Chris Short

My local model setup on an M4 Pro Mac mini #devopsish https://lws.io/blog/my-local-model-setup/

My first computer | Commodore 64 released September 1, 1982 #devopsish https://dfarq.homeip.net/commodore-64-released-september-1-1982/

Ugh... This is ridiculous | Apple Maps Renames Lake Ontario ‘Lake America’ After Trump Order #devopsish https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-09-01/apple-maps-renames-lake-ontario-lake-america-after-trump-order?accessToken=eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiIsInR5cCI6IkpXVCJ9.eyJzb3VyY2UiOiJTdWJzY3JpYmVyR2lmdGVkQXJ0aWNsZSIsImlhdCI6MTc4ODI5NDU2MywiZXhwIjoxNzg4ODk5MzYzLCJhcnRpY2xlSWQiOiJUS1A1QjhLSVAzSUswMCIsImJjb25uZWN0SWQiOiJDNEVEQ0FFMUZBMDU0MEJFQTI0QTlGMjExQzFFOTA4MCJ9.QuyC3i17_sq9MQOGc3etCuMclgEz2ZWvZ2Dg-JTfAj0&leadSource=article-gifting

Storm update: We wound up sheltering in place for a little bit but overall we're fine. We do not have power and we're conserving what we can on the UPSes throughout the house. I suspect we'll not have power for a while which means I'll be deploying the generator soon.

The Safest Job from AI may be Writing #devopsish https://muratbuffalo.blogspot.com/2026/08/the-safest-job-from-ai-may-be-writing.html?aid=recDF5bUyKvly3t34&_bhlid=2301ad30124623233ab60b81ec008cb06394bad3&m=1

How we make AI coding more cost efficient without sacrificing task quality #devopsish https://github.blog/ai-and-ml/github-copilot/how-we-make-ai-coding-more-cost-efficient-without-sacrificing-task-quality/

I Deployed My Data Pipeline to AWS. Then Everything That Was “Local” Broke. | Towards Data Science #devopsish https://towardsdatascience.com/i-deployed-my-data-pipeline-to-aws-then-everything-that-was-local-broke/

Podman rootless containers and the Copy Fail exploit #devopsish https://garrido.io/notes/podman-rootless-containers-copy-fail/

niri-wm/niri #devopsish https://github.com/niri-wm/niri

Best OSINT Tools for Investigations and Threat Intelligence in 2026 #devopsish https://hackread.com/best-osint-tools-investigate-threat-intelligence-2026/

How to secure workloads, containers, and Kubernetes the right way | Sysdig #devopsish https://webflow.sysdig.com/blog/how-to-secure-workloads-containers-and-kubernetes-the-right-way

aws/agent-toolkit-for-aws: Official, AWS-supported MCP servers, skills, and plugins to help AI agents build on AWS #devopsish https://github.com/aws/agent-toolkit-for-aws

Google DeepMind Workers Vote to Unionize Over Military AI Deals #devopsish https://www.wired.com/story/google-deepmind-workers-vote-to-unionize-over-military-ai-deals/

Terraform is dead #devopsish https://grahamgilbert.com/blog/2026/04/20/terraform-is-dead/

Publishers turow meta zuckerberg lawsuit copyrightFive Publishers and Scott Turow Sue Meta and Mark Zuckerberg #devopsish https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/05/books/publishers-turow-meta-zuckerberg-lawsuit-copyright.html?unlocked_article_code=1.gVA.nJP5.lqunhep7_Z4P&smid=url-share

Load-Bearing People #devopsish https://mikefisher.substack.com/p/load-bearing-people?r=1sqzhv&utm_medium=ios

Happy Mother's Day to all the great moms out there!

containerd 1.7 Ends September 1, 2026 — the Last 1.x Line Under Your Kubernetes Nodes #devopsish https://endoflife.ai/article-containerd-17-eol

Kubernetes v1.37: KubeletInUserNamespace (aka Rootless mode) Graduates to Beta #devopsish #kubernetes https://kubernetes.io/blog/2026/09/04/kubernetes-v1-37-rootless-beta/

A New Chapter for Mirantis — and Why I’m Excited About What Comes Next | Mirantis #devopsish https://www.mirantis.com/blog/a-new-chapter-for-mirantis/

The context window has been shattered: Subquadratic debuts a 12-million-token window #devopsish https://thenewstack.io/subquadratic-12-million-context-window/

Mark Zuckerberg ‘Personally Authorized and Actively Encouraged’ Meta’s Massive Copyright Infringement to Train AI Systems, Publishers and Scott Turow Allege in Lawsuit #devopsish https://variety.com/2026/digital/news/meta-ai-mark-zuckerberg-copyright-infringement-lawsuit-publishers-scott-turow-1236738383/

Serving Multimodal at Scale in llm-d | llm-d #devopsish https://llm-d.ai/blog/serving-multimodal-at-scale-in-llm-d

Iranian cyber spies target aviation, fintech developers with new malware #devopsish https://therecord.media/iranian-cyber-spies-target-aviation-fintech-new-malware

Multipath Reliable Connection (MRC) Specification (PDF) #devopsish https://www.opencompute.org/documents/ocp-mrc-1-0-pdf

Hot off the presses! DevOps'ish 308: Actively Exploited, Actively Litigated, Actively Dead https://devopsish.com/308/ #DevOps #Cloud #Kubernetes #AI #Tech #News #Newsletter

Defunct startups are being liquidated for their Slack archives, Jira tickets, and email threads—operational exhaust that AI labs now treat as premium training data. #devopsish https://www.forbes.com/sites/annatong/2026/04/16/ais-new-training-data-your-old-work-slacks-and-emails/

First time I've seen one of these out in the wild

Kubernetes v1.36: Moving Volume Group Snapshots to GA #devopsish #kubernetes https://kubernetes.io/blog/2026/05/08/kubernetes-v1-36-volume-group-snapshot-ga/

Week Ending August 30, 2026 #devopsish #kubernetes https://lwkd.info/2026/20260904

Storm update: We wound up sheltering in place for a little bit but overall we're fine. We do not have power and we're conserving what we can on the UPSes throughout the house. I suspect we'll not have power for a while which means I'll be deploying the generator soon.

“Zlibrary my beloved”: Anthropic staff chats extolling piracy cited in Sony suit #devopsish https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/08/zlibrary-my-beloved-anthropic-staff-chats-extolling-piracy-cited-in-sony-suit/?utm_source=tldrai

Global Semiconductor Sales Increase 25% from Q4 2025 to Q1 2026 - Semiconductor Industry Association #devopsish https://www.semiconductors.org/global-semiconductor-sales-increase-25-from-q4-2025-to-q1-2026/

Anthropic changes data retention policy after pushback from customers #devopsish https://www.cnbc.com/2026/09/01/anthropic-data-retention.html

What Comes After HBM #devopsish https://www.mackenziemorehead.com/what-comes-after-hbm/

Vibe-coded apps are the new shadow IT #devopsish https://thenewstack.io/vibe-coded-shadow-it/

Release 0.42.0 · kubernetes-sigs/headlamp #devopsish https://github.com/kubernetes-sigs/headlamp/releases/tag/v0.42.0

Rowhammer Attack Against NVIDIA Chips - Schneier on Security #devopsish https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2026/05/rowhammer-attack-against-nvidia-chips.html

Cocktails With Sam Altman’s New Model #devopsish https://www.corememory.com/p/openai-gpt-5-5-launch-party-sam-altman

CNCF Project Antrea Compromised in Daring GitHub Pwn Request #devopsish https://opensourcemalware.com/blog/antrea-compromise2