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#Design #Analyses
Analysis of 158 design systems · “Many aren’t ready for a human to use properly, let alone a machine.“ https://ilo.im/16cufg

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#Components #Documentation #Accessibility #AI #DesignSystems #UiDesign #WebDesign #Development #WebDev #Frontend

#Design #Analyses
Analysis of 158 design systems · “Many aren’t ready for a human to use properly, let alone a machine.“ https://ilo.im/16cufg

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#Components #Documentation #Accessibility #AI #DesignSystems #UiDesign #WebDesign #Development #WebDev #Frontend

#Design #Analyses
Analysis of 158 design systems · “Many aren’t ready for a human to use properly, let alone a machine.“ https://ilo.im/16cufg

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#Components #Documentation #Accessibility #AI #DesignSystems #UiDesign #WebDesign #Development #WebDev #Frontend

#Design #Analyses
Analysis of 158 design systems · “Many aren’t ready for a human to use properly, let alone a machine.“ https://ilo.im/16cufg

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#Components #Documentation #Accessibility #AI #DesignSystems #UiDesign #WebDesign #Development #WebDev #Frontend

𝗩𝘂𝗲 𝗨𝗻𝗶𝗰𝗼𝗻𝘀:

#Vuejs #Components #Icons #SVG #VueUnicons

https://thewhale.cc/posts/vue-unicons

1000+ Pixel-perfect svg unicons for your next project as Vue components.

The Vertical Codebase, by @tkdodo.eu:

https://tkdodo.eu/blog/the-vertical-codebase

#components #concepts #principles #monorepos

The Vertical Codebase, by @tkdodo.eu:

https://tkdodo.eu/blog/the-vertical-codebase

#components #concepts #principles #monorepos

The Vertical Codebase, by @tkdodo.eu:

https://tkdodo.eu/blog/the-vertical-codebase

#components #concepts #principles #monorepos

The Vertical Codebase, by @tkdodo.eu:

https://tkdodo.eu/blog/the-vertical-codebase

#components #concepts #principles #monorepos

The Vertical Codebase, by @tkdodo.eu:

https://tkdodo.eu/blog/the-vertical-codebase

#components #concepts #principles #monorepos

Testing Vue Components in the Browser, by @b0rk:

https://jvns.ca/blog/2026/05/02/testing-vue-components-in-the-browser/

#vuejs #components #testing #browsers

An Interactive Cover Component, by @kittygiraudel.com:

https://kittygiraudel.com/2026/04/09/an-interactive-cover-component/

#components #css #effects

𝗧𝗶𝗻𝗶𝗝𝗦:

#SPA #PWA #Framework #Components #JavaScript #TiniJS

https://thewhale.cc/posts/tinijs

A small, fast and interoperable framework for building Landing Pages, SPA, PWA, Desktop and Mobile apps.

@penguin86 unsorted/unsortable #electronics are interesting, but where are the shots of the #sorted and well organized #components?

#Development #Approaches
Building a UI without breakpoints · Moving to fluid CSS components for the modern web https://ilo.im/16c7es

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#Components #CssGrid #CssFlex #ContainerQueries #MediaQueries #FluidDesign #ResponsiveDesign #WebDev #Frontend #CSS

TanStack Start Now Support React Server Components

https://tanstack.com/blog/react-server-components

#HackerNews #TanStack #React #Server #Components #Support #TanStackTools #WebDevelopment #FrontendDevelopment

#Development #Techniques
CSS name-only containers · The scoping we needed and the one we have https://ilo.im/16bzll

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#ModernCSS #Scoping #Components #Browsers #WebDev #Frontend #CSS

https://www.europesays.com/uk/876700/ Neutrality or Complicity: Where Does France Stand? #a #allowing #and #approach #between #claimed #Complicity #Components #costs #directly #does #Dual #East #EU #Europe #for #France #has #in #increasing #indirect #involvement #Islam #Israel #LED #line #middle #Military #Neutrality #of #or #Paris #Political #positions #recent #reflect #refusal #regarding #s #sell #stance #stand #straddles #strategic #Supply #Tensions #that #the #this #Times #to #Weapons #where #while

🥳 New Kitten Release

• Fix: Events on `KittenComponent` hierarchies are now bubbled in reverse (from children down to parents). This provides for predictable event firing in cases where parents might emit events (e.g., a page emitting an event from its `onConnect()` handler). Your existing code should work as before with certain edge cases that might have broken before no longer breaking.

Enjoy!

