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Zendesk, get your shit together please

BORN TO GET SPAMMED, WORLD IS A FUCK, SPAMHAUS THEM ALL 2026, I am inbox full man, 410,757,864,530 Zendesk emails

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Life pro tip: a Steam Deck can be a bluetooth speaker

Your headphones may only let you get audio from one source at once, but Linux has no such limitations!

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Did Zendesk get popped?

I've got like 50 emails from Zendesk customers to activate an account.

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Backfilling Discord forum channels with the power of terrible code

tigrisdata.com/blog/discord-backfill/

Hey all! We've got a Discord so you can chat with us about the wild world of object storage and get any help you need. We've also set up Answer Overflow so that you can browse the Q&A from the web. Today I'm going to discuss how we got there and solved one of the...

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Tormentmaxxing 'simple requests'

Automating the full lifecycle of 'quick' requests with Claude Code slash commands

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I made a simple agent for PR reviews. Don't use it.

Reviewbot is eternal, yet also very cooked.

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2026 will be my year of the Linux desktop

The meme will no longer be a dream.

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Git's HTTP server side design does not scale

A small rant about CGI.

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Arcane Cheese with Doomtrain Extreme

If you don't play Final Fantasy 14, try to identify how many words in this post are in the bible.

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New AI slop signal: code blocks with weird indentation

If the first line of a set of commands isn't indented but the rest are: the post is AI slop

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Valve is about to win the console generation

Valve does nothing and still wins

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Immutable by Design: The Deep Tech Behind Tigris Bucket Forking

tigrisdata.com/blog/bucket-forking-deep-dive/

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Using Assisted-by commit footers instead of banning AI tools

It sounds like ceding ground to the pro-AI crowd, however if you get people to be honest about it then everyone benefits.

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Fearless dataset experimentation with bucket forking

tigrisdata.com/blog/dataset-experimentation/

This blog post explores how Tigris Object Storage's bucket forking feature enables isolated dataset experimentation similar to forking code repositories. It demonstrates creating parallel data timelines for filtering, captioning, and resizing game screenshots without duplicating storage, allowing safe experimentation on large datasets.

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Taking steps to end traffic from abusive cloud providers

anubis.techaro.lol/blog/2025/file-abuse-reports

This blog post explains how to effectively file abuse reports against cloud providers to stop malicious traffic. Key points: Two IP Types: Residential (ineffective to report) vs. Commercial (targeted reports) Why Cloud Prov...

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"No way to prevent this" say users of only language where this regularly happens

In the hours following the release of CVE-2025-62229 for the project X.Org X server, site reliability workers and systems administrators scrambled to desperately rebuild and patch all their systems to fix a use-after-free bug in the XPresentNotify extension. This is d...

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First look at the DGX Spark

A local supercomputer between the size of a Mac mini and a Mac mini.

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Hastily made coffee video

I made a video about making coffee

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Announcing the Tigris Storage SDK

tigrisdata.com/blog/storage-sdk/

Tigris has launched a new Storage SDK for JavaScript/TypeScript that simplifies object storage interactions with a more straightforward API than AWS S3 SDK. The SDK uses environment variables for configuration, reduces cognitive complexity, and supports client uploads to avoid egress fees.

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We do our billing with Prometheus

tigrisdata.com/blog/billing-prometheus/

Tigris uses Prometheus metrics for billing instead of events. This approach with asynchronous collection and handling of high cardinality issues actually benefits customers by potentially underbilling them. An interesting look at how to leverage observability tools for business operations.

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We all dodged a bullet

That NPM attack could have been so much worse.

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Global Replication Made Easy

tigrisdata.com/blog/talks/2025/global-replication/

Tigris makes data globally available, durable, and low-latency using a hybrid replication approach that pushes metadata but pulls data on-demand. This talk explains their approach to simplifying global data replication.

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Sometimes CPU cores are odd

anubis.techaro.lol/blog/2025/cpu-core-odd

This post discusses how dividing an odd number of CPU cores by 2 in JavaScript creates decimal thread counts, causing invalid responses in Anubis. The fix truncates decimal values using Math.trunc.

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Final Fantasy 14 on macOS with a 36 key keyboard

Saving Eorzea with as few keys as possible

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My responses to The Register

A copy of my best quotes they didn't publish

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Who does your assistant serve?

ChatGPT and its consequences have been a disaster for the human race.

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TI-20250709-0001: IPv4 traffic failures for Techaro services

anubis.techaro.lol/blog/incident/TI-20250709-0001

Techaro services were down for IPv4 traffic on July 9th, 2025. This blogpost is a report of what happened, what actions were taken to resolve the situation, and what actions are being done in the near future to prevent this problem. Enjoy this incident report! Num...

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Experimenting with Development containers

Development containers are cool and I want to see if they work out in practice.

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Rolling the ladder up behind us

Who will take over for us if we don't train the next generation to replace us? A critique of craft, AI, and the legacy of human expertise.

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I fight bots in my free time

I made Anubis, a lightweight, open-source Web Application Firewall designed to block automated bot attacks without frustrating real users. Anubis uses techniques like TLS fingerprinting and JavaScript proof of work to keep your site safe while staying flexible, fast, and easy to deploy.