Motiejus Jakštys Public Record

This is a continuation of the previous blog post of my adventures removing gitea with a static git repository browser.

Rationale I was in a forest and barely reachable for the last few days cooking: When a message came through from my wife: The server in the closet has fans turned on all the time.

I bought a couple of XHDATA D-368 handheld radios for extended family, in case we need to go to hide in a shelter again.

This first been published in The New Stack: Scaling Btrfs to petabytes in production: a 74% cost reduction story.

I recently went into a rabbit hole of finding the best battery pack for an electronic candle that will be installed in a large Christmas Wreath.

I am building a house, for which I decided I need a surveilance cameras.

When my eldest son became of an email-qualified age, I set him up a Bitwarden instance, so he can keep his password there.

I decided to bootstrap Zig without using binaries that are checked in the repository and answer if the resulting zig1.wasm in the latest Zig release (0.13.0) is the same the one bootstrapped without using those binaries.

It is quite common across tech folk (at least the ones that I speak of) to “de-google”.

I wrote this comment about pre-compressing web artifacts with zstd: I have read somewhere (can’t find links handy) that for web server case, zstd may not be as useful as brotli due to longer decompression speed, but I may be wrong here.

As you may have read, I have created a “hosted syncthing” pre-registration page in 11sync.net.

At 2024-03-12 I started at chronosphere.io, the M3DB team.

As some of you may have already noticed, I have launched a pre-registration page for 11sync.net.

This is a long-overdue public thank-you letter to Drew DeVault.

Similarity to real–world events and character names is coincidental.

This post explains my journey with Matrix/Element.

Previously I bloggged about the cool things I did with NixOS.

Just before this summer I laid out my roadmap for, well, the summer.

Now that I have 6 weeks of employment remaining, my wife encouraged me to come up with something to do for the summer, and possibly after it.

Now that Uber uses “zig cc” to compile it’s Go Monorepo, here is a sneak preview of what I have planned for the next 3 months on the Zig/Go side: Finish an “official” Uber’s blog post about how Uber uses zig and why.

This month turned 7 years since I joined Uber.

The only podcast I was able to listen for more than 3 series was BBC: mostly “history” and “life stories”.

I spent 7 months building a project (hosted here).

Like mentioned in the previous post, I did a public mock coding interview.

There is quite a lot of negative sentiment about broken BigTech hiring processes.

Disclaimer: I work at Uber and am partially responsible for bringing zig cc to serious internal use.

TLDR Could our package managers bundle our dependencies in git so it’s robust and frictionless?

This is the first post of the third iteration of jakstys.lt.