"Oh, we doin' video now, huh?" Learn more about my foray into video editing and why all my videos look like they were made by a 2-year-old trying to fit in with the teens. blog.appliedcomputing.io/p/oh-we-doin...

openso-urc-e cl-oudna-ti-v-e

engineers everywhere pretending to “monitor the situation” while refreshing the aws status page

Sure glad ACRL had the foresight to move all of its infra into us-west-2! ! ! !

zsh: sure you want to delete more than 100 files in /home/drmorr/downloads [yn]? y 🪦

Wake up, babe, new ACRL goofy promo video just dropped! Ever wondered how you pronounce skctl, or why we have so many ctls in the first place? This video will tell you why. youtu.be/CGkrE0DbH1Y Come chat with us at KubeCon in Atlanta! cal.com/drmorr/kubecon #kubernetes #k8s #kubecon #simkube

Surprising everybody, nobody watched my video on TikTok. You can make up for it by watching it here! New video dropping tomorrow :D youtube.com/shorts/jUE2Y... #kubernetes #k8s #simkube #lego

Nobody is born a great engineer. Great engineers are forged in the fires of experience -- year after year of compounding challenges and opportunities. Does your org frustrate the pursuit of greatness, or unlock and accelerate it? For whom? And then yes: shipping is the mechanics of learning.

What's SimKube, precious??? www.youtube.com/watch?v=jUE2... Come chat with me at KubeCon in Atlanta if you want to know more! cal.com/drmorr/kubecon

Alrighty ACRL is now the proud (????????) owner of a tiktok account. You know, for all the kubernetes content that tiktokers consume. tiktok.com/@appliedcomp... hashtag FYP.

I'm looking for a qr code generator. Preferably one that is easy to use and doesn't embed a whole bunch of tracking or malware shit into the generated code. I assume this is "most of them" and I should just "pick one" but I'm having analysis paralysis. Halp?

We interrupt this regularly-scheduled simkube content to tell you something obvious about Google calendaring that still took several hours for me to understand. blog.appliedcomputing.io/p/if-you-hav...

In our latest episode we talk about regular expressions. What are they, where did they come from, and most importantly: are they evil? www.picturemecoding.com/2222783/epis...

Various languages and async programming: Javascript: async is amazing, you can do things efficiently Also javascript: why would anyone want to run things concurrently?

Nice article. "Monitoring, security management, and cost governance don't scale linearly with your infrastructure. They scale chaotically." "Most production incidents in Kubernetes aren't rare edge cases, they're preventable misconfigurations." devtron.ai/blog/beyond-...

True confessions: I have no idea what a counterfactual is.

In today's blog post, I talk about how you can use SimKube to do cost analysis and forecasting, something I've said is possible for a while, but I've never actually shown how to do it. I also show a brief teaser of how to integrate KubeCost and SimKube! blog.appliedcomputing.io/p/howto-use-...

Repeat after me: npm is not a distribution system for binaries.

I got 99 problems and a good night of sleep would solve at least 90 of them

Shower thought: they have warrant canaries, what about rapture canaries?

Well my new advertising campaign is live! Using the _extremely_ precise method of grepping my webserver's output logs**, I can tell that it has resulted in 59 unique people* visiting my web sight. Anyways go read @cassidoo.co's newsletter, it's great! buttondown.com/cassidoo/arc...

Well starting off with a broken keyboard was not on my Monday morning bingo card. My enter key had been intermittently double-triggering, so I thought maybe the switch was bad, so I pulled the switch out and swapped another one in, and then..... the enter key just stopped working entirely. 😡

I filmed a short, uh, I guess you could call it an ad, for simkube which I objectively think is hilarious and you can't see it yet but I will share it soon.

