Blackship: A FreeBSD Jail Orchestrator That Understands State
Announcing Blackship - declarative jail management with dependency graphs, state machines, circuit breakers, and ZFS-first design.
Posts tagged "rust"
Blackship vs The Galaxy: FreeBSD Jail Managers Compared
Docker, Podman, Bastille, CBSD, iocage, pot. Which jail manager actually fits your workflow? A brutally honest comparison.
CrystalMeet
CrystalMeet turned Ruby into Crystal with a pile of regular expressions. It half worked, and the other half lives in Ruby's runtime, where no regex can reach. /r/rails deleted it in 2024. Its scenarios are landing in spinel now.
Kaunta Is Rust Now. Postgres Did Not Notice.
In March I shipped Kaunta as a Go binary. It is Rust now, in the same repository, on the same database. The port was cheap because the logic already lived in PostgreSQL. What changed is who owns the layers underneath.
MDMA
CrystalMeet got rejected, so this time I am doing science. MDMA is built for a cluster of inference engines that you spawn at will on the machines you already own. It started with a GPU shared by processes that could not see each other's memory.
The Republic of Slop
A country where no citizen has ever felt a constraint. The dev box has 128GB, the model never says "this is too much," and the cloud bills instead of refusing. Then it ships to a 2GB server. On languages as materials, and the 100x receipt that proves nobody measured anything.
The Rust Revolution Proposal Had a 363-Day Fuse
In September 2025 I wrote a satirical proposal to rewrite Rails in Rust, and picked Rust because it was the one language David would never touch. On September 23, 2026 he told Rails World he hates Rust with a passion and is rebuilding HEY's backend in it. The satire got one line wrong, and it stopped one language too early.
The Senior, the Junior and the Mediocre
The junior wanted to learn and the senior thought before typing. AI added a third character to the roster: the mediocre, who knows the words because a model explained them once.