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Cybersecurity Changes I Expect in 2026(opens in new tab)
My thoughts on what's coming for Cybersecurity in 2026
Toodles, 2025(opens in new tab)
2025 is over! Let's recap.
dotstate(opens in new tab)
A modern, secure, and user-friendly dotfile manager.
2025: Year Review(opens in new tab)
I had focused on tech on this reviews. I would keep it same this year, I might write a separate non-tech, a human yearly review on my separate blog. Gist I move
Kubernetes v1.35: Watch Based Route Reconciliation in the Cloud Controller Manager(opens in new tab)
Up to and including Kubernetes v1.34, the route controller in Cloud Controller Manager (CCM) implementations built using the k8s.io/cloud-provider library reconciles routes at a fixed interval. This causes unnecessary API requests to the cloud provider when there are no changes ...
Book Recommendations and Notes(opens in new tab)
These are my recently read books and some comments and notes from when I read them. As I love books and recommendations by others, I want to share them in a collective format so others can read gems of books, ...
The GDB JIT interface(opens in new tab)
GDB is great for stepping through machine code to figure out what is going on. It uses debug information under the hood to present you with a tidy backtrace and also determine how much machine code to print when you ...
2025: The year in lists(opens in new tab)
Kubernetes v1.35: Introducing Workload Aware Scheduling(opens in new tab)
Scheduling large workloads is a much more complex and fragile operation than scheduling a single Pod, as it often requires considering all Pods together instead of scheduling each one independently. For example, when scheduling a machine learning batch job, you ...
Building a T9 Mechanical Keyboard(opens in new tab)
2025 Python Year in Review(opens in new tab)
Python in 2025 is in a delightfully refreshing place: the GIL's days are numbered, packaging is getting sharper tools, and the type checkers are multiplying like gremlins snacking after midnight. On this episode, we have an amazing panel to give ...
Shipping at Inference-Speed(opens in new tab)
Why I stopped reading code and started watching it stream by.
Software engineers should be a little bit cynical(opens in new tab)
Self-Host Weekly (26 December 2025) (opens in new tab)
Backing up Spotify, a modern take on recipes, and strange software names
ZJIT is now available in Ruby 4.0(opens in new tab)
Originally published on Rails At Scale. ZJIT is a new just-in-time (JIT) Ruby compiler built into the reference Ruby implementation, YARV, by the same compiler group that brought you YJIT. We (Aaron Patterson, Aiden Fox Ivey, Alan Wu, Jacob Denbeaux, ...
Load and store forwarding in the Toy Optimizer(opens in new tab)
Another entry in the Toy Optimizer series. A long, long time ago (two years!) CF Bolz-Tereick and I made a video about load/store forwarding and an accompanying GitHub Gist about load/store forwarding (also called load elimination) in the Toy Optimizer. ...
Wrapping up Blogvent 2025(opens in new tab)
Don't be sad that Blogvent is over, be happy that Blogvent happened. Here's all the posts I wrote in December 2025!
sqlit(opens in new tab)
A user friendly TUI for SQL databases.
Nobody knows how large software products work(opens in new tab)
Kubernetes v1.35: Fine-grained Supplemental Groups Control Graduates to GA(opens in new tab)
On behalf of Kubernetes SIG Node, we are pleased to announce the graduation of fine-grained supplemental groups control to General Availability (GA) in Kubernetes v1.35! The new Pod field, supplementalGroupsPolicy, was introduced as an opt-in alpha feature for Kubernetes v1.31, ...
Happy Holidays from Big W Engineering Solutions(opens in new tab)
As we officially close out 2025, I’m yet again thankful for all the connections I’ve been able to make over the last 3 months, and very optimistic about 2026. Big W is now AS9100 & ISO 9001 Lead Auditor certified ...
Smartphones are black holes(opens in new tab)
They can bend spacetime without you even realizing it. People often get offended when I tell them that I don't have a phone, thinking that I'm lying and I just
Making the "End of Year Developer" nature documentary(opens in new tab)
The creation of an unflinching look at the survival period of "working" during the holidays.
Kubernetes v1.35: Kubelet Configuration Drop-in Directory Graduates to GA(opens in new tab)
With the recent v1.35 release of Kubernetes, support for a kubelet configuration drop-in directory is generally available. The newly stable feature simplifies the management of kubelet configuration across large, heterogeneous clusters. With v1.35, the kubelet command line argument --config-dir is ...
AI-enabled Self-software(opens in new tab)
AI-enabled Self-software/images/ai-enabled-self-software.webp/images/ai-enabled-self-software.webp One of the biggest changes that AI brought in 2025 is something that not enough people are talking about. Lots of people who used to pay for software like workout apps, or analytics software, or wha...