Did we, though? I still hear people say this. 😬

Last night I discovered that sendgrid had canceled my free plan, so the contact form on my website hasn't been working for 2 months. I ported it over to AWS SES, and now it's working again, and I know it's working because I got my first-ever spam submission on the contact form! hashtag winning

If you told me the most stacked sports team, with billions in funding, found a solution to dramatically improve performance? I’d be sus If you said the solution was a mic yelling random instructions, I’d call you delusional If you said the training data was mostly middle school pickup games? Bruh

So, Generative AI is a stochastic parrot regurgitating the average of all the world’s most mediocre code… Yet, somehow, the “upper elite 1% of talent” is getting massive productivity gains from it? To the point where Elite Performing tech corporations mandate it? That doesn’t add up

New cluster autoscaler PR opened. Contributor status: maintained 😂

We're talking about Unix again, especially about what made it successful. Turns out it might be because the developers didn't start off with any particular objective in mind, they just wanted to make it easier to write programs: www.picturemecoding.com/2222783/epis...

Oops I built cluster autoscaler and it took my laptop from 20% battery to 3% battery.

"curl | sh" is a lot more secure than npm these days, though!

This week I wrote a quick summary of my favorite talks at Kubernetes Community Days SF! Featuring talks from Marina Moore (Edera), @todaywasawesome.com (Argo), Ramiro Berrelleza (Okteto), and honorable mention by @fuzzychef.org (Red Hat). blog.appliedcomputing.io/p/kubernetes...

I'm still waiting for auto-playing clips of Linkin Park and My Chemical Romance to make a comeback.

They have 3D printers for food now??

Do I know anybody who does short-form video content?

OK now I'm really done, and it's time to go write my own blog post. spoiler warning I'm talking about KCD SF, you should subscribe so that you can read it when it comes out on Monday: blog.appliedcomputing.io

OK FINE I guess I'm really not done yet. Here's why we should be optimizing for system calls instead of I/O in 2025: bun.com/blog/behind-... "Yet today's package managers still optimize for the last decade's problems. In 2025, the real bottleneck isn't I/O anymore. It's system calls."

OK I lied, this is a @trailofbits.bsky.social post about Buttercup, an AI system that's able to identify/fix vulns in OSS code: blog.trailofbits.com/2025/08/08/b...

OK last one (I think). This is a cool article that goes in-depth into the math of LLMs and why they appear non-deterministic even with temperature set to 0: thinkingmachines.ai/blog/defeati...

I really enjoyed this @hillelwayne.com post: "Many Hard Leetcode Problems are Easy Constraint Problems". It's never occurred to me to use a constraint solver to solve coding interview problems, but this would be way nicer than coding some dumb algorithm from scratch. buttondown.com/hillelwayne/...

This is a terrific article, and very very relevant to OSS.

Some absolute bangers by Jean Hsu in this Startup Soup post: startupsoup.substack.com/p/harnessing...

Oh neat, PSI metrics are in Kubernetes now! kubernetes.io/blog/2025/09...

This is a post by Anastasjia Uspenski about how the "myth of the 10x engineer" is actively harmful (the post is itself based on a talk by @charity.wtf at the Craft Conference in Budapest): shiftmag.dev/10x-engineer...

Here's an article on why Kubernetes has pause containers by @[email protected]: diveinto.com/blog/kuberne...

This one's an article about how nobody bothers to monitor, test, or alert on AI (LLM) output. Color me shocked. "Unsolved Problems in MLOps" by Niall Murphy and Todd Underwood. queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?r...

This one feels like common sense but also I feel like common sense is something that's severely lacking in tech right now: "Moving Faster by Not Breaking Things" by Justin Sheehy and Jonathan Reed. queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?r...

Catching up on my blogroll. Here's a nice article from ACM Queue: "No One Has Time to Work on Your Project" by Strata Chalup (standing in for Thomas A. Limoncelli). queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?r...

Welp another Current Event happened, time to update my moderated words list again.

And that's a wrap! Gonna go hang out at the reception for a bit and then go home. It was fun, see you all at KubeCon in a couple months!