Malcolm St John
thearcticwalrus.bsky.social
Malcolm St John
@thearcticwalrus.bsky.social
Coding, reading and cooking my way through life

Along with some piano from time to time
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I’ve been on a filesystem kick, and it’s interesting to see the DNA of older ideas pop up in modern designs.


BeFS was crazy in the 90s; the whole architecture was basically a searchable database.


Skimming through their book…it sounds a lot like current Apple FS design.
August 29, 2025 at 7:35 PM
One of those videos that hit a bit too close to home : youtu.be/rXPpkzdS-q4?...
Interview with Senior DevOps engineer 2025
YouTube video by Kai Lentit
youtu.be
July 29, 2025 at 1:29 AM
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If you, a business, are reliant on an open source project to function it is YOUR responsibility to assess and ensure the health of that project by either contributing to it yourself or by using an alternative if project health cannot be guaranteed.
June 22, 2025 at 10:11 PM
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April 8, 2025 at 12:03 AM
"Keep it simple : Slack managed key functionality with cron scripts running on one box for almost 10 years" -Claire Adams at Monster Scale Summit
Kind of crazy to me that they only swapped to a new system 1.5 years ago
#ScyllaDB
March 11, 2025 at 5:12 PM
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La Société des alcools du Québec compte remplacer les produits américains par des alcools d’ici sur ses tablettes. #SAQ #tarifs
La guerre tarifaire profite aux vins québécois
www.ledevoir.com
March 10, 2025 at 1:16 PM
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I got laid off today, with the rest of 18F.

18F was an elite federal software shop. We made gov't websites work better, more efficiently for the American people. We saved taxpayers from getting screwed over by contractors. And were fired for it.

We made this website to tell our story:
18f.org
We're not done yet | 18F
18f.org
March 1, 2025 at 10:38 PM
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Finishing up ESLint’s financials for 2024 and…it’s not pretty. ESLint ran at a nearly $60,000 deficit. We managed due to our prioritizing building up our reserves for several years prior in case of a rainy day. We can use your help closing the gap.

eslint.org/donate
Donate - ESLint - Pluggable JavaScript Linter
A pluggable and configurable linter tool for identifying and reporting on patterns in JavaScript. Maintain your code quality with ease.
eslint.org
January 17, 2025 at 1:40 AM