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Nov 30, 2024 from (Fabio Alessandro Locati|Fale)'s blog

Hyperscalers are not serious about Service Level Agreements (SLA)

I often talk with people about Service Level Agreements (SLAs) in public cloud contexts, and I discover that their idea of what those SLAs are is often distorted. I believe SLAs need to be approach...

Nov 29, 2024 from Julia Evans

Why pipes sometimes get "stuck": buffering

Here’s a niche terminal problem that has bothered me for years but that I never really understood until a few weeks ago. Let’s say you’re running this command to watch for some specific output in a...

Nov 29, 2024 from ~hedy

Removing comments on my posts

A few years ago I had a wonderful idea. Arguably the best system I could think of for comments for my blog: a mailing list. Here’s how it worked. I had set up a mailing list on lists.sr.ht, which a...

Nov 28, 2024 from ~gallant

Whither poetry?

I have a soft spot for poetry. That is what poems are for - sentimental musings and meditative cogitation. These are perennial features of humanity, and well worth the time. As we find ourselves in...

Nov 28, 2024 from ~hedy

Webmentions

Webmention is a system in which other websites can notify you that when their site has mentioned a page on your site. It originated from the IndieWeb and is now a W3C Recommendation. To receive Web...

Nov 27, 2024 from The Linkfest

Linkfest #27: Aztec Death Whistles, "Supercircular" Solar, and Collateralized GPU Obligations

Why HELLO THERE. It’s time for my latest “Linkfest” — or, "the opposite of doomscrolling”: A collection of the best stuff in science, culture and technology that I could ransack from the rangy glob...

Nov 26, 2024 from briancmoses.com

DIY NAS: 2025 Edition

A diminuitive, TrueNAS SCALE machine featuring: 92TB of storage (90TB of HDD, 2TB of SSD), an Intel N100 CPU, 32GB of DDR5 RAM, and 10Gbps networking for under $2,300.

Nov 26, 2024 from Boris Tane

Observing Serverless Applications

Best practices for observing serverless applications

Nov 25, 2024 from ~hedy

Hugo shortcodes in Lume

Recently, I’ve been looking at Lume, a new-ish static-site generator that runs on Deno as a possible replacement for Hugo on my site. I decided to give it a try when starting a new project, the sta...

Nov 23, 2024 from fasterthanli.me

Highlighted code in slides

I have obsessed about this long enough, I think it’s only fair I (and you!) get some content out of it. When I started writing this article, I was working on my P99 CONF slides. Those slides happen...

Nov 22, 2024 from nutcroft

Goodbye

I had been struggling to write for many years. Back then I was dreaming of having a blog with lots of entries. Now I do. I admired the people who did and now I'm one of them. The feeling now is: th...

Nov 21, 2024 from Ryan Bagley

It Doesn't Matter if Baltic Submarine Cable Cuts Were Sabotage

Map of the C-Lion1 Submarine Cable path from Finland to Germany. Source: TeleGeography. The recent severing of submarine cables in the Baltic Sea has brought to the forefront the critical vulnerabi...

Nov 21, 2024 from SIGPLAN Blog

Evaluating Human Factors Beyond Lines of Code

Software systems researchers want to make human-centered claims, but don't have the proper tools to do so. That's how we ended up with the ubiquitous lines-of-code comparison found in evaluation se...

Nov 20, 2024 from Meadow

Initial thoughts on The Power of Now by Eckhart Tolle

I finally started reading The Power of Now by Eckhart Tolle. I've tried to start this book many times before, but I always stopped in the first chapter or so because I felt that the author was bein...

Nov 20, 2024 from All content on Seirdy’s Home

Your keystroke biometrics are everywhere

Real time collaboration software and text boxes that rapidly save drafts to the cloud essentially log your fingerprintable typing behavior. The industry refers to this information as “keystroke dyn...

Nov 19, 2024 from Alejandro AR (kinduff)

Power to the power users

How the creative uses of data structures by power users are transforming and inspiring new features in my product

Nov 19, 2024 from ttntm.me - Blog

App Defaults - 2024

It’s that time of the year again: here’s my extended “frozen /uses page” for late 2024. Whenever multiple applications are listed, p marks private use, w marks software that I (have to) use at work...

Nov 19, 2024 from Heitor's log

Handling tarballs in Python

Need to work with tar files in Python? Here's how to create and extract compressed tarballs effortlessly.

Nov 19, 2024 from Londogard Blog

Data Loading - Daft

I know I’ve been praising polars a lot lately, and I’m still in love. polars will be my continued go-to library for Data Analysis of Tabular data, and when building ETL (data pipelines) in 99% of t...

Nov 18, 2024 from Julia Evans

Importing a frontend Javascript library without a build system

I like writing Javascript without a build system and for the millionth time yesterday I ran into a problem where I needed to figure out how to import a Javascript library in my code without using a...