:kitten:💕

#Kitten #KittenReleases #SmallWeb #SmallTech #web #dev #events #serverSide #eventBased #components #hypermedia #streamingHTML

🥳 New Kitten Release

• `KittenComponent` (and thereby `KittenPage`) gains an `emit()` method.

Use this to bubble events from your page to all child components or from any component to all of its child components.

This is useful, for example, for setting the state of a page or a component where each child component knows how to present itself for that state.

(That, in turn, is useful if you want to be able to restore state based on URLs.)

The naming convention-based mapping of event names to event handler names is the same as for the events you receive from the client. So an event called `myEvent` will result in `onMyEvent` handlers on child components being called.

(Also update @small-web/kitten to version 7.1.0 to get language intelligence for the new method.)

Enjoy!

:kitten:💕

#Kitten #KittenReleases #SmallWeb #SmallTech #web #dev #events #serverSide #eventBased #components #hypermedia #streamingHTML

Thursday, March 19 2026

https://activitypub.writeworks.uk/2026/03/thursday-march-19-2026/

Thursday, March 19 2026

https://activitypub.writeworks.uk/2026/03/thursday-march-19-2026/

Thursday, March 19 2026

https://activitypub.writeworks.uk/2026/03/thursday-march-19-2026/

Thursday, March 19 2026

https://activitypub.writeworks.uk/2026/03/thursday-march-19-2026/

Thursday, March 19 2026

https://activitypub.writeworks.uk/2026/03/thursday-march-19-2026/

*These are interesting. This is like the Makers' parts-listing from hell, here. #weaponry #components #global

https://war-sanctions.gur.gov.ua/en/components

Writing A Scientific Article - A Step-By-Step Guide For Beginners
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https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eurger.2015.08.005 <-- shared paper
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https://doi.org/10.1002/bes2.1258 <-- shared paper
--
[older papers, but good guidance; we had all this in our university training, (hopefully) to good effect, but some reminders for us all, myself included!]
“Many young researchers find it extremely difficult to write scientific articles, and few receive specific training in the art of presenting their research work in written format. Yet, publication is often vital for career advancement, to obtain funding, to obtain academic qualifications, or for all these reasons. [They] describe here the basic steps to follow in writing a scientific article..."
#writing #technicalwriting #guidance #primer #research #scientificpaper #training #education #publication #career #publishorperish #academic #professional #scientific #article #format #structure #composition #components #elements #successful

Datacenter backup of backups

• A datacenter backup is another building far, far away from the main one (other town / city / country)
• You need it in case your main datacenter gets into a catastrophy (fire, earthquake, flood, tsunami, sinkhole, meteor strike)
• The backup datacenter is smaller and has less processing power, but enough to keep demand / response flowing, fair to bit slow, but keep the site(s) on air
•• backup datacenters are fully uitlized facilities, just smaller
•• they need the same as the bullet points stated above
•• they eat RAM HDDs SSDs et all, just at a smaller scale, but still large enough to hit the consumer market severely

Conclusion

We are fucked!

• just kidding ;)

No we are in heavy seas

• observe

History lesson

• In the 1990's there was a disaster with electrolytic capacitors
• They were produced with faulty dielectric materials
• The elco's swelled up (toxic gasses forming) after a short while of working (days, weeks to some months) then exploded or teared open, causing shorts which fried components like chipset IC's CPU's 16550AF UARTS sound ICs etc
• The capacitors were installed on hundreds of thousands of motherboards

We survived

• The computing world did not end!
• Many of you reading need to look this event up
• Most of the people who were fixing the boards have forgotten the event period

We shall overcome the LLM component crises

• Homo sapiens is a resilient species
• Our intelligence will prevail

Stay positive!

Thank you for reading

^Z

2/2

#LLM #HDD #SSD #DRAM #NAND #AI #microSD #USB #stick #hardware #technology #backup #datacenter #UPS #PFC #AC #DC #capacitor #components #computer #server #crises #boom #bubble #burst #DDR4 #DDR5
#Love #calm #resolve

Datacenter backup of backups

• A datacenter backup is another building far, far away from the main one (other town / city / country)
• You need it in case your main datacenter gets into a catastrophy (fire, earthquake, flood, tsunami, sinkhole, meteor strike)
• The backup datacenter is smaller and has less processing power, but enough to keep demand / response flowing, fair to bit slow, but keep the site(s) on air
•• backup datacenters are fully uitlized facilities, just smaller
•• they need the same as the bullet points stated above
•• they eat RAM HDDs SSDs et all, just at a smaller scale, but still large enough to hit the consumer market severely

Conclusion

We are fucked!

