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John Watson

Protect Your Org from Your Boss's Vibe-Coded Bullshit

My seven-year-old daughter used GPT Astra to create a 3D game this weekend. She loves it. Everyone can create software now; your platform's job is to contain the brutality within.

Charity Majors at Honeycomb

AI Norms & Values, Part 3 of 3: Things We Hold True

The final part of Honeycomb's AI Norms & Values series: the principles the company holds true about AI as a tool, ownership of work, and rising standards; how it actually uses AI day to day; usage patterns for respecting each other's time; and where it stands on AI's ethical externalities like energy use, IP, bias, and...

Infrastructure Frontiers 48:44

September 8th, 2026

Industry Experts run down all the AI news for Infrastructure Engineers. Adam Jacob, Paul Stack, and Nick Stinemates are joined by Swamp co-founder and platform engineering wizard John Watson.OpenAI ends access through Cursor due to the SpaceX acquisitionDebian adopts the most sensible AI policy possibleOpenClaw release...

Jeff Geerling

OpenNMC is an open replacement for expensive APC management cards

UPSes are typically the most boring part of your homelab, but they're important. One of their main jobs is to give servers time to shut down safely if the power goes out. Another job is to condition your power so your servers can run smoothly. To do both of those things well, you need a smart interface. And at least wi...

Chips and Cheese

Arm’s C2-Ultra, G2-Ultra NX, and CSS N4 IP

Editor’s Note (9/8/2026): Arm has reached out to clarify that the maximum IPC increase of the C2-Ultra core over the C1-Ultra core using the parameters shown in the endnotes is 7% along with the memory bandwidth improvement not factoring into the IPC improvement.

Armin Ronacher

Astra for Coding: Why Are We Doing This Again?

I’m more and more convinced that all of AI engineering is Neijuan (内卷, meaning curl inwards). In China it describes a system that demands ever more effort and competition without improving output. The way in which it sometimes shows up in the West is the 996 nonsense. The English term for Neijuan is “Involution” from...

Armin Ronacher

Latent Powers

A few weeks ago I felt like it would be fun to see if I can make one of those cheap Chinese CarPlay dongles run something other than the stock firmware. The idea was that rather than just forwarding CarPlay, why not do something more interesting with them? They all work quite similarly: they act as bridges between your...

Hackaday Podcast 1:08:49

Ep 385: 3D Printers with Lasers, Wicked RAM Prices, and Reverse Polish Notation

As the calendar turns a leaf into September, Elliot Williams is joined by Jenny List for our weekly look at all things Hackaday. In the news, our retrocomputing competition is well under way, but there's plenty of time to get an entry in if you've got a cool old-style project to show us. And then Elliot's been chasing...

Jeff Geerling

Rebuilding a 1995 GPS Time Server so I don't get Telstra'd

In June I purchased this TrueTime XL-AK time server, so I could learn more of the history of GPS-based time. I received it on June 22, and just 16 days later a similar GPS time server took down Australia's cell service for 12 hours! I made a short video about it but put off digging into the TrueTime... until now. Over...

Fork Around and Find Out 1:29:57

Integrating with Kubernetes with Matthew Sanabria

Come find Justin in-person and get FAFOFM stickers!Devopsdays - Portland, OR - September 8-10. Get 20% off tickets with FAFOFMEdgecase - Gooiland Hilversum, NL - September 24Taloscon - Amsterdam, NL - October 15-16KCD UK - Edinburgh - October 19Kubecon NA - Salt Lake City, UT - November 9-12Have an opening? HIRE AUTUMN...

Embedded 59:00

533: The Garage Is Open

Author Susan Lammers joins the show to discuss the 40th anniversary edition of her classic book, Programmers at Work. We discuss what it was like to interview young and pioneering software developers like Toru Iwatani, C. Wayne Ratliff, and Michael Hawley and how the personal computer revolution was built by individual...

Oxide and Friends 1:01:39

AI Detection with Max Spero

More and more, people are relying on AI to do their writing for them. Is this the new normal, or the intellectual equivalent of claiming take-out is your own home cooking? Max Spero, founder and CEO of Pangram, joined Bryan and Adam to discuss how they distinguish AI and human authorship.In addition to Bryan Cantrill a...

Charity Majors at Honeycomb

AI Norms & Values, Part 2 of 3: AI for Honeycomb Engineering

Charity Majors shares a note from Emily Nakashima, SVP of Engineering, on why Honeycomb's engineering org is going all in on AI, the north star it's aiming for, and an honest FAQ about what that means day to day.

