The RWX team is laser focused on making Continuous Integration services a joy to use again. LLM driven coding
has forced engineering teams to rethink how they integrate feedback loops into their development cycle, and RWX
has the product and technical underpinnings to accelerate creative feedback loops for software teams. The first
rule of any creative process is to make sure your feedback loops are tight, and RWX has this foundation in spades.
My career has always focused on building deep, distributed systems, and it’s an exciting time to work on
infrastructure products with a small, high velocity team. There are endless opportunities to reimagine parts of our software stack,
and I can’t wait to dive in head first and push the boundaries of what’s possible.
To my friends at Sprout Social whom I’ve worked with over the past 11 years: Thank you for being such a joy to work with each day, and so focused
on building human centered work first and foremost.
To my new friends at RWX, I can’t wait to ship some amazing software together!
For anyone looking for a faster and more reliable alternative to GitHub actions, please reach out if you want to talk RWX.
LLMs are producing code at an almost frightening rate, and if you use GitHub on a semi-frequent basis, you’ll know that it’s
down quite regularly these days as a result of the onslaught.
For my own personal work, rather than tolerate the GitHub instability, I’ve instead opted to self-host my own Forgejo instance in my basement
server rack.
This is yet another important step in reclaiming my own computing sovereignty. While the world is busy spraying gigatons of slop all over GitHub, I’m
taking back ownership of the code that’s always been mine. Growing in my craft means not just owning the work, but also building the tools and the
environment that the work gets produced in. I aspire to build the Hans Zimmer music studio of computing.
Running my own private code forge has been a joy, especially with “push to create repository” Forgejo feature turned on. This enables
any whimsical hairbrained idea to quickly become a git repository stashed for my own private creation. If I want to live a creative life, full of Big Magic, I have to start with the basics:
doing a huge volume of work. A private code forge is a great scratch-pad to sink ideas into.
If you’re looking for a sign to bring your code “back home”, either personally, or at your company, the graph above might be the right signal that it’s time to take a look at
self-hosted options. Forgejo is definitely worth a look!
The server rack continues to expand! In an effort to buy
hardware before the AI bubble continues to drive up computer hardware prices, I’ve added three more Minisforum UM690L
mini PCs to the basement rack (this time in black!).
I’ll be using this new batch of machines to separate a testing cluster from “production” infrastructure
that runs the stuff in the house (Home Assistant, Jellyfin, etc.)
I haven’t yet isolated the network switching / routing, but that’ll come at some point.
In the meantime, I’ll keep on cheering for the AI bubble to crash in hopes of computer hardware
returning back to earth.
