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Karl Matthias postedJun 25, 2026
Managing a system now that is trying to process huge amounts of metrics with Prometheus (not my choice), I still cannot understand why people went for the pull model of metrics collection. It's just such a horrible mess at scale. And the thing is, we knew that before Promtheues came around. But it got popular anyway.
RE: https://mastodon.social/@noybeu/116798835815757884
The EU wants to kill the #CookieBanner! 👏 But Google wants to keep it. 🤯
Why? Replacing per-website/app consent screens with a 1-time user setting in a browser/OS will result in more people declining to be tracked.
Google et al make most of their revenue from individually-targeted advertising. Their competitiveness relies on guessing what you are interested in and re-identifying you across various apps/websites. They can only do that effectively if you agree to be tracked most of the time.
Karl Matthias postedJun 23, 2026
Ah, the robot that writes the code is down. Poor robot. https://xkcd.com/303/
Karl Matthias postedMay 20, 2026
I had to recently swap my stuff back and forth between a couple o f Macs (an M4 Max and an M5 Pro). Apple has done an amazing job of making this pretty seamless. Reset, reload from another machine. Reset, restore from Time Machine. Just fantastic.
Another reason to hate #Apple We're seeing more 2018+ MacBook Pro/Air donations — but Apple's T2 chip means even after iCloud sign-out and reset, the firmware stays locked to the original account.
Without donor contact, these machines are useless. :(
I've upcycled ~1,000 older Macs, but T2 era machines will end that. It's controlling, creates e-waste, and will only get worse. #righttorepair matters — Apple couldn't care less.
Karl Matthias postedMar 23, 2026
I, increasingly, think SaaS vendors are in trouble in the mid-term timeframe. The barrier is just so crazy low to create exactly the tools you need with AI now. I speak from experience here.
Karl Matthias postedMar 10, 2026
Claude is currently unwinding some bad code written by Codex because it explicitly ignored rules, even when the context was not full. Done with Codex, done with OpenAI.
Karl Matthias postedMar 9, 2026
Well, I'm done with Codex. First, because OpenAI is going to let the Dept of Defense do whatever they want with their tech (including kill people and surveil Americans). Second, the thing is down today and there is no status posted on OpenAI's site. Third, they clearly shadow released the new model last week (which wrote much worse code) and inflicted it on people without announcing it until today. Just a bad company. #AI
Karl Matthias postedMar 5, 2026
I just had the realization that this thing, which I built awhile ago, is basically an AI agent-friendly billing system! https://github.com/relistan/billmonger
RE: https://toot.cat/@ceejbot/116169056742912847
This is a fucking great take on AI and how people involved in making software should think and act in this moment.