• just kidding ;)

No we are in heavy seas

• observe

History lesson

• In the 1990's there was a disaster with electrolytic capacitors
• They were produced with faulty dielectric materials
• The elco's swelled up (toxic gasses forming) after a short while of working (days, weeks to some months) then exploded or teared open, causing shorts which fried components like chipset IC's CPU's 16550AF UARTS sound ICs etc
• The capacitors were installed on hundreds of thousands of motherboards

We survived

• The computing world did not end!
• Many of you reading need to look this event up
• Most of the people who were fixing the boards have forgotten the event period

We shall overcome the LLM component crises

• Homo sapiens is a resilient species
• Our intelligence will prevail

Stay positive!

Thank you for reading

^Z

2/2

#LLM #HDD #SSD #DRAM #NAND #AI #microSD #USB #stick #hardware #technology #backup #datacenter #UPS #PFC #AC #DC #capacitor #components #computer #server #crises #boom #bubble #burst #DDR4 #DDR5
#Love #calm #resolve

Datacenter backup of backups

• A datacenter backup is another building far, far away from the main one (other town / city / country)
• You need it in case your main datacenter gets into a catastrophy (fire, earthquake, flood, tsunami, sinkhole, meteor strike)
• The backup datacenter is smaller and has less processing power, but enough to keep demand / response flowing, fair to bit slow, but keep the site(s) on air
•• backup datacenters are fully uitlized facilities, just smaller
•• they need the same as the bullet points stated above
•• they eat RAM HDDs SSDs et all, just at a smaller scale, but still large enough to hit the consumer market severely

Conclusion

We are fucked!

• just kidding ;)

No we are in heavy seas

• observe

History lesson

• In the 1990's there was a disaster with electrolytic capacitors
• They were produced with faulty dielectric materials
• The elco's swelled up (toxic gasses forming) after a short while of working (days, weeks to some months) then exploded or teared open, causing shorts which fried components like chipset IC's CPU's 16550AF UARTS sound ICs etc
• The capacitors were installed on hundreds of thousands of motherboards

We survived

• The computing world did not end!
• Many of you reading need to look this event up
• Most of the people who were fixing the boards have forgotten the event period

We shall overcome the LLM component crises

• Homo sapiens is a resilient species
• Our intelligence will prevail

Stay positive!

Thank you for reading

^Z

2/2

#LLM #HDD #SSD #DRAM #NAND #AI #microSD #USB #stick #hardware #technology #backup #datacenter #UPS #PFC #AC #DC #capacitor #components #computer #server #crises #boom #bubble #burst #DDR4 #DDR5
#Love #calm #resolve

Datacenter backup of backups

• A datacenter backup is another building far, far away from the main one (other town / city / country)
• You need it in case your main datacenter gets into a catastrophy (fire, earthquake, flood, tsunami, sinkhole, meteor strike)
• The backup datacenter is smaller and has less processing power, but enough to keep demand / response flowing, fair to bit slow, but keep the site(s) on air
•• backup datacenters are fully uitlized facilities, just smaller
•• they need the same as the bullet points stated above
•• they eat RAM HDDs SSDs et all, just at a smaller scale, but still large enough to hit the consumer market severely

Conclusion

We are fucked!

• just kidding ;)

No we are in heavy seas

• observe

History lesson

• In the 1990's there was a disaster with electrolytic capacitors
• They were produced with faulty dielectric materials
• The elco's swelled up (toxic gasses forming) after a short while of working (days, weeks to some months) then exploded or teared open, causing shorts which fried components like chipset IC's CPU's 16550AF UARTS sound ICs etc
• The capacitors were installed on hundreds of thousands of motherboards

We survived

• The computing world did not end!
• Many of you reading need to look this event up
• Most of the people who were fixing the boards have forgotten the event period

We shall overcome the LLM component crises

• Homo sapiens is a resilient species
• Our intelligence will prevail

Stay positive!

Thank you for reading

^Z

2/2

#LLM #HDD #SSD #DRAM #NAND #AI #microSD #USB #stick #hardware #technology #backup #datacenter #UPS #PFC #AC #DC #capacitor #components #computer #server #crises #boom #bubble #burst #DDR4 #DDR5
#Love #calm #resolve

Datacenter backup of backups

• A datacenter backup is another building far, far away from the main one (other town / city / country)
• You need it in case your main datacenter gets into a catastrophy (fire, earthquake, flood, tsunami, sinkhole, meteor strike)
• The backup datacenter is smaller and has less processing power, but enough to keep demand / response flowing, fair to bit slow, but keep the site(s) on air
•• backup datacenters are fully uitlized facilities, just smaller
•• they need the same as the bullet points stated above
•• they eat RAM HDDs SSDs et all, just at a smaller scale, but still large enough to hit the consumer market severely

Conclusion

We are fucked!

