I was reminded of this amazing gem couple of days ago and I’ve been listening to it every day since.
Monthly Archives: October 2024
Antranig Vartanian
October 20, 2024
The story that Stefano shares in Outdated Infrastructure and the Cloud Illusion is a very sad one. I’ve seen this happen even at governments.
Current hypes aside, the NIST definition of Cloud Computing is actually under-hyped. A cloud should be on-demand, broad, elastic and measured. However, it can be Public, as well as Private. People keep forgetting that we can have Private Cloud deployments, and systems like FreeBSD, even Proxmox, have the ability to do that.
We can do better.
dtrace.conf is back as dtrace.conf(24)
Woke up middle of the night to grab a cup of water, decided to check Mastodon, and what do I see?
dtrace.conf(24) Tickets, Wed, Dec 11, 2024 at 9:00 AM
This makes me very happy! I love seeing DTrace in the wild, and having more DTrace content out there is beneficial to everyone in the DTrace community.
Obviously, being a Syrian with passport issues, I will not be able to attend, but hopefully everything will be recorded and published online. I’ll try to make it to dtrace.conf(28).
Have fun everyone!
Antranig Vartanian
October 18, 2024
Couple of years ago I read the book “Getting Things Done” by David Allen. One of the things he mentioned is that
When I coach a client through this process, the capture phase usually takes between one and six hours, though it did take an entire twenty hours with one person (finally I told him, “You get the idea”)
Initially, I did not believe this. I’m not saying that David was lying, but rather, I cannot believe it took someone twenty hours to “unload” their state of mind.
Today, I take that back. I’ve fallen off the wagon (or is it “on the wagon”?) couple of months ago, and today I decided to recapture and re-implement my setup.
It took me 6 hours, and I’m not even at my peak load. I can’t imagine what would’ve happened if I delayed longer, or took on more projects.
Now that I have 120 things in my “Next Action” list (according to OmniFocus), I can finally feel calm knowing that I know exactly what I have to do. Hell, I even found time to blog about it.
See you tomorrow…
How to Make Your Website Not Ugly by Hilary Stohs-Krause
I was scrolling on the internets when I noticed the following video title, “How to Make Your Website Not Ugly”, and I thought “ugh, another one of those videos where the website becomes slower and slower…”, and then I read the rest of the title, “Basic UX for Programmers”.
Oh! It’s about UX, not UI! Well I love that!
After 45 minutes of watching, I can say this is easily one of the best talks about UX that I’ve ever seen! The examples are amazing, and I have learned something new and interesting every 5 minute!
Totally recommended!
Kudos to Hilary Stohs-Krause and thanks to {}NDC Oslo for publishing the recording.
Antranig Vartanian
October 6, 2024
Initially, Jailer has had a single image format to download, the “FreeBSD base image”, also known as base.txz.
Now we’re trying to integrate PkgBase, OCI images, Jailer binary images, Jailer source images (jailerfile), Linux bootstrap images, and regular tarballs.
This is the point where I just want to kill myself. This is harder than expected.
Linux has a package management problem. I’m having a “too many registry types” problem.
Let’s see how it goes.
#Jailer #FreeBSD