Lightnews — Scholar-powered news

LightNews

drmorr

@drmorr.appliedcomputing.io

130 followers 86 following 1K posts

Optimizer. Photographer. In disbelief that computers actually work. Accidentally writing a role-playing game. (he/him) https://hachyderm.io/@drmorr

Posts Media Videos Starter Packs

drmorr @drmorr.appliedcomputing.io · 4d

What's SimKube, precious???

www.youtube.com/watch?v=jUE2...

Come chat with me at KubeCon in Atlanta if you want to know more!

cal.com/drmorr/kubecon

YouTube video by Applied Computing Research Labs

www.youtube.com

drmorr @drmorr.appliedcomputing.io · 4d

Alrighty ACRL is now the proud (????????) owner of a tiktok account. You know, for all the kubernetes content that tiktokers consume.

tiktok.com/@appliedcomp...

hashtag FYP.

TikTok - Make Your Day

drmorr @drmorr.appliedcomputing.io · 6d

I'm looking for a qr code generator. Preferably one that is easy to use and doesn't embed a whole bunch of tracking or malware shit into the generated code. I assume this is "most of them" and I should just "pick one" but I'm having analysis paralysis. Halp?

drmorr @drmorr.appliedcomputing.io · 6d

We interrupt this regularly-scheduled simkube content to tell you something obvious about Google calendaring that still took several hours for me to understand.

blog.appliedcomputing.io/p/if-you-hav...

If you have a Google account your calendar isn't private

I’m taking a break from SimKube to talk about my other favorite subject, scheduling.

blog.appliedcomputing.io

Reposted by drmorr

Picture Me Coding @picturemecoding.bsky.social · 6d

In our latest episode we talk about regular expressions. What are they, where did they come from, and most importantly: are they evil? www.picturemecoding.com/2222783/epis...

The Two Problems With Regular Expressions - Picture Me Coding

This week we're talking about regular expressions, aka, regex.  These are a favorite tool of programmers, but they also have a dark side.  Do regex cause more problems than they solve? ...

www.picturemecoding.com

drmorr @drmorr.appliedcomputing.io · 10d

Python: oh we've supported async for over a decade, it works well and is easy to use

Python devs: async? Huh? What's that? Doesn't the GIL prevent that?

drmorr @drmorr.appliedcomputing.io · 10d

C++: sorry, async will be stuck in the standards committee for the next decade, and will only get compiler support the decade after that

C++ standards committee: just use io_uring, you fucking imbecile

drmorr @drmorr.appliedcomputing.io · 10d

Go: the entire point and purpose of the language is to make it easy for normies to do async

Also go: AHAHAHAHAHAHA fuck you

drmorr @drmorr.appliedcomputing.io · 10d

Rust: async is a half baked language feature that was bolted on after the fact and barely works

Also rust: literally every library under the sun imports tokio

drmorr @drmorr.appliedcomputing.io · 10d

Various languages and async programming:

Javascript: async is amazing, you can do things efficiently

Also javascript: why would anyone want to run things concurrently?

drmorr @drmorr.appliedcomputing.io · 11d

I read a book recently about AI (I won't name it because I don't want to dogpile on the authors, but you probably know which one) that suggested that the best way to address all of the real, deep, nuanced concerns about modern AI is to.... make fun of the people using it.

I'm like..... what???

drmorr @drmorr.appliedcomputing.io · 11d

Nice article.

"Monitoring, security management, and cost governance don't scale linearly with your infrastructure. They scale chaotically."

"Most production incidents in Kubernetes aren't rare edge cases, they're preventable misconfigurations."

devtron.ai/blog/beyond-...

Beyond Adoption: What It Takes to Scale Kubernetes | Devtron

Kubernetes adoption is solved, with ~93% of organizations now using it in production. But scaling creates a paradox: success breeds exponential complexity in costs, security, and operations. The path ...

drmorr @drmorr.appliedcomputing.io · 12d

True confessions: I have no idea what a counterfactual is.

drmorr @drmorr.appliedcomputing.io · 13d

In today's blog post, I talk about how you can use SimKube to do cost analysis and forecasting, something I've said is possible for a while, but I've never actually shown how to do it. I also show a brief teaser of how to integrate KubeCost and SimKube!

blog.appliedcomputing.io/p/howto-use-...

HOWTO: Use SimKube for Cost Forecasting

Recently, I’ve had a number of folks ask for some more details about how SimKube can be used to predict or forecast your Kubernetes expenditures, and I realized that I’ve said you can do this several ...

blog.appliedcomputing.io

Reposted by drmorr

David Flanagan @rawkode.dev · 16d

Repeat after me: npm is not a distribution system for binaries.

a bald man with a beard and the words stop it ok on the bottom

ALT: a bald man with a beard and the words stop it ok on the bottom

media.tenor.com

drmorr @drmorr.appliedcomputing.io · 16d

Puzzmo!

drmorr @drmorr.appliedcomputing.io · 17d

Ooh! Ohh! Do rust next

Reposted by drmorr

Cassidy @cassidoo.co · 17d

I got 99 problems and a good night of sleep would solve at least 90 of them

drmorr @drmorr.appliedcomputing.io · 18d

Shower thought: they have warrant canaries, what about rapture canaries?

drmorr @drmorr.appliedcomputing.io · 20d

* and by "people" I mean "IP addresses"

** no really, I literally just typed `docker logs www-simkube |& grep "GET /\?utm_source=" | awk '{print $NF}' | sort | uniq | wc -l`. I am a professional.

drmorr @drmorr.appliedcomputing.io · 20d

Well my new advertising campaign is live! Using the _extremely_ precise method of grepping my webserver's output logs**, I can tell that it has resulted in 59 unique people* visiting my web sight.

Anyways go read @cassidoo.co's newsletter, it's great!

buttondown.com/cassidoo/arc...

🪖 "The love that you withhold is the pain that you carry." - Ralph Waldo Emerson

Hey friends! I hope your had a good week! Mine flew by, and I had a great time. I'll tell ya more about it below! Let's gooo. Was this forwarded to you? You...

drmorr @drmorr.appliedcomputing.io · 20d

Can't decide if I'm mad that my $300 keyboard had a broken enter key, or happy that they made it so easy to disassemble and self-repair.

drmorr @drmorr.appliedcomputing.io · 20d

Fast forward an hour, I disassembled it and discovered that the enter key solder joint had completely disconnected, so choice a) void my warranty and try to fix it myself, b) spend weeks sending it back to keychron to fix it.

Went with option a. Now my keyboard works again. Boom, mofos.

drmorr @drmorr.appliedcomputing.io · 20d

Well starting off with a broken keyboard was not on my Monday morning bingo card.

My enter key had been intermittently double-triggering, so I thought maybe the switch was bad, so I pulled the switch out and swapped another one in, and then..... the enter key just stopped working entirely. 😡

drmorr @drmorr.appliedcomputing.io · 21d

I filmed a short, uh, I guess you could call it an ad, for simkube which I objectively think is hilarious and you can't see it yet but I will share it soon.