#463: 2025 is @wrapped(opens in new tab)
Topics covered in this episode: Has the cost of building software just dropped 90%? More on Deprecation Warnings How FOSS Won and Why It Matters Should I be looking for a GitHub alternative? Extras Joke See the full show notes ...
(Social) media manipulation in one image(opens in new tab)
Stop reading the News and go run this marathon.
To sigh a deep sigh of releasing(opens in new tab)
Today has felt like a deep, deep exhalation, an enormous, slow, long sigh of relief and releasing. Fitting, perhaps, that it is winter solstice, the shortest day of the year....
Vibe Check №41(opens in new tab)
🎵 Christmas time is here. Happiness and cheer. Fun for all… that children call… their favorite time of year. School’s out. The work laptop’s closed. Now is a good time to recount the vibes. I wanted to get out this ...
CSS for markdown blockquote attribution(opens in new tab)
When you generate an HTML blockquote from markdown, your resulting HTML needs some styling love.
2025 in review(opens in new tab)
Jeune fille lisant une lettre à la bougie, Jean-Baptiste Santerre, 1700 Machine learning engineers spend their lives alternating between two states: staring at tqdm progress bars during model training and staring at error logs during model inference. A third category ...
Representing groups in ATProto(opens in new tab)
I wanted to add book clubs to my GoodReads-like app (Collective), but ATProto doesn't have a standard way to handle shared group resources yet. So I'm building opensocial.community—a separate service that manages groups independently from any single app. This means ...
I like when apps are "finished"(opens in new tab)
Sometimes the software we see out there doesn't need to be further updated. Sometimes it's just good enough!
Avoiding Zombie Cluster Members When Upgrading to etcd v3.6(opens in new tab)
This article is a mirror of an original that was recently published to the official etcd blog. The key takeaway? Always upgrade to etcd v3.5.26 or later before moving to v3.6. This ensures your cluster is automatically repaired, and avoids ...
I have become more of a writing utensil snob(opens in new tab)
I really like nice pencils and pens and it's not a problem, I am totally in control? But I probably have too many now.
State of the "log" 2025 (Changelog & Friends #122)(opens in new tab)
Our 8th annual year-end wrap-up is here! We’re featuring 8 listener voicemails, dope Breakmaster Cylinder remixes & our favorite episodes of the year. Thanks for listening! 💚
Kubernetes 1.35: In-Place Pod Resize Graduates to Stable(opens in new tab)
This release marks a major step: more than 6 years after its initial conception, the In-Place Pod Resize feature (also known as In-Place Pod Vertical Scaling), first introduced as alpha in Kubernetes v1.27, and graduated to beta in Kubernetes v1.33, ...
Self-Host Weekly (19 December 2025) (opens in new tab)
Popular open source licenses, Santa tracking, and saying goodbye to an old friend
Big W Engineering Solutions is now AS9100 / ISO 9001 Lead Auditor Certified!(opens in new tab)
We are excited to say that we have just completed Apex Quality Assurance's 5-day AS9100 & ISO 9001 Lead Auditor training! With this certification we're looking forward to providing any AS9100 or ISO 9001 audit needs, while also being able ...
Configure your repositories with .github(opens in new tab)
The .github folder (and .github repository) is special for customizing your projects to your liking. Here's what you can do!
Introducing RSC Explorer(opens in new tab)
My new hobby project.
Agents in the database (Changelog Interviews #671)(opens in new tab)
Ajay Kulkarni from Tiger Data (Co-founder/CEO) is on the pod this week with Adam. He asked him to get vulnerable and trace his path to becoming a CEO. They dig into the themes that have shaped his career, and explore ...
Kubernetes v1.35: Job Managed By Goes GA(opens in new tab)
In Kubernetes v1.35, the ability to specify an external Job controller (through .spec.managedBy) graduates to General Availability. This feature allows external controllers to take full responsibility for Job reconciliation, unlocking powerful scheduling patterns like multi-cluster dispatching with MultiKueue. Why delegate ...
Building a ScottoLong (PCB Edition)(opens in new tab)
Talk Python in Production(opens in new tab)
Have you ever thought about getting your small product into production, but are worried about the cost of the big cloud providers? Or maybe you think your current cloud service is over-architected and costing you too much? Well, in this ...
How to annotate JITed code for perf/samply(opens in new tab)
Brief one today. I got asked “does YJIT/ZJIT have support for [Linux] perf?” The answer is yes, and it also works with samply (including on macOS!), because both understand the perf map interface. This is the entirety of the implementation ...
My inbox is so full(opens in new tab)
My chores and tasks are piling up... and so are my emails.