• just kidding ;)

No we are in heavy seas

• observe

History lesson

• In the 1990's there was a disaster with electrolytic capacitors
• They were produced with faulty dielectric materials
• The elco's swelled up (toxic gasses forming) after a short while of working (days, weeks to some months) then exploded or teared open, causing shorts which fried components like chipset IC's CPU's 16550AF UARTS sound ICs etc
• The capacitors were installed on hundreds of thousands of motherboards

We survived

• The computing world did not end!
• Many of you reading need to look this event up
• Most of the people who were fixing the boards have forgotten the event period

We shall overcome the LLM component crises

• Homo sapiens is a resilient species
• Our intelligence will prevail

Stay positive!

Thank you for reading

^Z

2/2

#LLM #HDD #SSD #DRAM #NAND #AI #microSD #USB #stick #hardware #technology #backup #datacenter #UPS #PFC #AC #DC #capacitor #components #computer #server #crises #boom #bubble #burst #DDR4 #DDR5
#Love #calm #resolve

💾 Western Digital

We are sold out

WTF!??

Why?

• LLM's demolished the server HDD stock.

Western Digital has run out of HDD capacity for 2026!

Disaster for consumers small professionals & even large professionals!

CEO Irving Tan has confirmed the company is running on fumes
• Purchase orders from major customers & longterm agreements are reaching well into 2K27 & even 2K28!

• Three years of desert level drought is close for consumers regarding WD HDD's

Who is buying the HDD stock?

Datacenters

• LLM companies (what a set of ^&^#$&^)
• Cloud & Hyperscale Data Centers
•• many don't even have their datacenters built
• These entities now give WD 90% of its revenue.
• Consumer drives are just 10%.

Enterprise demand is decimating supply

• LLM training
• inference logs
• scraped STOLEN web data
• backups
•• these need many Petabytes of storage

Even though GPUs get the headlines (whining gamers), HDDs are the crucial backbone of LLM boom
•• They’re still the most cost-effective way to store Peta and Exabytes of data.

Results

• Consumer HDD supplies shrink
• Enterprise long term agreements {LTA} are locking in multi-year volume + pricing
• Price pressure is already happening (I feel them already)
•• A puny 8TiB Western Digital consumer grade HDD was 108USD two years ago all they way to my country of SR / SA
•• That same 8TiB HDD is now 196 USD to my country if and WHEN I can find it
••• I now find other brands easier but due to the higher quality they naturally cost more to begin with
••• Toshiba 7 Fujitsu are a few of those brands
••• I'd be better off getting a box of 24TiB server grade HDD's
••• In bulk ammounts, these cost less per TiB & they have many more IOPs that consumer HDDs

DRAM and NAND

We are all suffering from DRAM and NAND prices seeking amazingly horrific heights
• Try to get a 64GiB to 512GiB microSD card for a normal price (feb 2K25 level)
• While you are at it do the same with 64GiB to 256GiB USB sticks
• You won't find them (needles in haystacks aer a snap to find in comparison)
•• Large microSD cards are for now fairly normally priced (20% more) but I need small ones for my SBC computer(s) which need many OS distro's to boot from, to perform different functions with differen HATs

Since septenmber 2K25 my beloved consumer HDDs are getting much more expensive also

The LLM cycle of tsunami like destruction is not just 6nm IC's

It’s about everything datacenter wise

What is needed in a datacenter?

• H2O O2 N2 CU
•• you need water and those gasses to keep the natural flow of air running in your massive building which looks more like an Amazon storage facility than a computer server building.
• sand / grounds / realistate
• steel and iron
•• without those your facility can't even be build

• AC \ DC {not our beloved metal band ;)}
•• you need to power the servers, JBOD enclosures & HDDs, SSD enclosures to cache the HDDs, fibre optic backbones, CU cabling & rails, circuit breakers, switches
• AC regulation
•• AC regulation is a whole seperate topic which I'll touch briefly
••• I setup matrix UPS systems which take the AC from the grid, convert it to DC then make their own super stable PFC corrected AC for the server racks
••• This guarantees stable power on all rails in the datacenter
• AC is also generated on our own AC generator matrix
•• Some generators (in FIFO sequence) run concurrently with AC
•• When AC grid failures occur these generators give power within a few seconds to the UPS matrix, which keep feeding the rails in the buildings
•• The other generators spool up and stabilize fast keeping the datacenter running smoothly on power

1/2

#LLM #HDD #SSD #DRAM #NAND #AI #microSD #USB #stick #hardware #technology #backup #datacenter #UPS #PFC #AC #DC #capacitor #components #computer #server #crises #boom #bubble #burst #DDR4 #DDR5
#Love #calm #resolve

💾 Western Digital

We are sold out

WTF!??

