I met James Lindenbaum in 2009 and Salesforce acquired Heroku in 2010. As Salesforce "sunsets" Heroku, here's a blog post that I wrote in 2010 cloudcomputing.blogspot.com/2010/12/sale...

Ok, which one sounds better? A) It’s an old little amazing house. B) It’s an amazing little old house. B, right? Which of these? 1) She was wearing a huge green raincoat. 2) She was wearing a green huge raincoat. You chose 1, didn't you? WHY??

Everyone watching the game: Holy cow, that was some Hail Mary I've never seen that before kind of stuff. What a ridiculous throw that never happens. Magic. Everyone else: The world is a terrible place and we are doomed.

We are SO back!

The Pope delivered

In my gym, New year resolutes 1 : Chirag 0. Need to wait for a few more days before I can have my gym back.

2026 beginning of the year cleaning up files on my PC and found this one a friend send me when working on some code. Every developer can relate. #solodev #indiedev #development

The new "9-9-6N"

Happy festivus folks!

It’s the “season of love and giving”…but this year, doesn’t it seem more like a “season of fear and taking”? Like many of you, I’ve been saddened by the human impact of draconian government budget cuts and how angry many housed Americans are at unhoused Americans. 🧵 1 of 9

Never expected Thursday night football to be this exciting.

Laminar to Rubrik, Dig to Palo, Flow to Crowdstrike, Securiti to Veeam, Cyera raising $$. AI has shifted the center of gravity in security from systems to data. As data becomes more fluid, more valuable, and more exposed, enterprises need stronger, more integrated ways to understand and control it.

Jane Austen spoke, She knew the rules, however bent. You may do so too.

OH: In some ways, the Venetian is like AWS us-east-1 … you have to try hard to bypass it even though the event is spread over six casinos!

Kim Kardashian blaming ChatGPT for failing a California bar exam was not on my bingo card.

Me when GenZ start talking about the life advice they're getting from ChatGPT.

It's very difficult to build AI security as an add-on to an existing architecture that is not designed to detect shadow IT (AI chatbots etc.) workload. Good to see Zscaler recognizing strength in a start-up instead of building on their own. www.zscaler.com/press/zscale...

happy "the car clock is finally correct" day to all who celebrate

I’m putting phishing training in my Halloween candy this year.

Good to know that when the world will fall apart we will have chocolate 🍫 and coffee ☕ to console us.

It's always DNS. Always.

McCaffrey 7 - Falcons 3

This morning my ChatGPT quota was inexplicably exhausted. It took a while but I pieced it together. Voice mode somehow got activated when I went to bed. The bot then engaged in a 10 hour conversation with my snoring dog, answering questions the pup wasn’t asking and praising him for his insight.

I feel like using "struggled mightily" and "reached for the stars" in my performance review

A fleet of Waymo "going to work" in Palo Alto.

If true, this is a big deal.

After 20 years, @gaberivera.bsky.social finally gets a headline at techmeme

I always feel that the Cowboys don't really want to win and every year they prove me right.

I can get behind this project

The treadmill screening of ‘THE LONG WALK’ took place, where every person had to walk on a treadmill faster than 3MPH for the whole movie. If they stopped, they were escorted out of the theater.

No notes

Let's make sure that we take NBC out of our name and let's pretend that Microsoft never had anything to do with MSNBC either. Find a three letter word to add and throw in two red stripes in the logo.

I recollect people referring to cloud and SaaS as a winner-take-all industry. While some companies benefitted more than others, just like any other industry, the software industry as whole benefitted a lot. People are now saying that AI is also a winner-take-all proposition. I don't agree at all.

TIL Reggie Jackson is the one who popularized baseball players chewing sunflower seeds. www.thetakeout.com/1932464/why-...

Palo is on a mission to build a platform that integrates network, cloud, and now identity security. With the rise of AI, especially agentic AI, identity-driven security has become even more important. There is now renewed interest in IAM and PAM, a domain that has not seen much innovation.

No one is more networked and has a deal flow that Elad does. He has also been incredibly successful. Not surprised why investors want an in.

Me turning off various LinkedIn notifications

Amul's ingenuity to turn anything into ad never ceases to amaze me.

This is a serious vulnerability. Patch it now and turn on the Defender if you have it. Rotate your keys.

Bluesky is hiring 👉 bsky.social/about/join Roles include: - data scientist - feed algo eng - data engineer + others (click the link!)

This is some next level of growth hacking

Therapy is pretty expensive, so yeah, Pizza Hut, let's do this.

Checks out. Happy Canada Day! 🇨🇦

"I saw that we have a few connections in common so I thought we should connect" is one of the worst reasons to include in a LinkedIn invitation.

Filed under "Ways to make Twitter even less useful"

A couple of fascinating trends from a recent DoorDash Delivery trends report.

Terrifying calculus made easy. An excerpt from a book written in 1910.

A new kind of a club