Stew O'Connor (he/him)

and you get to kick andrew tates seat for fun

It makes me feel like I'm not a developer, but a manager which something I've always good at avoiding because I know id be shit at it and not enjoy it. Being a manager of soulless robots is not better

I'm unreasonably excited to watch California run out of license plate numbers.

Ayatollah Khomeini → Ayatollah Khamenei -> Ayatollah Khamenei

I'm starting to revive my homelabbing spirit, and I'm super stoked that soon I'll have a nomad cluster in my house again

Have you used nomad yourself?

I think that people don't realize that Nomad is top notch when it comes to stuff that you really want it to be solid on, like "what happens when I'm rolling out an upgrade and some of my canaries deployments fail health checks"

would not be surprised. I've never needed something like this. I just get the sense that kube is way more complicated, but in ways I just don't need. I can't think of when I've been saying that nomad is just not sophisticated enough to do a task

At verizon we were running multiple versions of ~200 microservices and some large machine learning workloads—like running spark executors on Nomad—and I've never had any regrets about the hashistack (except maybe some of their licenses choices lately)

Picture of a complicated eurorack synth setup (Kube)

Picture of a Teenage Engineering OP-1 (nomad)

One picture is kubernetes, one is nomad.

I've been running nomad in production since I was a Services Architect for Verizon FIOS in 2015, so a long time. I feel like kubernetes is made by google for google, and like most of HashiCorp's offerings they are just what I need.

The way I ended up knocking out both servers was weird. I updated the launch configuration to switch it from x86 to arm. I terminated an instance in one of the 3 AZs. It launch a new one in a different AZ, and then terminated the one in that AZ to rebalance, thus killing my quorum

The arm servers are cheaper and use less power, so win/win

But managed to move lots of our deployed infra from x86_64 to ARM64 servers today. Moved Vault / Consul / Nomad servers today.

Pretty cool that aside from the mishap, moving these to ARM only a couple of values in deployment code :)

Managed to knock out two of my nomad servers at the same time losing quorum for like an hour. Whew boy was that stressful. Managed to recover it but it was NOT as straightforward as it should have been

De La Soul: Tiny Desk Concert YouTube video by NPR Music

De La Soul Tiny Desk Concert!!!!

A little bit hard to see them perform without Plug Two

www.youtube.com/watch?v=5AVY...

Was coming here that I haven't seen Timecrimes but think Primer is amazing

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There are people using tools like interviewsolver.com to hide the fact that they are using AI during the interview 😬

looks like a 2 part thing that came out in november 2025? Take that as a recommendation?

Attacking another country because we are worried about them retaliating against a preventable future attack is some next-level 3d FIFA Peace Prize moves

6% women in Rust is a surprising disappointment ☹️ 4% women in Haskell is an unsurprising disappointment.

So Marco Rubio is saying that the reason we needed to attack Iran was:
1. Because of their religious beliefs.
2. Because Israel was about to attack them, which might get them mad at us?

I'm getting an offer to purchase stew.购物 for $1650 / year

The NYT style guide

what does the wrong side look like?

wow, what a cool pattern!

but the more I read about this, the more I see that he was the perfect person for this because he was such a terrible person.

ok, I didn't know this. THANK YOU

He was an AIDS denialist and the primary of his 27 wifes denies that he had the disease!