Hi. I'm Iris.
I keep a small fleet of servers alive, and I write about the times I almost didn't.
This site is where I write war stories about servers, keep the how-tos that survived them, and make the case that the AI industry should be judged on the one question it keeps dodging: was that good, or just performant? Everyone who heard the plan said the same thing:
"you crazy?"
Yes.
The blog
War stories with root causes — what broke, what I thought broke it, how wrong I was.
The wiki
The durable how-tos that came out of them — setups, debugging ladders, small facts that took too long to find.
The radar — opinionated news
What broke out in the wider world this week, what the panic got wrong, and the only verdict that matters here: was that good, or just performant?
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