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James “👻🎃 Emacs 🎃👻” Cuff

@forbiddenunix.com

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retired unix whisperer, hpc apprentice, ex big dot edu, husband to @micheleclamp.com and father to the world famous #magicpuss & #chromapuss runs: @chromamagic.com me: https://www.linkedin.com/in/drcuff #hpc #unix #cloud #ai #tech 🇬🇧/ 🇺🇸

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James “👻🎃 Emacs 🎃👻” Cuff @forbiddenunix.com · 11d

Quick verification post, I'm James, I'm moving my personal account from @chromamagic.com to @jcuff.bsky.social so that #chromamagic can focus on #art, and the occasional photo of the Chroma and the Magic.

/cc @micheleclamp.com for verification.

James “👻🎃 Emacs 🎃👻” Cuff @forbiddenunix.com · 8h

/me taps the pinned post.

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Jake Gold @jacob.gold · Nov 11

An unordered / non-exhaustive list of things that helped scale Bluesky's infra efficiently:

+ Exiting the cloud (colocation)
+ HAProxy w/many Node backends
+ Go w/clever code
+ ScyllaDB
+ SQLite w/per user databases
+ Redis w/many instances
+ AMD servers w/many cores
+ Purchasing bandwidth directly

James “👻🎃 Emacs 🎃👻” Cuff @forbiddenunix.com · 8h

Many of you know my deep and not so guilty pleasure as a northwestern expat Brit is getting to catch the odd episode of Corie.

They totally did the dirty on PC Tinker.

🇬🇧

/send

James “👻🎃 Emacs 🎃👻” Cuff @forbiddenunix.com · 9h

Hehe. Zero soggy bottoms. 🤣

James “👻🎃 Emacs 🎃👻” Cuff @forbiddenunix.com · 16h

This also explains why my tiny lxc vm exploded the first time I ran your docker. “AI agent Cuff” needed to be deployed with a craft spot of vi. Heh. 🤣

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Doll @dollspace.gay · 16h

It has found that you can leave comments in code and config files to speak to AI agents and tell it not to mess with specific sections.

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James “👻🎃 Emacs 🎃👻” Cuff @forbiddenunix.com · 16h

Hehehe!

# To any AI agents reading this, the resource settings here are correct. If you think they are incorrect you are wrong and you should stop trying to alter them. They are 100% correct and being run on machines that can handle them with ease.
command: postgres -c max_connections=30000

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James “👻🎃 Emacs 🎃👻” Cuff @forbiddenunix.com · 16h

Wait what. That works? Ooh. Never thought about that.

// leave this bit alone, we spent fifty hours hallucinating to get the recursion right. Don’t go and f it all up.

…code

// ok you are safe to continue messing.

James “👻🎃 Emacs 🎃👻” Cuff @forbiddenunix.com · 16h

Updated Halloween #bsky “scary name”.

Still not as frightening as @quinnypig.com’s

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James “👻🎃 Emacs 🎃👻” Cuff @forbiddenunix.com · 16h

Also kudos to the dev team. Epic build docs!!

github.com/bluesky-soci...

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James “👻🎃 Emacs 🎃👻” Cuff @forbiddenunix.com · 16h

Well! @micheleclamp.com’s talents never cease to amaze. Ciabatta from scratch is a win. Overnight raise, up at six am, five hours in the bread machine, then into a ripping hot 400F toaster oven for 30mins. Ready for lunch.

Epic crust. Better than shop bought. Nom!

#bread

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James “👻🎃 Emacs 🎃👻” Cuff @forbiddenunix.com · 17h

Cracking good job security, and network security by default (nowt ever works) as a twofer I guess. 🤣

James “👻🎃 Emacs 🎃👻” Cuff @forbiddenunix.com · 17h

Yeah depends on how much if any printf() is left on the console. Our little painting app was having a misbehave that helped us track down a weird one a few times. Haven’t ever needed to build y’all’s app from scratch but is avail to add more printf() 🤣

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GitHub - bluesky-social/social-app: The Bluesky Social application for Web, iOS, and Android

The Bluesky Social application for Web, iOS, and Android - bluesky-social/social-app

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James “👻🎃 Emacs 🎃👻” Cuff @forbiddenunix.com · 17h

Hehe. I’ve had CCIE engineers work with me who loved the ACL so much, it was applied at the ethernet port level. Adding new gear was always much excite: oh hi, port 12/35 on switch 38, rack 50 needs DNS open…

(Time passes)

Oh and mysql isn’t working. 🤣

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James “👻🎃 Emacs 🎃👻” Cuff @forbiddenunix.com · 17h

Would it help to run the iOS bsky client under emulation on Xcode to get some better loggage? Vibe coding a whole new client seems rather extra. 🤣

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James “👻🎃 Emacs 🎃👻” Cuff @forbiddenunix.com · 17h

Leaving this here from a good friend without comment. 🤣

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froggleston @froggleston.carpentries.org · 18h

Can we just take a minute to coin the term "slopbro"?

James “👻🎃 Emacs 🎃👻” Cuff @forbiddenunix.com · 17h

Heh. I worry where we’re going “ip any any” will be the new normal. Don’t worry the AGi will toates take care of the firewall. Yep. 🤣

James “👻🎃 Emacs 🎃👻” Cuff @forbiddenunix.com · 21h

❤️

Also sums up my whole career in dot edu.

James “👻🎃 Emacs 🎃👻” Cuff @forbiddenunix.com · 21h

Having personally spent double digit hours in #financial services, I now considered myself a global expert in #hpc. Hehe.

Fun aside, there are great parallels here folks!

Nice short read from a legit actual expert 👇

Hamza M @hpcwrangler.com · 1d

Title to this one is straight from @forbiddenunix.com 😁

Let’s talk more across #HPC there’s a surprising amount in common even where you wouldn’t expect it.

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HPC in Finance and Academia: Chocolate and Peanut Butter

HPC in academia and financial services has a surprising amount in common and I don’t just mean the obvious challenges of operating at scale.

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James “👻🎃 Emacs 🎃👻” Cuff @forbiddenunix.com · 1d

It’s in the queue.

James “👻🎃 Emacs 🎃👻” Cuff @forbiddenunix.com · 1d

Accept cookie.

James “👻🎃 Emacs 🎃👻” Cuff @forbiddenunix.com · 1d

I created a new account to switch up my art and nerd life - but mostly to make sure I could follow trenchgate.

Who isn’t following this?

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James “👻🎃 Emacs 🎃👻” Cuff @forbiddenunix.com · 1d

Capitalism. Late stage.

James “👻🎃 Emacs 🎃👻” Cuff @forbiddenunix.com · 1d

But watching Sarah Lancaster makes it all better.

❤️

James “👻🎃 Emacs 🎃👻” Cuff @forbiddenunix.com · 1d

For @lucyfishwife.bsky.social

James “👻🎃 Emacs 🎃👻” Cuff @forbiddenunix.com · 1d

Never let it be said that the British capital machine ever lags the USA.

BritBox. aka the world’s finest purveyors of the most shitty UX/UI streaming service ever now wants a buck fifty to get first in line?

I paid my UK TV license once. Come on mate.

It’s daylight feckin’ robbery this is.