Tyblog

All the posts unfit for blogging
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Thank Goodness Universal Basic Income Saved the AI Economy

  • 8 January, 2026
  • 398 words
  • 1 minute read time

…because without dramatic policies that addressed the disruption that artificial intelligence products introduced, we'd be in a bad spot.

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439 Days, 8,369 Miles, and 2 Kids with an Electric Vehicle

  • 6 January, 2026
  • 2,391 words
  • 10 minute read time

This is the blog post I wished I could have read when making electric vehicle (EV) purchasing decisions in 2024.

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To monitor my backups, I had to first invent the universe

  • 15 August, 2025
  • 1,807 words
  • 7 minute read time

I store all of my critical data in ZFS and replicate it offsite nightly with zrepl. The monitoring page of the zrepl docs mock me with:

Monitoring endpoints are configured in the global.monitoring section of the config file. […] zrepl can expose Prometheus metrics via HTTP.

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systemd has been a complete, utter, unmitigated success

  • 8 July, 2025
  • 1,782 words
  • 7 minute read time

The year is 2013 and I am hopping mad.

systemd is replacing my plaintext logs with a binary format and pumping steroids into init and it is laughing at me. The unix philosophy cries out: is this the end of Linux (or, as many are calling it, GNU plus Linux)?

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The Human Resources Alignment Problem

  • 18 June, 2025
  • 692 words
  • 2 minute read time

Today I realized that – distinct from the idea of AI misalignment – today's human resource departments have misaligned incentives for how employees will (or are?) using large language models.

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