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Ad Infinitum(opens in new tab)
At Google I/O this week, the company announced the biggest change to Search in 25 years. The ten blue links? Gone. Instead, you get — first at times? soon always? — “generative UI”, an “intelligent search box” with custom interactive ...
The Razor's Edge of Human Government Design(opens in new tab)
A charcoal editorial illustration: a colossal authoritarian monolith on the left and a gilded gothic spire on the right, with a small figure balancing on a thin razor's edge between them/images/razors-edge-government-design.webp/images/razors-edge-government-design.webp I'm fascinated by the fact ...
TIL #145 – collections.deque is implemented in blocks(opens in new tab)
Today I learned that collections.deque is implemented as a doubly-linked list of blocks. collections.deque I've written about the data structure deque from the module collections extensively. In particular, I wrote a deque tutorial with plenty of practical example use cases ...
Scaling Rust codebases: Lessons learned organizing large projects and managing errors(opens in new tab)
As a Rust project grows in size, it can take a non-trivial amount of efforts to keep it in a clean state that will not impede your and your co-workers'
Announcing etcd 3.7.0-beta.0(opens in new tab)
SIG-Etcd announces the availability of the first beta release of etcd v3.7.0. This new version of the popular distributed database and key Kubernetes component includes the long-requested RangeStream feature, as well as a refactoring and cleanup of multiple legacy components ...
wrkflw(opens in new tab)
A CLI and TUI to validate and run GitHub Actions locally.
I've used Kubernetes for 5 years, but I never knew these 13 facts(opens in new tab)
Your Slop, My Sludge(opens in new tab)
Throwing shit at the wall. I'm the wall.
#480: Proud Parents(opens in new tab)
Topics covered in this episode: Using Django Tasks in production Co-authored with Claude? PyPI packages are increasing rapidly httpx2 Extras Joke See the full show notes for this episode on the website at pythonbytes.fm/480
Travel notes: RubyKaigi Hakodate(opens in new tab)
I just got back from a three and a half week trip to Japan. It was the longest trip I have ever been on (aside from studying abroad in Germany, which felt different). I made the following wild circuit with ...
La Pedra Go Club in Barcelona(opens in new tab)
I visited a decades-old Go club in Barcelona!
Tagging my blog posts with BERTopic and LLMs(opens in new tab)
I recently added tags to my blog using BERTopic and a mix of LLMs. You can see the tags in the sidebar to the right (or in the footer on mobile). I’ve done this before in 2023, with GGUF Mistral ...
It’s either a poem or a piece of cheese // Week 20 — 2026(opens in new tab)
Are these weeknotes? Yes they are! Will I do them again next week? Who knows! Sunday 10 May: Got home from hospital shift around 7:30pm. Exhausted, hangry. Walked into a...
AIE Singapore: The Agentic Nation(opens in new tab)
i gave a little talk as closing keynote for the first AI Engineer Singapore. burned some bridges but said what i felt.
MCP on Code Mode (Changelog Interviews #681)(opens in new tab)
This week I'm talking with Matt Carey about Code Mode and how most of us have been thinking about MCP all wrong. Matt works on the Agents SDK and MCP at Cloudflare — we discuss how server-side Code Mode lets ...
Kubernetes v1.36: New Metric for Route Sync in the Cloud Controller Manager(opens in new tab)
This article was originally published with the wrong date. It was later republished, dated the 15th of May 2026. Kubernetes v1.36 introduces a new alpha counter metric route_controller_route_sync_total to the Cloud Controller Manager (CCM) route controller implementation at k8s.io/cloud-provider. This ...
Kubernetes v1.36: Mixed Version Proxy Graduates to Beta(opens in new tab)
Back in Kubernetes 1.28, we introduced the Mixed Version Proxy (MVP) as an Alpha feature (under the feature gate UnknownVersionInteroperabilityProxy) in a previous blog post. The goal was simple but critical: make cluster upgrades safer by ensuring that requests for ...
Self-Host Weekly (15 May 2026) (opens in new tab)
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Moving away from Tailwind, and learning to structure my CSS(opens in new tab)
Kubernetes v1.36: Deprecation and removal of Service ExternalIPs(opens in new tab)
The .spec.externalIPs field for Service was an early attempt to provide cloud-load-balancer-like functionality for non-cloud clusters. Unfortunately, the API assumes that every user in the cluster is fully trusted, and in any situation where that is not the case, it ...
Taking Down Prod with Eve(opens in new tab)
If you're a platform engineer you've had to exit vi at least once. Eve is stuck with it for the rest of her social media life. She's a Sr Platform Engineer and obviously knows a ton about Kubernetes and CI/CD. ...
Automation at the speed of Swamp (Changelog & Friends #130)(opens in new tab)
This week I'm talking with Adam Jacob, founder of System Initiative and creator of Swamp, about what happens when AI agents change the entire shape of software development. We discuss how he went from an 18-person team down to five ...
Kubernetes v1.36: Advancing Workload-Aware Scheduling(opens in new tab)
AI/ML and batch workloads introduce unique scheduling challenges that go beyond simple Pod-by-Pod scheduling. In Kubernetes v1.35, we introduced the first tranche of workload-aware scheduling improvements, featuring the foundational Workload API alongside basic gang scheduling support built on a Pod-based ...
