Good grief this might be the most beautiful video I’ve ever watched. You’ll need to have some idea of how LLMs work internally to follow along, but the findings of the papers presented in this video are incredible. youtu.be/D8GOeCFFby4?...

Hear me out: Mobile Zoot Suit Gundam

Can you use Git as storage for a REST API? Over the past few weeks I've managed to get something that works and is even kind of performant. This week I've been trying to handle concurrent requests. Let's see how well it fares when things are busy! open.substack.com/pub/thefrida...

GitHub announced they're going to charge for self-hosted runners. I can see the why, given they still run the control plane. There's still benefit to self-hosting if you have larger runners, but with the other price cut, it's potentially a big change for some. resources.github.com/actions/2026...

Part 2 of my attempts to back a REST API with a GitHub repo. After seeing painfully slow performance with the CLI, I went a little lower-level and started messing with the server protocols directly. The results were surprising, in the best way! open.substack.com/pub/thefrida...

Git is great for storing code, and maybe the occasional image or two. It also makes it easy for teams to collaborate and deal with fine-grained changes. But could it be used as a more arbitrary data store? open.substack.com/pub/thefrida...

How did a terrible movie like “The One” end up with a sound track including “Down with the Sickness”, “Bodies” and “Last Resort”? Incidentally watching in 2001 it was the first time I heard at least one of them.

"AI slop", "slop bowls" and now I'm seeing "slop" used as a generic description for a not good thing. We've reached peak slop slop.

Now we're past the extra-long weekend, getting down to a fun little side project with Git. More updates tomorrow. #openstandup #buildinpublic

When working with IaC platforms, there's usually some infra you need to configure to get them working. With Terraform, you need somewhere to keep your state, for example. How do you configure this infra? Are you stuck doing it manually, or could you automate it? www.ocuroot.com/blog/iac-boo...

Watching some older sci-fi movies. Is the main character getting drunk/high and watching home movies while acting out their side a common trope or did Minority Report just rip off Timecop?

Some thoughts on the recent run of internet-breaking cloud provider outages. Are they symptoms of a change in the industry at large, or just a run of bad luck? open.substack.com/pub/thefrida...

Breakthrough! Addressed most of the bugs and got all the end-to-end tests passing...most of the time. Just a little flaky error handling to deal with. #openstandup #buildinpublic

Bit of a bug whack-a-mole yesterday with concurrent Git interactions. Feels like I'm close, but imagine I'll uncover a few more shortly 😅 #openstandup #buildinpublic

All across the land, teams fiercely debated the pros and cons of bypassing a CDN. Calculating bandwidth, weighing the chance of a DDoS. Then Cloudflare came back up and it was all moot. They'd also forgot that they're using Workers pretty heavily.

Getting down to business with handling concurrently running tasks. Yesterday I enhanced some tests to catch duplicated work. Now that's failing reliably, I get to fix it with some locking! #openstandup #buildinpublic

Over the years, I got into a narrow routine when using Git for day-to-day development. Now I'm building tools around Git, I'm discovering all kinds of features I'd never noticed before. Here are my favorite three. www.ocuroot.com/blog/things-...

After a few dead ends, tangents and experiments, I've got the worker model in a decent shape. It's making me realize I need a better way of configuring the list of source repos. Methinks v0.4 will include some breaking changes. #buildinpublic #openstandup

Ok, I'm really starting to like this style. #buildinpublic

Took a detour last night to experiment with pixel art for icons. Watched some videos, got the Aesprite trial and threw together a few ideas. There's something really satisfying about the precision you can get at 32x32. Now to pay for the full version and build some UIs! #buildinpublic

Had a low social media week or so while visiting family in the UK. Somewhat refreshed and moderately jetlagged. Back to work!

Queueing theory can be incredibly useful, but potentially dense for those of us who aren't mathematically inclined (myself included), so let's look at the basics in as simple a form as we can muster. open.substack.com/pub/thefrida...

At first, it might be tempting to put all your infrastructure into a single Terraform module for simplicity. But as you scale, this approach will start slowing you down in various ways. Here's what can do wrong and how you can address it. www.ocuroot.com/blog/big-ter...

