A user expresses frustration with Apple's iCloud backup system, which prevents partial photo uploads when the photo library exceeds available storage space. They criticize the product decision and announce they will use alternative backup methods instead.
The US Strategic Petroleum Reserve, the world's largest crude oil storage facility with capacity for 714 million barrels, was established following OAPEC's 1973 oil embargo to protect against supply disruptions and price shocks. Created using underground salt dome storage, the SPR has become a key energy policy tool, though it has operational limits on how much oil can be safely withdrawn.
A founder reflects on building XetHub, a content-defined storage infrastructure company, from its whiteboard conception in 2021 through its acquisition by Hugging Face in 2024. The piece traces key moments in the startup's journey and explores how organizational structures at hyperscalers create gaps that infrastructure companies can fill.
The author argues that data versioning tools should focus narrowly on tracking large files across Git commits. While Git LFS and DVC solve this problem, they introduce additional complexity—LFS requires an external service, and DVC emphasizes broader features like pipelines. The author presents Gat, a deliberately simple alternative written in Rust that handles file versioning through a lock file and optimized caching, prioritizing speed and simplicity over feature breadth.
MinIO was abandoned by its parent company in late 2025, disrupting software demos and build pipelines that relied on it for local S3 emulation. This article explores alternatives to MinIO for single-node deployments, evaluating options based on Docker support, S3 compatibility, open-source licensing, ease of use, and community backing.
Nix enables instant rollbacks by using immutable store paths and symlink-based generations rather than in-place installation like apt or brew. Installing or removing packages creates new numbered snapshots without modifying existing ones, so rolling back simply repoints a symlink to a previous generation with no downloads or rebuilds needed. The tradeoff is that deleting generations doesn't immediately free disk space until garbage collection runs and no roots reference those paths.
Ultrastorage is a JavaScript library that extends localStorage with rich-value serialization, expiration/TTL support, namespacing, schema validation, and cross-tab subscriptions. It stores complex types like Set, Map, Date, and BigInt while offering optional React hooks and dual ESM/CJS builds.
A programmer discovers that fsync() doesn't guarantee data durability the way commonly assumed, as multiple storage layers between application and disk have different definitions of "done". The article explains how write() only puts data in the page cache, not on disk, and how journaling filesystems add complexity to data persistence guarantees.
MeshDrive's Agent and TUI components improve error handling by consistently returning JSON responses on API failures, validating JuiceFS storage creation, and providing clearer user feedback for connection and timeout issues.
DiskTriage is a Windows CLI tool that reclaims C: drive space by identifying and safely deleting or relocating bloat like developer caches, AI models, and game stores. It includes SSD health checks, an interactive menu, and features like environment variable updates and NTFS junctions for seamless relocation to secondary drives.
The OrangePi Zero 3W is a tiny single-board computer with hardware specs comparable to the larger OrangePi 4 Pro, featuring low power consumption (2-6.6W), limited onboard storage (8GB eMMC), and effective thermal management via an included fan and heatsink. Despite its small footprint, the board offers expandable storage through an FPC PCIe 3.0 socket and is suitable as a low-cost home server alternative.
MailVault is an email client with backup functionality that lets users archive messages locally while keeping server copies intact. It supports Gmail, Outlook, and IMAP accounts, offers offline search of archived mail in standard EML format, and includes features like nested folders and multi-account threading. The team demonstrates rapid response to user requests, delivering requested features within days.
An engineer shares lessons from operating petabyte-scale ClickHouse clusters for nearly 6 years at Tinybird, covering architecture decisions including replica and shard strategies, HTTP-based load balancing, and cost considerations. The piece emphasizes that cluster setup is straightforward but operational challenges arise in scaling, storage management, and avoiding costly replication overhead.
Ghostarchive is a free web archiving service that stores snapshots of websites including images and videos. Users submit URLs for archival, with two replay systems available—one using ReplayWeb.page technology for high-fidelity replay, and a noscript alternative for users without Javascript. Archived content is stored indefinitely with redundant backups, subject to size limits and content policies.
East River Source Control is developing a next-generation version control system to address limitations of Git, which was designed for 2005 constraints. The company is building a custom storage engine while maintaining Git protocol compatibility, responding to challenges posed by agentic development including larger repositories, faster clone times, and increased merge contention.
European natural gas prices reached their highest level since early 2023 as conflict between the US and Iran disrupted LNG shipments through the Strait of Hormuz, prompting the International Energy Agency to recommend governments use strategic reserves and flexible contracts to prepare for future shortages. Production damage at Qatar's LNG facilities and reduced storage incentives have compounded supply concerns, with Goldman Sachs estimating prices may need to exceed €100/MWh by December 2026 to attract sufficient LNG to Europe.
Solar energy creates a grid imbalance where abundant midday supply meets evening demand peaks, a problem called the duck curve. Vehicle-to-grid (V2G) technology could theoretically solve this by using EV batteries to store cheap solar and sell back to the grid during peak hours, but the real barrier isn't the technology—it's the high soft costs of permitting, interconnection paperwork, installation, and overhead that inflate home battery prices to $1,000 per kWh, compared to $334 per kWh for grid-scale systems.
@oasys/oecs is a complete, archetype-based Entity Component System for TypeScript with no dependencies, running on a plain ArrayBuffer. It provides mature engine features including observers, relations, sparse storage, system sets, deterministic hashing, and optional worker/WASM support, with data-oriented struct-of-arrays storage and full type safety at compile time.