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Helm is a package manager for Kubernetes, and I am one of its maintainers. Kubernetes objects can be defined in JSON or in YAML. Helm added a template language on top of YAML (base…

Lounge access is a really good one. I have an AmEx as well, and it includes Priority Pass (which I like), Centurion (which my home airport has), and Delta lounges (if I fly Delta, …

I travel enough that I can usually hit a mid-tier status on an airline (e.g. Gold/Platnum on united, A-list on Southwest). Is it worth it to stick to one airline and go for status,…

There is a CPAN tool to convert perl programs to an ASCII-art equivalent. https://metacpan.org/dist/Acme-EyeDrops/view/lib/Acme/EyeDro...

The challenges of getting an LLM to produce poetry.

(Another Fermyon person here) On a lighthearted unscientific note: After getting absolutely bombarded with traffic today (5-10x normal, YAY!), we noticed: - No increased latency in…

I'm part of Fermyon (the company that created Spin), and we are definitely talking about this. There's a news signup at Fermyon.com (right at the top-right) that you can sign up fo…

(One of the Spin authors here) In all honesty, I think many of the concepts that we saw in early Java deserve to get another chance in a more language-agnostic ecosystem. I never d…

When I first wrote WAGI, I just wanted to show people that WebAssembly could be run efficiently on the server. Basically, like you were saying, I wanted something to demo to people…

Hi! (Another one of the Spin authors here) We have been talking about the efficiency/footprint thing a lot. So many things sit idle in the datacenter, consuming electricity without…