Ah, the Thanksgiving Day Parade: that annual tradition in which singers I don't know lip sync songs I don't want to hear to advertise products I didn't want to buy. Nevertheless, here we go again!

Happy 10th birthday to the OpenAPI Initiative! Being a part of the creation was one of the highlights of my career...and introduced me to some really cool folx (hi, @earth2marsh.com!).

I'll see you there, @bettyjunod.bsky.social !

Thanks to Sudeep Goswami, CEO of @traefik.io for inviting me to join him on The Cube. Had a great discussion with him, Paul Nashawaty and Rob Strechay on the evolving landscape in cloud native land (especially how VMs and containers co-exist in the enterprise). www.youtube.com/watch?v=9XgA...

It's always fun to run into @justingarrison.com -- and this time I ended up with a @fafo.fm sticker! (And if you haven't listened to this month's episode with @elchefe.me, go find it... it's an instant classic. What a treasure.)

Ingress NGINX is being retired! This is a huge deal because its use is so widespread. If you are using NGINX ingress, you *definitely* want to investigate alternatives...before the next big vulnerability hits. Officially, maintenance will end in March, but you're going to want to be off by then.

Hello Atlanta. You're colder than I remembered.

Ah, well, nevertheless.

I was probably 50 years old before I learned that there were people who preferred cake to pie. It was shocking to me at the time.

We have long possessed the ability to have everyone fed, clothed and housed and have chosen not to do so. Now, this regime demands the power to commit more aggravated impoverishment.

It just pisses me off to no end to see people I might otherwise respect donating content to Musk. @neeratanden.bsky.social , it's time. Stop giving fuel to that (dumpster) fire.

I better see no less than six stories this week in the NYT about Mamdani voters talking about their economic anxiety in Brooklyn diners and what the GOP can do to win them back.

This is a great idea. And whether you are helping Ian's area in Minneapolis or your own local food bank, please remember that donating money to a food bank is one of the most efficient ways to help those in need!

The Python Software Foundation rejected a $1.5 million U.S. government grant because it required them to renounce all diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives. www.theregister.com/2025/10/27/p...

Inspired by @anatosaurus.bsky.social ... I decided that my local food bank's needs are even more important than the neighborhood kids. I just donated $100 to the food bank (about twice what I spent on Halloween candy). If you can: find your local food bank and do the same!

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12:30am Sunday night and the Newark airport passenger pickup is absolute mayhem.

Today is the day Donald Trump became president.

The ability to remove your post when a hostile account quote-tweets you is a great feature of Bluesky. To do it, go to their quote-tweet of you, click on the three dots in the bottom right, then click “detach quote.” It shows up as “removed by author.”

Organizing is essential. Courage is contagious. Social proof is persuasive. People do the thing they think people like them do.

My wife took this great picture of the moon Sunday evening. I appreciate the patience it took to capture these migrating Canada geese. Rodman, NY #birds

Hmm. Maybe going back to dual posting. This is a test.

@jonskeet.uk So happy to see your name in my notifications!

Incredible use of the graphic, and very simple layout. I will be sharing with friends and family. Thanks, @charlesgaba.com !

Never change, Microsoft.

💻 “Technical debt always charges interest.” #Monktoberfest 🦞

Figured out how to get scammers to leave me alone. Funny, never heard back from this one.

i’m so glad i didn’t peak in high school

Remember when a bunch of right wing extremists took over and occupied a federal building in Oregon for 6 weeks in 2016? And the feds just waited them out and they ended up getting off. Seems quaint now.

🏈 GB 40 - 40 DAL 0:00 OT This game has a 100.00% chance of ending in Scorigami.

"Rule of 50" is the new "Rule of 40."

I'm listening to some Muddy Waters and just realized that the Violent Femmes song Gone Daddy Gone lifts some of these lyrics and I am here for it.

8 more followers for the giveaway 👕

Good point over on Hacker News today. I've really been working with my kids on understanding what they're good for (and what they're not!). simonwillison.net/2025/Aug/29/...

I got to serve on a jury one time: it was as the foreman in a federal criminal trial in Judge Breyer's courtroom. I walked away so impressed at how he handled us jurors. He took care to make sure we understood the law and procedure at every step of the day. At the end of the trial... (1/x)

The media has to stop anthropomorphizing AI. If I write a calculator program that generates incorrect results, it's not dishonest, it's just wrong.

Amazingly, my LinkedIn shows no connections with Bitnami. If anyone here can introduce me to someone there who might be able to talk about their Docker hub changes, my engineering team would *really* appreciate it!

At a time when we have a president who wants to halt Black progress, silence Black voices, and erase Black history… I’m thankful for this 🙏🏽

I'm not sure "platform engineering is falling," but I do like the emphasis on this article of getting the *infrastructure* right in platform engineering.

you have been visited by the Skylight Napping Fox and will have good fortune for the rest of the week 🤗

I've lived in 4, but I've been to all 50...that year I spent as a tour manager for a rock band took care of that!

I just sent this letter to the alumni office at Columbia University. I hope they receive many letters like this over the coming days.

McSweeney's writing about the em-dash? <swoon>

Probably the coolest person I've ever met.

And we all know that MOST of what's on the Internet is wrong!

If you missed it, there's a new Murderbot short story at: reactormag.com/rapport-mart...

Incredible cast. If I weren't on vacation at the time, we might go down to LA just to see this.

Yup! New Stack has a good summary that explains why Fluent Bit is such an important part of our telemetry pipeline.

With my kids we call it "setting a good example." In fact, when they are with younger kids, we say "You are ALWAYS setting an example. You get to choose if it's a good one or a bad one."