bcantrill

bcantrill, 8 months ago to random

Where is "single-threaded WAL replay"? The Mariana Trench?

bcantrill, 8 months ago to random

A little over a decade ago, I gave a talk on corporate open source anti-patterns -- saying that I would return in a decade and describe any new mistakes. A decade later, new mistakes have emphatically been made! On tomorrow's Oxide and Friends, @ahl and I are going to be joined by @kelseyhightower as we talk about some of the anti-patterns of the last decade -- and try to give guidance to the next generation. Join us live -- or catch the recording! https://discord.gg/95HuasSA?event=1145461064901861458

bcantrill, 8 months ago to random

In the believe-who-people-are-when-they-tell-you department, HashiCorp CEO Dave McJannet repeatedly refers to his strategy with respect to open source as "malicious": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=59rEiAyYEVk&t=1002s

bcantrill, 9 months ago to random

Every year on the first day of school, we have the kids pose for a photo and indicate their new grade with their fingers -- but this year we needed some neighborhood help for our high school junior

geerlingguy, 9 months ago to opensource

Fork Yeah! Examining open source history after Red Hat's move https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2023/fork-yeah-examining-open-source-history-after-red-hats-move #opensource

bcantrill, 10 months ago to random

Time again for what has become a roughly annual tradition on Oxide and Friends: what books have you enjoyed recently? (And are there any books that you've read on the recommendation of OxF listeners?) Join @ahl and me, 5p Pacific tomorrow:

https://discord.gg/7WsxafGT?event=1132759113223385320

For books that we've talked about see our "Books in the Box" and "Books in the Box Redux" episodes:

https://oxide-and-friends.transistor.fm/episodes/the-books-in-the-box-2021-09-27
https://oxide-and-friends.transistor.fm/episodes/book-in-the-box-redux

bcantrill, 10 months ago to random

I am not, as it turns out, the only one to see the striking parallels between Melville's "Moby Dick" and Kidder's "The Soul of a New Machine":

https://ia800604.us.archive.org/view_archive.php?archive=/1/items/World_of_Spectrum_June_2017_Mirror/World%20of%20Spectrum%20June%202017%20Mirror.zip&file=World%20of%20Spectrum%20June%202017%20Mirror/sinclair/magazines/TheHomeComputerAdvancedCourse/Issue47/Pages/TheHomeComputerAdvancedCourse4700022.pdf

bcantrill, 10 months ago to random

"Moby Dick" is, as it turns out, a really good book.

bcantrill, 10 months ago to random

I have long said that you know it's time to ship when you are working the system hard enough to find long-standing bugs: you know that you've hit bedrock, in a sense.

And that is the inference I choose to draw from this 7-year-old DTrace bug that I hit this weekend that absolutely had me questioning my own sanity:

https://www.illumos.org/issues/15789

bcantrill, 10 months ago to random

AI doomerism -- the fear of an uncontrolled artificial general intelligence that poses an existential risk to humanity (!) -- has exerted a recent grip on discourse, e.g.:

https://twitter.com/bcantrill/status/1673021241551384578

Today on @oxidecomputer and Friends, @ahl and I are going to offer an AI doomerist rebuttal based on our experiences in a domain that we know a thing or two about: building a computing system. Join us, 5p Pacific today:

https://discord.gg/twfq4ED7?event=1122921622333034616

Recorded as always!

bcantrill, 1 year ago to random

Today on @oxidecomputer and Friends, @ahl and I are going to be joined by @kissane and @timbray to talk about Erin's terrific piece, "Blue skies over Mastodon": https://erinkissane.com/blue-skies-over-mastodon

Join us, 5p Pacific: https://discord.gg/EZYTqdKj?event=1100098397949677620

Recorded and syndicated, as always:

https://oxide-and-friends.transistor.fm/