Devops

How weary, stale, flat, and unprofitable Seem to me all the uses of this world! Fye on’t! O Fye! ’tis an unweeded garden, That grows to seed; things rank and gross in nature Possess it merely. That it should come to this! Hamlet [Act I, Scene 2] About an hour ago (as I begin writing), I finished watching a presentation posted yesterday by two engineers from OpenAI: Black Hat USA 2026: The ‘Breaking’ News: The OpenAI–Hugging Face Incident I’m still reeling from the implications. After spamming friends and family with text links to the video, I sat down away from a computer and wrote some notes in longhand, trying to gather my thoughts. ...

Today I learned that LocalStack 🔗 was a thing. If you need to learn the AWS API on a budget, or if you have AWS in your CI/CD pipeline and you want to test your deployment code, this looks like an amazing resource. Note to self: this is the first “TIL” post, but I really should be making a habit of it. I come across amazing stuff several times a week. ...

I finally bought a single machine that lets me grow a little cloud at home. My intention is to use it to look into various DevOps tools, including some that don’t fit well on a typical PC. The banner image shows the 40 virtual cores I now see in htop. The image was taken a couple of seconds after simultaneously rebooting five VMs, each with 4 CPUs and 8GB RAM. ...