Musings and Mutterings through the Machines

Eleven Links of Note - December 29th, 2025

Janet Jackson had the power to crash laptop computers: a reminder that computers runs on power and frequencies.
How uv got so fast: I am still using pip, but I will switch over to uv in the near future.
Event Driven Autoscaling in Kubernetes using KEDA & RabbitMQ: Feels similar to AWS Autoscaling with SQS.
How I think about Kubernetes: That is how I think about cloud infra as well, though it is much easier to do in kubernetes, for reasons stated in the article.
witr (why-is-this-running): I love this. I hope this tool becomes mainstream.
QNX Self-Hosted Developer Desktop -- Initial Release: I am always a sucker for new desktop environments.
Why Sears’s Last Great Hope Was a Promise That Never Materialized: I used to work at Sears and they had some interesting tech (That is where I first implemented Puppet). It is unfortunately that they ultimately could not get pass their issues preventing them from succeeding in the marketplace.
More dynamic cronjobs: cron jobs are always underrated for how much you can do with them.
How We Automated Federal Retirements: putting aside the politics, this is impressive, especially if you worked in finance.
Best NAS of the Year - 2025: Good watch if you trying to figure out what NAS to buy.
Clock Synchronization Is a Nightmare: Oh, yes, it is.