Surfing Complexity

Thoughts on the Buildkite Aug 25 incident

The other day, I wrote about a GitHub Actions incident. But GitHub Actions isn’t the only CI-as-a-service out there. Buildkite, which is another CI company, recently released a public write-up of an incident they experienced last week. It’s a great one: their incident report contains a lot more detail than GitHub’s. He...

Infrastructure Frontiers 42:55

August 31st, 2026

Industry Experts run down all the AI news for Infrastructure Engineers. Adam Jacob, Paul Stack, and Nick Stinemates are joined by amazing infrastructure engineer Jason Powell. In this episode: * Semianalysis says OpenAI's Jalapeno chip is industry leading * DuckLabs joins AWS, DuckDB remains in an open foundation * Z.a...

Jeff Geerling

Before NTP there were Time and Daytime

In building an NTP time demo on old Macs for VCF Midwest, I came across RFC 867 and RFC 868, for the 'Daytime' and 'Time' Protocols, respectively. My first exposure to any form of network time was when I upgraded from a used PowerBook 180c to my first 'new' computer, a Power Mac G3, in 2000. With the introduction of Ma...

Chips and Cheese

Hot Chips 2026: Interviewing IBM's Christian Zoellin & Christian Jacobi

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Ken Shirriff

Cores in space: The core memory module from a 1980 Spacelab computer

Spacelab was a reusable laboratory that could be carried in the Space Shuttle's cargo bay, providing lab space for astronauts and experiments.1 Because Spacelab was a European project, it used a French-built minicomputer, the Mitra 125 MS,2 rather than the Shuttle's main computers, IBM-built AP-101 systems. For storage...

Chips and Cheese

Hot Chips 2026: XCENA and Samsung’s Near-Memory Compute CXL Device

CXL memory expansion, with a side of compute

Surfing Complexity

Quick thoughts on GitHub Actions Aug 26 incident

Last week, GitHub Actions experienced another incident. As is typical of a GitHub public writeup, it was published very soon after the incident, but there also aren’t isn’t a lot of detail. But let’s see what we info we can glean from it. Database saturation The first thing I noticed is that this incident is, … Continu...

Surfing Complexity

Omnipresent availability risks in cloud software

I’m using this post to gather together some common threads I’ve noticed after reading write-ups of major cloud software incidents. By cloud software, I’m referring to software-as-a-service (do people even say that anymore? in the cloud. This doesn’t just apply to cloud providers, although it does apply to them as well....

Chips and Cheese

Hot Chips 2026: Samsung’s Processing-in-Memory (PIM)

In-memory compute with LPDDR5X

Hackaday Podcast 1:06:30

Ep 384: OCR MOD Records, Magical PCBs, and the Gravity of Space Stations

What did Hackaday editors Elliot Williams and Al Williams read in Hackaday last week? Probably everything, but you can tune in and hear about their favorites on this week's podcast. They heard from lots of listeners this week, and also saw DIY projects running from a 3D-printed Stirling engine, to clogs, to LEDs. There...

Jeff Geerling

Building a mini Homelab that fits in my carry-on

I'm traveling to Chicago for VCF Midwest next month. I'll be demoing NTP time history on vintage Macs, with my own GPS-derived NTP service hosted on an Xserve G5, synced via NTP or a strange AppleTalk timing extension from the 1990s. So I built a little 'portable homelab' (pictured above) that supports 1-10 Gbps networ...

Chips and Cheese

Hot Chips 2026: Intel’s Crescent Island

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Hot Chips 2026: Fujitsu’s Monaka CPU

Building on a long history of HPC-focused cores, and looking beyond HPC

Jeff Geerling

Debugging Ubiquiti's 5G Backup on AT&T

For a mobile 'mini homelab' project I'm working on, I wanted to use 5G Internet as a primary 'on-to-go' connection, but still have the ability to plug in another Internet connection when I put the mobile rack I'm building in a fixed location. I'll have more on that project soon, but I figured this project was a good wa...

Oxide and Friends 1:16:08

The Return to the Chamber of Mysteries

Oxide returns to the chamber... of EMC compliance to earn FCC approval to sell our next generation rack. Did it go smoothly? If it had, would there be a podcast episode? Oxide teammates Robert, Dan, and Stu join Bryan and Adam to discuss the trials and triumph!In addition to Bryan Cantrill and Adam Leventhal, speakers...

Chips and Cheese

Hot Chips 2026: Intel’s Diamond Rapids

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SiFive’s First Server Platform

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