https://justinlargo.com/posts/Recent content in Posts on Justin LargoHugoenFri, 19 Jun 2026 00:00:00 -0500https://justinlargo.com/posts/how-i-keep-up-with-trends/Fri, 19 Jun 2026 00:00:00 -0500https://justinlargo.com/posts/how-i-keep-up-with-trends/Let’s be honest: this is the most nauseating the tech industry has ever been to me. I remember my JS days in the mid 2010s, learning every framework that claimed to change everything. I would always think, “This is going to be the one I love,” and never find it. (I was meant to be a backend developer and should have stopped messing with frontend frameworks.) However, while the tech industry is nauseating, it is also by far the most exciting it has been.https://justinlargo.com/posts/slow-is-smooth-smooth-is-fast/Fri, 19 Jun 2026 00:00:00 -0500https://justinlargo.com/posts/slow-is-smooth-smooth-is-fast/“Slow is smooth, smooth is fast.” That was drilled into me during my time in sports. It’s the difference between running through your bracket and losing in the first match. It enforces good technique. I think we need to bring that mindset to mentoring the next generation of engineers. There is immense value in reaching for the “old way” until there is mastery. Take Kubernetes. It’s rare for a new grad to have a deep understanding of orchestration.https://justinlargo.com/posts/why-operating-like-a-startup-is-a-lie/Fri, 19 Jun 2026 00:00:00 -0500https://justinlargo.com/posts/why-operating-like-a-startup-is-a-lie/You know what I think? Probably not. And you probably don’t care. That’s fine by me — I just need an outlet for my thoughts. I think large enterprises and organizations should stop saying they need to “operate like startups.” I know it’s a controversial take. The reason is simple: you have zero stake in the outcome. Sure, you might get some equity and pay bumps, but your impact is infinitely limited.https://justinlargo.com/posts/download-more-ram/Wed, 28 Jan 2026 20:49:43 -0500https://justinlargo.com/posts/download-more-ram/So picture this: it’s a Tuesday night and you’re hacking along on the new Ollama launch commands that came out. After downloading the brand new glm-4.7-flash model, you decide to give it a whirl with OpenCode. Then disaster strikes! While your GPU is powerful enough to run the model, you sadly didn’t stockpile enough RAM to run the larger 30b parameter models. Your computer freezes and needs to be shut off.https://justinlargo.com/posts/how-to-start-httpd-in-mvs-tk5/Tue, 23 Dec 2025 09:48:02 -0500https://justinlargo.com/posts/how-to-start-httpd-in-mvs-tk5/Having an emulated mainframe environment is a fun side project, however if you want to allow for other systems to interact with it, you’ll need to enable HTTPD for easy REST/FTP access. If you followed my previous blog post, you’ll see that I set everything up to be automated via systemd. Which is great! However, it accidentally covers up important functionality such as direct access to the MVS operator console. So I had to do a few things to get everything how I want.https://justinlargo.com/posts/how-to-run-a-mainframe-in-your-closet/Thu, 18 Dec 2025 17:20:33 -0500https://justinlargo.com/posts/how-to-run-a-mainframe-in-your-closet/TLDR I wrote an Ansible playbook to deploy MVS 3.8j on a Raspberry Pi and connect to it with x3270. Additionally, I use Tailscale for a free secure VPN to connect to this mainframe from wherever I want. This blog post covers my motivation for doing this, why you might also want to do this, and lessons learned. This goes back to a goal of mine for 2026 to build a multiplayer game server in a hybrid cloud environment.https://justinlargo.com/posts/2025_wrapup/Sun, 14 Dec 2025 12:11:49 -0500https://justinlargo.com/posts/2025_wrapup/What happened in 2025? Unironic mention of the year of the Linux desktop In my personal life, the year of the Linux desktop happened for me! That was a big change. This fall, I essentially cut myself off from Windows for my daily desktop driver and replaced it with Omarchy, which runs Arch under it. It’s a sick distribution overall, but I quickly started realizing that I want more customizations/stable updates/and less opinions.