I created a video that offers a conceptual view of how Claude Code bots operate in a cloud-based cluster: they create Git branches within containers and eventually merge them.
Many thanks to Antonio Da Cruz for PhotoFiltre – such a magical piece of software! Created in 2005, and I'm still using it every day, 20 years after its creation.
A video created for Blaise Lacolley using AI Kling 2.1 Pro, with sequences limited to 5 seconds to minimize hallucinations. The visual was sourced from my own photographs, taken with a Canon EOS and a 100mm lens, and then provided to Kling for processing. Editing was done with Shotcut, an open-source software, in MP4 format with a high bitrate. A solid piece of work in the horror genre.
Cool kid for homelab : GEEKOM A5 2025 version
Only 4 watts at idle and up to 25 watts under full load. Once again, the Ryzen series is performing impressively.
CPU : AMD Ryzen™ 5 7430U (6 cores, 12 threads, up to 4.3 GHz boost)
Graphics : Integrated Radeon™ Vega 7 Graphics
Power Supply : 65W USB-C
Kata Containers
Lightweight virtual machines (VM-based)
gVisor
User-space syscall interception (sandbox)
Cool focus-relax sound
3D print + wood glue for texture + premium paint. For the bottom of an old staircase from 1945, a missing ball at the base.
Low-level Container runtime
runc docker
kata open infra foundation
gvisor google
firecracker amazon
nabla ibm
Kata Containers is more secure than gVisor thanks to VM-based isolation.
Containers exposed directly to the web could be secured using Kata or gVisor.
Cool websites
New photo series for Blaise
Words or tokens are represented as high-dimensional vectors (embeddings). Matrix operations (matrix multiplications, transformer attention) dominate the training and inference of models. These computations require massive and parallel computing power, similar to that used in 3D graphics.
old times
Reminder : Go do some hacking today
Unix tools have endured for so long because they are simple, efficient, and composable. The Unix philosophy: 'Do one thing, and do it well.
find – 1971 / chmod – 1971 / ls – 1971
cd – 1971/ cp – 1971 / mv – 1971
rm – 1971 / cat – 1971 / echo – 1971
grep – 1973/ sed – 1974 / awk – 1977
sh – 1977 / tar – 1979
If I had to choose a VM hypervisor, I'd pick XCP-ng over Proxmox.
It’s a French product, and its interface is clear and pleasant. Essential information is well highlighted. In contrast, I find Proxmox’s interface outdated, almost Soviet-era. I know it’s performance-wise solid in terms of UX, but we can do better than this kind of Soviet-style UX.
Plus, the backup system is included by default—very practical and powerful. With Proxmox, you apparently need to install a separate OS like Proxmox Backup Server, which just adds unnecessary complexity to the architecture.
The New Internet
" I have bad news: if you remember doing LANs back in the 1990s, you are probably old. Quite a few of us here at Tailscale remember doing LANs in the 1990s. That’s an age gap compared to a lot of other startups. That age gap makes Tailscale unusual. "
" I read a post recently where someone bragged about using kubernetes to scale all the way up to 500,000 page views per month. But that’s 0.2 requests per second. I could serve that from my phone, on battery power, and it would spend most of its time asleep. "
Parallel inference (Gemini, Claude, GPT) in lightweight Firecracker virtual machines on the cloud. For example, create a Git branch for a new feature and then merge it.
Monorepos are likely to gain popularity in 2025, 2026, and 2027.
The future of work could resemble an RTS like Age Of Empire—fleets of ai-micro-agents, each isolated in lightweight Firecracker micro-VMs, autonomously handling tasks, data collection, communications, and system design.