Why?

• LLM's demolished the server HDD stock.

Western Digital has run out of HDD capacity for 2026!

Disaster for consumers small professionals & even large professionals!

CEO Irving Tan has confirmed the company is running on fumes
• Purchase orders from major customers & longterm agreements are reaching well into 2K27 & even 2K28!

• Three years of desert level drought is close for consumers regarding WD HDD's

Who is buying the HDD stock?

Datacenters

• LLM companies (what a set of ^&^#$&^)
• Cloud & Hyperscale Data Centers
•• many don't even have their datacenters built
• These entities now give WD 90% of its revenue.
• Consumer drives are just 10%.

Enterprise demand is decumating supply

• LLM training
• inference logs
• scraped STOLEN web data
• backups
•• these need many Petabytes of storage

Even though GPUs get the headlines (whining gamers), HDDs are the crucial backbone of LLM boom
•• They’re still the most cost-effective way to store Peta and Exabytes of data.

Results

• Consumer HDD supplies shrink
• Enterprise long term agreements {LTA} are locking in multi-year volume + pricing
• Price pressure is already happening (I feel them already)
•• A puny 8TiB Western Digital consumer grade HDD was 108USD two years ago all they way to my country of SR / SA
•• That same 8TiB HDD is now 196 USD to my country if and WHEN I can find it
••• I now find other brands easier but due to the higher quality they naturally cost more to begin with
••• Toshiba 7 Fujitsu are a few of those brands
••• I'd be better off getting a box of 24TiB server grade HDD's
••• In bulk ammounts, these cost less per TiB & they have many more IOPs that consumer HDDs

DRAM and NAND

We are all suffering from DRAM and NAND prices seeking amazingly horrific heights
• Try to get a 64GiB to 512GiB microSD card for a normal price (feb 2K25 level)
• While you are at it do the same with 64GiB to 256GiB USB sticks
• You won't find them (needles in haystacks aer a snap to find in comparison)
•• Large microSD cards are for now fairly normally priced (20% more) but I need small ones for my SBC computer(s) which need many OS distro's to boot from, to perform different functions with differen HATs

Since septenmber 2K25 my beloved consumer HDDs are getting much more expensive also

The LLM cycle of tsunami like destruction is not just 6nm IC's

It’s about everything datacenter wise

What is needed in a datacenter?

• H2O O2 N2 CU
•• you need water and those gasses to keep the natural flow of air running in your massive building which looks more like an Amazon storage facility than a computer server building.
• sand / grounds / realistate
• steel and iron
•• without those your facility can't even be build

• AC \ DC {not our beloved metal band ;)}
•• you need to power the servers, JBOD enclosures & HDDs, SSD enclosures to cache the HDDs, fibre optic backbones, CU cabling & rails, circuit breakers, switches
• AC regulation
•• AC regulation is a whole seperate topic which I'll touch briefly
••• I setup matrix UPS systems which take the AC from the grid, convert it to DC then make their own super stable PFC corrected AC for the server racks
••• This guarantees stable power on all rails in the datacenter
• AC is also generated on our own AC generator matrix
•• Some generators (in FIFO sequence) run concurrently with AC
•• When AC grid failures occur these generators give power within a few seconds to the UPS matrix, which keep feeding the rails in the buildings
•• The other generators spool up and stabilize fast keeping the datacenter running smoothly on power

1/2

#LLM #HDD #SSD #DRAM #NAND #AI #microSD #USB #stick #hardware #technology #backup #datacenter #UPS #PFC #AC #DC #capacitor #components #computer #server #crises #boom #bubble #burst #DDR4 #DDR5
#Love #calm #resolve

💾 Western Digital

We are sold out

WTF!??

Why?

• LLM's demolished the server HDD stock.

Western Digital has run out of HDD capacity for 2026!

Disaster for consumers small professionals & even large professionals!

CEO Irving Tan has confirmed the company is running on fumes
• Purchase orders from major customers & longterm agreements are reaching well into 2K27 & even 2K28!

• Three years of desert level drought is close for consumers regarding WD HDD's

Who is buying the HDD stock?

