Ramblings from Jessie

We’re back!

Fuck1 it, we’re doing consumer hardware for ourselves now and getting fucked by economies of scale, I guess.

DUM-E (“dummy”) and U (“you”) are the names of the robot arms in the Iron Man movies.

Tesla had its first Battery Day on September 22nd, 20201.

I previously wrote a bit about our internal infrastructure in my post on The Art of Automation.

I have wanted a 3D printer for a very long time.

My mom has a tendency to buy these really terribly spec’d Windows machines.

Being cooped up at home got me looking into the new Xbox and PlayStation 5.

I am unsure if my love of automation comes from a dislike of doing the same thing twice or an overall desire to be more productive and make everything more efficient.

A byte of data has been stored in a number of different ways as newer, better, and faster mediums of storage are introduced.

When you upload photos to Instagram, back up your phone to “the cloud”, send an email through GMail, or save a document in a storage application like Dropbox or Google Drive, your data is being saved in a data center.

I had a lot of fun writing blog posts in the past about my home lab and some of my personal infrastructure so I thought I would do the same as we built out our office.

WE STARTED A COMPUTER COMPANY!!

Last week I attended the Open Source Firmware Conference.

At lunch today I learned about Transactional Synchronization Extensions (TSX) which is an implementation of transactional memory.

Hello!

Below is the foreward for the new book on Linux Observability with BPF by two of my favorite programmers, David Calavera and Lorenzo Fontana!

“Can I get an encore, do you want more” - Jay-Z I recently read Ben Horowitz’s book, The Hard Thing about Hard Things.

I gave a talk recently at GoTo Chicago on Why open source firmware is important and I thought it would be nice to also write a blog post with my findings.

Last week, I had the pleasure of meeting with the Transposit team in San Francisco.

I came up with a list of questions I would ask my cloud provider if I was buying a product.

This post is co-authored by Kathy Simpson.

Last week I got to see what it was like to be an investigative journalist for a day.

I’ve been talking to a lot of people in different layers of the stack during my funemployment.

I recently have started researching and playing around with RISC-V for fun.

I learned a lot about myself and the way big companies are organized over the past year or so.

I have written a bit about how I am spending my time while being unemployed and I thought I would continue.

I stated in my first post on my reflections of leadership in other industries that I would write a follow up post after having hung out in the world of finance for a day.

I’ve had a bit of a crazy week.

You can find my goodreads account at goodreads.com/jessfraz.

A few of you, thank you, have reached out to me saying that you love my writing style.

I like to consider all the variables in a problem space before coming to a conclusion.

I’m a huge, HUGE, fan of LD_PRELOAD let me tell you… oh wait it’s my blog so I’m going to.

From the Intel x86 Manual: In the mid-1960s, Intel cofounder and Chairman Emeritus Gordon Moore had this observation: “… the number of transistors that would be incorporated on a silicon die would double every 18 months for the next several years.”

I started dipping into some firmware and hardware things on my vacation and unemployment and I figured I would take you down my journey as well.

I thought it would be fun to start a blog post series containing design docs from my personal archive that never saw the light of day.

My top used shell command is |.

I thought it might be fun to write a blog post on “The Life of a GitHub Action.”

I have realized recently that a lot of people think I am just a shill for Kubernetes and I am not.

Wireguard is the hip, new way to VPN :P No, but seriously I wanted to try it out because it is super interesting and I think the direction it is going is awesome.

I figured it would be nice to have one canonical place for talks I have given.

There seems to be some confusion around sandboxing containers as of late, mostly because of the recent launch of gvisor.

EDIT: See my post on a design doc for a multi-tenant orchestrator instead.

A lot of people seem to want to be able to build container images in Kubernetes without mounting in the docker socket or doing anything to compromise the security of their cluster.

This is a story about how I got nerd sniped by a blog post from Cloudflare Engineering.

This post is kind of like “part two” on my series on all the weird things I do for my personal infrastructure.

I always have some random side project I am working on, whether it is making the world’s most over engineered desktop OS all running in containers or updating all my Makefiles to be the definition of glittering beauty.

I recently started a job at Microsoft.

I recently gave a talk at DevOps Days (slides) and it had a pretty great response.

If you are new to my blog then you might be new to the concept of Linux kernel namespaces.