An Oxide ubuntu VM instance showing "running" status
An Oxide serial console showing a prompt for an "ubuntu" user login
Needed a `pkg update` to fix propolis/bhyve since this was a few months old Helios installation, but there was eventual success!
Yeah you've basically nailed it. -
I adjusted the configs to have just 3 U.2 vdevs, expanded those vdevs from the 20GiB default to 60, reduced the control plane storage buffer from 250GiB to 1 for all, and modified the fleet policy code's `<SERVICE>_REDUNDANCY`constants to have single replicas.
The oxide control plane software showing an ubuntu VM disk image successfully uploaded.
A instance in Oxide showing it is in "starting" status, showing full configuration including 2 vCPUs, 4GB memory, and a local IP.
Took quite a while, with a few retries, but got the image uploaded and a VM creating... will be shocked if the thing actually boots
Cosplaying an Oxide engineer by following @jclulow.bsky.social's steps here got it booted pretty easily github.com/oxidecompute...
The Oxide control plane software "images" page showing an ubuntu vm image upload in progress
A bit of pain on this machine (32Gib / 1TB HDD) but fought through some issues with too many service replicas (causing OOMs), slow file-backed vdevs, and resizing zpools to fit everything, but I think we're off
Just github.com/oxidecompute... built locally on a server running Helios!
The inventory page of the Oxide control plane software UI, showing a single machine connected and a URL of "localhost:8080".
Had an old gaming laptop lying around and managed to get @oxide.computer's platform booted up on it
jj is super powerful if you need it, but tbh I think the pitch is even stronger for non-power users. In 6 months of regular use I've never needed to consult the Deep Tomes to unfuck a repo, and the only time I ended up remotely off the happy path it was a limitation of the underlying VCS, not jj
screenshot of the Gas Town token price, which spiked on Jan 16 and collapsed days later
lol, lmao, etc
Definitely calling this one the "sig-seven" vulnerability. 🫴 🫴
i think a core beef that i have with a lot of this "automation is bad" sentiment lately is that there is no inherent moral good in laboring
the story of humanity is one of invention, where we improve our conditions by building things that help us do more things more easily
It’s good practice for when you encounter the occasional human.
Do you have an idle cluster? Can you spare a couple core-years?
Help me bruteforce some test vectors for RSA key generation edge cases!
Here are the instructions, it's just a matter of running a single self-contained cross-compilable Go binary that will report the results autonomously.
The best user experiences often involve the worst internal abstractions. Hard-won lesson
The reason the Eagles didn’t just fly the ring into Mordor is that Kevin Patullo was coordinating their offense
Politico is reporting that the breach at the Congressional Budget Office is "ongoing."
“Do NOT click on any links in emails from CBO. Do NOT share sensitive information with CBO colleagues over email, Microsoft Teams, or Zoom at this time,” the email to CBO staff reads.
If you're coming into Atlanta for Kubecon next week and looking to explore outside the conference, reach out!
I'm nearby in East Atlanta and happy to recommend some local favorites and/or catch up over a meal or a beverage.
Wrote up my first impressions of ChatGPT Atlas, OpenAI's new browser - I remain unconvinced by the entire category of "browser agents", the security and privacy challenges still feel insurmountable to me simonwillison.net/2025/Oct/21/...
if the presence of hype makes you completely unable to think about reality independent of the hype, that is not resisting hype, it is surrendering to it totally
It's not you, cloudflare, npm, firebase, and google cloud are all having issues. If you are affected, go touch grass. There's nothing you can do about it.
Lots of services in all regions now reporting impact due to an IAM issue:
status.cloud.google.com/incidents/ow...
Also seeing issues in us-central1
status.cloud.google.com/regional/ame...
No incidents reported, yet...
Is the GCP console and us-east1 acting up?
I’ve been saying these tools help me “follow the dopamine” when starting large tasks or new projects.
LLMs have been huge to help me keep momentum and maximize time in deep work on the things that actually matter.
screencap of the scene in The Matrix where Cypher is talking to Neo alone, captioned: "Little piece of advice... You see an error, you do what we do: clone. You clone your ass off."
learning #rust from experienced devs
Found this tonight and it's a really solid read on the Go runtime. Definitely a long post but it's got a lot of useful info in it.
Learned a lot about things that I haven't really dug into before from it.
nghiant3223.github.io/2025/04/15/g...
This is *exactly* why the @cncf.io was created. A safe space for community and companies to come together with longitudinal guarantees of stability and fair ground rules.
There are no backsies. @synadia.bsky.social? @derekcollison.bsky.social? This is not ok.
www.cncf.io/blog/2025/04...
I’ve been using it at work with pretty great success. Self hosting on k8s or docker compose is pretty straightforward. Everything integrates pretty nicely, especially if you’re already using otel.
