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Jason McIntosh @mcintosh.farm · 03/10/2026

Haven’t spent a lot of time tuning or optimizing. Tried several tuning options on rook was only running single replicas even etc. perf numbers fyi. More to do early days

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Jason McIntosh @mcintosh.farm · 03/10/2026

This is why I'm running used servers for build farm (and lab) stuff... ECC memory, enterprise hardware, etc.. yes, it's used, but... even USED this kinda stuff tends to be pretty solid. ECC ram in PARTICULAR IMHO is one of the most key things I want in any system!

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Jason McIntosh @mcintosh.farm · 03/10/2026

Trialing @truenas.bsky.social CSI driver. RIGHT NOW... I'm VERY impressed. iSCSI working well and destroys rook ceph on performance! Other tidbits? Claude helped set all of this up and did WELL doing so. SO kudos to BOTH. Good smoke tests, perf tests, etc.! Updating lab repo now!

truenas.com

CSI Driver

Provides overview information on the TrueNAS CSI driver integration with Kubernetes.

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Jason McIntosh @mcintosh.farm · 03/10/2026

I'm working on updating my lab monitoring - I'm moving almost everything to @clickhouse.com for storage. UI is annoying though. HyperDX isn't quite as functional as Grafana, and NEITHER give "click on this to drill in" (IMHO go try @honeycomb.io or NewRelic or similar). STILL prefer those!

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Jason McIntosh @mcintosh.farm · 02/10/2026

There's a quote here from @charity.wtf that I think is KEY. "AI is not magic, it is technology". aboard.com/podcast/char... .. To me - SAME THING ON SPRING BOOT, Clickhouse, etc.! This stuff is NOT magic. There's too much "magic" commentary in the tech world dang it!

aboard.com

Charity Majors: Embrace your computer’s chaos

Observability in the AI era with the co-founder and CTO of Honeycomb.

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Jason McIntosh @mcintosh.farm · 02/10/2026

Or you need the government to make peoples lives easier/better ;) I'm not sure which sometimes would happen sooner from a government entity ;)

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Jason McIntosh @mcintosh.farm · 02/10/2026

Seeing similar - it's catching state machine issues on sql concurrency, redis consistency even down to library (aka a java Jedis issue), etc. It's been CRAZY impressive how well it does. Now it screwed up a liquibase CHANGELOG change impact - was too wide on one change, but overall.. WOW

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Jason McIntosh @mcintosh.farm · 02/10/2026

There are bad jokes, there are dad jokes but there are no bad dad jokes!

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Jason McIntosh @mcintosh.farm · 29/09/2026

"Our investigation developed proof beyond a reasonable doubt that President Trump engaged in serious crimes against our nation," Yeah pretty much this says it all. But people don't like the message, so they attack the messenger.

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Jason McIntosh @mcintosh.farm · 29/09/2026

I see avocado but what else? Onions? Both look delicious!

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Jason McIntosh @mcintosh.farm · 28/09/2026

I say "everyone treated equally". I should amend: There are those who've had a TOUGH life who deserve EXTRA attention/support. Thus... SNAP programs, and support systems. IMHO those are part of a society that supports it's people.

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Jason McIntosh @mcintosh.farm · 28/09/2026

Trans: I don't have to understand trans nor do I want to NOR need to. They're human beings and I don't have to understand them to be decent to someone trans, let them live their lives as they choose, etc. THIS is how I argue for rights - I want EVERYONE treated the same no matter who they are.

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Jason McIntosh @mcintosh.farm · 28/09/2026

I'll also say for languages I HATE like UI work - it's much better than me ever having to look at a pnpm lockfile ever again. I'd MUCH rather vibe that.

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Jason McIntosh @mcintosh.farm · 28/09/2026

5 has gotten WAY WAY better too, and 5.5 opus is doing MUCH better. I've... finally let it have access to push though at times I ALSO still go plan mode - I have a few "vibe" PRs but I ALWAYS evaluate them afterwards still - and usually find 1-2 things AI misses.

