Xe Iaso

Xe Iaso

Xe Iaso

I'm Xe Iaso, I'm a technical educator, conference speaker, twitch streamer, vtuber, and philosopher that focuses on ways to help make technology easier to understand and do cursed things in the process. I live in Ottawa with my husband and I do developer relations professionally. I am an avid writer for my blog, where I have over 400 articles. I regularly experiment with new technologies and find ways to mash them up with old technologies for my own amusement.

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Recently Sourceware had to disable git clone over HTTP due to an attack where lots of random Git clients are cloning repositories. This was surprising to me, I thought the Git client didn't need any smarts on the server and most of the...
Spoiler WarningIf you want to go through the Final Fantasy 14 duty Hell on Rails (Extreme) blind, don't read this guide as it spoils how to easily solve one of the mechanics in it. If you don't play Final Fantasy 14, most of the words in...
I just discovered a new way to tell if a blogpost is AI slop or at least if someone blindly copied and pasted commands from Claude Code: the first line of a group of commands isn't indented but the rest are, like this: sudo apt update...
Today was a big day for gamers as Valve just introduced three products: the Steam Controller, the Steam Machine, and the Steam Frame. When you add this alongside the Steam Deck, I think it's safe to say that Valve is about to win the...
It sounds like ceding ground to the pro-AI crowd, however if you get people to be honest about it then everyone benefits.
This blog post explains how to effectively file abuse reports against cloud providers to stop malicious traffic. Key points: Two IP Types: Residential (ineffective to report) vs. Commercial (targeted reports) Why Cloud Providers: Cloud...
This blog post explores how Tigris Object Storage's bucket forking feature enables isolated dataset experimentation similar to forking code repositories. It demonstrates creating parallel data timelines for filtering, captioning, and...
In the hours following the release of CVE-2025-62229 for the project X.Org X server, site reliability workers and systems administrators scrambled to desperately rebuild and patch all their systems to fix a use-after-free bug in the...
A local supercomputer between the size of a Mac mini and a Mac mini.
I made a video about making coffee
Tigris has launched a new Storage SDK for JavaScript/TypeScript that simplifies object storage interactions with a more straightforward API than AWS S3 SDK. The SDK uses environment variables for configuration, reduces cognitive...
Tigris uses Prometheus metrics for billing instead of events. This approach with asynchronous collection and handling of high cardinality issues actually benefits customers by potentially underbilling them. An interesting look at how to...
That NPM attack could have been so much worse.
Tigris makes data globally available, durable, and low-latency using a hybrid replication approach that pushes metadata but pulls data on-demand. This talk explains their approach to simplifying global data replication.
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