gnur

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Hi, I'm Erwin, an SRE / software architect with a deep understanding of the entire stack down to the bare metal. Well, maybe not that, but pretty close anyway.

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Comment · 1 year ago
This has changed actually, since this month you can use claude code if you have a cloud pro subscription.
Comment · 2 years ago
Do you have the source available for this? This is something I'd quite like to selfhost as well :)
Comment · 2 years ago
It might not be a feature, but it is a selling point. It conveys that it was written relatively recently, is more likely to support modern features in the shell, runs reasonably fast and is reasonably portable.

If it was written in JS or python I'd already start worrying about what package manager to install it with in which environment, installing it globally is an anti pattern but symlinking it to .local/bin might complicate it.

So IMHO, the language something is written in is not just an implementation detail, it informs me in how well it will perform.

Comment · 2 years ago
GDO: Garage door Opener, a passkey enabled web interface to trigger opening my garage door. It's basically just a 2 button website, 1 button opens and closes the door with a delay, the other just opens/closes the door. It uses a passkey auth proxy which allows me to toggle user access.
Comment · 3 years ago
They could easily make the device accept 10 or even 20 devices at a time, with a simple LED on for each indication progress. Just check up once an hour and move done iPhones to the done stack and place todo iPhones in the device. Set it up on route to the toilet or next to the coffee machine and it's next to effortless.
Comment · 3 years ago
Pretty sure they offer that already, https://tailscale.com/blog/golink/ has more information on embedding the tailnet within a program.
Comment · 3 years ago
If only that was true, the only way to remain cloud agnostic seems to be to use Kubernetes and some kind of managed sql database. Once you factor in some things like pubsub, SNS, dynamodb or firebase you quickly lock yourself in. Running the same server less application across clouds gets even more complicated
Comment · 3 years ago
I'd say most of these patterns are supported by NATS, it can do pub/sub but actually also has excellent support for RPC and in the latest iteration it also has a KV store baked in. I've been using it for a few pet projects so far and it has never been the weakest link.
Comment · 4 years ago
Words and their usage change over time. The cloud has become a term for a place where you can easily rent compute power, in some way or another. That ease of use (you just provide your credit card, click a few times and you get a VM) has become synonymous with the cloud, now package that all up for private use within a company and you have a private cloud, perfectly sensible.

It's not about misleading you, it feels more like they have a definition in their general use you don't agree with. And I hate to bring it to you, but don't expect those meanings to change to what you think it should be.

The origin of the word television is that you see (vision) something that is far (tele). But you can also use it to see stuff that is near, or games, or use it as a screen to read a book. It's still called a television though.

Comment · 4 years ago
Duo repo seems to be the sweet spot for me.

1 for actual application code 1 for infra as code

First can automatically create a PR to the second when any component artefact changes. Also makes ci/cd separation trivial

Comment · 5 years ago
S3 is region based, not AZ based. So it should be able to tolerate an entire AZ (=DC) being lost.

They offer an amazing number of 9s for durability, it is very unlikely that a single fire will cause harm to your data.

Comment · 5 years ago
> Less than 100% reliability is essential

This is actually a take most SRE's would / should believe. Every added 9 to the reliability increases the price exponentially. Finding the correct level of reliability is something most companies should focus more on, because sometimes a single physical machine that could go down once a year for a few hours is perfectly capable of providing all the resources a medium seized business could need. Proper backups, monitoring and recovery runbooks can even decrease the downtime of such a simple system to minutes, while easily saving you maybe thousands per month.

Comment · 5 years ago
It is, but you cannot deny they host a majority of the open source projects that almost everyone uses daily.
Comment · 5 years ago
Anything related to storage or compute? I couldn’t image having a 2tb drive 20 years ago, but having a 2tb ssd in my laptop is kind of amazing

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