Every fiat company is in hyper drive trying to gather as much data as they possibly can, as they believe that is the new “moat”. The thing I’m pondering - how do I build systems that let families own their data 100% while enjoying the benefits of distributed computing?

Best read on AI and impacts on software development I've read in a long time. TLDR: Expertise still matters

The Next Two Years of Software Engineering

Exploring five critical questions shaping software engineering through 2026, with contrasting scenarios for each. These lenses help prepare for the...

I’m feeling really mentally heavy lately. I’m having a really hard time getting motivated and doing work, especially the work that means a lot to me. Not really sure what I need to breakthrough.

I hate when an LLM gives me a compliment and I let it go to my head

My raspberry pi kubernetes cluster is nearly complete! All the baseline stuff is done, including monitoring and alerting. Now time to start deploying apps!

Is @Start9 dead? No new commits in 9 months

Yaml is so frustrating 😅

I mute everyone on nostr that post stupid influencer quips.

I continue to be astonished at the prices of cars and trucks. Even more so that people keep buying them!

For the last two-ish weeks, I've been building a frankenstein kubernetes raspberry pi cluster from old pi's I had laying around, sd cards, USB drives, and an old SSD. I have it deploying all the initial setup with ansible and then deployment of services via GitOps with Flux CD, Longhorn distributed storage, Traefik reverse proxy with HTTPS, and so on. I am so incredibly geeked, I can't even tell y'all. Claude has been a massive help but I'm also walking the line to make sure to not let it do too much so I am not learning. Way too much fun!