Jon Friesen

@jonfriesen.ca

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Platform engineer, Qpoint.io cofounding team, prev. DigitalOcean, SAP. I write about MicroVMs, hosted runners, local LLM infra, and automation. Be kind and make cool things!

Golden Retriever sitting on a share with two toys in his mouth.
Image of a graph showing DDR5-6000 2x16GB average memory prices in USD from June 2024 through October 2025. The line indicates a pretty consistent price of approximately $125 USD until September 2025 where it rapidly increases to $225 USD
Terminal window showing npm uninstall command. The command prompt displays "npm uninstall -g @cursor/ai-agent" at the top. Below shows the execution with user "reda@r33dmbo" in directory "personal-fin-nextjs" running "npm uninstall -g @cursor/ai-agent". The output indicates "up to date in 298ms" followed by the command prompt returning to "reda@r33dmbo personal-fin-nextjs %". At the bottom are interface elements showing "Auto-run" toggle and "Move to background" option.
Banner image celebrating 1,000 github stars on the Q.Tap project.
Golden retriever wearing sunglasses
Golden retriever next to an Election Canada’s vote sign.
leo jr is shutting down his vibe coded app that absolutely destroyed by the internet and is going to re-write it in Bubble.
Server rack in a closet with some networking, and a few rack servers with a regular desktop chassis resting on top.
Close up picture of a network rack with some colourful cables.
Picture of a monitor with a strong blue ghost image of the a previous window.
Disgustingly dusty desktop computer.
Two golden retrievers sitting in front of some boxes with networking equipment inside.
Image of a server rack with the following: - 1u power bar - 1u dream machine se - 1u patch panel - 1u 24 port pro switch - 2u blank - shelf with various computers - shelf with desktop - 4u server - shelf with consumer UPS - powerbar
screenshot of google calendar modal explaining that they now have dark mode
A golden retriever sitting on a chair with two toys in his mouth
A screenshot of a terminal that is healthy
A screenshot of a terminal where the zfs zpool status command is showing that one of the drives has returned and the pool is resilvering to another drive which will make the pool healthy.
Screenshot of a terminal with a zfs zpool status showing that 2 of 4 drives are degraded and there are insufficient replicas to recover the storage pool.
screenshot of a web browser search dropdown where Tailscale is listed as a "Canadian software business".
Two dogs cuddling on a couch
two golden retrievers
Two golden retrievers standing on top of eachother
Home office with two monitors and two dogs.
Golden Retriever play bowing
Code snippet where a variable is assigned a duration twice, once with the time unit before the value, and once after.