Fletcher Nichol

Principal engineer at System Initiative @thesysteminit (Alum @habitatsh, @kitchenci, @chef)

[Nick Gerace @nickgeracehacks]

CachyOS users and ZFS fans: today is your lucky day! My friend @fnichol created an installer just for you.
https://t.co/MeL8MpSUqq

[System Initiative @thesysteminit]

. @thesysteminit is launching the world’s first AI Native Infrastructure Automation platform. Read more about how to supercharge your productivity on our blog, https://t.co/GuGnbBlaIm, and get started today: https://t.co/1Di6XlgmsX

[Fletcher Nichol @fnichol]

@nickstinemates @adamhjk See ya there 😀

[Fletcher Nichol @fnichol]

@fu5ha @bcantrill @ahl Thanks for this today. I've been thinking about this book lately and it's time for an annual fall re-read

[gray 🌄 @fu5ha]

I was brought to tears while walking to work this morning.

I decided to write about it, and what came out was a love letter to myself, to computers, to The Soul of a New Machine, to @bcantrill and @ahl's Oxide and Friends, and to love itself.

https://t.co/1iGl4WHQdB

[Fletcher Nichol @fnichol]

Time to fire up a new VM and get the updates started!

[OpenBSD @openbsd]

OpenBSD 7.6 is officially out now! See what's new here: https://t.co/qMP7zf0BdN

[keeb @nickstinemates]

Taking shortcuts with AI instead of doing the work to deeply understand the problem and therefore denying yourself creativity for a solution is a recipe for disaster.

Too many companies are looking for a silver bullet. Just do the work.

[Fletcher Nichol @fnichol]

I missed RustConf! How did this happen? (hint: busy with launching product)

[RustConf @rustconf]

Relive the magic of #rustconf through pictures! Thanks again to all the Rustaceans who attended #rustconf24 in Montreal and online this past month. We can't wait to do it all again next year 🧡

https://t.co/kaho9BFkKg

[Fletcher Nichol @fnichol]

So far, this is *always* worth the effort. The "story" of a request or activity gets all colored in

[Paul Stack @stack72]

At @thesysteminit, we've been fine tuning the observability story for our distributed system to allow us to understand what is happening internally - we finally hit that key point yesterday of being able to trace across the service boundaries and across systems interacting with NATS. At any point, we can turn the tracing level up and get details data that look like this. This level of understanding is so key to being able to tune the system!

[Fletcher Nichol @fnichol]

@algo_luca @stack72 @thesysteminit It takes a minute to set it up, but so worth it. We're using a lot of NATS and this is how we're propagating via NATS message headers (very similar to HTTP headers) https://t.co/CnwEBAKWjR

[Fletcher Nichol @fnichol]

Oh. Right. Good reminder!

[Bryan Cantrill @bcantrill]

OH: "We don't actually need to solve the Halting Problem to do something useful."

[Fletcher Nichol @fnichol]

Distributed tracing can be *so* hard to get wired & then tuned to appropriate levels. But once everything's connected...it's an unbeatable advantage

[Fletcher Nichol @fnichol]

It's always fun to be a part of a trending project 😀

[ManuAGI 🤖 - ( ManuIn ) @ManuAGI01]

🚀Project Number 10 - System Initiative (SI)🔥

' Your DevOps Automation Tool'

by @thesysteminit

#GitHub #OpenSource #TrendingProjects #AI #TechNews #Coding #Development #NewVideo #AINews #agi #DeveloperTools #TechInnovation #AItools #CodingLife #Programming #DevCommunity
#SystemInitiativeSI

[Fletcher Nichol @fnichol]

@grhmc While this isn't a solution, I've often found myself mining ideas and patterns out of Rust stdlib (often in `std::io`). I agree that trying to compile as much as possible on the different targets feels good and future-focused

[Gene Kim @RealGeneKim]

It’s so great to see what @adamhjk of Chef fame and his amazing team (which includes @nickstinemates @stack72) have created at System Initiative!

What struck me: we all know how difficult it is to do things when cloud feedback cycles are 5-20 minutes.

They create an IDE-like environment where you can get fast feedback for changes, modeled on the infrastructure you have. You can quickly visualize and make the changes you want.

This is the way.

Kudos!!!! 🎉🎉🎉

[Fletcher Nichol @fnichol]

Congrats my friend, @portertech !!

[Grafana @grafana]

Of course we’re also incorporating our #AI/#ML approach to traces.

To accelerate the development of Adaptive Traces, we’ve acquired TailCtrl, founded by @portertech!

https://t.co/rxMybXwOrk

[Renee Shah @reneeshah123]

This blog from @thesysteminit is best-in-class writing for developer tools. It: 1) names the pain point, 2) discusses previous attempts to solve the problem, 3) explains why their solution is novel, & 4) the voice is authentic - they built for themselves. https://t.co/ZvlOJWkanO

[Fletcher Nichol @fnichol]

Ok, I've spent over 15 minutes scrolling and playing. This is like background sound ASMR or somthing

[Iain McD @pop_rambler]

The BBC sound effects library is now completely free to access.
This is news.

https://t.co/jsaSsrIVxB

[Bryan Cantrill @bcantrill]

Huge congrats to @adamhjk and the crew at @thesysteminit -- life is too short to settle!

[keeb @nickstinemates]

@pjausovec We're hosting a live stream tomorrow! https://t.co/rcyltiiM53