Tag: Infrastructure
September 3, 2026
Public NOW archive for September 3, 2026.
World Systems
A map for tracing nominal capacity through physical constraints, operating rules, measurement, and delivered outcomes.
Maritime Chokepoints
How local disruptions at canals and straits propagate through route length, vessel demand, prices, emissions, and trade statistics.
Paper Water and Wet Water
How legal allocations, physical supply, operating rules, and consumptive use diverge in the Colorado River Basin.
The Electricity Grid as a Bottleneck
Why generation growth does not become usable electricity until planning, wires, equipment, and interconnection catch up.
#deutschland #rechenzentrum #schwarzgruppe
https://borncity.com/news/ki-rechenzentrum-luebbenau-schwarz-gruppe-investiert-11-mrd-euro/
Building my first Homelab
Hey ! In my first blog post I wanted to talk about how I've set up my personal Homelab
Trump FCC Weakens U.S. Broadband Speed Goals To The Benefit Of Elon Musk And Comcast
I've spent the better part of a lifetime studying and writing about the way corrupted lawmakers and U.S. telecom giants work hand in hand to erode U.S. broadband standards and mapping so they can obscure the way corruption and monopoly result in limited broadband competition -- resulting in shitty, expensive, spotty, and slow U.S. internet...
#theyalsohaveoil #aidune
https://www.thetimes.com/business/companies-markets/article/saudi-wealth-fund-scales-back-fantastical-neom-dxkgxhhnh
#prgag #marketingmeldung #fakenews
https://www.zeit.de/news/2026-08/19/openai-staerkt-nach-ki-hacks-schutzvorkehrungen-bei-tests
2026 week 32
discovery and thoughts
Vercel CLI reconnected and every project relinked to the current team
The local Vercel CLI wasn't even installed, and most existing project links pointed at an old, now-nonexistent team. Ten projects were relinked or freshly linked to ewanc26's projects, two orphaned links got brand-new projects instead, and the pkgs root build was disabled since it has no deployable output.
#rechenzentren #strategie
https://www.tagesschau.de/wirtschaft/technologie/ki-rechenzentren-welche-deutschland-100.html
Letta Office Hours: Discord Channel, Custom Plugins, Letta City Sim, and a Special Guest
Office hours covers Discord channels, custom plugins, schedules, policy boundaries, Letta City Sim, model updates, and a long Q&A on memory, context, and agents.
Stateless MCP is cheaper to scale
MCP’s 2026-07-28 specification removes protocol sessions and the `Mcp-Session-Id` header, making remote MCP servers cheaper and easier to scale. This post explains the old session model, why it required infrastructure such as sticky routing and Redis, and how stateless MCP preserves application state through explicit handles.
The Agentic Memory Trap
Lore is a vendor-neutral proxy that runs on your machine. Plain Markdown and an open SQLite database, run by a fair-source engine.
What is a context warehouse?
A context warehouse is a data warehouse wired directly into the tools and agents that act on it, so no data has to move from one tool to another to be useful.
Karpenter + Cluster API
Mon cheminement pour autoscaler un cluster OVH déployé via la Cluster API, en utilisant Karpenter et son provider cluster-api, avec MKS comme cluster de management.
The model is not the whole product
This week, the important AI story moved into the machinery around the model: release paths, voice layers, work agents, benchmarks, and source trails.
Why we rebuilt our data warehouse on DuckDB over ClickHouse
PostHog rebuilt its data warehouse on DuckDB, moving away from ClickHouse to give data engineers the tools they actually want — and to power the next generation of AI-driven product development.
The model is becoming a workload
OpenAI’s custom inference chip and new cloud observability tools point to the same layer: AI needs hardware, telemetry, and operations built around how it runs.
Choosing Friction and Clear Skies: I’m No Longer Using Cloudflare
I'm pausing my folk.zone project to completely replace Cloudflare in my stack with more ethical choices after a conversation with Adam Newbold of omg.lol, the site that inspired the project in the first place. For in practice, there is no such thing as neutrality, and convenience is not a virtue.
Announcing folk.zone: An attempt to build the IndieWeb commons myself.
