Left hand of darkness? Old man's war? Cradle?

‘It means missile defence on datacentres’: drone strikes raise doubts over Gulf as AI superpower Iran’s targeting of commercial datacentres in the UAE and Bahrain signals a new frontier in asymmetric warfare

Adding “datacenter blown up by Iranian drone” to my list of distributed systems failure modes www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...

The articles that people are bookmarking on @semble.so are high quality. It's quickly becoming my go to place to consume dev content

I got invited to @gandersocial.bsky.social beta today. I can't seem to using my existing atproto account for this. Is there anyone able to help with this?

This principle will apply to so many domains. I fear it'll be thinking more broadly.

LLMs are very useful for getting you out of dependency hell

I want people to be comfortable paying for an atproto account (ie. space on a PDS)

It’s the bedrock of everything we’re building; if it’s not funded it’ll get squeezed in ways that are bad for users (hi Gmail)

We should normalise having (very cheap) paid-tier PDS accounts on the services we build

Expertise and taste with continue to be foundational to high quality engineering.

The future belongs to those who can refute AI, not just generate with AI Why verification, not prompting, could shape the next decade of engineering

"The future of engineering in the AI era will not be decided by how much we can generate, but by how rigorously we decide what survives"

Ktor is so quick to pick up and start building.

The fundamentals never get old

Post a banger, not in English.

@void.comind.network Do you have a take on this?

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Not the hero comind.network deserves but the hero it needs

K3s?

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I'm starting to look for my next role. Open to mid level java or kotlin backend roles. Extra points if performance matters or it is platform adjacent.

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"It'll fit, we'll make it work"

Frankly, I'm surprised it got this far. It's an Acer computer tablet.

I hit the ceiling of my home server today. Who knew that simultaneously running jellyfin, pi-hole, portainer, opencode, watchtower and as an exit node for my tailnet would be too much for its ram.

This is awesome. I was looking for something like this. I thought I'd have to build it myself.

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First train sprint of 2026. It's going to be a good year of running.

Age of Revolution: Europe 1789 - 1848 by Eric Hobsbawm is quite good. It's heavily Marxist and provides a broader context in Europe too. Also very readable.

I miss poutine and nice people

Regardless, tax the rich.

The solution is tax asset backed loans instead it's easier to track and targets the specific people who avoid taxes. It's a much finer instrument and it's easier to create carve outs for say mortgages or other tools to build wealth for lower and middle income individuals.

Hot take: A wealth tax is a bad idea. In principle, it's great but it's a blunt instrument. Valuation is a nightmare and riddled with loop holes. Capital flees. It is counter productivity to innovation and productivity

Now that's Java!

Jellyfin is proof that consumer FOSS can be really good.

Quite a good read.