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Launch: U7D - The Pod
This is only for real heads I suspect. If you like a bit of punk in your production. If you like a novel idea. If you care about hearing my thoughts and following the meandering line of my reasoning.
Or if everything else I do is too long-winded.
It is an almost-daily, zero-production podcast. It is not for everyone but the time-investment to figure out if you like it across the first 3 episodes is about 17 minutes total.
I do whatever I want with it.
Objective Storage
In my previous livestream I went over the fundamentals of Object Storage and showed how we can use those from Elixir.
We also covered some initial intermediate level features like presigned URLs, chunked uploads and range requests. All in Elixir.
I captured all of that as a blog post if your prefer that and for future reference.
Blog post: Fundamentals of Object Storage
I'm going to America!
Credit to Tigris again. They are supporting me to go to the US to meet all the lovely folks at GigCity Elixir. And the lovely folks who run GigCity Elixir upped the stakes and went "so wanna do a keynote?" meaning now the pressure is ON. Leaning right into this discomfort because I'm thrilled.
Did you know a keynote is not typically about a techy fun thing and the particulars of it? I can't hide behind a cool demo! Exciting :)
Also NervesConf before GCE. Also giving a talk there it seems :D
The Gleam Core Team Deliver a Dream on the BEAM
We had a lovely conversation with Louis Pilfold and Hayleigh Thompson on BEAM Radio about the Gleam language and their recent 1.0. Hayleigh gets into Lustre, the web framework inspired by Elm but using BEAM on the server and compiling to JS on the frontend.
Podcast episode: BEAM Radio, episode 72
Second livestream since the return happened
Tigris is working with me now so I get to spend more time on the creative end. Look forward to more live streams. Their business is object storage which suits me great. I love the simplicity of object storage and any excuse to do more weird stuff with that is A+ for me. They are also planning some cool and really novel stuff on top that is quite innovative.
Their object storage offering already replicates globally in the style of a CDN, by default, with comparable latency. It is also the fastest object storage if your app is on Fly as it is co-located.We have lots of interesting plans ahead.
This most recent livestream was about setting up a Fly GPU + Elixir's Bumblebee to run a Mistral fine-tuned LLM. We tried two different ones actually. Scratched the surface on some interesting stuff.
Livestream recording: LLM on Fly GPU with Elixir
Business?
I have two of my trusted consultants that might just be available from next week if you reach out. They are awesome folks.
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Lots of announcements. But I think all of them sensible. I'll try to edit myself down in the future if this keeps happening.
How learn computer?
./configure
make
sudo make install
I've done it more times than I can count. Most of the time I haven't really known what it is about. I know it is how I compile open source software from source and install it to my system.
Almost immediately I had to learn how to fix it when it didn't go through fully. Usually that meant digging through the output for the right error. And then googling the error. The answer was almost always "install this package and try again". Eventually I got pretty good at figuring out the missing package on my own. Oh, encryption-something? Check that libssl-dev is installed.
Many devs won't run into this as much these days. Homebrew won't expose you. When I came up the Mac was not typical developer environment. The Unix CLI life was mostly Linux and some BSD. And right now as I'm working on embedded stuff this all comes right back. It is Makefiles, shared libraries and all of that. I don't know where that learning process starts. I've never been introduced. I still haven't learned make. But I know what to expect from it, roughly. I couldn't create a well-formed C project from scratch (if you know a good guide, send it). I can use one though.
Needing to dip below the waterline, hold my breath and search for the right thing in a Makefile, C source or whatever else is something that has helped me move ever closer to doing more low-level stuff. I hope there is still a natural path there to some extent. I hope it will not just be the olds and the extreme nerds that end up gliding down towards the machine to know how things actually work.
If you have never built a project in C. Find a tutorial. Try writing a bit of it. If you want more capability you can try building a GTK GUI application, I recall I've tried SDL from C as well. I can't vouch for the experience but sometimes a terminal app is just insufficiently enticing.
Do you know how to C? Can you transmit it to others in a useful way? You can reach me on the Fediverse where I'm @lawik@fosstodon.org or by responding to this email to lars@underjord.io.
Thanks for reading. I appreciate it.
