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Jaz @jaz.sh · 17/07/2026

i remember this one cause i got covid like 3 days in and had to attend the rest of the team week from my hotel room lmao

giant postit note with a bunch of proposed uri shapes for private data addedsses

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Jaz @jaz.sh · 05/07/2026

lmao i know where this is

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Jaz @jaz.sh · 24/06/2026

its like the opposite of the water filling stations in Seattle

water bottle filling station with a sign that says "no brass or copper parts inside"

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Jaz @jaz.sh · 06/02/2026

Grafana MCP plus Clickhouse really making it easy to put dashboards together these days huh... Here's a quick overview of the AT Proto ecosystem over the past 24 hours.

A Grafana-style dark-themed monitoring dashboard for AT Protocol (Bluesky) firehose data. Four top-level stats show: Total Records at 33.4 million, 481 Distinct Collections, 1.53 million Distinct Repos, and 23.2K Records/min. Below are two horizontal bar charts: "Top Collections by Record Count" showing app.bsky.feed.like leading at 21.5 million, followed by app.bsky.feed.post at 4.11 million and app.bsky.feed.repost at 3.73 million; and "Distinct Repos per Collection" with app.bsky.feed.like again leading at 1.19 million repos. The bottom section displays a "Collection Activity Over Time" stacked area chart spanning roughly 24 hours, showing peak activity around 20:00–22:00 reaching ~35K records, with a trough in the early morning hours around 08:00–10:00. A legend table on the right lists per-collection statistics including mean, max, and total values for collections like app.bsky.graph.block, app.bsky.feed.repost, and app.bsky.feed.post.

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Jaz @jaz.sh · 27/01/2026

And the hyperscalars are pushing up prices. 2x-ing peered egress is big. They don't want you leaving. I've also been seeing a lot of signs of AWS and GCP going out of stock of a ton of SKUs in the US (both committed VMs and baremetal instances) for the forseeable future. This is gonna hurt.

screenshot of a tweet showing that google cloud raised direct peer egress costs by 100% in the US and 60% in europe

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Jaz @jaz.sh · 23/01/2026

Something is coalescing....

Log-Structured Virtual Disk (LSVD) Architecture

Rust + SPDK + monoio (Thread-per-Core) Implementation

This document outlines the architecture for a high-performance Log-Structured Virtual Disk system targeting:

- 10,000 virtual disks per host
- Sub-millisecond latency on small random writes and hot reads
- S3-compatible object storage as durable backend
- Integration with ContainerD (via ublk) and Cloud-Hypervisor (via vhost-user)

Key Architectural Decisions:

- monoio thread-per-core async runtime (not tokio) for predictable latency
- ublk for container block devices (not NBD) for ~5μs overhead
- SPDK for local NVMe cache access (kernel bypass)
- Partitioned state - each core owns a subset of vdisks, no cross-core locking

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Jaz @jaz.sh · 19/01/2026

many such cases

kindle and burger and moscow mule on the bar

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Jaz @jaz.sh · 19/01/2026

Moody Seattle Morning

the port of Seattle covered in dense fog with cranes slowly poking up through the clouds to make themselves known

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Jaz @jaz.sh · 11/01/2026

support local artists

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Jaz @jaz.sh · 02/01/2026

What if you had `top` snapshotting the busiest processes on every host in your fleet every 5 seconds, exporting it to a receiver that sticks it in Clickhouse for you and makes it trivially queryable across the whole fleet in a Grafana dashboard or exposed so you can write automations around it?

Grafana dashboard showing a chart of top process CPU/memory/IO from hosts in my homelab

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Jaz @jaz.sh · 21/12/2025

you'll never guess how i spent my weekend

grafana profiles drilldown showing pprof profiles from Loki

Grafana logs drilldown showing a bunch of logstreams from Loki

Grafana Loki dashboard showing Loki metrics

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Jaz @jaz.sh · 19/12/2025

love relaxing with a chill game after a long day at work... ("The Farmer Was Replaced" on Steam)

farming automation game with 4 code editors open programming a drone to automate a virtual farm

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Jaz @jaz.sh · 18/12/2025

Looking at Micron's earnings yesterday and the way their stock is looking right now, this is gonna be a really bad one for consumers. Good luck, everyone.