Datacenters

• LLM companies (what a set of ^&^#$&^)
• Cloud & Hyperscale Data Centers
•• many don't even have their datacenters built
• These entities now give WD 90% of its revenue.
• Consumer drives are just 10%.

Enterprise demand is decumating supply

• LLM training
• inference logs
• scraped STOLEN web data
• backups
•• these need many Petabytes of storage

Even though GPUs get the headlines (whining gamers), HDDs are the crucial backbone of LLM boom
•• They’re still the most cost-effective way to store Peta and Exabytes of data.

Results

• Consumer HDD supplies shrink
• Enterprise long term agreements {LTA} are locking in multi-year volume + pricing
• Price pressure is already happening (I feel them already)
•• A puny 8TiB Western Digital consumer grade HDD was 108USD two years ago all they way to my country of SR / SA
•• That same 8TiB HDD is now 196 USD to my country if and WHEN I can find it
••• I now find other brands easier but due to the higher quality they naturally cost more to begin with
••• Toshiba 7 Fujitsu are a few of those brands
••• I'd be better off getting a box of 24TiB server grade HDD's
••• In bulk ammounts, these cost less per TiB & they have many more IOPs that consumer HDDs

DRAM and NAND

We are all suffering from DRAM and NAND prices seeking amazingly horrific heights
• Try to get a 64GiB to 512GiB microSD card for a normal price (feb 2K25 level)
• While you are at it do the same with 64GiB to 256GiB USB sticks
• You won't find them (needles in haystacks aer a snap to find in comparison)
•• Large microSD cards are for now fairly normally priced (20% more) but I need small ones for my SBC computer(s) which need many OS distro's to boot from, to perform different functions with differen HATs

Since septenmber 2K25 my beloved consumer HDDs are getting much more expensive also

The LLM cycle of tsunami like destruction is not just 6nm IC's

It’s about everything datacenter wise

What is needed in a datacenter?

• H2O O2 N2 CU
•• you need water and those gasses to keep the natural flow of air running in your massive building which looks more like an Amazon storage facility than a computer server building.
• sand / grounds / realistate
• steel and iron
•• without those your facility can't even be build

• AC \ DC {not our beloved metal band ;)}
•• you need to power the servers, JBOD enclosures & HDDs, SSD enclosures to cache the HDDs, fibre optic backbones, CU cabling & rails, circuit breakers, switches
• AC regulation
•• AC regulation is a whole seperate topic which I'll touch briefly
••• I setup matrix UPS systems which take the AC from the grid, convert it to DC then make their own super stable PFC corrected AC for the server racks
••• This guarantees stable power on all rails in the datacenter
• AC is also generated on our own AC generator matrix
•• Some generators (in FIFO sequence) run concurrently with AC
•• When AC grid failures occur these generators give power within a few seconds to the UPS matrix, which keep feeding the rails in the buildings
•• The other generators spool up and stabilize fast keeping the datacenter running smoothly on power

1/2

#LLM #HDD #SSD #DRAM #NAND #AI #microSD #USB #stick #hardware #technology #backup #datacenter #UPS #PFC #AC #DC #capacitor #components #computer #server #crises #boom #bubble #burst #DDR4 #DDR5
#Love #calm #resolve

💾 Western Digital

We are sold out

WTF!??

Why?

• LLM's demolished the server HDD stock.

Western Digital has run out of HDD capacity for 2026!

Disaster for consumers small professionals & even large professionals!

CEO Irving Tan has confirmed the company is running on fumes
• Purchase orders from major customers & longterm agreements are reaching well into 2K27 & even 2K28!

• Three years of desert level drought is close for consumers regarding WD HDD's

Who is buying the HDD stock?

Datacenters

• LLM companies (what a set of ^&^#$&^)
• Cloud & Hyperscale Data Centers
•• many don't even have their datacenters built
• These entities now give WD 90% of its revenue.
• Consumer drives are just 10%.

Enterprise demand is decumating supply

• LLM training
• inference logs
• scraped STOLEN web data
• backups
•• these need many Petabytes of storage

Even though GPUs get the headlines (whining gamers), HDDs are the crucial backbone of LLM boom
•• They’re still the most cost-effective way to store Peta and Exabytes of data.