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Jason McIntosh @mcintosh.farm · 28/09/2026

Datacenters. To me, it's a bit like restricting CAFO's - all a matter of regulations AND research. You limit who, where, how, and impacts. EXAMPLES: REQUIRE them to pay for the new electricity. Don't allow incentives. 3000' minimum distance to a house. Water restrictions. Waste restrictions. ETC.

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Jason McIntosh @mcintosh.farm · 24/09/2026

www.youtube.com/watch?v=OmMN... NICE video on pocket hole wood working stuff ;) For wood workers out there - been VERY impressed with workshopcompanion.com stuff

youtube.com

Pocket Holes Overexplained

YouTube video by Workshop Companion

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Jason McIntosh @mcintosh.farm · 24/09/2026

ONE thing I've noticed - AI does rather well at handling my typos. I have at endency to do what I just did - try to go to fast and make spaces after the character I'd intended. AI seems to handle and adjust to this rather well (or at least..... @claudecode.bsky.social handles this). Nice!

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Jason McIntosh @mcintosh.farm · 15/09/2026

One of the things about AI I'm MOST thankful for? Having AI deal with NPM/PNPM/Javascript/UI work ;) it does VERY well at it and I no longer have to look at package.json or lockfiles or eslint or half a dozen other things that drove me insane. I'm a backend guy for sure!

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Jason McIntosh @mcintosh.farm · 15/09/2026

GOTTA love @charity.wtf :) charity.wtf/p/confession... great post like she always does - NO AI slop included! :) (AI slop is good for docs, code, and artifacts... not for stories ... unless you want videos of hampsters taking on storm troopers... hrmmm)

charity.wtf

Confessions of an Unrepentant Slop Snob

A framework for thinking about when AI involvement is additive or a violation

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Jason McIntosh @mcintosh.farm · 04/09/2026

I've got a half rack so space been an issue. i prefer unifi to keep it all managed (vlan's primarily for work vs. lab vs. home separation). Would go for as many ports as I can get but NOT in a rush too ;) Thankfully it's also sitting under steps next to some DL380 G9 servers so noise ok

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Jason McIntosh @mcintosh.farm · 04/09/2026

I'd been wondering about that ;) store.ui.com/us/en/catego... looked REALLY interesting (though sold out atm)... and wondered if this would actually handle this MUCH better... 32 10gb ports... was VERY interesting to me, particularly if used store.ui.com/us/en/catego... where needed? Thoughts?

store.ui.com

Switch Hi-Capacity Aggregation - Ubiquiti Store

A 32-port, Layer 3 switch made for high-capacity 10G SFP+ and 25G SFP28 connections.

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Jason McIntosh @mcintosh.farm · 04/09/2026

I'm actively considering upgrading my #homelab to 10gb networking... but I KNOW many devices don't go to 10gb (older stuff)... but still thinking it'd help a LOT. Have to do a few upgrades on a few machines, and my NAS needs then a 10gb network card for sure...

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Jason McIntosh @mcintosh.farm · 31/08/2026

A favorite thing to do as a developer is reduce lines of code. Reducing the amount of complexity, duplication, or otherwise simplifying codebases is one of the best feelings and one that doesn't happen NEAR enough. Refactoring helps, but so does "use standard libs" or "this is old/unused kill it"

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Jason McIntosh @mcintosh.farm · 26/08/2026

AI: EVEN WITH latest models, STILL treat it like pair programming and you're the senior dev. It is getting better... but still misses things. "This returns a string, let me add JsonNode to parse the results" STOP - there ARE concrete classes to help! KNOW the libraries/SDKs/APIs you're using!