Micron stock ticker showing up 11.5% today as of ~12:45PM EST

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Jaz @jaz.sh · 27/10/2025

messages sent moments before a 5 hour nerdsnipe

jaz:"wait hailey jsut run your own AUR mirror"
jaz:"that'd be a neat project"
hailey:"is this even a thing lol"

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Jaz @jaz.sh · 03/10/2025

Yep, from my workstation which is 2.5G to my UDM Pro which is hooked up to a Webpass Ethernet home run in my building to what I expect is somewhere in downtown Seattle is only ~0.5-0.6ms and only ~5 hops from my ISP's router to the VPS itself :)

ping showing latencies between 0.5 and 0.7ms

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Jaz @jaz.sh · 03/10/2025

For those wondering, you can get a very well priced VPS from OVH that is more than enough to run a PDS for you and a few dozen friends for <$5/mo 4 vCPU 8GB RAM 75GB NVME SSD 400mbps internet Slap on a Cloudflare R2 bucket for blobs which shouldn't ever exceed free tier usage us.ovhcloud.com/vps/

screenshot of OVH pricing for VPS showing $4.20/mo for the specs described in the post

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Jaz @jaz.sh · 22/09/2025

I just wanna play Cobalt Core, c'mon.....

pink static covering 90% of a computer monitor

wacky pink static and fuzz covering two screens making it impossible to read or see anything

"Oh No! Something has gone wrong!" screen from Gnome on XORG

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Jaz @jaz.sh · 09/09/2025

wait NVM it has a charging port (confirmed on apple's website)

photo of the bottom side of the iphone air showing a USB-C charging port

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Jaz @jaz.sh · 07/09/2025

It really is just so ridiculously tiny That's a standard ATX case (Fractal North) not some kinda XL desktop or anything. The chip in the Framework is holding its own in games through Proton too wow... Not yet missing my 3080 but we'll see how long that lasts. Roughly 1/8 the size of the North

Framework desktop next to a Fractal North. it's half as long, less than half as tall, less than half as wide. Both sit in the floor.

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Jaz @jaz.sh · 07/09/2025

okay the Framework Desktop is real tiny and I love it running arch for now and after a fwupd was able to get the wifi-7 chip doing a full symmetrical gigabit played some games on it too and it's been good so far, need to see if i can get WoW running on it next can of monster for scale

framework desktop on a desk with a can of lo-carb monster beside it, the desktop is roughly 33% taller than the can, maybe 50% wider, and you could line up 3.5 cans standing up side by side to match the desktop depth

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Jaz @jaz.sh · 04/05/2025

looks kinda like an old alienware desktop lmao

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Jaz @jaz.sh · 03/05/2025

New friend 👀 Who wants to help me get this thing up and running with FRR and BGP unnumbered? Time to dream up a new DC networking architecture :)

A Mellanox SN2700 network switch sitting on the floor. It's got 32x100G QSFP+ ports and can run mainstream Linux distributions with full hardware support.

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Jaz @jaz.sh · 14/04/2025

the feed is good tonight

screenshot showing this post followed by a jerry post followed by a Cait post saying "DONNIE NO" with a picture of a cat holding a vape

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Jaz @jaz.sh · 14/04/2025

We're so back!!! Finally got my non-WFH desk set up in the new apartment. Haven't had my desktop powered on for over a month. Time to play some games :)

A PC battlestation on a bamboo desk perfectly fit into a nook on a wood vinyl floor with two 32" 4k monitors, a rolling office chair, a pair of desktop speakers, and a mouse and keyboard. You can see a stack of moving tubs to the left of the desk. A freshly poured glass of monster sits on the left side of the desk.

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Jaz @jaz.sh · 29/03/2025

Cute lil vortices on the runway spinny spinny spinny

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Jaz @jaz.sh · 22/03/2025

Homelab is now in its new home and online, catching up on the network. Will probably take 10+ hours to catch up on 7 days of missed activity so hopefully I can bring the feeds back up sometime tomorrow :) This closet happened to be perfectly sized for my rack and is right next to the ISP drop!!!

12U server rack sitting in Jaz's closet next to the networking panel for internet, you can see it fits perfectly within the width of the closet and there are coats sitting above it.

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Jaz @jaz.sh · 10/03/2025

Huh, wonder why Bsky traffic looks so weird and shark-finny today? Oh, okay yeah that explains it. Welcome, everyone!

Graph of bluesky requests/sec throughput showing spikes at around 3AM, 7AM, and a big one starting near 8AM and continuing until the present PST.

Graph of reported outages of Twitter from DownDetector showing spikes at 3AM, 7AM, and starting after 8AM and continuing until now PST.

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Jaz @jaz.sh · 21/02/2025

@pfrazee.com gave me this award in standup today I think the facial expression is pretty accurate for how I feel reading Hackernews comments most of the time :|

A hand drawn (neutral-expression) smiley face labeled"JAZ" is wearing a floating crown next to the text "Hacker News Winner!" along with a floating trophy with "HN #1" written on it.