Results

• Consumer HDD supplies shrink
• Enterprise long term agreements {LTA} are locking in multi-year volume + pricing
• Price pressure is already happening (I feel them already)
•• A puny 8TiB Western Digital consumer grade HDD was 108USD two years ago all they way to my country of SR / SA
•• That same 8TiB HDD is now 196 USD to my country if and WHEN I can find it
••• I now find other brands easier but due to the higher quality they naturally cost more to begin with
••• Toshiba 7 Fujitsu are a few of those brands
••• I'd be better off getting a box of 24TiB server grade HDD's
••• In bulk ammounts, these cost less per TiB & they have many more IOPs that consumer HDDs

DRAM and NAND

We are all suffering from DRAM and NAND prices seeking amazingly horrific heights
• Try to get a 64GiB to 512GiB microSD card for a normal price (feb 2K25 level)
• While you are at it do the same with 64GiB to 256GiB USB sticks
• You won't find them (needles in haystacks aer a snap to find in comparison)
•• Large microSD cards are for now fairly normally priced (20% more) but I need small ones for my SBC computer(s) which need many OS distro's to boot from, to perform different functions with differen HATs

Since septenmber 2K25 my beloved consumer HDDs are getting much more expensive also

The LLM cycle of tsunami like destruction is not just 6nm IC's

It’s about everything datacenter wise

What is needed in a datacenter?

• H2O O2 N2 CU
•• you need water and those gasses to keep the natural flow of air running in your massive building which looks more like an Amazon storage facility than a computer server building.
• sand / grounds / realistate
• steel and iron
•• without those your facility can't even be build

• AC \ DC {not our beloved metal band ;)}
•• you need to power the servers, JBOD enclosures & HDDs, SSD enclosures to cache the HDDs, fibre optic backbones, CU cabling & rails, circuit breakers, switches
• AC regulation
•• AC regulation is a whole seperate topic which I'll touch briefly
••• I setup matrix UPS systems which take the AC from the grid, convert it to DC then make their own super stable PFC corrected AC for the server racks
••• This guarantees stable power on all rails in the datacenter
• AC is also generated on our own AC generator matrix
•• Some generators (in FIFO sequence) run concurrently with AC
•• When AC grid failures occur these generators give power within a few seconds to the UPS matrix, which keep feeding the rails in the buildings
•• The other generators spool up and stabilize fast keeping the datacenter running smoothly on power

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#LLM #HDD #SSD #DRAM #NAND #AI #microSD #USB #stick #hardware #technology #backup #datacenter #UPS #PFC #AC #DC #capacitor #components #computer #server #crises #boom #bubble #burst #DDR4 #DDR5
#Love #calm #resolve

💾 Western Digital

We are sold out

WTF!??

Why?

• LLM's demolished the server HDD stock.

Western Digital has run out of HDD capacity for 2026!

Disaster for consumers small professionals & even large professionals!

CEO Irving Tan has confirmed the company is running on fumes
• Purchase orders from major customers & longterm agreements are reaching well into 2K27 & even 2K28!

• Three years of desert level drought is close for consumers regarding WD HDD's

Who is buying the HDD stock?

Datacenters

• LLM companies (what a set of ^&^#$&^)
• Cloud & Hyperscale Data Centers
•• many don't even have their datacenters built
• These entities now give WD 90% of its revenue.
• Consumer drives are just 10%.

Enterprise demand is decimating supply

• LLM training
• inference logs
• scraped STOLEN web data
• backups
•• these need many Petabytes of storage

Even though GPUs get the headlines (whining gamers), HDDs are the crucial backbone of LLM boom
•• They’re still the most cost-effective way to store Peta and Exabytes of data.

Results

• Consumer HDD supplies shrink
• Enterprise long term agreements {LTA} are locking in multi-year volume + pricing
• Price pressure is already happening (I feel them already)
•• A puny 8TiB Western Digital consumer grade HDD was 108USD two years ago all they way to my country of SR / SA
•• That same 8TiB HDD is now 196 USD to my country if and WHEN I can find it
••• I now find other brands easier but due to the higher quality they naturally cost more to begin with
••• Toshiba 7 Fujitsu are a few of those brands
••• I'd be better off getting a box of 24TiB server grade HDD's
••• In bulk ammounts, these cost less per TiB & they have many more IOPs that consumer HDDs

DRAM and NAND

We are all suffering from DRAM and NAND prices seeking amazingly horrific heights
• Try to get a 64GiB to 512GiB microSD card for a normal price (feb 2K25 level)
• While you are at it do the same with 64GiB to 256GiB USB sticks
• You won't find them (needles in haystacks aer a snap to find in comparison)
•• Large microSD cards are for now fairly normally priced (20% more) but I need small ones for my SBC computer(s) which need many OS distro's to boot from, to perform different functions with differen HATs

Since septenmber 2K25 my beloved consumer HDDs are getting much more expensive also

The LLM cycle of tsunami like destruction is not just 6nm IC's

It’s about everything datacenter wise

What is needed in a datacenter?

