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Leverage Red Hat Ansible to automate your IBM Power Systems

A real hoot: notes for May 2025

Documenting institutional collapse. The curse of knowledge & cursed knowledge. Workshops on connecting measurement to strategy.

Preserving text size when scaling SVGs

SVGs support non-scaling strokes using the vector-effect attribute, which we can even use to draw non-scaling rectangles and circles. For example, in graphs and charts, text can become too small or...

Leverage Event-Driven Ansible to reduce your automation reaction time

Automating Power Virtual Servers with Ansible and AAP

My AI Skeptic Friends Are All Nuts

A heartfelt provocation about AI-assisted programming. Tech execs are mandating LLM adoption. That’s bad strategy. But I get where they’re coming from. Some of the smartest people I know share a bo...

Weekly update #20250601

Messaging as a customer channel and its relationship to cost of labour: interesting thoughts from Mark Zuckerberg in this interview by Stripe’s co-CEO John Collison. Happy to see that almost no one...

This Week — Now For Something Slightly Different

This Week — Now For Something Slightly Different TL;DR:Some interesting web projects launched this week. Also, I tried out Hypixel Skyblock. This blog post has approximately 513 words and may take ...

Special Edition — Small Web Communities

Special Edition — Small Web Communities TL;DR:Small web communities helped me feel more confident and less lonely. This blog post has approximately 928 words and may take 5 minutes to read. This po...

Upcoming Events: CEC, Flock, and DevConf.cz

In the coming couple of weeks I’ll be heading to the Common Europe Congress (CEC2025), Flock 2025, and DevConf.cz 2025, some of the best community-driven events in the ecosystem. If you’re around, ...

May 2025

The shortest work month in Norway is over, and summer is right around the corner! From the blog this month: Docker Context Introducing git-bump 🍀 Life My SO started traveling offshore this month. S...

Django: Deferred constrain enforcement

Another Friday, another Django related post. I guess this blog is becoming a bit monothematic. I promise the next ones will bring the much-needed diversity of contents, but today let’s explore a ve...

The virtue of unsynn

Addressing the rumors There have been rumors going around, in the Reddit thread for facet, my take on reflection in Rust, which happened a bit too early, but here we are, cat’s out of the bag, let’...

Digital Spring Cleaning Part 1

Taking Obsidian for a drive around the block.

Using Kamal 2.0 in Production

Agile Web Development with Rails 8 is off to production, where they do things like editing, indexing, pagination, and printing. In researching the chapter on Deployment and Production, I became ver...

Beginning 3D printing

Hello readers and sorry for the 2-month radio silence. I’ve been pretty busy at work, traveling during school breaks, hacking on EndBASIC when time permitted, and… as of two weeks ago… tinkering wi...

When AI Sells You What You Want

Any product you can think of, Crafty can build.

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We’re Fly.io, a public cloud that runs apps in a bunch of locations all over the world. This is a post about a gnarly bug in our Anycast router, the largest Rust project in our codebase. You won’t ...

A Generative AI Cautionary Tale

There has been a lot of speculation and investment around Generative AI and how it will transform our society, but in the rush to capitalize on this new technology many companies are just going to ...

Compiling a Neural Net to C for a 1,744× speedup

tl;dr: I trained a neural network (NN), with logic gates in the place of activation functions, to learn a 3×3 kernel function for Conway’s Game of Life. I wanted to see if I could speed up inferenc...