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13 Nov 2024 | original ↗

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Nomadic Infrastructure Design for AI Workloads
12 Nov 2024 | original ↗

Taco Bell is a miracle of food preparation. They manage to have a menu of dozens of items that all boil down to permutations of 8 basic items: meat, cheese, beans, vegetables, bread, and sauces. Those basic fundamentals are combined in new and interesting ways to give you the crunchwrap, the chalupa, the doritos ...

Hello again, Kubernetes
9 Nov 2024 | original ↗

Yeah, yeah, we know; freight train to mail a letter, etc.

My first deploys for a new Kubernetes cluster
3 Nov 2024 | original ↗

This is documentation for myself, but you may enjoy it too

"No way to prevent this" say users of only language where this regularly happens
29 Oct 2024 | original ↗

In the hours following the release of CVE-2024-9632 for the project X.org, site reliability workers and systems administrators scrambled to desperately rebuild and patch all their systems to fix a buffer overflow that allows an attacker with access to raw X client calls to arbitrarily read and write memory, allowing for privilege...

The return of Stealth Mountain
29 Oct 2024 | original ↗

It's more than a sneaky peak, it's a legend reborn.

Docker builds over SSH
18 Oct 2024 | original ↗

Plan 9 clustering at home

Making home cooking easier with Cooktok
14 Oct 2024 | original ↗

Maybe langle mangles can be used for good

Bot detection isn't perfect
11 Oct 2024 | original ↗

ArcjetArcjet makes it easy to remove entire classes of security problems from your applications, such as denying misbehaving bots from your websites. Today we're going to cover the inherent complexity in bot detection and how your app is protected from... makes it easy to remove entire classes of security problems from your applications, such as denying misbehaving bots from your websites. Today we're going to cover the inherent complexity in bot detection and how your app is protected from...

You're probably not vulnerable to the CUPS CVE
26 Sept 2024 | original ↗

Unless your servers can print for some reason

Fixing Kubevirt networking not working on reboot
26 Sept 2024 | original ↗

Turns out randomizing the MAC address on boot is a bad idea

Make your Next.JS Docker images microscopic!
22 Sept 2024 | original ↗

Do standalone builds on Alpine

Xecast Episode 5: Simracing and Vtubing with Lithium Fox
21 Sept 2024 | original ↗

This episode of Xecast, Xe Iaso is joined by special guest Lithium Fox. They nerd out about simracing, vtubing, and passion projects.

How to completely bypass authentication on RushOrderTees
20 Sept 2024 | original ↗

Just don't enter a password lol

I fixed the strawberry problem because OpenAI couldn't
13 Sept 2024 | original ↗

Remember kids: real winners cheat

Xecast Episode 4: A Psychic Whiplash Week
10 Sept 2024 | original ↗

Xe reflects on a week of intense ups and downs, navigating a whirlwind of job offers, contract work, and personal projects.

Nix 2.24+ Vulnerability: Unpacking issue allows local users or binary caches to gain root access
9 Sept 2024 | original ↗

Patch Nix as soon as a patch is available to protect against GHSA-h4vv-h3jq-v493

Reflection is cooked
9 Sept 2024 | original ↗

Generative AI is in its Cambrian Explosion phase. So many people are taking the models and messing around with them in so many ways to try and see if they can make something work. There's just one problem: how do you tell if a model is good or not without actually setting it up and using it? One of the biggest points of comparison is the...

LinkedIn collaborative articles confuse me
6 Sept 2024 | original ↗

Toss an insight to your algorithmic overlords

What is the soul of a game?
30 Aug 2024 | original ↗

A video essay about Pikmin

Xecast Episode 3: The curse of the artist
25 Aug 2024 | original ↗

Xe returns while on vacation where they built a new PC, made a SaaS to check web server headers, and re-evaluated how they think about complexity.

My IRC client runs on Kubernetes
23 Aug 2024 | original ↗

Trust me, there's a reason for this

Scaling your GPU apps in anger
21 Aug 2024 | original ↗

A war story of how I scaled a GPU app in prod.

Pop quiz: what is wrong with this tar command?
19 Aug 2024 | original ↗

It's stupider than you think

"No way to prevent this" say users of only language where this regularly happens
14 Aug 2024 | original ↗

In the hours following the release of CVE-2024-38063 for the project Microsoft Windows, site reliability workers and systems administrators scrambled to desperately rebuild and patch all their systems to fix a vulnerability where a specially crafted IPv6 packet can result in remote code execution.. This is due to the affected components...

Xecast Episode 2: Conferences, homelabs, and AI
11 Aug 2024 | original ↗

Your browser does not support the audio element. Download MP3 Also catch Xecast on YouTube (I'll make a proper podcast feed soon, trying to de-scope so I can actually get things done). Mimi> These show notes were generated using Google Gemini 1.5 Pro. Should this podcast take off, we'll find a better way to do...

This game would be perfect if it wasn't gacha
31 Jul 2024 | original ↗

TL;DR: Zenless Zone Zero is a fantastic game that's ruined by its gacha system. It's a shame that it's a gacha game, because it's so good otherwise. 8/10

"No way to prevent this" say users of only language where this regularly happens
30 Jul 2024 | original ↗

In the hours following the release of CVE-2024-5535 for the project OpenSSL, site reliability workers and systems administrators scrambled to desperately rebuild and patch all their systems to fix a memory safety vulnerability allowing 255 bytes of the client's heap to be sent to the server when using Next-Protocol-Notifications (commonly...

Xecast Episode 1: Origins and Techaro
28 Jul 2024 | original ↗

Your browser does not support the audio element. Download MP3 Also catch Xecast on YouTube (I'll make a proper podcast feed soon, trying to de-scope so I can actually get things done). Mimi> These show notes were generated using Google Gemini 1.5 Pro. Should this podcast take off, we'll find a better way to do...

Flying home in the age of #CrowdStroke
21 Jul 2024 | original ↗

Autobiographical notes on my trip home from DevRelCon 2024

Guerrilla event planning at larger conferences
20 Jul 2024 | original ↗

How to capitalism with care

I am a professional conference speaker
19 Jul 2024 | original ↗

A supercut of all of the times I failed at using the clicker or other technology during my talk at DevRelCon NYC. Enjoy! import execFor from '/js/hls.js'; execFor('650e1e216b9f2610fe329768205f1c802fe80a723b51babc59998d117bcc697d',...

"No way to prevent this" say users of only language where this regularly happens
19 Jul 2024 | original ↗

In the hours following the release of OVE-20240719-0001 for the project CrowdStrike Falcon, site reliability workers and systems administrators scrambled to desperately rebuild and patch all their systems to fix a bootloop where systems will get hit with PAGE_FAULT_IN_NONPAGED_AREA. This has taken out hospitals, major banks, Microsoft...

The ROG Ally and Steam Deck are different products
17 Jul 2024 | original ↗

Specs don't define the experience

The Steam Deck is Holy
11 Jul 2024 | original ↗

import execFor from '/js/hls.js'; execFor('6281535af6513fc92e418ba4b2bc4fac3b3d1275efebf57100343fa659503ff3', 'https://cdn.xeiaso.net/file/christine-static/video/2024/0706-elden-ring/steam-deck-holy/index.m3u8');Want to watch this in your video player of choice? Take...

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