• H2O O2 N2 CU
•• you need water and those gasses to keep the natural flow of air running in your massive building which looks more like an Amazon storage facility than a computer server building.
• sand / grounds / realistate
• steel and iron
•• without those your facility can't even be build

• AC \ DC {not our beloved metal band ;)}
•• you need to power the servers, JBOD enclosures & HDDs, SSD enclosures to cache the HDDs, fibre optic backbones, CU cabling & rails, circuit breakers, switches
• AC regulation
•• AC regulation is a whole seperate topic which I'll touch briefly
••• I setup matrix UPS systems which take the AC from the grid, convert it to DC then make their own super stable PFC corrected AC for the server racks
••• This guarantees stable power on all rails in the datacenter
• AC is also generated on our own AC generator matrix
•• Some generators (in FIFO sequence) run concurrently with AC
•• When AC grid failures occur these generators give power within a few seconds to the UPS matrix, which keep feeding the rails in the buildings
•• The other generators spool up and stabilize fast keeping the datacenter running smoothly on power

1/2

#LLM #HDD #SSD #DRAM #NAND #AI #microSD #USB #stick #hardware #technology #backup #datacenter #UPS #PFC #AC #DC #capacitor #components #computer #server #crises #boom #bubble #burst #DDR4 #DDR5
#Love #calm #resolve

not only that but I created a #design #discrepancy #openclaw skill for work... It list and compares #components from deployed system against our design standards + #WCAG (looping thru states if interactive) and lists all discrepancies it finds on an excel file for review.

https://github.com/nonlinear/skills/blob/main/design-discrepancy/SKILL.md#workflow-diagram

Tuesday, February 10, 2026

https://activitypub.writeworks.uk/2026/02/tuesday-february-10-2026/

Tuesday, February 10, 2026

https://activitypub.writeworks.uk/2026/02/tuesday-february-10-2026/

Tuesday, February 10, 2026

https://activitypub.writeworks.uk/2026/02/tuesday-february-10-2026/

Tuesday, February 10, 2026

https://activitypub.writeworks.uk/2026/02/tuesday-february-10-2026/

Tuesday, February 10, 2026

https://activitypub.writeworks.uk/2026/02/tuesday-february-10-2026/

5 Accessibility Checks to Run on Every Component, by @hdv (@zeroheight):

https://zeroheight.com/blog/5-accessibility-checks-to-run-on-every-component/

#accessibility #components #testing #keyboardnavigation #designtokens #microcontent #zooming #screenreaders

New in Unicopedia Sinica:

- Added new Tangut Components utility.
- Added new Tangut References utility.

🔗 https://codeberg.org/tonton-pixel/unicopedia-sinica

#Unicopedia #Unicode #Tangut #Components #References

RE: https://flipboard.com/@sciencealert/tech-u63nordnz/-/a-f8sUa-yQR3OxoNHOSmElaA%3Aa%3A565656366-%2F0

The #components needed to give a device the properties of a #computer have become increasingly smaller. M. M. Lassiter et al. (2025) designed the #smallest #microrobot to date, measuring just 200 by 300 μm wide and 50 μm thick. It can #aggregate, #communicate, #sense, and #move via #electricalfields inside #fluids. There are interesting applied options for using such a robot in e.g. medical contexts.
© this text StefanFWirth Berlin 2025

Ref:
M. M. Lassiter et al. (2025)
https://doi.org/10.1126/scirobotics.adu8009

FCC Updates Covered List to Include Foreign UAS and UAS Critical Components [pdf]

https://docs.fcc.gov/public/attachments/DOC-416839A1.pdf

#HackerNews #FCC #Updates #UAS #Foreign #Components #UAS #Regulation #Tech #News

Aaaaaaaargh, AliExpress sellers will give me an aneurysm one of these days.

Slide switches are not toggle switches.
Toggle switches are not rocker switches.
Rocker switches are not toggle switches.
Rocker switches are also not slide switches.
"Momentary latching switch" is Not A Thing.

#AliExpress #terminology #CloseEnough #description #NotAThing #contradiction #electronics #components #parts

Aaaaaaaargh, AliExpress sellers will give me an aneurysm one of these days.

Slide switches are not toggle switches.
Toggle switches are not rocker switches.
Rocker switches are not toggle switches.
Rocker switches are also not slide switches.
"Momentary latching switch" is Not A Thing.

#AliExpress #terminology #CloseEnough #description #NotAThing #contradiction #electronics #components #parts