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. "
pdf
nicolas-dorriere.fr/assets/files/The_New_Internet.pdf
source
tailscale.com/blog/new-internet
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.
openai.com/codex
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.
The benchmark solves a random dense linear system in double-precision (64 bits / FP64) arithmetic
github.com/geerlingguy/top500-benchmark
GMKtec NucBox G3 Plus (N150 @ 3.6 GHz)
62.067 Gflops
28.5W
2.18 Glops/W
I’m building an SOS button for my mother. To do this, I’m using two Raspberry Pis connected through a Tailscale tunnel. When the button is pressed, an SSH command is sent to the other Raspberry Pi, which plays an MP3 loudly through speakers. At the same time, a Telegram alert is sent to our family channel. I often have my phone on silent at night — but now, no problem: the speakers will shout loudly! I’m coming, Mom! 👸🏻
George in FLAC 🤩 with an average of 900 Kbit/s — all I’m missing now is the Devialet Phantom. For now, I’m listening on my Logitech Z-5500, limited to 16-bit through my optical SPDIF output.
Nice pattern generation with p5.js. Could be great for illustrating blog post thumbnails.
openprocessing.org/sketch/1247971
Nóva is well known for her open source contributions including projects like Linux, Kubernetes, and The Go Programming Language. A popular public speaker, she is best known for her Twitch stream, and her Kubernetes clusterfuck talks.
krisnova.net
As my daily OS, I use Windows, which allows me to take advantage of my Nvidia GPU for live rendering in Blender. For the terminal, I use Windows Terminal with the Berkeley Mono™ Trial font.
Terminal fonts
TX-02 - Berkeley Mono
usgraphics.com/catalog/FX-050
Wallpaper
Microsoft's 50th Anniversary
microsoft.design/wallpapers
I own 4 older Chromeboxes with fairly decent Intel® Celeron® 2955U processors. I could turn them into an Incus cluster or use them for DIY hacking projects, like connecting a USB camera for image recognition, etc. don't know
Hosting static sites with a SQLite-based CMS on a Raspberry Pi Zero 2W — why not?
A pretty nice API for using haptic feedback on iOS. I’m currently using it on my ZEN mode toggle (which removes the navbar and footer to prevent visual distraction). Haptic design should be used wisely — it's not something to apply everywhere, as it might annoy the user. I’ll see if I decide to keep this feature. A good use case would be for like buttons ♡.
https://vibrator.dev/
https://github.com/samdenty/ios-vibrator-pro-max
70k queries were made to my public recursive DNS-over-HTTPS server over the past month.
endpoint : https://doh-own-recursion.nicolas-dorriere.fr/dns-query
Remotely controlling rovers over the internet. Using Raspberry Pi, with video compression optimizations for real-time streaming. DIY assembly to build the robot yourself. Excellent!
vigibot.com
A mini router with very low power consumption, powered by a Qualcomm ARM processor running at 650 MHz. It runs OpenWRT with a GL.iNet interface layer, and can be flashed to install core OpenWRT.
A great little device for DIY hacking projects. GL-AR300M
What this data represents: The probe is positioned in the LXC Caddy container in reverse, so it captures all the upload traffic from each container. Therefore, what we see here is the total upload bandwidth of all the containers combined.
My ISP, Orange/Sosh, offers me 800Mbit of upload. I have limited the upload on my LXC container 'caddy' using 'incus config device override caddy eth0 limits.egress=790Mbit' to avoid saturating the network and to be able to continue managing my system container manager, Incus.
