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britheetechie.bsky.social @britheetechie.bsky.social · 5h

This type of energy

Kelsey Hightower @kelseyhightower.com · 6h

Maybe I'm not dreaming big enough, but everything I've convinced myself was possible, I've found a way to make it happen.

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Kelsey Hightower @kelseyhightower.com · 6h

Maybe I'm not dreaming big enough, but everything I've convinced myself was possible, I've found a way to make it happen.

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Kelsey Hightower @kelseyhightower.com · 1d

This includes the ability to print money out of thin air and buying it from you.

Kelsey Hightower @kelseyhightower.com · 1d

Some people are so powerful they don't have to steal, because they can legally take whatever they want.

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Kelsey Hightower @kelseyhightower.com · 1d

🎯

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Kelsey Hightower @kelseyhightower.com · 1d

Some people are so powerful they don't have to steal, because they can legally take whatever they want.

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Kelsey Hightower @kelseyhightower.com · 2d

🎯

Grady Booch @booch.com · 2d

I’m not anti-AI.

I am, however, anti the rapacious tech bros who selfishly hype AI for the purpose of increasing their wealth and power at the expense of our humanity.

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Kelsey Hightower @kelseyhightower.com · 5d

😂 Exactly why I'm firewalling this off immediately.

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Kelsey Hightower @kelseyhightower.com · 5d

That one is on my list too.

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Kelsey Hightower @kelseyhightower.com · 5d

Nice to see enterprise Linux live on with a healthy community behind it.

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Kelsey Hightower @kelseyhightower.com · 5d

Oh, wow, that project has been around for a long time.

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Kelsey Hightower @kelseyhightower.com · 5d

VMware Fusion running on a M2 Max MacBook Pro.

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Kelsey Hightower @kelseyhightower.com · 5d

Reminds of webmin from back in the day.

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Kelsey Hightower @kelseyhightower.com · 5d

First time installing Rocky Linux and was surprised to see a Web console available on initial boot up. Basic metrics, networking information, and even a terminal are all available through your web browser. Extra dope. rockylinux.org

The default web console of the Rocky Linux distribution. Basic memory and cpu metrics, configuration, and system information are displayed on the home page.

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Kelsey Hightower @kelseyhightower.com · 5d

Dealing with time and the network was hard enough.

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Kelsey Hightower @kelseyhightower.com · 5d

One day the industry will recognize the drawbacks of AI agents and nondeterministic automation, and rediscover the UNIX philosophy of chaining together small purpose built tools in a low cost and predictable way, otherwise known as shell scripts.

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Kelsey Hightower @kelseyhightower.com · 6d

I took over the Platform Engineering podcast and got to be the one asking questions for a change.

Feels like we covered every aspect of configuration management and I hope y'all enjoy it.

Cory ODaniel @coryodaniel.com · 6d

New podcast episode just dropped and this week @kelseyhightower.com flipped the mic and interviewed me!

We went deep on config management, ClickOps, and why the real problem in IaC isn’t Terraform — it’s knowing the right values for prod.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=yREJ...

Guest Host: Kelsey Hightower — Why IaC Alone Isn’t Enough

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Cory ODaniel @coryodaniel.com · 6d

New podcast episode just dropped and this week @kelseyhightower.com flipped the mic and interviewed me!

We went deep on config management, ClickOps, and why the real problem in IaC isn’t Terraform — it’s knowing the right values for prod.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=yREJ...

Guest Host: Kelsey Hightower — Why IaC Alone Isn’t Enough

YouTube video by Massdriver

www.youtube.com

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Kelsey Hightower @kelseyhightower.com · Feb 5

I remember watching Star Wars as a kid and asking myself, who would voluntarily join the dark side? I understood Darth Vader's motivation, but not the stormtrooper's.

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Kelsey Hightower @kelseyhightower.com · 16d

Computer scientists like Rich Sutton seem to have a deep respect for nature, and humanity as a whole, which shapes his thinking, and approach to solving computing problems. What you end up with is less hype and something closer to reality.

Kelsey Hightower @kelseyhightower.com · 16d

"We want AI agents that can discover like we can, not which contain what we have discovered. Building in our discoveries only makes it harder to see how the discovering process can be done." - The Bitter Lesson (2019), by Rich Sutton www.incompleteideas.net/IncIdeas/Bit...

The Bitter Lesson by Rich Sutton published on March 13, 2019. The post can be read at http://www.incompleteideas.net/IncIdeas/BitterLesson.html

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Kelsey Hightower @kelseyhightower.com · 16d

"We want AI agents that can discover like we can, not which contain what we have discovered. Building in our discoveries only makes it harder to see how the discovering process can be done." - The Bitter Lesson (2019), by Rich Sutton www.incompleteideas.net/IncIdeas/Bit...

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Kelsey Hightower @kelseyhightower.com · 17d

Following up on my PlatformCon New York talk, I’ll be back for PlatformCon Live Day in Paris on October 16th in a few weeks.

You know I got a discount code. Use KELSEY15 for 15% off and hopefully I'll see you there. platformconlive.fr

PlatformCon Live Day Paris. October 16th, 2025.

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Julia Evans @b0rk.jvns.ca · 20d

stty

wizardzines.com/comics/stty/

(from The Secret Rules of the Terminal, out now! wizardzines.com/zines/termin...)

your TTY driver has configuration

you can see how it’s configured by running:

stty -a

for example it print out the current window size!
Ctrl+S

by default, pressing Ctrl+S wi(( freeze your terminal (and Ctrl+Q wi(( unfreeze) I have never wanted this in my life, you can turn it off with stty -ixon (fish turns it off by default)

###fun fact: changing Ctrl+C technically you can use stty to set a different keyboard shortcut for Ctrl+C, (ike “u”

stty intr u

this is extremely chaotic and I can’t imagine a reason that I would ever do this though
programs have to configure the TTY driver to get friendly features

developer: I want arrow keys to work in my program!

other person: better tell the TTY driver to turn off canonical mode! (more on the next page)
the TTY driver’s settings are called “termios settings”

for the gnarly details:

man termios

but if you’re writing a terminal program libraries like readline or ncurses will handle setting up the TTY driver
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smiling stick figure with short curly hair: I’ve only needed to use stty once in the last 20 years and I mostly don’t understand its output but I think it’s a fun view into terminal internals!

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Kelsey Hightower @kelseyhightower.com · 20d

I'm jumping on the livestream with the Flox team to discuss the value Nix brings to the ML ecosystem. Specifically when it comes to managing CUDA dependencies for ML workloads.

Flox @flox.dev · 20d

Don’t miss it!

We’re live with @kelseyhightower.com and @refroni.bsky.social today at 2pm EST to unpack what pre-built CUDA packages in the Flox Catalog mean for teams and workflows.

Jump in → buff.ly/2GlleHZ

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Flox @flox.dev · 22d

Our LinkedIn Live is happening this Wednesday!

Following last week’s big news that CUDA packages are now available as pre-built binaries in the Flox Catalog, we’re going live with @kelseyhightower.com and @refroni.bsky.social to dive into what this means for developers and teams.

buff.ly/2GlleHZ

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Flox @flox.dev · 28d

Quick update: our LinkedIn Live with @kelseyhightower.com is moving to a new date!

We’ll still be diving into what the NVIDIA + Flox announcement means for developers and teams.

Join us on September 24th at 2pm ET

Save your spot: buff.ly/d8I1uEY

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