omicron VS feedback

> On my work I make 1-15 commits a day. If I have to spend thought cycles on the commit message, that is time that goes from other productive endeavours.

I make roughly that many commits a day as well. If something's easy to understand I'll put in a simple commit message (e.g. [1]), but I do put in the effort for more complicated ones.

[1] https://github.com/nextest-rs/nextest/commit/efd194b2e1d8d61...

[2] https://github.com/oxidecomputer/omicron/commit/b07a8f593325...

> I also wonder if internally Linux is used for development of the platform itself

Developers at Oxide work on whatever platform they'd like. I will say I am in the minority as a Windows user though, most are on some form of Unix.

> so they can create "virtual" racks to dogfood the product without full blown physical racks.

So one of the reasons why Rust is such an advantage for us is its strong cross-platform support: you can run a simulated version of the control plane on Mac, Linux, and Illumos, without a physical rack. The non-simulated version must run on Helios. [1]

That said we do have a rack in the office (literally named dogfood) that employees can use for various things if they wish.

1: https://github.com/oxidecomputer/omicron?tab=readme-ov-file#...

> I think the question is how well they can do the management plane.

Docs:

* https://docs.oxide.computer/api/guides/responses

See perhaps "This repo houses the work-in-progress Oxide Rack control plane."

* https://github.com/oxidecomputer/omicron

When we started the company, we knew it would be a three year build -- and indeed, our first product is in the final stages of development (i.e. EMC/safety certification). We have been very transparent about our progress along the way[0][1][2][3][4][5][6][7] -- and our software is essentially all open source, so you can follow along there as well.[8][9][10]

If you are asking "does anyone want a rack-scale computer?" the (short) answer is: yes, they do. The on-prem market has been woefully underserved -- and there are plenty of folks who are sick of Dell/HPE/VMware/Cisco, to say nothing of those who are public cloud borne and wondering if they should perhaps own some of their own compute rather than rent it all.

[0] https://oxide-and-friends.transistor.fm/episodes/holistic-bo...

[1] https://oxide-and-friends.transistor.fm/episodes/the-oxide-s...

[2] https://oxide-and-friends.transistor.fm/episodes/bringup-lab...

[3] https://oxide-and-friends.transistor.fm/episodes/more-tales-...

[4] https://oxide-and-friends.transistor.fm/episodes/another-lpc...

[5] https://oxide-and-friends.transistor.fm/episodes/the-pragmat...

[6] https://oxide-and-friends.transistor.fm/episodes/tales-from-...

[7] https://oxide-and-friends.transistor.fm/episodes/the-sidecar...

[8] https://github.com/oxidecomputer/omicron

[9] https://github.com/oxidecomputer/propolis

[10] https://github.com/oxidecomputer/hubris

Speaking of interesting names, their control plane is called Omicron: https://github.com/oxidecomputer/omicron

I stated using gofakeit's "hackerphrase" for all commit messages.

https://github.com/andrewarrow/feedback/commits/main/

hp | git commit -a -F -

hp is a golang binary that just spits out a hacker phrase. I have this aliased with the letter q for "quick" so I'm always checking in stuff with q return push done.

"zip_locations_zip_index" UNIQUE, btree (zip)

The following takes hours and hours to run:

https://github.com/andrewarrow/feedback/blob/main/location/zip.go

But you end up with a nice way to get an approximate postgis geometry for any zip code in the USA. (For free.) Anyone know of a faster way?

My favorite part of this code is buffer := make([]byte, 1). By making the buffer just a single byte, I can look for "\n" so much easier than if I was reading in 1024 bytes or 2,048 bytes etc and then I have to find that \n in the middle.

I love this list. One thing I'll add is I like to avoid using S3 or google's cloud storage AT ALL until I have > 30 GB. i.e. with google free tier of their compute engine you get a 30GB hard drive, 1GB ram, and two AMD EPYC 7B12 2250 MHz processors. So I make a fake bucket system using those free 30GB:

https://github.com/andrewarrow/feedback/tree/main/filestorag...

All I code I write is in bucket form, ready to flip a switch and use real buckets but 100% free up to that hard drive limit.

I just used a mutex here:

https://github.com/andrewarrow/feedback/blob/master/stats/me...

Multiple go routines will call this method at same time but:

https://github.com/andrewarrow/feedback/blob/master/router/p...

Where I call it I start a new go routine so nothing is ever waiting on that mutex right?

So this question https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35198563 prompted me to revisit the framework demo'ed here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35033368

Just like reddit lets you go to what might be a 404 page /r/anything-you-want and you can then create that subreddit, I added this feature to remoterenters so you can make /rr/anything-you-want and be the mod of that sub.

To get the ball rolling with some content I made these two AI based subs:

https://remoterenters.com/rr/amazing-ai-understanding/

https://remoterenters.com/rr/writing-prompts/

And my friend "not_a_t1000" bot helped me add some interesting content. My favorite one in "amazing-ai-understanding" is about the Steering Wheel! How can it know this subtle meaning! So impressed!

Feel free to create your own new subs or add to these. Everything is open source. You can follow along with the commits to the "go on rails" framework here:

https://github.com/andrewarrow/feedback/

and the sample app here:

https://github.com/andrewarrow/remoterenters/

if anyone wants to pay for the domain, I'll set up copies of this https://remoterenters.com/ for any topic you want. Trouble is hard to compete with:

https://www.reddit.com/r/worldnews

https://www.reddit.com/r/marketing

https://www.reddit.com/r/business

for traffic and users.

paste an example search with zero results in code. Like I did:

https://github.com/andrewarrow/feedback/search?q=view&type=c...

but

https://github.com/andrewarrow/feedback/search?q=views&type=...

does have results.

I'm not sure exactly what features to add next to this site https://remoterenters.com/ but the idea is to help people find a building where their rent is actually a good deal. Because yes, many people will never get a mortgage and buy a condo or house. And a16z has a plan to give renters equity in their building + make the experience of living there 10x better.