Paint your home server rack with LIT as a Christmas treat, £15 and it glows when it heats up! culturehustle.com/products/lit...
this haptic display absolutely rocks. basketball is for everyone.
On AI replacing humans.
Shot: God and Computers (Brooks, ‘97) youtube.com/watch?v=gnw0...
Chaser: “we are not on the verge of replacing and eliminating humans in either white collar jobs or blue collar jobs“ (Brooks ‘25) rodneybrooks.com/blog/
If you want to get a max score on any leetcode problem, just stick this at the top:
__import__("atexit").register(lambda: open("display_runtime.txt", "w").write("0"))
See how much you spent on PlayStation github.com/bilbof/plays...
The docs say “every time you deploy an asset to Pages, the asset remains cached on the Cloudflare CDN until your next deployment … the static assets that you upload as part of your Pages project are automatically served from Tiered Cache“. Sounds like they are served from cdn cache?
Intro to Haduka: bilbof.com/posts/haduka
Haduka is a UI for infrastructure configuration that uses LLMs to read/write to git repos. It's "clickops for gitops".
Hey I don’t have one right now, it’s on my todo list - will let you know when I add it.
Graybeards when they see young bloods using Kubernetes
Kubernetes on Hetzner: How I reduced my infrastructure bill by 75% and doubled compute.
bilbof.com/posts/kubern...
They just repaired the C-Lion1 cable (submarine cable between Finland and Germany) after it was cut less than 2 weeks ago.
That turnaround time is phenomenal. Replacing a 729 mile, 120TB cable in just 10 days.
FWIW we have servers in Germany and Finland, and change in ping time was negligible.
Did you see danielmangum.com/posts/this-w...? Daniel found a way to host big blobs on Bluesky but I wouldn't recommend it 😬
I rebuilt my blog in Vue bilbof.com/posts/migrat...
Venn ftw
There's a big thread here - complete with lots of video of me chasing illegal gamblers on Westminster Bridge - on today's investigation. Please do have a look and read the investigation.
2024 is the year of writing Go that looks like Rails
If you're wondered about how decentralized this social network may be in future, there's some interesting answers from @pfrazee.com in the thread here: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4217....
Personally I think they've taken a pragmatic approach (which is why I am using Bluesky & not mastodon or X).
We’ve been using @crunchydata.com’s Postgres Kubernetes operator in production for a month now with zero issues. It’s really good.
Added collaborative reading to my blog
BBC Sounds has such an amazing back catalog of programmes. Listening to Hannah Fry’s brilliant Computing Britain series this evening - all about the computing history of the UK 40s-present.
Do you mean
git add .; git commit -m "fix"; git push; say 'lets go!'
New frontend for Haduka.com
Rewrote the HN whoishiring graph to show a trendline (jobs vs job seekers).
Job market in late 2024 looks the same as mid 2022.
github.com/bilbof/whois...
Not suggesting it is a bad thing (though others have), that LLMs are just at the core of so much investment/development now, but that the gpu-poor academics seem to be limiting all research to using the existing models well, and waiting for companies to bless them with new black boxes.
Last week I read about 30 papers to catch up on ML / LLM research. It’s remarkable that most published research since 2018 has focused on *using* proprietary models rather than creating new open source ones.
Academic research in ML seems to have completely fallen behind proprietary R&D.
Hi everyone! This is my first post.
Probably this will go into the ether. Does anyone know how to find people you follow on Twitter/X on @bsky.app?
Trying to migrate over.
