James Read

A "full stack" Open Source enthusiast, creating olivetin.app, and other no-nonsense open source software.

Dad, hobbyist developer, open-source enthusiast and Red Hatter. Find my Blog, GitHub and contact details at jread.com

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James Readjamesread
2026-02-13

My purchasing power for gadgets exceeds my free time to actually play with them. ;-)

James Readjamesread
2026-02-12
James Readjamesread
2026-02-12

Don't underestimate the impact of compound interest, they said! In a game I'm creating, I added .5% interest per minute (per tick), and over 3 days 261 gold has become 707 billion gold! Now, how can I get those interest rates in real life?!

James Readjamesread
2026-02-12

"Opus? Who cares about Opus? Codex 5.3 has been the industry standard for the last 20 minutes" youtube.com/shorts/vGKC9LpGnOQ

James Readjamesread
2026-02-10

My kids seem to be compiled with -vvvv on at runtime, should have compiled with -g.

James Readjamesread
2026-02-03

I know a lot of customers who waited for this - they've been using it in preview - and now will appreciate that it's GA! Put simply, this provides better security controls for those containers that need to connect directly to Azure resources on ARO: red.ht/49WpoB8

James Readjamesread
2026-02-03

The Architectural Problem with Clawdbot/Moltbolt/OpenClaw - it tears down security walls we've build around our apps for the last 2 decades; youtube.com/watch?v=p9acrso71KU

James Readjamesread
2026-02-01

Just a normal Sunday morning; an AI is writing a tech spec for constraint solver for my game, and I'm folding laundry...

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2026-01-31
James Readjamesread
2026-01-31

Time to upgrade my timeserver from GSM+NTP to GPS/Galileo+PTP.

James Readjamesread
2026-01-30

Super interesting, and exiting to see progress with Maia! :-) youtube.com/watch?v=lIQe7PvjoX4

James Readjamesread
2026-01-29

I've been trying to understand the wider NVidia portfolio for a while, and took the time to write up my extensive notes as a blog post; blog.jread.com/posts/nvidias-2

James Readjamesread
2026-01-28

New blog post, My Multi-Cloud Usage in 2026; Azure, Linode, Hetzner, Cloudflare workers and Runpod; blog.jread.com/posts/a-snapsho

James Readjamesread
2026-01-27

Place your bets on this KVM switch being capable of switching 100Gbps of display port over 4x computers....

Dubious looking 4 computer, 4k, 4 port DP switch
James Readjamesread
2026-01-26

Upgrade time - need better management of my VLANs at home!

James Readjamesread
2026-01-24

This is what happens when you "vibe" too hard; gocyclo -over 4 .
119 main setupLevel main.go:363:1

James Readjamesread
2026-01-23

It just seems like I'm getting much better quality technical videos on YouTube now-a-days, than I ever used to. Lots of interesting tech youtubers catering for some really interesting topics.

James Readjamesread
2026-01-20

@autiomaa Agreed 👍 Walled garden app stores are also terrible for consumers, apart from the auto updates - and PWAs solve that too.

James Readjamesread
2026-01-20

I've built a lot of apps, and I keep coming back to the web as the platform of choice, especially in 2026. That’s saying something from a terminal addict and self-hosting enthusiast. PWAs + modern web APIs have crossed a threshold: offline-first, installable and performant, and can feel "native".

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