Alejandro Martínez
zen.itram.es
Alejandro Martínez
@zen.itram.es
sre by day, bit tinkerer by night.
no-name wifi cloud smart plugs << tplink wifi smartplugs << zigbee smartplugs << wifi+bt+ble smartplugs where their factory firmware has an embedded JS runtime for you to define and run in-device scripts🤯

shelly-api-docs.shelly.cloud/gen2/Scripts...
Shelly Script Language Features | Shelly Technical Documentation
Shelly Scripts run on a modified version of Espruino. While the previous JS interpreter running on Shelly supported a subset of JavaScript, Espruino interpreter is closer to the JavaScript standard.
shelly-api-docs.shelly.cloud
January 7, 2025 at 11:44 PM
insurance company: "for your security we're sending you this information as an encrypted PDF"

also insurance company, in the same email: "the password is the last 4 digits of your insurance card"
December 4, 2024 at 10:35 AM
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distributed systems man. why do we do this to ourselves
November 24, 2024 at 4:05 AM
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The "bluesky is an echo chamber" think pieces that keep popping up really tickle me because they show how certain people genuinely believe social media should be for debating and arguing and not talking about the things that make you happy and sharing art with the world.
November 22, 2024 at 12:57 PM
The power of... just bare metal 🔥
In case you missed it: Bluesky runs on-prem. They migrated off of AWS months back.

So yeah, they DO need to put orders in for servers! (Good luck to the dev team!)

More on their architecture: newsletter.pragmaticengineer.com/p/bluesky
November 20, 2024 at 10:01 PM
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They call it the AWS “console” because you only go there for grief and disappointment
November 20, 2024 at 4:28 AM
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What Kermit (the frog) is called in ten different countries...

10. Kermit (Denmark)
9. Kermit (France)
8. Kermit (Romania)
7. Kermit (Slovakia)
6. Kermit (Italy)
5. Kermit (Canada)
4. Kermit (Iceland)
3. Kermit (the Netherlands)
2. Kermit (Poland)
1. Gustavo (Spain)
November 18, 2024 at 6:21 PM
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November 16, 2024 at 12:13 PM