20 December 2025

26 links · Saturday

Backing up Spotify

We backed up Spotify (metadata and music files). It’s distributed in bulk torrents (~300TB). It’s the world’s first “preservation archive” for music which is fully open (meaning it can easily be mirrored by anyone with enough disk space), with 86 million music…

NTP at NIST Boulder has lost power - NANOG

reposting from the Internet time service list jeff.s...@nist.gov <jeff.sherman@nist.gov>: Dec 19 05:18PM -0800 Dear colleagues, In short, the atomic ensemble time scale at our Boulder campus has failed due to a prolonged utility power outage. One impact is…

Node.js platform/arch possible values

The official Node.js docs (v25.2.1) say that process.platform can be 'aix' | 'darwin' | 'freebsd' | 'linux' | 'openbsd' | 'sunos' | 'win32' and process.arch can be 'arm' | 'arm64' | 'ia32' | 'loong64' | 'mips' | 'mipsel' | 'ppc64' | 'riscv64' | 's390' | 's390x…

The Big-O Complexity of Vibe Coders — Shiveesh Fotedar

Vibe coding is increasingly part of how software engineers work with LLMs. Right now, “good” vibe coding is mostly judged by speed. Who gets to a working result fastest? As LLM usage scales inside companies, a familiar evaluation pattern will likely emerge. N…

I am a factory worker now

I am a factory worker now. Wake up, deploy the robot vacuum so it’s done before the kids get home. Fire up a Claude code session and have it get to work on a feature for a side project. Run a …