🌊 | Co-founder, CTO @papercompute | 🎤 Hosting @opensourceready | 🐹 maintaining spf13/cobra
Joined October 2018
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Jun 11
I once had a VP at VMware tell me that “real” customers don’t actually care about multi-cluster, cross cloud failovers due to costs and that all the work we were doing in ClusterAPI for cross cloud compatibility should be re-prioritized. This was right before the incident where AWS us-east-1 went down in 2021 that basically crippled the entire internet for a day.
Didn’t hear much about it after that.
So, yeah, never assume a cloud region is the unit of stability / scalability.
Jun 11
The postmortem from Coinbase's 10-hour outage is out and... damn
They run global trading from a single region because of latency. OK, I understand.
BUT they have no automated failover prepared!
Are they praying the region never goes down?? Doesn't compute for me...
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May 31
Neovim.
What a novel thought: a local only tool that doesn’t shill out to servers for basic workflows, plugins all in lua that you can easily audit, isn’t a service in itself.
Beautiful.
Cursor is not an code editor anymore.
Zed language servers and agents crash all the time.
JetBrains is too slow and agents crash all the time.
Installing a theme from VS Code store can potentially infect your computer with malware.
Who will fix this?
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John McBride retweeted
May 26
PICARD: Data, shields up
DATA: Brilliant! Shields can reduce damage we sustain. Not immunity. Not hubris. Just prudence. It's not precaution—it's strategy.
[camera shakes]
WORF: HULL BREACHES ON NINE DECKS
DATA: Here's what happened: you told me to raise shields, and I didn't
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John McBride retweeted
May 23
my office password is right next to my monitor in case the next resident evil protagonist needs it
is every single worker’s password abc123 now or whys everything getting leaked 😭😭😭
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May 23
Incredible read. Japanese companies are a whole different beast
davidoks.blog/p/why-japanese…
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May 20
By some coincidence, I am also in London till the 3rd - come through for cheeky pints 🍻
I’m in London till the 3rd. Let me know if you want to grab a cheaky pint.
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John McBride retweeted
May 7
hate to say it, but everyone that rejects kubernetes inevitably ends up recreating it from first principles lol
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May 7
step 1) let AI spend get wildly out of control.
step 2) no meaningful revenue growth.
step 3) lay off ~20% of staff.
step 4) stock tumbles after earnings.
step 5) ? ? ?
step 6) profit.
May 7
An update regarding the future at @Cloudflare. I’ve shared my full message to the team and details on the support we're providing those departing here: blog.cloudflare.com/building…
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On episode 36 of @opensourceready, Brian (@bdougieYO) and John (@johncodes) sit down with Jesse Vincent. The conversation covers building reliable AI-driven development workflows, balancing cost and correctness, and designing systems that guide agents like junior engineers. Jesse also shares insights into the future of software development in an agent-first world.
hubs.ly/Q04cCCKT0
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May 6
Real ones know to lock homebrew the f down with nix-homebrew - it’s honestly a shame a whole class of software ONLY ships to homebrew
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May 2
The CachyOS “cachy-chroot” util is such a good send - boot from live iso, one simple command to chroot into a mount, one update command, and fixed! What a time to be alive
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John McBride retweeted
Apr 30
After dragging my feet for 4 years, proud to present Ekala's Nix book. Wanted to give the Nix community an equivalent of the rust-lang book which is a canonical entry point into the ecosystem.
ekala-project.github.io/nix-…
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Apr 29
🔥 it’s all fun and games dunking on GitHub until you realize the absolute ridiculous scale they are operating at
Apr 29
love that people are trying to disrupt github. please be sure to include performance testing across billions of requests so we trust it won’t happen to you as well 🙏
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Apr 29
The future is now 🧾🔖📎
Apr 27
Brian Douglas and John McBride launch Paper Compute Company to solve AI infrastructure gaps, starting with Tapes and StereOS, bringing open source rigor to agents. thenewstack.io/paper-compute…
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