Building blobd: single-machine object store with sub-millisecond reads and 15 GB/s uploads

- Deep dive into blobd, an object store designed for constant low latency reads using async Rust, io_uring and atomic writes...

Build your first AI Agent with Gemini, n8n and Google Cloud Run

- Learn how to deploy n8n on Google Cloud Run with PostgreSQL and create an AI Agent using Google Gemini 2.5....

Running Pull Requests in Github Codespaces

- Earlier this week, I was having a lot of trouble understanding how to get Dev Containers working. Dev Containers are the required way to enable Github Codespaces, which was my actual goal. I finally got to something that works, so I want to document what I learned. Dev...

Claude Code for web - a new asynchronous coding agent from Anthropic

Getting DeepSeek-OCR working on an NVIDIA Spark via brute force using Claude Code

Claude can write complete Datasette plugins now

What the Meteorologist: Announcing wxpull

- I had not encountered the grib2 format before, but it is popular for this kind of data. A brief web search reveals the wgrib2 command-line tool might be helpful. Let’s see, is that in nixpkgs?… Nope. But we can add it. It’s a straightforward CMake build process with no required...

How to Use an AWS S3 Bucket as a Pulumi State Backend

- Self-host Pulumi state with an S3 Bucket, an IAM User, and the Pulumi CLI....

Seven Years of Firecracker

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Installing Playwright in GitHub Actions

- I’ve been using Playwright to automate browser tests for ages. I also like to keep my dependencies up to date, so I dutifully ensure Playwright has a working browser installed before I run the tests. Today, I hit a wall where the latest updates just wouldn’t complete the...

Using Claude Code from Anywhere

- I've been using multiple instances of Claude Code and Codex CLI almost every day. But I've gotten frustrated enough to build something that solidifies my workf...

We Rewrote the Ghostty GTK Application

Code Sandbox MCP: A Simple Code Interpreter for Your AI Agents

- Code Sandbox MCP is a simple, self-hosted code interpreter for your AI agents. It allows you to execute code snippets in containerized environments....

Meanwhile in DevOps #36: Consternation bias

- Arlo, Murray, and Ellis are in the breakout room having drinks. Ellis seems stressed, and Murray looks a little vacant. Arlo decides to break the awkward silence. “Did you see that really well-balanced research report on coding assistants?” Arlo asks. Murray and Ellis both...

On Distributed Tracing

Writing a backup service for Ubuntu in Rust

- While performing some routine maintenance of my Ubuntu server, $ docker compose pull $ docker compose up -d I ran into an interesting situation where nginx-proxy-manager failed to serve my blog properly, I wasn't sure what the issue was but these types of issues are usually...

How to set up Neon Local with Docker Compose and JavaScript Postgres clients

- A practical guide to Neon Local with JavaScript and Docker Compose for local and production setups ICYMI we recently launched Neon Local. What is Neon Local? Ne......

Make Yourself at Home with Neon Local

- A simpler way to create ephemeral environments with Neon and Docker. The term ephemeral gets thrown around a lot in the database world, but what does it actuall......

Neon Local

- Use Docker environments to connect to Neon and manage branches automatically Neon Local is a proxy service that creates a local interface to your Neon cloud dat......

MLIR Part 8 - GPU Compilation with MLIR

- GPU Compilation with MLIR Continuing on from last time, now that we have our transformer primitives that we need to optimize, let's look at how we can translate high-level tensor operations (like softmax, attention, etc) expressed in MLIR down to low-level code that can run in...

From Shared Chaos to Isolated Control with Neon

- A better way to build: spin up a Neon Twin and keep production untouched. Your traditional database is rock-solid for handling production workloads—reliable, re......

Get Started With Self-Hosting

- Taking ownership of your data and services...

MLIR Part 0 - Installing MLIR

- MLIR Part 0 - Installing MLIR Installing MLIR can be a royal pain, so here are some notes on how to do it via various methods. From Homebrew (macOS) Using Apt (Ubuntu 22.04) Using llvm.sh Precompiled Packages From Source (macOS) From Source (Ubuntu 22.04) From Wheel (pip) From...

SGLang on AMD MI300X

- SGLang on AMD MI300X The best kept secret these days is that new AMD GPUs are incredibly cost efficient for doing inference. If you want the cliff-notes on getting an extremely fast inference server running on a fleet of AMD MI300X, here you go: If you're serving high-throughput...