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.
Latest Posts
Nobody warns you about the part where you don't want recovery to end. I've been turning this over for days, not sure I'm allowed to say it out loud. You spend weeks dreading surgery, you survive it, and then somewhere between the...
Recovery from major surgery is not a single event. It's a long, strange hallway of days that blur together, punctuated by vital checks and medication schedules and the weird glow of hospital curtains at 4 AM. I've written about the...
As I mentioned in my last couple posts, I recently got out of the hospital after a week-long stay. I survived the surgery, I survived the recovery, and now I'm home with some hard-won wisdom about what it's actually like to be stuck in a...
Nobody warns you about the dreams. Not properly. Yesterday I killed my inner Necron — wrote the whole thing by voice from my hospital bed, felt the deepest peace of my life, went to sleep on whatever cocktail of post-op medications they...
Hey everybody, I wanted to make this post to be the announcement that I did in fact survive my surgery I am leaving the hospital today and I want to just write up what I've had on my mind over these last couple months and why have not...
My job has me travel a lot. When I'm in my office I normally have a seven monitor battlestation like this: [image or embed]— Xe (@xeiaso.net) January 26, 2026 at 11:34 PM So as you can imagine, travel sucks for me because I just...
Hey all, I hope you're doing well. I'm going to be on medical leave until early April. If you are a sponsor, then you can join the Discord for me to post occasional updates in real time. I'm gonna be in the hospital for at least a week...
Hey all, I'm sure you've all been aware that things have been slowing down a little with Anubis development, and I want to apologize for that. A lot has been going on in my life lately (my blog will have a post out on Friday with more...
I thought that 2025 was weird and didn't think it could get much weirder. 2026 is really delivering in the weirdness department. An AI agent opened a PR to matplotlib with a trivial performance optimization, a maintainer closed it for...
Hey all, in light of Discord deciding that assuming everyone is a teenager until proven otherwise, I've seen many people advocate for the use of Matrix instead. I don't have the time or energy to write a full rebuttal right now, but...
In Blade Runner, Deckard hunts down replicants, biochemical labourers that are basically indistinguishable from humans. They were woven into the core of Blade Runner's society with a temporal Sword of Damocles hung over their head: four...
I don't have any contacts at Zendesk, but I'm noticing another massive wave of spam from their platform: If you're seeing this and either work at Zendesk or know someone that does, please have them actually treat this as an issue and not...
Bluetooth headphones are great, but they have one main weakness: they can only get audio streams from a single device at a time. Facts and Circumstances™️ mean that I have to have hard separation of personal and professional workloads,...
I don't know how to properly raise this, but I've gotten at least 100 emails from various Zendesk customers (no discernible pattern, everything from Soundcloud to GitLab Support to the Furbo Pet Camera). Is Zendesk being hacked? I'll...
Hey all! We've got a Discord so you can chat with us about the wild world of object storage and get any help you need. We've also set up Answer Overflow so that you can browse the Q&A from the web. Today I'm going to discuss how we got...