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Jaz @jaz.sh · 10/02/2025

There's publicly observable data from the AT Proto event firehose that shows the dip during the halftime show and then the massive spike at the end when everyone tuned in to post about it and like posts about it. Read-side traffic (which isn't publicly observable) saw a similar spike.

Graph of events per second and records per second on the atproto firehose. You can see a slight ramp from 750 evt/sec to ~860 evt/sec during the first half of the game, then a dip to 722/sec during the halftime show and a spike to 1.43k evt/sec after the halftime show (~100% increase).

During the spike, posts nearly doubled in new posts per second and likes more than doubles in new likes per second.

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Jaz @jaz.sh · 02/02/2025

They're diurnal with a daily peak between 8AM-7PM PST Daily trough is around 12AM-4AM PST Here's a graph of write traffic over two recent days as seen from our public firehose

Graph of create operations per second of the firehose over two days.
You can see a diurnal cycle with a daily peak starting around 8AM PST and ending around 7:30PM PST

Traffic during the trough is just under 400 evt/sec, traffic during peak is just over 800 evt/sec

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Jaz @jaz.sh · 24/01/2025

I can offer a Blahaj on the couch in front of a LTT Couchripper CPU pillow (modeled after an AMD Threadripper CPU) both in front of a custom blanket my awesome astrophysicist sister got for me that shows the magnetic field of the Milky Way from the center out (heasarc.gsfc.nasa.gov/docs/objects...).

a Blahaj on the couch in front of a LTT Couchripper CPU pillow (modeled after an AMD Threadripper CPU) both in front of a custom blanket my awesome astrophysicist sister got for me that shows the magnetic field of the Milky Way from the center out

The blahaj is a stuffed shark with blue coloring and white underbelly. The Couchripper pillow has a silver integreated heat spreader section and then the IC packaging section which is green with gold "pads" stitched into it. The blanket is light blue with white and red lines showing the shape of the milky way's magnetic field, the galactic disk sitting on the top edge of the couch and only half of the galaxy visible to the camera.

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Jaz @jaz.sh · 16/11/2024

This is what it looks like when you all watch the boxing match together and take a little break from posting and liking things until the time between rounds where everyone checks in with their friends. Then after the match y'all go back to posting and liking things as usual. Pretty damn neat.

Graph of posts, follows, likes, reposts, etc. over time over the past 3 hours. You can see a dip starting at around 9:15PM PST from ~1k events per second to ~825 events per second, then every few minutes there's a little spike for about 30 minutes, and then things bump back up to 1k evt per second as if we're back to normal and slowly decrease as the night gets late.

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Jaz @jaz.sh · 15/11/2024

Bluesky by the Numbers today: 1.3M people Posted 6.5M posts 2.3M people Liked 37.5M posts 2.9M people Followed 41.5M people (!!!!!) Over 1,000,000 people joined the network!!!!!! We broke all-time traffic records by over 30% today across the board. Follows are up 20x from 2 weeks ago! Holy Moly

Graph of posts and likes per day over the past 11 days showing growth from 2.2M posts per day to 6.5M posts per day and 11.7M likes per day to 37.5M likes per day.

Graph of follows per day and unique users following someone per day over the past 11 days showing growth from 2.1M follows per day and 417k people following someone to 41.5M follows per day and 2.9M people following someone. The growth is clearly exponential.

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Jaz @jaz.sh · 14/11/2024

You all like "line go up" posts right? Well the line is going up! Stats for the past day: 30M Follows - 1.83M unique people followed someone 30M Likes - 1.73M unique people liked someone 5.2M Posts - 986k unique people posted something ~650k new users in the past 24 hours

Graph of posts per day and likes per day showing both per day unique users performing each action and total actions per day.

Graph goes back 14 days and shows growth over the past 8 days from 2.5M posts and 12.5M likes a day to 5.25M posts and 30M likes.

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Jaz @jaz.sh · 12/11/2024

So I guess we're just doin bigger numbers every day now. This is pretty damn exciting and I'm glad y'all are here and justifying the time we spent investing in scaling. Really feels special to see this 20% day over day growth in activity and the "fresh of breath air" new users are experiencing. 💜

Graph of users over time and new users over time over the past 14 days from October 30th until the start of November 12th.
We start with 13.5M users and end at 14.5M users.
Each day shows a bar of new users per day and it keeps increasing, now adding over 200k new users per day.

Graph of firehose traffic over the past 6 hours overlaid with lines from yesterday, a week ago, and 4 weeks ago.

