software architect. i moonlight as a homelabber. i run https://xitter.cf/t.co/qYBEfnQ1uP.
Sydney, New South Wales
Joined February 2010
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Hey now that mutuals can see my tweets, here's what I've been up to in the last few years and especially this year.
1. I got deep into distributed systems. I built an on-prem deployment infra from the ground up in my home. It's a 3-node HA virtualised cluster. I run a few things on it - a 9-node Kubernetes cluster, a multi-node object storage, an ingress gateway, a backup file system storage, etc. I host many apps for my family and friends on this cluster. This also helped me earn my Google Cloud Cloud Architect certification.
2. I built a few CLI tools that I use on an everyday basis:
- gitsy (git pull all repos in a dir)
- tokeninsights (analyse token consumption metrics)
- ssh-drop (drag and drop screenshots for a remote ssh agent session)
- checksy (check network connectivity)
- cbox (WIP - a way to sandbox cli harnesses using docker)
3. I built a few server tools:
- key-keeper (a simple auth gateway for Caddy)
- backup-sidecar (not oss, i use this for backing up data from kubernetes services to a NAS storage on schedule)
- models-dev-rss (rss feed for models(dot)dev AI provider data)
4. I built a few websites:
- models-dev-website (a fork of the original models(dot)dev website to make page loads and search faster)
- tools-wiki (a collection of wikis for various popular cli tools)
5. I started writing again and published a few posts in the last year
6. I gave a few talks at SydAI this year
I can't recollect everything. It's been an exciting year of building stuff. I am very excited about what I am building now. Hopefully I will be able to talk about it soon.
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Everything PlanetScale ships is phenomenal
There's an obvious way to build a database router. We didn't do that.
Nothing's faster than doing nothing. See how we built Neki with the laziest Postgres router possible.
planetscale.com/blog/designi…
Gemini 4 Argon vs. Claude Opus 5.5: Half the price and about half as accurate
thenewstack.io/gemini-argon-…
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i think at this point the claude team is doing this intentionally. we all know it's a lot more than just gzip but they keep giving these announcements as if they just discovered gzip which invites a bunch of trolls. pretty genius from an engagement/marketing POV.
Opus 5.5 is doing everything I do better. Most of what I do now has primarily become designing the iteration boundaries, guardrails and testing primitives.
And to think that Opus 4.5, the model that kick started the entire agentic coding era was less than 11 months ago.
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🚀 DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash-1017 is here!
Stronger benchmark performance, faster task completion, and shorter outputs than the previous version—a Pareto improvement in performance and cost. Now live on our website, app, and API.
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up until last week sol was my main averaging around 1B tokens a week. opus took over this week. absolutely top tier pleasant model to work with.
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Ancient sysadmin wisdom: do NOT use the email address as a primary key. UUID is there for a reason.