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Jason McIntosh @mcintosh.farm · 26/08/2026

Nice update comparing #rabbitmq to #kafka www.rabbitmq.com/docs/compare... - though I haven't been in this space in a LONG while... I have a STRONG like of rabbitmq still :) The guys on that team were amazing back when I did a lot of rabbitmq work.

rabbitmq.com

RabbitMQ vs. Apache Kafka | RabbitMQ

An honest, technical comparison of RabbitMQ and Apache Kafka — where the two designs agree, where they differ, and which one to use for which use case.

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Jason McIntosh @mcintosh.farm · 25/08/2026

Allies are how we progress. Enemies are how we lose. Enemies & allies should be selected based upon how they treat their people. AND who someone looks up/chooses as friends/allies says more about them than most other actions. FYI I love #canada!

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Jason McIntosh @mcintosh.farm · 25/08/2026

Unpopular opinion: Trump WAS right that Iran was an issue no one dealt/wanted to deal with. What he screwed up on was NO plan (not even a bad plan). Start publicly with allies, congress, goals, keep those consistent, etc. THEN go alone if needed. PLAN! It isn't wrong to step it. It's wrong HOW.

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Jason McIntosh @mcintosh.farm · 25/08/2026

The majority of people give a damn about how much it costs to afford groceries each month. Until that gets fixed, it's harder to think about things beyond what's in front of people. Same issue with the environment or even Iran - does it impact feeding the kids or paying the rent choices.

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Jason McIntosh @mcintosh.farm · 25/08/2026

But i want a mac mini, i want a mac mini, i want a mac mini :P Mmmm how much ai can you fit in a mac mini... hrmm ;)

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Jason McIntosh @mcintosh.farm · 25/08/2026

If anyone wants to ever buy me anything, I"m a size Pro XG Switch (store.ui.com/us/en/catego...) and a Dell 740xd (used is fine) rackmount server ;) My lab is just ITCHING for some upgrades... :P

store.ui.com

Switch Pro XG 24 - Ubiquiti Store

Professional-grade, 24-port Layer 3 Etherlighting™ switch with (16) 10 GbE, (8) 2.5 GbE, and (2) 25G SFP28 ports.

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Jason McIntosh @mcintosh.farm · 17/08/2026

For those looking at git alternatives to github (to be fair it's up... mostly ... 99%? of the time). There's harness.io (disclosure I work for them, OSS: github.com/harness/harness), gitlab.com, about.gitea.com and other solutions (I like self-hosting). Re-evaluate regularly all of them!

harness.io

Harness: AI for DevOps, Testing, AppSec, and Cost Optimization

Harness is a unified, end-to-end AI software delivery platform to manage the SDLC using purpose-built AI agents.

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Jason McIntosh @mcintosh.farm · 17/08/2026

It's down again, it's down again, another #github down again (www.githubstatus.com). And another one down, and another one down. Another time it hits the dust. Another time it hits the dust. (Sung to Queen's song really badly)

githubstatus.com

GitHub Status

Welcome to GitHub's home for real-time and historical data on system performance.

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Jason McIntosh @mcintosh.farm · 29/07/2026

ONE OF THE most annoying things I see in code lately is mocks that don't need to be mock objects. Just seeing today, cleaning up "mock out the #Micrometer registry" for SimpleRegistry objects. Even on http clients - use a real server for mock RESPONSES - helps identify framework issues!

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Jason McIntosh @mcintosh.farm · 29/07/2026

I'm still not built for it... 😆 but I don't recall ever having to yell at you 🙃 AI on the other hand... sonnet 5 seems to do MUCH better. 4.6 is... painful at times so I have to watch it MUCH more. And yell at it much more. "STOP!!!" I was very annoyed yesterday with it.

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Jason McIntosh @mcintosh.farm · 29/07/2026

For any "XP" programmers remembering paired programming. A lot of times, that's ALSO what AI feels. Sitting watching while a junior programmer works through various things. Only I can yell at AI - I'd not yell at a junior dev! NORMALLY a junior dev ALSO learns from their mistakes.

