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- A $124B fund in Australia would have lost all data stored with Google Cloud, had they not relied on a third-party backup. A rare blunder from GCP, where regional replication did not stop the deletion – and a just as rare statement from Google Cloud’s CEO taking the blame....
About a month ago
- GitHub’s leadership blames the 3.5x increase in service load as the cause of degradation – or it might be self-inflicted....
- ClickHouse is a columnar OLAP database designed for analytical workloads, and recommended for production observability. The new ClickHouse storage adapter gives......
- Writing this makes me irrationally sad, but Ghostty will be leaving GitHub1. I'm GitHub user 1299, joined Feb 2008. Since then, I've opened GitHub every single day. Every day, multiple times per day, for over 18 years. Over half my life. A handful of exceptions in there (I'd...
- I’ve been noticing a lot of service outages lately. Some with few enough nines that you’d think they were going for a low score. My guess: this is probably going to get worse before it gets better. But maybe not for the reasons you’d think. First off, let’s look at GitHub. It...
- I abandoned graphical code editors years ago. Something that GUI IDEs like Visual Studio Code do really well is the diff preview. This is something I missed a little at the beginning, but since I started using Delta, I never missed the GUI again. I don’t remember how that...
about 2 months ago
- IntroI’ve been running GoatCounter on my site using the script. The problem is that adblockers like uBlock Origin block it (understandably).To get around this, I set up proxying so that the GoatCounter requests go to an endpoint under my domain nelson.cloud/gc/count, and then...
- Me, in 2025, on Mastodon: I love tools like Netlify and deploying my small personal sites with git push But i'm not gonna lie, 2025 might be the year I go back to just doing builds locally and pushing the deploys from my computer. I'm sick of devops'ing stupid stuff because...
- How to configure CloudFront to proxy requests to GoatCounter so that adblockers don’t block page views....
- Availability has dropped to one nine (~90% – !!), partly due to not being able to handle increased traffic from AI coding agents. There’s also no CEO and an apparent lack of direction....
- CircleCI’s 2026 State of Software Delivery report has two findings that are already travelling: AI is meaningfully boosting software delivery, but only 1 in 20 teams are capturing that benefit. Both claims are more uncertain than the report suggests, for different reasons. What...
- Mastra Studio now has a metrics dashboard that tracks model costs, latency percentiles, scores, and error counts for all your agents, tools, and workflows. Toge......
- Jason Gorman writes about the word “continuous” and its place in making software. We think of making software in stages (and we often assign roles to ourselves and other people based on these stages): the design phase, the coding phase, the testing phase, the integration phase,...
2 months ago
- Blog About Moonbound Shop This is a post from Robin Sloan’s lab blog & notebook. You can visit the blog’s homepage, or learn more about me. March 15, 2026 Just leaving this here in case someone runs into the same difficulty I did … or maybe I’m leaving it here for an LLM to...
3 months ago
- How I replaced a long-lived Cloudflare Container with a one-shot Cloudflare Sandbox, deleted most of the control-plane code, and let an agent do the heavy lifting in less than an hour of my own time....
- How I moved Call Kent podcast episode processing off my primary Fly.io app server and onto Cloudflare Queues and Containers: what broke, what I missed, and whether it was worth the complexity....
- I recently started a new platform where I sell my books and courses, and in this website I needed to send account related emails to my users for things such as email address verification and password reset requests. The reasonable option that is often suggested is to use a paid...
- When I joined GitHub in 2013, I found a company that had fundamentally rethought how work happens. Thirteen years later, the lessons from that experiment are more relevant than ever....
- Run test cases against agents and workflows, score the results, and track quality over time. Experiments, paired with recently shipped datasets, are a big step ......
- this is part 2 of a two-part series on how container images and filesystems work: what is a container image? how does my container get a root filesystem? intro in part 1, we built a two-layer OCI image by hand, imported it into containerd, and ran it. we saw that a container...
- this is part 1 of a two-part series on how container images and filesystems work: what is a container image? (this post) how does my container get a root filesystem? intro my first mental model of a container was: a container is like when your friend wants to send you some files...
- Why I replaced SaaS code review tools with OpenCode running in CI/CD pipelines - cheaper, more secure, and works with any Git provider...
- The Cloudflare team clearly stated that we should prefer Workers over Pages, and this is the one that’s going to get future improvements and optimisations. Now that Workers supports both serving static assets and server-side rendering, you should start with Workers. Cloudflare...
5 months ago
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