Nahum Shalman

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Why yes, in my free time I did build a small web app with dropshot for the backend and then I built out end to end visibility from the web client through to the backend all visible in my personal free tier Honeycomb account.

I wrote a post about why I don't like the name that Amazon uses for their post-incident review process: "Correction of Error". surfingcomplexity.blog/2025/12/20/w...

Happy Bandcamp Friday! Go support your favorite musicians!

I have lived in this house for "hmm, the water dispenser is running slowly; I bet the upstairs toilet handle got stuck running... Yup!" years.

We are opening up the @oxide.computer Discord to more than just recording Oxide and Friends, and now have some general discussion channels, as well as some user channels for our open source projects discord.gg/FRwjhBaH

My command line data analysis tool is at a point where I'm ready to share it! `freq` is a tool I wrote in Rust, intended to replace pipelines of `grep`, `sed`, `awk`, `sort`, `uniq -c`, and `sort -rn` to look at distributions of values in datasets. I use it daily. rya.nc/gh/freq

More evidence that Tailscale is accidentally a service mesh

"Tailscale Enterprise Plan 9 Support" tailscale.com/plan9 (A little thing I wrote and worked on over the past few weekends with @swtch.com)

Happy Don't Trust Anything You Read On The Internet Day to all who celebrate!

Anyone who says they never fell for a phish or other online scam is either lying or doesn't use the Internet. We have all been there. Well done to @troyhunt.com for being so open about his experience so that we can all learn from it

It finally happened - I got phished. Impact is limited to the Mailchimp mailing list for my blog, brief blog post with details here and more to come later: www.troyhunt.com/a-sneaky-phi...

Brevity or Nuance

Tokio + prctl = nasty bug

I can't shake this feeling that there is currently a massive opportunity for companies that want to bet on human intelligence over AI. Tons of skilled people are being laid off. I wish I had a business idea right now.

Do you appreciate good visualizations of math? Curious about the Talmudic approach to settling bankruptcy claims? Have I got the Mathologer video for you! https://youtu.be/uNemXgZ-MWY?si=HL8I1n3BL44KPXF2

My superpower is that I know just enough about a lot of things to know that for everything I know about that there's someone who knows more, but most importantly I either know exactly who, or at least I know how to find them and learn from them.

Probably a 3? I don't think I have enough of a parasocial presence to be intimidating to strangers, and I'm pretty confident I am not intimidating to people who know me. How well am I calibrated?

Be the helpers Mr. Rogers said to look for.

Ever wonder how we fixed a memory leak in our Rust proxy? From keyboard interrupts to async debugging - here's the full story of making our infrastructure more reliable for 35+ regions worldwide 🦀 🔗 ➡️ https://fly.io/blog/rust-memory-leak/

Another callout for the Quiet Posters feed: bsky.app/profile/did:... It's no longer possible for mere mute keywords to block the endless political posts on here, alas. But "people who don't post very often" is a surprisingly great filter. (I'm sure it filters out me. Nobody's perfect.)

#Tailscale 1.80.0 is out, so naturally I have done the little rebase for the #illumos / #Solaris version with tun support: https://github.com/nshalman/tailscale/releases/tag/v1.80.0-sunos

This video was helpful for me to understand the news about DeepSeek: https://youtu.be/gY4Z-9QlZ64?si=Mml1zHR2yjd1Md18

9. Use a password manager, for the love of God

Are any @oxide.computer customers hiring? While I'm great at wrangling heterogenous hardware, I wouldn't mind playing on easy mode for a while... By which I mean solving actual business problems rather than fighting hardware.

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I can't believe I didn't think to do this sooner: https://github.com/tailscale/tailscale/pull/14571 Hopefully we can get official #Tailscale support for #solaris and #illumos on par with AIX. I will keep maintaining my fork for full tun support and hopefully some day get it all upstreamed.

Any other #NixOS folks having trouble with zoom? This workaround worked for me: https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/issues/371488#issuecomment-2575970402

I enabled this on my tailnet and I can confirm that I am able to read/write from iOS / macOS to my illumos share! Thanks for doing the work!!

ShredOS ShredOS is a stripped-down operating system designed to destroy data. GitHub page here.

Met someone in today's lucky 10,000 who had never heard of compost. Probably because Pittsburgh doesn't have municipal composting like some bigger cities. Anyone else in today's lucky 10,000? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compost

I have tentatively done the work needed to get #Tailscale Taildrive sharing working on #illumos / #solaris. It works for me. @papertigers.net please take a look! github.com/nshalman/tai...

Just thousands of people discussing Tailscale on SunOS.

How am I only learning about Taildrive today?! https://tailscale.com/kb/1369/taildrive via @mholt.bsky.social

If you heard that I had a private Discord (I do not) who and what would you expect to find there? (Wrong answers also encouraged)

Ending the year right in #Pittsburgh this morning. What a sunrise it was over the Steel City, with the clouds catching that early morning light from one side of the city to the next. It was an amazing scene from the West End Overlook, and a great way to bookend the year.

If you’re part of a major company that’s advising your employees to use Signal after this Salt Typhoon thing, consider donating to Signal Foundation.

Testing cross posting with https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.plebstr.client

You can use this game to narrow down 30 monospaced typefaces to find your favorite font for coding. I somehow ended up with Courier Prime (🤔) and promptly sent myself to my room for the rest of the day. (I use Menlo in VSCode.) [codingfont.com]

Look how extremely good this website is 🥹

Damn this is really good. I followed a dozen folks. Thank you @theo.io! I wonder, how hard would it be to add support for lists? Showing accounts not in a list but followed by lots of people in the list. My Cryptography list was missing people, too.

Your periodic reminder about the Bluesky network analyzer, a surprisingly useful tool for finding people you know who you probably intended to be following if you knew they were here. It's eerily good, especially if you use "favour niche accounts" mode. bsky-follow-finder.theo.io

This article from @apenwarr.ca popped up in my Twitter feed and was a good thing to reread today: apenwarr.ca/log/?m=201909

Yes! I wanted to write about this again! It’s the time of the year where we’re due for a review of our favorite holiday incident: Home Alone

The recordings from dtrace.conf(24) are up! blog.shalman.org/opentelemetr...