I just realized that planes "land" because they touch the land. I'm 41.

The real impact of AI: phishing messages that look like Bootstrap sites.

We went out to vote this afternoon and two hours later we’d voted, got coffee, sat in a public garden, saw two free concerts and spied two red tailed hawks sitting on a church. I love living in the East Village!

Now the dust has settled from Monday's AWS outage, Amazon have released their summary document. It's a heavy read, with long, detailed, technical paragraphs. I went through it and picked out the key parts for a read that's only 20% as long! open.substack.com/pub/thefrida...

Discovered some concurrency issues with the worker model. Possibly some bad logic in determining the work that actually needed doing, and definitely a problem with handling git interactions. Today shall be a testing and debugging day! #buildinpublic #openstandup

Hot take: there's nothing wrong with hosting a CI runner on a spare box under a desk. Did this for years at varying degrees at different companies. People complained it didn't feel right and made jokes about it but it rarely failed.

I'm working on a new short-form video site to specialize in clips that make you angry and sports highlights. Ragebait & Tackle.

Tested the worker loop against my new mock cloud tool and made some tweaks to select the right branch and poll more frequently in dev mode. Started setting up monitoring for intent changes and need to do some deep thinking on error handling. #buildinpublic #openstandup

On Saturday, I put together a lightweight git repo poller and a simple worker loop. Today I'll be expanding the config for multiple repos and maybe webhooks. Distributed CI/CD, here we come! #buildinpublic #openstandup

Promised myself a day off, and ended up coding for fun. Having a nice time messing with Cytoscape, seeing what I can do with styling and animations.

If you think about it, political canvasing is like trick or treating for adults.

`Panther Moderns,' he said to the Hosaka, removing the trodes. `Five minute precis.' `Ready,' the computer said. Been thinking about this a lot. Gibson predicted AI search.

This morning I was reminded that stargazy pie exists. I promise I will never defend British cuisine again.

Had more fun with the Ocuroot REPL this afternoon. I've added some prettier rendering to return values, with highlighting and a tree view for more complex structures. It even prints function docs for you! #buildinpublic

CI/CD pipelines are code too. In this post we'll explore some testing strategies so you're not always left waiting for feedback. We'll also look at what Ocuroot is doing to make it even easier! www.ocuroot.com/blog/how-do-...

Just discovered that Zoom's screen sharing allows you to share just a portion of your screen. Game changing for those of us with ultrawides.

The only thing funnier to someone with basic French than a bakery called “Pain D’Avignon” would be a hat store called the “Jaunty Alouette”.

Anyone else noticed how many LinkedIn posts include the word "chaos" this past year?

Well this is weird, Vemetric shows a spike in visits to ocuroot.com at about 6am. A bunch of different users each visiting a different docs page. I'm thinking either a scraper or someone with really good tracker blocking. @dominiksumer.com any tips on solving the mystery?

Continuing the dependency tracking work, I had some fun yesterday putting together a function using Go's tooling to get a list of source files in a build. These can be recorded to Ocuroot's state each build to match against incoming commits. #buildinpublic #openstandup

There's a worrying trend of people using local LLMs to post ragebait on Reddit so they can access heavily moderated communities. A drama llama karma farmer.

A big goal for Ocuroot has been to be monorepo friendly. This has been blocked by the challenge of producing a list of file dependencies for builds. It's either tedious manual work or a script that can be quick, but adds up in a large repo. I've had a brainwave... #buildinpublic #openstandup

How the heck did Reddit know to recommend r/bald? It's the one social media site I haven't posted a picture of myself.

Today is an important anniversary. 8 years since I saw a man eat a raw onion on the subway. He was SAVOURING it!

It’s one of those evenings when I put on a YouTube video for background and all of a sudden I’m an hour into a video that turns out to be two hours long.

Parallelizing your builds can seem like a no-brainer. Do more work at once, go faster, everyone's happy, right? But if you don't manage your queues carefully, parallelization can actually make your releases slower! open.substack.com/pub/thefrida...

Finally found a band I knew that my wife had never heard of. She’s now very much enjoying the Kaiser Chiefs.