Nahum Shalman
nahum.shalman.org
Nahum Shalman
@nahum.shalman.org
Opinions expressed are my own. https://blog.shalman.org/ http://hachyderm.io/@nahumshalman (he/him)
I have lived in this house for "hmm, the water dispenser is running slowly; I bet the upstairs toilet handle got stuck running... Yup!" years.
October 26, 2025 at 4:16 PM
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We are opening up the @oxide.computer Discord to more than just recording Oxide and Friends, and now have some general discussion channels, as well as some user channels for our open source projects

discord.gg/FRwjhBaH
Join the Oxide Computer Company & Friends Discord Server!
The Oxide Computer Company and friends; home of the Oxide and Friends podcast. | 4382 members
discord.gg
May 13, 2025 at 10:52 PM
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My command line data analysis tool is at a point where I'm ready to share it!

`freq` is a tool I wrote in Rust, intended to replace pipelines of `grep`, `sed`, `awk`, `sort`, `uniq -c`, and `sort -rn` to look at distributions of values in datasets.

I use it daily.

rya.nc/gh/freq
GitHub - ryancdotorg/freq: Like `sort | uniq -c | sort -rn` but better
Like `sort | uniq -c | sort -rn` but better . Contribute to ryancdotorg/freq development by creating an account on GitHub.
rya.nc
May 12, 2025 at 11:35 AM
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More evidence that Tailscale is accidentally a service mesh
May 2, 2025 at 12:53 AM
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"Tailscale Enterprise Plan 9 Support"
tailscale.com/plan9

(A little thing I wrote and worked on over the past few weekends with @swtch.com)
tailscale.com
April 1, 2025 at 1:24 PM
Happy Don't Trust Anything You Read On The Internet Day to all who celebrate!
April 1, 2025 at 1:13 PM
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Anyone who says they never fell for a phish or other online scam is either lying or doesn't use the Internet. We have all been there.

Well done to @troyhunt.com for being so open about his experience so that we can all learn from it
March 25, 2025 at 9:16 AM
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It finally happened - I got phished. Impact is limited to the Mailchimp mailing list for my blog, brief blog post with details here and more to come later: www.troyhunt.com/a-sneaky-phi...
A Sneaky Phish Just Grabbed my Mailchimp Mailing List
You know when you're really jet lagged and really tired and the cogs in your head are just moving that little bit too slow? That's me right now, and the penny has just dropped that a Mailchimp phish h...
www.troyhunt.com
March 25, 2025 at 7:36 AM
Brevity or Nuance
March 13, 2025 at 10:58 AM
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I can't shake this feeling that there is currently a massive opportunity for companies that want to bet on human intelligence over AI. Tons of skilled people are being laid off. I wish I had a business idea right now.
February 20, 2025 at 1:49 PM
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For those of us who are increasingly in positions where we cannot count on the rule of law to protect our digital privacy or security, here are some thoughts on how to threat model for your community: www.eff.org/deeplinks/20...
Building a Community Privacy Plan
Everyone's security plans and situations will always be different, which is why we often say that security and privacy are a state of mind, not a purchase. But the first step is always taking a look a...
www.eff.org
February 18, 2025 at 8:16 PM
Do you appreciate good visualizations of math? Curious about the Talmudic approach to settling bankruptcy claims? Have I got the Mathologer video for you! https://youtu.be/uNemXgZ-MWY?si=HL8I1n3BL44KPXF2
How Did Water Solve the 1800-Year-Old Talmudic Bankruptcy Problem?
youtu.be
February 16, 2025 at 3:52 PM
My superpower is that I know just enough about a lot of things to know that for everything I know about that there's someone who knows more, but most importantly I either know exactly who, or at least I know how to find them and learn from them.
February 16, 2025 at 3:08 PM
Probably a 3? I don't think I have enough of a parasocial presence to be intimidating to strangers, and I'm pretty confident I am not intimidating to people who know me. How well am I calibrated?
quote this with how intimidating YOU think you are on a scale of 1 - 10 and let other ppl reply to it with how intimidating THEY think you are >:)
February 13, 2025 at 1:40 PM
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Be the helpers Mr. Rogers said to look for.
February 11, 2025 at 1:16 AM
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Ever wonder how we fixed a memory leak in our Rust proxy? From keyboard interrupts to async debugging - here's the full story of making our infrastructure more reliable for 35+ regions worldwide 🦀

🔗 ➡️ https://fly.io/blog/rust-memory-leak/
February 11, 2025 at 5:35 PM
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Another callout for the Quiet Posters feed: bsky.app/profile/did:...

It's no longer possible for mere mute keywords to block the endless political posts on here, alas. But "people who don't post very often" is a surprisingly great filter. (I'm sure it filters out me. Nobody's perfect.)
February 6, 2025 at 8:27 PM
This video was helpful for me to understand the news about DeepSeek: https://youtu.be/gY4Z-9QlZ64?si=Mml1zHR2yjd1Md18
DeepSeek is a Game Changer for AI - Computerphile
youtu.be
January 30, 2025 at 3:50 PM
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✨WHEEZING✨
January 26, 2025 at 7:16 AM
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9. Use a password manager, for the love of God
January 25, 2025 at 9:32 PM
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a question for the people who write code for money:

if you could wave a magic wand and have your performance/promotability measured on any 5 metrics of your choice, what would those metrics be?
January 23, 2025 at 7:32 AM
Are any @oxide.computer customers hiring? While I'm great at wrangling heterogenous hardware, I wouldn't mind playing on easy mode for a while... By which I mean solving actual business problems rather than fighting hardware.
January 15, 2025 at 3:50 PM