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I don't know how to properly raise this, but I've gotten at least 100 emails from various Zendesk customers (no discernible pattern, everything from Soundcloud to GitLab Support to the Furbo Pet Camera). Is Zendesk being hacked? I'll update the post with more information as it is revealed.

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 biggest problems with setting up a new community or forum: backfilling existing Q&A data so that the forum doesn't look sad and empty. All the code I wrote to do this is open source in our glue repo . The rest of this post is a ...

I don't like being interrupted when I'm deep in flow working on things. When my flow is interrupted, it can feel like my focus was violently stolen from me and the mental context that was crystalline falls apart into a thousand pieces before it is lost forever. With this in mind, being asked to do a "quick" 5 minute task can actually result in over an hour of getting back up to speed. This means that I sometimes will agree to do things, go back into flow (because if I get back into flo...

My coworkers really like AI-powered code review tools and it seems that every time I make a pull request in one of their repos I learn about yet another AI code review SaaS product. Given that there are so many of them, I decided to see how easy it would be to develop my own AI-powered code review bot that targets GitHub repositories. I managed to hack out the core of it in a single afternoon using a model that runs on my desk. I've ended up with a little tool I call reviewbot that takes GitHub ...

TL;DR: 2026 is going to be The Year of The Linux Desktop for me. I haven't booted into Windows in over 3 months on my tower and I'm starting to realize that it's not worth wasting the space for. I plan to unify my three SSDs and turn them all into btrfs drives on Fedora. I've been merely tolerating Windows 11 for a while but recently it's gotten to the point where it's just absolutely intolerable. Somehow Linux on the desktop has gotten so much better by not even doing anything differently. Micr...

UPDATE(2025-12-29T13:04Z-5): If you run a git forge: disable unauthenticated clones for repos larger than 512Mi until further notice. Recently Sourceware had to disable git clone over HTTP due to an attack where lots of random Git clients are cloning repositories. This was surprising to me, I thought the Git client didn't need any smarts on the server and most of the "magic" was just serving flat files based on the client needs. It turns out that the git HTTP backend is way more compli...

Spoiler Warning If you want to go through the Final Fantasy 14 duty Hell on Rails (Extreme) blind, don't read this guide as it spoils how to easily solve one of the mechanics in it. If you don't play Final Fantasy 14, most of the words in this article are going to make no sense to you and I will make no attempt to explain them. Just know that most of the words I am saying do have meaning even though they aren't in The Bible. In phase 4 of Hell on Rails (Extreme), the boss will cast Arcane Revela...

I just discovered a new way to tell if a blogpost is AI slop or at least if someone blindly copied and pasted commands from Claude Code: the first line of a group of commands isn't indented but the rest are, like this: sudo apt update sudo apt upgrade sudo apt autoremove sudo apt autoclean This happens because the raw CLI output of Claude code for this question looks like this: > What are the commands to fully update an Ubuntu system? Just list the commands. ● sudo apt update sudo apt upgrade su...

Today was a big day for gamers as Valve just introduced three products: the Steam Controller, the Steam Machine, and the Steam Frame. When you add this alongside the Steam Deck, I think it's safe to say that Valve is about to win the next console generation. Steam Controller I have basically nothing to say about the Steam Controller. It's the Steam Deck's input but in a controller. There's no way they can really mess it up in a way that isn't recoverable. Cadey What else is there to say? Steam M...

Something I've seen around the internet is that many projects want a blanket policy of no AI tools being allowed for contributors. As much as I agree with the sentiment of policies like this, I don't think it's entirely realistic because it's trivial to lie about not using them when you actually do. I think a better middle ground is something like Fedora's AI-Assisted Contributions Policy . This demands that you include a commit footer that discloses what AI tools you've used in your process, su...