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Eleven Links of Note - December 30th, 2025

Published: Tue 30 December 2025
By rilindo

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tags: nas systemdesign mac dialup internet virtualization kubevirt memory economy ibm aws kubernetes openshift business pizzas food

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  • Dialtone: YOU GOT MAIL.
  • 5 MISTAKES NEW NAS BUYERS ALWAYS MAKE: If you are looking for getting your first NAS or replace an existing one, watch this. Personally, I feel validated about replacing my spinning disk with SSDs.
  • Reflections and rantings from a system design interviewer: With AI "assisting" interviewees, it is definitely challengine to dertermine if the candidates are genuine or not.
  • Last Year on My Mac: Look back in disbelief: I think the outage over the new Mac UI changes is a bit too much, but judging from recent updates, Apple appears to be listening.
  • A Simple Path to Virtual Machines: Not really.
  • Global Memory Shortage Crisis: Market Analysis and the Potential Impact on the Smartphone and PC Markets in 2026: TLDR; computing across the board is going to be more expensive. What a time to go back into home labbing.
  • Remembering Lou Gerstner: Mixed feelings about this one. He killed OS/2, but also paved the way for Linux to become mainstrea,.
  • The internet gets an AWS-chy: When AWS has issues, everybody has issues. Even if you are not using AWS, a service that your app is using is probably AWS, which makes it difficult for your to maintain reliability and availability for your users.
  • Addressing the Limitations of Local Path Provisioner in Kubernetes: Or why you probably use other storage provisioners.
  • How Pizzerias Really Make Money: Love Modern MBA videos focus on local businesses, as they give you an idea of what it takes in succeed. Looking forward to their feature on coffee shops so that I know not to open one.
  • Self-hosting is being . . .: Crapified.
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