The Endgame of SRE
The Endgame of SRE port to Rust from RPGMaker
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A Breakdown of Amy's User Prompt
A breakdown of the user-level prompt I use with Claude Code, covering cybernetics, kaizen, TDD, and mechanical sympathy.
Building kaish
Looking back at building a shell for agents. 217 commits, 109 Claude sessions, and the messy reality of human-agent collaboration.
Building sshwarma
How a rambling prompt became 15,000 lines of Rust and Lua in six days.
TL;DR: Bevy Windows Wsl2
TL;DR: Bevy Windows Wsl2
TL;DR: Btrfs Swapfile Setup
TL;DR: Btrfs Swapfile Setup
TL;DR: Cassandra Java Huge Pages
TL;DR: Cassandra Java Huge Pages
ioping
using ioping to observe storage latency
TL;DR: Dragon Age Inquisition Review
TL;DR: Dragon Age Inquisition Review
TL;DR: Isolcpus Workstation Experiment Gkrellm Screenshots
TL;DR: Isolcpus Workstation Experiment Gkrellm Screenshots
TL;DR: My Blog Development Script
TL;DR: My Blog Development Script
TL;DR: Xperia Z3 Mtp Linux
TL;DR: Xperia Z3 Mtp Linux
TL;DR: Tldr
TL;DR: Tldr
Slides: Disk Latency and Other Random Numbers
slides from the South Bay Cassandra Users meetup, Disk Latency and Other Random Numbers
Docker Entrypoints and the UX of Containers
Docker entrypoints provide an opportunity to give your users a better UX than they would have without Docker
ADHD
My experience with ADHD so far.
F7U12: The Demo (1/3) Implementing 2048
A post-show overview of the F7U12 demo application and how it was built.
Installing the Cassandra / Spark OSS Stack
An overview of the steps required to install the Apache Cassandra + Spark stack on Linux.
Portacluster: System Imaging
A simple PXE imaging setup for installing Arch Linux on my portable cluster
Running Cassandra inside Docker
Introduction to running Cassandra inside Docker.
Improved default settings for Linux machines
A quick overview of Linux settings I change on almost every machine I manage.
JBOD vs RAID
While waiting for a slow download, I decided to benchmark some JBOD and RAID configs.
Publishing pcstat Binaries on Github
How I publish pcstat binaries on Github without littering git's history with large binary objects.
A Quick Prototype
A short story about hacking a prototype that is turning into an end-user tool.
Getting Started With Fio
How to benchmark your storage with fio, the Flexible IO Tester
Fio Output Explained
Fio packs a lot of information into its output. This is a section-by-section breakdown of what it's telling you.
New Blog
Sometimes you need a sharper tool.
Benchmarking Disk Latency: Setup
Benchmarking Disk Latency: Setup
Mirrored FAT32 EFI Boot Partitions
Mirrored FAT32 EFI Boot Partitions
Running at Night
Running at Night
Primitive Tooling
Primitive Tooling
Open Source Video Production
Open Source Video Production
Marriage Stuff
Marriage Stuff
Portacluster
Building a portable Cassandra cluster
Read this NAO
Read this NAO
日本2014訪問
日本2014訪問
Thermocouples: safe & silent failures
Learning about safety using appliances
Arch Linux on ZFS
Arch Linux on ZFS
Foodfight!
Foodfight!
Endurance Predation
Endurance Predation
Hello (again) World
Hello (again) World
Test & Build Automation with btrfs
fast testing with btrfs
New Experiment Language Choices
Language choices
Over-breeding & Culling EC2 Instances for IO Performance
Finding fast(er) instances in EC2
My Christmas Wish
Secure your browsing experience please
Ride Report 2010-09-05
Bicycle Commuting
Blocking SSH Attacks
Blocking SSH attacks with nothing but iptables
Virtualization Madness
Virtualization Madness
Xen Networking
Xen Networking
Moving sucks.
Moving sucks.