Anna Silva @notjustanna.net · 21/05/2026Anthropic gave Sonnet a button to call Opus for help when it's stuck. 2.7 points higher on SWE-bench, 11.9% cheaper per task. Cheaper and smarter. New post — "Claude Sonnet Has a Coach Now" notjustanna.net/post/claude-sonnet-has-a-coach-now/notjustanna.netClaude Sonnet Has a Coach NowMy Sonnet got better AND cheaper? Where do I sign up? 010
Anna Silva @notjustanna.net · 21/05/2026I wanted to remap one key on my new keyboard. To do that I read 25,000 lines of 8051 assembly. Intel 8051. A 1980 microcontroller. In a keyboard. The Pentium people are in my keyboard. New post — "Writing software for my keyboard" notjustanna.net/post/writing...notjustanna.netWriting software for my keyboardI wanted to remap one key on my new keyboard. To do that, I read 25,000 lines of 8051 assembly. 031
Anna Silva @notjustanna.net · 19/05/2026Valve is shipping Microsoft's 2011 convergence roadmap on commodity hardware and running Windows games on it better than Microsoft does. Microsoft built the future, shipped it, and walked away. New post — "Microsoft Was Right. They Were Just Fifteen Years Early." notjustanna.net/post/microso...notjustanna.netMicrosoft Was Right. They Were Just Fifteen Years Early.Windows 8 was correct. Metro was correct. Microsoft saw convergence before anyone and got laughed off the stage for it. Fifteen years later Valve and Google are eating the lunch Microsoft left on the ... 031
Anna Silva @notjustanna.net · 14/05/2026Mythos autonomously found a 27-year-old bug in OpenBSD overnight. My router is a 2021 consumer device on what we hope is not the final firmware. The math is bad. New post — "I'm forcing myself to buy a new router and I'm not happy about it." notjustanna.net/post/forcing-myself-to-buy-a-router/notjustanna.netI'm forcing myself to buy a new router and I'm not happy about it.640,000 hostile requests, Claude hacking BSD and FFmpeg, and the expensive realization that my router is on borrowed time. 032
Anna Silva @notjustanna.net · 12/05/2026I accidentally built a not-a-framework over a weekend. It's called SeamStack. Pick a frontend, pick a backend, `pnpm create seam@latest`. Zero config, one URL. New post — "I've accidentally built a not-a-framework. It's called SeamStack." notjustanna.net/post/seamsta...notjustanna.netI've accidentally built a not-a-framework. It's called SeamStack.I boilerplated too close to the sun and ended up with a new way to build web apps. And somehow it's not a framework. 041
Anna Silva @notjustanna.net · 10/05/2026This post, somehow, is more about Bluesky than GitHub. Tangled might be decent. But alas, Waffles. No witty punchline this time. I'm angry. notjustanna.net/post/on-leav...notjustanna.netOn leaving GitHub, conditionallyGitHub is bad and the only alternative I actually want is gated by Bluesky moderation. So nothing. 031
Anna Silva @notjustanna.net · 03/04/2026AWS gives away 1M Lambda invocations, 25 GB of DynamoDB, and 50,000 Cognito users. Per month. Forever. For free. So naturally I designed a whole SaaS backend on it. New post — "Design Constraints as Art: Maximizing Your AWS Free Tier" notjustanna.net/post/design-constraints-as-art/notjustanna.netDesign Constraints as Art: Maximizing Your AWS Free TierAWS has a free tier. It is weirder, more generous, and more dangerous than you think. Three years of building Lambda backends taught me how to make it sing. 031
Anna Silva @notjustanna.net · 02/04/2026notjustanna.net/post/llms-go...notjustanna.netLLMs got Autism from the InternetI asked Claude to take the RAADS-R. I expected a polite refusal. I did not get a polite refusal. 031
Anna Silva @notjustanna.net · 27/03/2026Full GitOps means secrets can't go in the repo. So I looked at SOPS, GitHub Actions Secrets, AWS, OCI Vault, Doppler. All of them had the wrong answer. New post — "Infisical is Great, Actually" dev.to/notjustanna/...dev.toInfisical is Great, ActuallyI run ArgoCD. Full GitOps — if it's not in the repo, it doesn't exist. That's great for everything... 041
Anna Silva @notjustanna.net · 27/03/2026I self-hosted my GitOps repo on the cluster my GitOps was managing. Then the VM died. And the repo was on it. And the VPN was on it. And the auth layer was on it. New post — "Self-Hosting Everything, Including the Single Point of Failure" dev.to/notjustanna/...dev.toSelf-Hosting Everything, Including the Single Point of FailureHomelabbing is genuinely fun. I want to say that upfront, before I tell you about the time I locked... 031
Anna Silva @notjustanna.net · 26/03/2026HashiCorp Nomad is designed for hundreds of nodes across multiple datacenters. I run it on my gaming PC. Cluster of one. It's great. New post — "I Run Nomad on my Gaming PC (It's Great)" dev.to/notjustanna/...dev.toI Run Nomad on my Gaming PC (It's Great)HashiCorp Nomad is a workload orchestrator. Think Kubernetes, but without the container-first dogma —... 031
Anna Silva @notjustanna.net · 25/03/2026"One container for the whole machine" is just a VM with extra steps. A week later: the steward container pattern. A thin Alpine image that orchestrates MORE containers. Don't extend scratch images — use them. New post — "Containers, The Wrong Way: Lessons Learnt" dev.to/notjustanna/...dev.toContainers, The Wrong Way: Lessons LearntThis is a follow-up of "Containers, The Wrong Way, For Always-Free Fun and Profit" In my last... 041
Anna Silva @notjustanna.net · 23/03/2026Oracle gives away 4 ARM cores and 24GB of RAM. Forever. For free. So naturally I put Kubernetes inside a privileged container on it. New post: why running K3s "the wrong way" gives you versioned, testable infrastructure that Ansible never could. dev.to/notjustanna/...dev.toContainers, The Wrong Way, For Always-Free Fun and ProfitPrelude: Oracle Cloud's Always-Free Tier Oracle Cloud has an always-free tier. Not a... 031
Anna Silva @notjustanna.net · 20/03/2026What if your kernel could sandbox drivers without hardware isolation, and your binaries got faster every time you upgraded your CPU? New post — "Thinking Differently About Universal Microkernels" dev.to/notjustanna/...dev.toThinking Differently About Universal MicrokernelsAs a not-Macbook owner, I have to yell this into the void: I really like macOS' kernel. Not macOS —... 164
Anna Silva @notjustanna.net · 01/03/2026By far, the funniest possible consequence of Minecraft Java Edition going Vulkan is that GPU drivers might as well drop OpenGL support on their drivers the following day 061