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Jason McIntosh @mcintosh.farm · 28/07/2026

also known as "pot-kettle-black" :P

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Jason McIntosh @mcintosh.farm · 27/07/2026

I don't have a lot of impact on my local legislature/government - one of the few blue in a massive red area but i CAN take action. I've installed a large solar system. My next vehicles will be electric. I've increased donations to Arbor Day & PBS & others. What are others doing?

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Jason McIntosh @mcintosh.farm · 26/07/2026

*@#$^% The amount of times I had to tell AI this am "Look spring boot 4 defines jackson versions, DO NOT do it", and AI responds "spring boot 4 doesn't define jackson versions for 3 let me do this for you". 5 models are better, but still struggle at times. STILL DO NOT trust blindly!

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Jason McIntosh @mcintosh.farm · 24/07/2026

joe.dev/posts/new-20... Love this from @h.olysh.it - this is the conversation about ai I’m having now with upper level engineers. Not the technical impacts but what are the cultural impacts. Who benefits is a big question in that.

joe.dev

The new 20% time, minus the time

Attention is replacing hours. But is it 120% time all over again?

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Jason McIntosh @mcintosh.farm · 20/07/2026

I interact with many orgs "We're vmware. We migrated to Proxmox /nutanix/etc. k8s on hardware in datacenters! EKS/GKE! AWS EC2 only k8s is bad! ECS FTW! etc!" It's PEOPLE that drive this BUT not sure how much it really matters. AS LONG AS your CUSTOMERS are happy - i'm partial to on prem though!

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Jason McIntosh @mcintosh.farm · 20/07/2026

The trick is to continuously run & sync it. E.g. @harnessio.bsky.social we have an IACM system that can look for out of sync or changes and help you NOT hit this issue. (Disclosure I work for @harnessio.bsky.social ). Course I recommend open tofu over terraform at this point!

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Jason McIntosh @mcintosh.farm · 19/07/2026

Got plenty of ram/cpu. 2x G9 HP380's ;) each with about 200gb of ram. Multi-node k8s cluster for testing/local env. Home assistant/playground stuff. Main thing is local spinnaker & harness install. Adding #proxmox #haproxy tooling for deployments of apps to VMs vs. k8s.

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Jason McIntosh @mcintosh.farm · 19/07/2026

Yeah I switched just yesterday to nfs csi and performance is night and day difference… I’d wonder how proxmox ceph would perform as I like the idea of ceph. I rather liked the idea of gluster but it seems dead.

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Jason McIntosh @mcintosh.farm · 18/07/2026

Seriously about to drop #rook-ceph in my lab k8s cluster. Performance has been HORRIBLE(4x microk8s nodes on proxmox). NFS on truenas is performing REALLY well (also a VM). OR iSCSI with #democratic-csi or something else? COULD do #ceph via #proxmox & ceph-csi as an option. Thoughts?

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Jason McIntosh @mcintosh.farm · 13/07/2026

At times I swear working with AI is like chasing my kids around. "Don't do that, do this!" "STOP, don't do that!" "No this is what I REALLY meant, let me explain in depth". "Did you really just do that?" "Apparently i didn't explain this right" 😮‍💨 Helps but can be very trying at times.

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Jason McIntosh @mcintosh.farm · 10/07/2026

Gotta say... fable model is a lot like having an intelligent coworker, where sonnet/opus is more like a tool you use. Much more interesting and intelligent and solid responses. BUT gotta be careful of how much time you take of that coworker and isn't always right. I'm impressed though.

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Jason McIntosh @mcintosh.farm · 05/05/2026

Burger King app SUCKS. I order through app. App crashes/stops responding half way to store. I restart app. Cart is still there, not seeing a purchase, hit purchase, and... now I have TWO charges on my card. I get only one order. BK says "we'll offer a coupon we can't refund". UGH.

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Jason McIntosh @mcintosh.farm · 24/04/2026

Rephrase :) "ONE good" thing not "The ONE" good thing.

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