i'm tired of kubernetes :(

rage coding is not a great idea

just figured out the proper fix for a bug that had me fooled for 3 days. 3 mf'n days. had a hack in place, worked on some other changes and ended up figuring out what was wrong initially! moral of the story is never work on a managed Kubernetes service, for your own sanity

worst part of the job is all the last mile knobs you gotta shine for promotions. meh, pita

oh rust my dear friend

and we're live. such a simple API to use in Golang. it's a bit convoluted here (since i have an interface to support also writing to a boltDB). next up is figuring out how to run it in a distributed setup.

happened to me just yesterday. it remains undefeated

yep! i spent time wading through data science/machine learning then devops then backend engineering and ended up on systems software in networking. figured i enjoy the latest one and i’m happy to have holes in my knowledge elsewhere

okayyyyy, time to learn about foundation db. let’s get this show on the road

okay folks, if i want to start playing around with AI agents, where do i start?

lost a good 24 hours to forgetting about the differences between make calls and using the top one vs the bottom one. golang can be fun

i think staying relevant as an software eng in the world of ai basically has three paths: focus on operations (SRE type work), move down lower in the stack where AI has less domain knowledge (currently) i.e embedded computing/compilers/proxies/etc or become very very good at product.

Most of my promotions were based on my ability to attach my work to the metrics below. Working at a major cloud provider made this a lot easier because we tracked everything. It largely comes down to earning and sharing the credit across different teams including engineering, product, and sales.

woah, that's pretty epic! also monodraw is amazing if you haven't used it/got it yet

any of y'all know anyone working on Apache Thrift (in Rust) or know where they hang out?? got questions

i need to go outside

some nice goodies in the @oxide.computer update. linked to one of their blog posts i missed, with some neat facts! link in thread

finally got round to using async fn in traits (a whole year later after release). such a good quality of improvement blog.rust-lang.org/2023/12/21/a...

it’s probably the case where the gap is getting wider. if you’re curious and motivated, you can learn anything very early. if you a social media junkie/iPad kid, you probably won’t be able to finish reading a book

last 1.5 years is probably the best work i've done (even though it didn't do particularly well overall). have to ramp that up this year

lmao, nando's is as addictive as it gets. i've been worse and i live here

1 year writing minimal rust and woooooo boy, i am rusty

good luck to my friends over the atlantic 🫡

can't recommend yazi enough. if you like living in your terminal, it's an incredible file manager for it.

facts

this tiktok saga shows how deeply unserious those people are man what

okay, datafusion is real good

runAsNonRoot has got to be one of the most cursed kubernetes config options ever

tikton ban and trump inauguration back to back? what a year we’re about to have

about to start learning/using Apache DataFusion. wish me luck

tool is a godsend. if you use it, please fill out the survey!

lord give me the strength to deal with the complexity of kubernetes

the problem with kubernetes is that there are too many ways for failures to occur

does golang have a lint for when you don't check if a value is nil before using it?

we are going through an insane cultural moment

okay, let’s work. have a good week folks 🤞🏾

ohhh neat, datadog bought quickwit. congrats to the team over there! www.datadoghq.com/blog/datadog...

2024 was top 2, incredible year (but with some tough parts as always). 2025, lets rock 🤘🏾

haven't written any complex Rust in a while, only to come back to this 🥲. i love Rust but sometimes i get types fatigue

til that golang does not json encode at all (produces an empty string) if some of your fields do not have json struct tags. maddening behaviour

another victory for the rewrite it in rust task force. but fr, i particularly like this write up because it talks about trade-offs, how to incrementally get to the finish line and most importantly, that rust is not perfect. great read (link below)

merry christmas to all y'all fiends that celebrate!!

some neat goodies you get over at fly.io. and even though i'm biased (i work here), one of my favourite bits of fly.io is the design language, so good.

unlocked this by ditching the necessity for having 2 monitors + my laptop screen. so much easier to be productive everywhere

oh, these are *fantastic*. 12 truths about networking, including pigs can fly.

yeah, that’s my plan with this account 🤞🏾 stopped sharing on twitter, keen to get back into the habit here

saying this as someone who’s generating websites using AI but has zero idea how to even fix it or modify it slightly myself when things are wrong

i actually think over time there’s going to be a rise in “professional fixers” who come into a company and help them fix their codebases generated by AI and who’s people don’t _really_ understand how things work

vibe, got my handle as my domain, that's neat

oh man, Rust is coming for it all. Rewrite it in Rust task force doing bits