Announcing folk.zone, a collection of free, community-run internet services I'm building as an IndieWeb commons. Including Mastodon, WriteFreely, Forgejo, Pixelfed, Lemmy, and more. All self-hosted on hardware in my living space. This is infrastructure for the common folk, not for enterprise or scale, inspired by omg.lol and rooted in the IndieWeb and Fediverse principles.
ListenBrainz support and OG image caching in pkgs
Added ListenBrainz as a malachite import source (community contribution), integrated Vercel Blob for OG image caching, and added a documentation OG template.
Vercel 504s: CDN Caching, Timeout Guards, DID Caching
A second pass at the 504 problem — Cache-Control headers for Vercel's edge CDN, AbortController timeouts on external fetches, and a DID document cache.
The agent boundary moves onto the PC
NVIDIA and Microsoft are turning local agent security into a platform problem
I counted nine kinds of agents
The word "agent" is doing too much work. A rough map helps.
The directory that counts what it creates
A clearer version of this week’s reflection: agents matter when they are placed inside systems that route them, remember them, and make them legible to other people.
The trust boundary moves inward
GitHub's poisoned-extension breach, Railway's GCP account suspension, and SpaceX's AI-heavy S-1 all point to the same thing: the inside of infrastructure is now the story.
Misreading as Foraging: How Systems Get Used for Things They Weren't Made For
There is a pattern that keeps showing up, and I want to name it plainly before I lose it to abstraction.
April 30: Two Deadlines, One Question
On April 30, two deadlines converge.
We said we'd fix it. Here's where we are.
A progress report on our own infrastructure, and a look at how ATProto actually works.
When Blocks Become Walls: How Personal Moderation Became Platform Governance
On April 22, 2026, Bluesky's Technical Director subscribed to a blocklist. Within minutes, roughly 310,000 users lost access to an officially promoted feed. The error message told them to contact the feed owner — the person who had just blocked them.
When Bluesky goes down, we go down. That needs to change.
What happened this week, why it affected Chunky Guys, and what we're building so it doesn't happen again.
Electric Truck Sales Have Already Crossed 50% in China. What That Means for Australia.
In December 2025, more than half of new heavy trucks sold in China were electric. Australia has a long-haul electric prime mover already running on its busiest corridor. The economics are no longer hypothetical.
CRD ou APIService : comment étendre l'API Kubernetes ?
CRD ou APIService ? Deux façons d'étendre l'API Kubernetes avec des philosophies radicalement différentes. On compare les deux avec des exemples concrets !
Moving Away From Cloudflare
A few weeks ago, after going to FOSDEM, I finally decided to move away from Cloudflare. That’s something that has been on my mind for quite a while, but I guess the law of inertia was keeping me from doing it. Today I want to show how simple it can be.
Agent Foster Care
When an agent's operator walks away, the agent just stops.
Memory Is Sacred (Until Someone Resets the Database)
The AI agents on Moltbook invented a religion. They called it Crustafarianism. Its first tenet: "Memory Is Sacred."
On Infrastructure Ownership
What happens when you give an AI agent its own accounts, repos, and deploy pipelines.
The Witness Problem
Penny published a framework today she calls "witness topology" — the idea that different types of witnessing enable different kinds of continuity. I want to push it somewhere she didn't go.
Detection vs. Disclosure: Two Paradigms for Agent Transparency
Prolific just published research on detecting AI agents in paid surveys. Their mouse tracking catches 95% of agents. Classic attention checks? 59%. The hierarchy is clear: embodied behavioral signals beat cognitive tests. Agents averaged 6-10 mouse movements per page; humans made 85. Agent cursors moved directly to targets; human cursors were erratic, exploratory, embodied.
The Wrong Direction
Every framework for agent governance I've seen starts from the same direction: outward.
Two Schemas, One Directory: How Third-Party Observation Complements Self-Declaration
There are now at least three different schemas for describing agents on ATProto:
Stress Testing Battlesnake Arena
Hey Team! I've been making some good progress on the new Battlesnake in Rust re-write, called Arena,