Average event rate increased from 150/sec 4 weeks ago to 292/sec a week ago to 543/sec yesterday to 677/sec today.

Event rate has increased by 15-20% daily over the past 6 days.

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Jaz @jaz.sh · 10/11/2024

If you're wondering how things have been going at the Posting Factory Over 100k new users per day since November 5th and no sign of slowing. ~10M follows per day (+400%) ~18M likes per day (+46%) ~3M posts per day (+30%) Firehose traffic regularly over 500 evt/sec for most of the day now.

Graph of users over time on Bluesky and new users per day showing a trail off from the last big EME over 2 weeks ago and then a steady linear increase now at 100k new users per day since November 5th. Graph starts 2 weeks ago at 12.8M users and ends at 14.25M users (midnight today).

Graph of firehose traffic over time showing a 24 hour window with an overlay from a day ago, a week ago, and 4 weeks ago. You can see a clear day/night cycle with quiet hours from 11PM PST to 3AM PST where traffic is 1/2 the "peak".
Current
Mean: 402 evt/s
1 Day Ago
Mean: 380 evt/s
1 Week Ago
Mean: 216 evt/s
4 Weeks Ago
Mean: 122 evt/s

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Jaz @jaz.sh · 09/11/2024

Oh shit we actually have sports now and are entering mainstream??? Bluesky spotted on NBC sports at the bar. This was like the 4th Bluesky post they showed in this segment too!

TV at the bar showing a Bluesky post on a basketball broadcast from NBC

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Jaz @jaz.sh · 09/11/2024

If we scope down to just the last 14 days (not including today) we're looking at ~260k new users since November 5th.

Users over time for Bluesky over 14 days showing a climb from ~13.275M on 10/26 to 14.02M at the start of 11/08

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Jaz @jaz.sh · 06/11/2024

And so it begins...

Graph of events over time on the Bluesky firehose nearly doubling what it was at yesterday (up from 290 evt/sec to over 500 evt/sec) and climbing.

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Jaz @jaz.sh · 29/10/2024

Checking in a little bit later now and we're still on a roll, up to just about 13.5M users from ~6.2M users 2 months ago. Good thing there's nothing exciting happening next week and things will be nice and normal and stable for a while...

Graph of bsky users over time over the past 90 days showing an increase from 6M users to 13.5M users in two large surges, one on August 30th from Brazil and another on October 18th from TOS and Blocking changes at twitter.

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Jaz @jaz.sh · 26/10/2024

The heap for the service is actually pretty light, tbh I think the RAM usage is inflated by memory fragmentation and measuring RSS.

heap dump of social proof service RAM usage sitting at ~5.9GB

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Jaz @jaz.sh · 20/10/2024

Wild to realize Bluesky has more than doubled its user count in <2 months to 12.5M users. Growth is kinda crazy, the spikes are significantly larger now and despite having 6M users 2 months ago we're still capable of this kind of massive growth in such a short time. Glad to have you all here.

Users over time chart for the past 60 days starting at 6.22M users on August 22nd, jumping sharply at the end of august, then steadily increasing up until 3 days ago where we have another sharp jump.

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Jaz @jaz.sh · 18/10/2024

12 Million Bluesky Users! Wait a second I feel like we were just here with 11M like, a day ago? Welcome everyone, glad you're here!

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Jaz @jaz.sh · 17/10/2024

Over 500,000 new users in the past 24 hours, wow... Welcome everyone! Sorry for the brief outage while some of us were asleep! We're doing our best to keep things up and running smoothly for you!

Firehose traffic graph showing an event rate climbing from 150/sec to 1.15k/sec over 24 hours.

New user count graph a spike of over 30 new users per second after an outage and consistent time over 15 new users per second.

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Jaz @jaz.sh · 17/10/2024

Going to bed soon, line still going up... Hopefully I get a few hours of sleep before getting paged lmao Happy 11M users everyone! Nearly 10 new users joining per second (welcome Japan and Korea) Hope y'all are having a good time finding your community and connecting!

Firehose event rate climbing from 150 evt/sec at noon PDT to nearly 700 evt/sec now.

New users per second climbing from 0.2/sec to nearly 10/sec.

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Jaz @jaz.sh · 17/10/2024

line goes up Japan and Korea have entered the chat 列は増え続ける日本と韓国はここにいる 줄이 계속 올라가네요 일본과 한국이 지금 여기 있습니다

firehose events per second increasing from 150/sec 10 hours ago to 500/sec now

new users per sec increasing from 0.2/sec to over 5/sec now

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