatibility with 1,517 newly passing tests, parallel test and run, Windows ARM64, and an opt-in global virtual store for up to 7× faster installs.
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How Kubernetes Probes Work
Learn how probes work interactively on simulated Kubernetes clusters running in your browser.
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Fairphone 6 and PostmarketOS working main camera
Today i bring the working main camera! Building on the work nondescriptpointer did on the wide lens camera i have written the driver for the main camera and now its working alongside auto focus and color correction. The color correction still a work in progress, but you can…
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Kubernetes on Oxide: How customer needs shaped our integrations
How customer needs shaped Oxide's Kubernetes integrations.
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I hate packaging my software for Linux
Nineteen distribution channels later: what it actually costs to give a terminal editor away for free on Linux, and why the next step is a static musl binary that updates itself.
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How We Pushed CDC into Postgres
Discover Snowflake Postgres Mirroring. Learn how push-based change data capture delivers transactional replication to your data lake with zero lag.
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My server is a phone now
rooting a CMF Phone 1 to run my personal infrastructure at home.
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Fastmail offers EU data region
Choose if you want to make the European Union the primary home for your Fastmail data, on our own secure servers in Amsterdam.
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I'm switching my phone from Android to Linux
Since Android is becoming increasingly more locked down and slopped, I'm jumping ship.
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Oracle cut its Always Free ARM limits to 2 OCPU / 12GB, enforced Aug 18
Oracle cut its Always Free ARM limits to 2 OCPU / 12GB, enforced Aug 18, 2026. Resize or consolidate your free instances before they're terminated.
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Cloudflare OS: an open platform for agents, apps, and work
Cloudflare OS is an open-source platform that lets everyone in your company build apps, automate work, and safely access internal systems, shaped around what your organization knows and how it operates.
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Go 1.27 Interactive Tour
An interactive tour of what’s new in Go 1.27: every notable language, runtime, and standard library change, with short runnable examples you can edit and run in the browser.
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The development pipeline is a production system
Various thoughts on programming and technology.
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Tailscale didn't stop the Hugging Face intrusion
An AI agent used a stolen Tailscale auth key at Hugging Face. Workload identity federation, flow logs, and safer defaults could have reduced the risk.
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Massively Parallel Postgres Backups
PlanetScale backs up petabyte-scale sharded Postgres databases in hours using parallel infrastructure, object storage, and WAL replay.
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Self-hosting Kimi K3: 20% more hardware cost, 20% better task resolution
We gave 64 real coding tasks to self-hosted GPUs, rented hardware and commercial APIs. Owning a box lands in the same cost ballpark as renting one.
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Producing ammonia and fertiliser using wind power in Morris, Minnesota
The project is an upscale of a successful pilot built in 2013, and can be expanded further to a network of hubs producing fertiliser for farmer cooperatives.
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Hetzner is working on LLM Inference
Hetzner has launched an experimental LLM inference API. I tested its Qwen model—and have a few guesses about where the product could go next.