Our friends at Cloud Life were directly the inspiration for what SI is today. www.cloudlife.io/resources/in...

. @systeminit.com is launching the world’s first AI Native Infrastructure Automation platform. Read more about how to supercharge your productivity on our blog, www.systeminit.com/blog/ai-nati..., and get started today: systeminit.com

Right now 1200 late night show interns are scrambling to get as many zingers in the bag before each show tapes youtu.be/LXQ6Rm9CGTo

I’m fascinated how the concepts in Promise Theory (for me: autonomous agents & the idea that “all you can do is ask another, never command”) apply to complex systems, human interaction, societal cooperation, etc. Thank you, Mark!

Happy new Rust! 🎆🦀 Rust 1.89.0 has been released! This release brings you inferrred array length, new lints, u128/i128 in extern "C", NonZero<char>, File::lock, many x86 intrinsics, and much more! ✨ Check out the blog post and release notes for all the details: blog.rust-lang.org/2025/08/07/R...

In the last Oxide & Friends, @bcantrill.bsky.social argues in favor of dumb questions for getting real understanding, and I feel that one in my bones.

Promise Theory is now 20 years old! 🎂

While I'm on the @oxide.computer cheer team, I'd highly recommend their Oxide and Friends podcast. The transparency and detail of the "epic bug hunt" episodes are a true gift to the software and technology community. 1/2 oxide-and-friends.transistor.fm

Congrats, Oxide!

Finding speedups in a codebase is always fun github.com/systeminit/s...

years after working with a team that was vehemently against deleting any test, no matter how flaky, I have assembled my counter-doctrine: you should delete tests andre.arko.net/2025/06/30/y...

Another case where #rustlang is fast, which can lead to bugs. I forgot to handle this Tokio task cancellation, so the task got locked in a tight loop. Enough to pin CPU cores once deployed. Well *that* explains what happened! github.com/systeminit/s...

Honestly, if I could figure out how to make *this* a little more a part of my working day…some days the creativity flows like water out on the “road desk”

Sometimes I imagine someone from the past visiting 2025 and being amazed at our technology! - Can't watch the game because the TV is doing a mandatory OS update - Can't make a cup of coffee because the machine can't connect to wifi - Can’t drive the car because the fob battery died

Happy Canada Election Day! It’s our right, our privilege, and our freedom to elect our representatives and leaders. If you haven’t already, please do vote!

Do I have a problem? I can stop anytime I want to. But now that you mention it, maybe the garage could use some yummy @mikrotik.social power-over-ethernet…

I just found the website of the year: www.allacronyms.com I will be using this site next week

I'm kind sad that due to lack of prefs & clear navigation (that I can find), I'm up to 3 browser bookmarks for my primary work GitHub repo. Among those are open/non-draft prs reverse sorted (github.com/systeminit/s...) & active merge queue runs (github.com/systeminit/s...).

Fletcher's rule of the day: don't pre-abstract, rather repeat yourself then extract

Today in Let's Build A Filesystem: `EOWNERDEAD` "Owner died". Wha... www.man7.org/linux/man-pa...

what's involved in getting a "modern" terminal setup? jvns.ca/blog/2025/01...

This accurately sums up my Friday pairing, we went through this script about 3 times

This is a great example of the evolution of #NATSio implementations, from simple stateless use to JetStream persistence and work queues. Thank you @systeminit.com for trusting NATS and Synadia 🥰

In startup land this week: "a filesystem? yay, okay!"

In our latest blog post, @fnichol.com talks about the usage of NATS in our system here at System Initiative and how we used @synadia.bsky.social to help us build out our production NATS cluster! www.systeminit.com/blog/nats-at...

Building @systeminit.com has been a process of iterating on architecture & approaches. As we’ve tried a series of persistence backends, rewritten services, & brought new technologies into our stack, one of the most enduring & important technologies has been #NATSio www.systeminit.com/blog/nats-at...

We started work before the holiday period on a new set of fine-grained access controls to better server enterprise teams! You can read more about it on our new blog post that introduces the opportunity - www.systeminit.com/blog/opportu...

Happy new year to you all! We are starting the year building on the features we released in December! We are working on "Visual Templates" - a way to create templates from a diagram! Come read about it in the blog post www.systeminit.com/blog/opportu...

Happy New, y'all! Back at it with the parallel building of all Rust binaries in the monorepo!

This pair of commands has been a huge productivity boost for me over the last couple years

Important Rust lesson

Why Kelsey loves open source 🧡 Listen to the full episode at fafo.fm/1

If you have an Apple Watch with iPhone know this: there’s a “Camera Remote” app on the watch which you can use as a remote!

LONG FORM INTERVIEW DROP Listen in to a topic that is "infinitely deep in all directions" [Jon's words]. Jon is extremely knowledgeable and patient, so you will learn a lot. Listen via RSS, Apple Podcasts, Spotify and more timclicks.dev/podcast/reli...

It’s almost 11pm Christmas Eve and I’m working on my craziest present yet. About to head out to the garage to use the miter saw. Pictures tomorrow!

Happy Holidays! youtu.be/oiSn2JuDQSc?...

My mom’s Samsung refrigerator plays Spotify and has YouTube, but it won’t make ice. We used to be a society.

My last of work for the year consisted of reading through the commit history of Buck2 between June 11th and today (I've been meaning to upgrade us for a while). Over 4.1k commits--that's some progress! github.com/facebook/buc...

Crates-io just surpassed 100 billion downloads. More than double with respect to last year! #rustlang

Does anyone know if there's any state-of-the-art unread line feature in #bluesky? Gosh I'd love that

Blink Shell for iOS brought us new docs about using Tailscale with mosh for stable and responsive shell connections even on mobile data

An interesting and fun read. It's generating some discussions in the #Zig forums. As a Zig fan, love to see it. wiki.alopex.li/SurveyOfSyst... #rustlang #ziglang

It’s going to be one of those days where you shovel snow every couple of hours just to keep pace. You can be sure I’ll be turning on a “Mixed Cardio” activity on my Apple Watch!

We got 3 major features hitting this week and we are so excited to get them out into the world... :D Can't wait for you all to be able to use them!!

Argh, straight into my goddamn back, it burns!

(1/11) SRE Tip: How to create the perfect monitoring dashboard. Answer: YOU CAN'T. You literally can't make the perfect monitoring dashboard. You can't sit down with a blank screen, add all the widgets and get it exactly right on the first try, or the 10th try.

Sometimes I don't understand why YouTube's algorithm doesn't recommend a video more widely. @idlehandsdev.bsky.social made a banger this month, it should have a lot more views: www.youtube.com/watch?v=dZ4I...

12. if you're using tracing you are almost certainly using too many spans. your starting point is 1 span == 1 service/RPC.

8. stop getting mad at people who tell you to instrument your code. you already write (mostly bad) logs. we just want you to write good ones

I’m pretty invested in this…thrilling conclusion?