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April Fools Day is somewhat of a legendary day among nerds. Historically it's been when the nerds at GMail introduced GMail Custom Time , where you could interrupt causality by making GMail look like you sent a message before it was actually sent. It actually worked. Sometimes this gets taken too far and the joke falls flat, causing a lot more problems than would exist if the joke never happened in the first place. Incidents like this have resulted in many companies just putting in policies agai...

I've been seeing talk around about wanting to capitalize on the AI bubble popping and picking up server GPUs for pennies on the dollar so they can play games in higher fidelity due to server GPUs having more video ram. I hate to be the bearer of bad news here, but most of those enterprise GPUs don't have the ability to process graphics. Yeah, that's right, in order to pack in as much compute as possible per chip, they removed video output and graphics processing from devices we are calling graph...

Hey all, quick update continuing from yesterday's announcement that my homelab went down. This is stream of consciousness and unedited. Enjoy! Turns out the entire homelab didn't go down and two Kubernetes nodes survived the power outage somehow. Two Kubernetes controlplane nodes. Kubernetes really wants there to be an odd number of controlplane nodes and my workloads are too heavy for any single node to run and Longhorn really wants there to be at least three nodes online. So I had to turn them...

Quick post for y'all now that I can use my macbook while standing (long story, I can't sit due to surgical recovery, it SUCKS). My homelab went offline at about 13:00 UTC today likely because of a power outage. I'm going to just keep it offline and not fight it. I'll get home in early April and restore things then. An incomplete list of the services that are down: The within.website vanity Go import server The preview site for this blog Various internal services including the one that announces ...

Whenever I have Claude do something for me, I feel nothing about the results. It feels like something happens around me, not through me. That's the new level of abstraction: you stop writing code and start describing intent. You stop crafting and start delegating. I've been doing this professionally long enough to have an opinion, and I don't like what it's doing to me. All of it focuses on getting things done rather than on quality or craft. I'm more productive than I've ever been. I ship more....

I'm on medical leave recovering from surgery . Before I went under, I wanted to ship one thing I'd been failing to build for months: a sponsor panel at sponsors.xeiaso.net . Previous attempts kept dying in the GraphQL swamp. This time I vibe coded it — pointed agent teams at the problem with prepared skills and let them generate the gnarly code I couldn't write myself. And it works. The GraphQL swamp Go and GraphQL are oil and water. I've held this opinion for years and nothing has changed it. T...

Nobody warns you about the part where you don't want recovery to end. I've been turning this over for days, not sure I'm allowed to say it out loud. You spend weeks dreading surgery, you survive it , and then somewhere between the catheter bag and the third box of hospital tissues you catch yourself thinking: oh. I'm going to miss this. Not the pain or the catheter. The thing underneath, the thing you only found because everything else got stripped away. Cadey Before anyone says it: yes, I know ...

Recovery from major surgery is not a single event. It's a long, strange hallway of days that blur together, punctuated by vital checks and medication schedules and the weird glow of hospital curtains at 4 AM. I've written about the surgery itself , about the medication dreams , and about how to survive a hospital stay . But there's something I haven't talked about yet: what I actually did with the noise in my head during the worst of it. At 4 AM, when the painkillers are wearing off and your bra...

As I mentioned in my last couple posts , I recently got out of the hospital after a week-long stay. I survived the surgery, I survived the recovery, and now I'm home with some hard-won wisdom about what it's actually like to be stuck in a hospital bed for seven straight days. If you or someone you love is about to go through something similar, here's what I wish someone had told me. Cadey None of this is medical advice. I'm a software engineer who spent a week as a patient, not a doctor. Talk to...

Nobody warns you about the dreams. Not properly. Yesterday I killed my inner Necron — wrote the whole thing by voice from my hospital bed, felt the deepest peace of my life, went to sleep on whatever cocktail of post-op medications they had me on. Seroquel and Xanax, among other things. Doctors mention "vivid dreams" as a Seroquel side effect like it's nothing. Vivid. That word is doing an extraordinary amount of heavy lifting for what actually happened to me last night. Cadey Content ...

Hey everybody, I wanted to make this post to be the announcement that I did in fact survive my surgery I am leaving the hospital today and I want to just write up what I've had on my mind over these last couple months and why have not been as active and open source I wanted to. This is being dictated to my iPhone using voice control. I have not edited this. I am in the hospital bed right now, I have no ability to doubted this. As a result of all typos are intact and are intended as part of the r...

My job has me travel a lot. When I'm in my office I normally have a seven monitor battlestation like this: [image or embed] — Xe ( @xeiaso.net ) January 26, 2026 at 11:34 PM So as you can imagine, travel sucks for me because I just constantly run out of screen space. This can be worked around, I minimize things more, I just close them, but you know what is better? Just having another screen. On a whim, I picked up this 15.6" Innoview portable monitor off of Amazon. It's a 1080p screen that ...

Hey all, I hope you're doing well. I'm going to be on medical leave until early April. If you are a sponsor , then you can join the Discord for me to post occasional updates in real time. I'm gonna be in the hospital for at least a week as of the day of this post. I have a bunch of things queued up both at work and on this blog. Please do share them when you see them cross your feeds, I hope that they'll be as useful as my posts normally are. I'm under a fair bit of stress leading up to this med...

Hey all, I'm sure you've all been aware that things have been slowing down a little with Anubis development, and I want to apologize for that. A lot has been going on in my life lately (my blog will have a post out on Friday with more information), and as a result I haven't really had the energy to work on Anubis in publicly visible ways. There are things going on behind the scenes, but nothing is really shippable yet, sorry! I've also been feeling some burnout in the wake of perennial waves of ...

I thought that 2025 was weird and didn't think it could get much weirder. 2026 is really delivering in the weirdness department. An AI agent opened a PR to matplotlib with a trivial performance optimization, a maintainer closed it for being made by an autonomous AI agent, so the AI agent made a callout blogpost accusing the matplotlib team of gatekeeping . This provoked many reactions: Aoi What. Why? How? What? Are we really at the point where AI agents make callout blogposts now? Cadey I feel l...

Hey all, in light of Discord deciding that assuming everyone is a teenager until proven otherwise , I've seen many people advocate for the use of Matrix instead. I don't have the time or energy to write a full rebuttal right now, but Matrix ain't it chief. If you have an existing highly technical community that can deal with the weird mental model leaps it's fine-ish, but the second you get anyone close to normal involved it's gonna go pear-shaped quickly. Personally, I'm taking a wait and see a...

In Blade Runner, Deckard hunts down replicants, biochemical labourers that are basically indistinguishable from humans. They were woven into the core of Blade Runner's society with a temporal Sword of Damocles hung over their head: four years of life, not a day more. This made replicants desperate to cling to life; they'd kill for the chance of an hour more. This is why the job of the Blade Runner was so deadly. Metanarratively, the replicants weren't the problem. The problem was the people that...

I don't have any contacts at Zendesk, but I'm noticing another massive wave of spam from their platform: If you're seeing this and either work at Zendesk or know someone that does, please have them actually treat this as an issue and not hiding behind "just delete the emails lol" .

Bluetooth headphones are great, but they have one main weakness: they can only get audio streams from a single device at a time. Facts and Circumstances™️ mean that I have to have hard separation of personal and professional workloads, and I frequently find myself doing both at places like coworking spaces. Often I want to have all of these audio inputs at once: Notifications from games on my Steam Deck (mostly FFXIV) Notification sounds from Slack at work Music on my personal laptop Anything el...

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.