The limits of Rust, or why you should probably not follow Amazon, Cloudflare and Discord(opens in new tab)
"Is Rust a great fit for this project?" I get this question quite frequently so I think it's time to write down my thoughts if it can help to avoid
cheznav(opens in new tab)
A TUI for managing chezmoi dotfiles.
Kubernetes v1.36: PSI Metrics for Kubernetes Graduates to GA(opens in new tab)
Since its original implementation in the Linux kernel in 2018, Pressure Stall Information (PSI) has provided users with the high-fidelity signals needed to identify resource saturation before it becomes an outage. Unlike traditional utilization metrics, PSI tells the story of ...
Meet Your Users Where They Are with Obs.js(opens in new tab)
Obs.js is a tiny inline script that helps you adapt your site to real-world network, battery, CPU, and memory conditions.
my honest advice to someone who wants to master devops(opens in new tab)
Partial static single information form(opens in new tab)
In compilers, static single information form (SSI) is a common extension to static single assignment form (SSA). It was introduced by C. Scott Ananian in 1999 in his MS thesis (PDF) 1. SSI extends your existing SSA intermediate representation by ...
How Kubernetes EndpointSlices Actually Work (and Why Endpoints Had to Die)(opens in new tab)
Event Sourcing Design Pattern(opens in new tab)
What if your database worked more like Git? Every change captured as an immutable event you can replay, instead of a single mutating row that quietly forgets its own history. That's event sourcing, and Chris May is back on Talk ...
NVCF Is Now Open Source: Inside NVIDIA's GPU Function Platform(opens in new tab)
#479: Talking About Types(opens in new tab)
Topics covered in this episode: httpxyz one month in Learn concurrency - a deep dive into multithreading with Python pip 26.1 - lockfiles and dependency cooldowns Python 3.15 sentinal values from PEP 661 Extras Joke See the full show notes ...
Evolved antennas, LLM-generated code, and a potential antifuture(opens in new tab)
Solar power in Amsterdam: the numbers(opens in new tab)
There’s promise, potential, and some reality checks if you want to go all in on solar power in famously unsunny places like Amsterdam
Kubernetes v1.36: Moving Volume Group Snapshots to GA(opens in new tab)
Volume group snapshots were introduced as an Alpha feature with the Kubernetes v1.27 release, moved to Beta in v1.32, and to a second Beta in v1.34. We are excited to announce that in the Kubernetes v1.36 release, support for volume ...
Better Browser Caching with No-Vary-Search(opens in new tab)
No-Vary-Search lets HTTP caches ignore irrelevant query parameters such as UTM tags, while still keeping meaningful ones like product variants in the cache key.
Big W Engineering Values - Systems Thinking(opens in new tab)
One of the most important concepts I picked up designing and building Formula SAE racecars in college was systems thinking. A team could easily have "the best engine" or "the best suspension" or "the best controls" and get beat in ...
Constraints and intellectual work(opens in new tab)
I keep quoting him, but here’s another Cal Newport podcast that I can’t stop thinking about: Why do better tools make me worse at my job?. To save you a long listen: when you think about the theory of constraints, ...
Kubernetes v1.36: More Drivers, New Features, and the Next Era of DRA(opens in new tab)
Dynamic Resource Allocation (DRA) has fundamentally changed how platform administrators handle hardware accelerators and specialized resources in Kubernetes. In the v1.36 release, DRA continues to mature, bringing a wave of feature graduations, critical usability improvements, and new capabilities that extend ...
Lazy and Prompt(opens in new tab)
Chrome 148 shipped this week, and in the release notes you’ll find one of the best things to happen to web performance in a long time: loading="lazy" for <video> and <audio> elements. Scott Jehl, an engineer at Squarespace focusing on ...
Parallel Python at Anyscale with Ray(opens in new tab)
When OpenAI trained GPT-3, they didn't roll their own orchestration layer. They used Ray, an open source Python framework born out of the same Berkeley research lab lineage that gave us Apache Spark. And here's the twist: Ray was originally ...
Kubernetes v1.36: Server-Side Sharded List and Watch(opens in new tab)
As Kubernetes clusters grow to tens of thousands of nodes, controllers that watch high-cardinality resources like Pods face a scaling wall. Every replica of a horizontally scaled controller receives the full stream of events from the API server, paying the ...
Buckle Up(opens in new tab)
You might know that I – with the generous help from Brandon Kelly on the Craft 5 version – wrote and maintain a Webmention plugin for Craft CMS. Today, I shipped version 1.3.0. It’s a security and abuse hardening release, ...
Cross-platform Rust: Analyzing how WhatsApp, Signal and more are shipping Rust to billions of devices(opens in new tab)
The cheapest way to learn is to learn from others, so I always take a day every week to see what other organizations are doing and how they are doing
How To Create Portable AI Skills Across Harnesses (Claude Code, Codex, Open Code)(opens in new tab)
Agentic engineering is the future. But it's still unclear which harness will win, if any. I've been hedging my bets by moving to a harness-agnostic system for AI skills so no matter the harness I use,...
nless(opens in new tab)
Excel for your logs. Pipe in anything, wrangle it into columns.
Kubernetes v1.36: Declarative Validation Graduates to GA(opens in new tab)
In Kubernetes v1.36, Declarative Validation for Kubernetes native types has reached General Availability (GA). For users, this means more reliable, predictable, and better-documented APIs. By moving to a declarative model, the project also unlocks the future ability to publish validation ...
The DevOps Routine That Made Me Rich (Not What You Think)(opens in new tab)
