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Today's Session: Cozystack on Tapok Cluster

Disclaimer: The following text is an AI-generated log and summary of a session deploying Cozystack on a Talos cluster. All work was done in a background manner by claude-code and Swamp, and I only had to approve some steps here and there and add a hint about the ISO boot order issue.

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Today's Session: Cozystack on Tapok Cluster

Disclaimer: The following text is an AI-generated log and summary of a session deploying Cozystack on a Talos cluster. All work was done in a background manner by claude-code and Swamp, and I only had to approve some steps here and there and add a hint about the ISO boot order issue.

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Running macOS Tiger on QEMU: A Technical Post-Mortem

Disclaimer: The following text is an AI-generated log and summary of a 10-hour attempt by claude-code and Swamp to virtualize macOS Tiger 10.4. Previously I had no experience running mac os in VM, nor did a I read guides, during the run I had to point claude to guides and reasonable attempts

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The Sight of Systems

I’ll never forget that feeling—ingesting millions of metrics into a tool like Grafana or Honeycomb for the first time. Before that, I was blind. I was guessing.

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A dream of AI-DLC

The Genesis Engine: A Manifesto for the AI-Driven Development Lifecycle Introduction: The Old World Is Dead Saturday evening, September 20, 2025. I’m thinking about how we build.

The Pain-Driven Workflow

A recent post from System Initiative, “AI is an Amplifier, Why Engineers Need Better Foundations,” got me thinking about our industry workflow. You wonder why I love what they’re building?

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A future ways of working

A video from another era—2013, suddenly found me. Bryan Cantrill talking with the unshakeable confidence of someone who hasn’t yet lived through the next decade.

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CfgMgmtCamp Day 0

Last year, I went to FOSDEM and Config Management Camp as a place to meet colleagues I hadn’t seen for a few years after moving to the Netherlands.