2026 Olympic Gold figure skater Alysa Liu's work is so beautiful and joyful, take some time out of your day and watch this performance from the 2026 US figure skating championships: youtube.com/watch?v=9PTq.... What an absolute legend (and East Bay hero!)

Two precepts from an interview with Alan Garner: d.lib.rochester.edu/camelot/text...

My team is hiring an SRE manager, in person in San Francisco: www.google.com/about/career...

"How Are the Very Rich Feeling About New York’s Next Mayor?" A Dramatic Reading of The Recent New York Times Dispatch from the Hamptons. Presented by The Gilded Age's Morgan Spector.

Anyone who wants the full story and context should read @sarahkendzior.bsky.social’s “Hiding in Plain Sight”. Read this excerpt from “Jane Doe v. Donald J. Trump and Jeffrey Epstein”

Here is a good article. Teaser: “I believe that all learning is fundamentally coercive”. hbr.org/2002/03/the-...

You're welcome! If anyone else wants a signed copy of the DevOps Handbook (while stocks last) DM me with a receipt for US$100+ (any currency) to any of these charities supporting Palestinians, dated today: projecthope.org islamic-relief.org/appeals/pale... unrwa.org pcrf.net palestinercs.org/en

Live footage of me in today’s postmortem review where a developer described the behavior-changing code that they couldn’t be bothered to put behind a feature flag / experiment as a “refactoring” and everyone kicked off about how dangerous “refactorings” are

I have 45 signed copies of the DevOps Handbook to give away. DM me with a receipt for US$100 or more (any currency!) to any of the following charities supporting Palestinians dated today with your address. projecthope.org islamic-relief.org/appeals/pale... unrwa.org pcrf.net palestinercs.org/en

A U.S. surgeon trying to have a “peer to peer” consultation with a doctor at a health insurance company who is hiding his identity as her patient gets denied coverage. And it gets worse from there. You have to see it to believe it. (1/2)

I love watching the corrupt Democratic Party establishment, along with their paymasters and enablers in the media, running around absolutely peeing their pants at the thought of Mamdani becoming Mayor of NYC. I cannot wait for him to win.

TIL that the behemoth that is the modern scientific publishing industry was created by Robert Maxwell (father of Ghislaine) www.theguardian.com/science/2017...

The corps like Publix that get mad about CIW & fair farm wages, it's not bc proper farm wages will put them out of business. It's because they get upset when ANY workers get collective bargaining wins. It's just generic anti-labor politics- not an existential threat to their business.

Ex-farm worker here. We need to talk about this whole "But a living wage for farm workers would spike the cost of food!" thing. Not true AT ALL. Y'all don't understand how fast experienced farm workers are. The average tomato picker pulls 650lbs per hour. At $20/hr, that's $0.03/lb for labor.

So many believed the lie that immigrants will take their jobs & voted for 47 when really it's the GOP taking people's jobs & driving down wages to benefit huge, rent-seeking corporations. But why were you so ready to believe the lie? By @moreperfectunion.bsky.social www.youtube.com/watch?v=PlCj...

When the first family separations of migrants happened under Pres. 45, one of the talking points was that it was being done to stop people trafficking. In fact, as this Pulitzer Prize winning investigation shows, it was done out of pure cruelty as a “deterrent” www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...

“Any political system that prioritizes punishing those who protest genocide rather than stopping the killing has clearly exhausted itself.” www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...

Catastrophic that after many months of funding and arming a genocide, the USA is now directly bombing Iran. All because 45 tore up the JCPOA agreement out of spite and hubris. The obstacle to peace in the Levant is the _actually_ nuclear-armed and genocidal Israeli state and its partner the USA.

Reading @patigallardo.bsky.social's review of Team Topologies patricia.no/2025/05/24/t... and she mentions the original research on psychological safety was by amycedmondson.com/psychologica.... I'm now reading Edmondson's book The Fearless Organization. Newsflash from 2018

And another one: ethz.ch/en/news-and-...

Today’s fun news www.vusec.net/projects/tra...

“Vibe prioritization”: when you have to do something because a VP thinks it’s a good idea rather than being stack ranked based on business value

This hasn’t taken off, but if it does, you should all go see Titanique in NYC before it ends its run on June 15. Definitely the best show I’ve ever seen. newyork.titaniquemusical.com

While I’m on the topic of AI agents, I was re-reading the Joel on Software classic “The Law of Leaky Abstractions” and came across this gem. The article has aged well. www.joelonsoftware.com/2002/11/11/t...

From a CD point of view, you can think of an AI agent as an ephemeral junior developer. So all the stuff you needed before like a CD pipeline, good test coverage, small changes etc, you still need now, but even more so because per this IBM slide from 1979, a computer can never be held accountable.

John, wait until you find out trees aren't real eukaryotewritesblog.com/2021/05/02/t...

Here’s something I’ve been working on for the last couple of years at Google: how to think about and measure platform reliability. https://youtu.be/es3DNd5Qipg

I learned a lot about quantum computing by reading this review of Michio Kaku’s new book on the subject: https://scottaaronson.blog/?p=7321

California’s Prop 12, which prohibits the sale of eggs or meat from animals kept in extreme confinement, was just upheld in the Supreme Court. One objection of pork producers was that if this stands, states can make similar regulations on goods sold, like paying workers minimum wage. Let’s goooooo!