Bytedance, a global technology company operating a wide range of content platforms around the world at massive scale, faced significant challenges in ensuring performance and stability across its data centers. With over a million servers running containerized applications, the company required a networking solution…
Rather than technology alone, it's the practices, processes, and culture changes DevOps introduces that can most positively impact your software delivery.
I connected a Family BASIC keyboard to an NES via a bespoke adapter in order to play its unique triangle waveform live.
It started, as many things do these days, by scrolling on X.
You will never have enough IQ, nor money, nor time, nor energy.
Synadia and TigerBeetle have together pledged $512,000 to the Zig Software Foundation over the next two years in support of the language, leadership, and communities building the future of simpler systems software.
Last night I had a very strange experience: About two thirds of the way through reading a Web page about myself, Tim Bray, I succumbed to boredom and killed the tab. Thus my introduction to Grokipedia . Here are early impressions.
Lately I’ve heard a lot of stories of AI accidentally deleting entire codebases or wiping production databases . But in my case it was the other way around. I removed some working code and the LLM helped me to recover it.
don't use anubis just to block llm scrapers
Since moving to Deep South Texas 4 years ago I've come to realize that many plants I used to love growing in the cool mild maritime climate of the SF bay area are impossible to grow where I live. This is not just because of the high daytime heat. It's not as simple as that. Specifically, it is the h
Let’s Encrypt will be reducing the validity period of the certificates we issue. We currently issue certificates valid for 90 days, which will be cut in half to 45 days by 2028. This change is being made along with the rest of the industry, as required by the CA/Browser Forum Baseline Requirements, which set the…
Xe Iaso's personal website.
NGINX and Let's Encrypt share a common vision of an open and secure web. Now, with built-in support for ACME, the world's most popular web server, reverse proxy and ingress controller for Kubernetes can simplify certificate management for everyone. From the home lab to scaled-out, mission-critical enterprise…
I wrote a small script that runs in the background, polling for the state of an $8 smart plug .
As it turns out, “thrift shopping” in Japan via the internet can be both very enjoyable as well as very dangerous. In this series of posts, I’ve been examining various optical med…
The dream of hypermedia can come to fruition in a world where clients can not only parse, but navigate with intent.
Ruby Central posted an extremely concerning “Incident Response Timeline” today, in which they make a number of exaggerated or purely misleading claims. Here’s my effort to set the record straight. First, and most importantly: I was a primary operator of RubyGems.org, securely and successfully, for over ten years. Ruby…
Claude can now cite specific passages from your documents, delivering verifiable responses with built-in source tracking. Update: Now available in Amazon Bedrock. (June 30, 2025) Today, we're launching Citations, a new API feature that lets Claude ground its answers in source documents.
Blog posts about GNU Guix.
We’re sharing details about Strobelight, Meta’s profiling orchestrator. Strobelight combines several technologies, many open source, into a single service that helps engineers at Meta improve effic…
We are happy to announce a new preview feature that adds support for Apache Iceberg REST Catalogs, enabling DuckDB users to connect to Amazon S3 Tables and Amazon SageMaker Lakehouse with ease.
Our latest generalist policy, π0.5, extends π0 and enables open-world generalization. Our new model can control a mobile manipulator to clean up an entirely new kitchen or bedroom.
Building an iOS fermentation tracker with HACCP-style decision trees for home charcuterie, salami curing, and fermented foods - food safety without internet strangers.
An introduction to a new post series covering debugger basics.
Organizing and generating variety in politics
There was a recent incident where Microsoft somehow allegedly blocked a mailbox of a sanctioned individual . Any organization highly depending on MS products that might come into the crosshair should ask - can this happen to me? What would be the cost? How much I invest into prevention of this scenario? In this…
