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Ajay Kulkarni from Tiger Data (Co-founder/CEO) is on the pod this week with Adam. He asked him to get vulnerable and trace his path to becoming a CEO. They dig into the themes that have shaped his career, and explore ...
In Kubernetes v1.35, the ability to specify an external Job controller (through .spec.managedBy) graduates to General Availability. This feature allows external controllers to take full responsibility for Job reconciliation, unlocking powerful scheduling patterns like multi-cluster dispatching with MultiKueue. Why delegate ...
Have you ever thought about getting your small product into production, but are worried about the cost of the big cloud providers? Or maybe you think your current cloud service is over-architected and costing you too much? Well, in this ...
Brief one today. I got asked “does YJIT/ZJIT have support for [Linux] perf?” The answer is yes, and it also works with samply (including on macOS!), because both understand the perf map interface. This is the entirety of the implementation ...
My chores and tasks are piling up... and so are my emails.
Hell froze over. Anthropic fixed Claude Code's signature flicker in their latest update (2.0.72)
A quiet end-of-year reflection on contracts, community, delivery, and heading into uncertainty with cautious optimism.
My startup for terminals wrapped up mid-2025 when the funding ran dry. So I don’t have money, but what I do have are a very particular set of skills. Skills I have acquired over a very long career convincing terminals ...
Editors: Aakanksha Bhende, Arujjwal Negi, Chad M. Crowell, Graziano Casto, Swathi Rao Similar to previous releases, the release of Kubernetes v1.35 introduces new stable, beta, and alpha features. The consistent delivery of high-quality releases underscores the strength of our development ...
An unofficial guide to commonly mispronounced names in self-hosted software
Another day, another successful supply chain attack that could have been easily mitigated with basic measures. As I've previously written many times, supply chain attacks are low effort / big
There's so much I want to learn and so little time in the day!
A BitTorrent client in your terminal.
China holding a net catching falling countries and businesses from a burning building/images/china-private-equity-world.webp/images/china-private-equity-world.webp I feel like China is becoming Private Equity for countries and continents. Basically, watch the world decay and sweep in for the resc...
Here's a few questions I ask myself before I start blogging.
This episodes diverges from our traditional fare. I’ve reviewed the 49 previous editions and picked (IMHO) the coolest code, best prose & my favorite podcast episode from each month!
Thank you NoPorts for sponsoringhttps://fafo.fm/noportsIf the Internet is a big computer, Amazon s3 is the hard drive. So what happens when a single typo breaks the Internet's hard drive? On this episode of Fork Around and Find Out we review ...
Topics covered in this episode: Deprecations via warnings docs PyAtlas: interactive map of the top 10,000 Python packages on PyPI. Buckaroo Extras Joke See the full show notes for this episode on the website at pythonbytes.fm/462
I was wondering why sone .mkv videos can be played in web browsers, why some others can't and what would be the best format to archive videos. This led me
A Personal AI Maturity Model/images/personal-ai-maturity-model-v1.png/images/personal-ai-maturity-model-v1.png I have been thinking about this since 2016 when I wrote the crappy book but great article, The Real Internet of Things, which I've now put online. As we think about what's happening with A...
You can be a leader without a fancy title... and hopefully that gets you the fancy title eventually!
Announcing a simple statistics library for Clojure web servers
I find this sort of thing fascinating. I looked for detailed info before my own surgery because I like to know what I’m getting into. If you’re grossed out by...
I'm backing up my photos and videos with Ente now, and it's pretty good.
For years, building interactive widgets in Python notebooks meant wrestling with toolchains, platform quirks, and a mountain of JavaScript machinery. Most developers took one look and backed away slowly. Trevor Manz decided that barrier did not need to exist. His ...
Vibe coding gets the job done, but there's no thrill in the build.
Alex Kretzschmar joins Adam for a trip down the Linux rabbit hole -- Docker vs Podman, building a Kubernetes cluster, ZFS backups with zfs.rent, bootc, favorite Linux distros, new homelab tools built with AI, self-hosting Immich, content creation, Plex and ...
I think we in Cybersecurity have largely failed to show its value to the busines over the last decades. And I think we need a completely new type of product to address it. And before you get excited about a ...
To tell the story of your life would take another life of equal length. There is no such thing as a true story because every story, to be told, must...
Bidding wars, mobile bookmarks, and my favorite new self-hosted apps from 2025
I don't listen to many podcasts, but the ones I do are pretty solid!
Challenges and architectural decisions while building a community-driven image-sharing platform
My friend Trey Hunner showed me the GLM set of models before Thanksgiving. While traveling to see family, I somehow messed up my Claude Code setup because of a wrapper I have with mise-en-place. I couldn’t use it for a ...
What happens when you compromise too much?
We're joined by Zipline cofounder / CTO, Keenan Wyrobek. Zipline is on a mission to build the world’s first logistics system that serves all people equally via their fleet of autonomous drones that started in Africa delivering medical supplies and ...
Whatever it is, let me start it with gratitude. Gratitude is fertile ground. Put in the seeds of your dreams and desires. Keep the ground watered and pull the weeds....
A look back at some of my favorite self-hosted software and applications released in 2025
The microVM revolution
If you wanna eat more than a hot dog and deep dish pizza when you visit Chicago, I got you!
An interactive minimalist TUI to query JSON, CSV, and TSV using SQL.
Topics covered in this episode: PEP 798: Unpacking in Comprehensions Pandas 3.0.0rc0 typos A couple testing topics Extras Joke See the full show notes for this episode on the website at pythonbytes.fm/461
There is this weird framing floating in the media that encryption is used by criminals to commit their misdeeds and hide in the shadows. As is too often with mainstream
When your CSS animations need a break, you can work with the output of the getAnimations() method!
I guess this time the game really does stop, when the stream ends.
Why AI needs hard rules (not vibe checks), what Anthropic's acquisition of Bun's creators tells us about the AI takeover, Jonah Glover couldn't get Claude to recreate Space Jam's 1996 website, Google finally unkills something, and Bazzite is a distro ...