I think @jeffatwood.bsky.social (Coding Horror) is a good dude with a good heart. Much respect to a person who did well with honest and hard work and wants others to have the same opportunity.

"Zhu told TechCrunch that he credits his early interest in venture capital and startups from ... Discord group chats he joined in 2020, when he was 13, that included people like Sam Altman." Very normal stuff. I'll bet @bcantrill.bsky.social would have an opinion about this.

Rest in peace, Sly. Truly one of the greatest to ever do it.

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My APN blog post on how @pulumi.com ESC tool can help your organization improve its security posture (while making your developers and ops folks happier) is now live! aws.amazon.com/blogs/apn/ho...

I might quibble with this definition somewhat: I think a product *mindset* (customer focus) is absolutely critical, but I don't know that you necessarily need PM or designer specialists for the scale of most of the orgs I've seen. If you're mega-scale, then yes, you do need these specialists.

AGI is coming for all of us. It will write symphonies, direct movies, and author the best novels. The only thing it won’t be able to do is VC investing, which must be reserved as a task only for the most-special people

ChatGPT is like the British Museum of the internet.

Much like your codebase, if the most common tasks need to span multiple groups (folders in code), especially if you have to do a "rainbow" way up the org chart (directory tree) and then back down, you should consider a reorg that makes those tasks more "ergonomic".

Despite being a software engineer for the first dozen years of my career, I'm clearly more of an SRE bent of mind in this respect.

Jeff Atwood is a good dude. I learned SO MUCH from StackOverflow, and his recent activism to fight wealth inequality and charity to support the public good is so obviously heartfelt. He starts speaking around 25 min: www.youtube.com/watch?app=de...

Kafka is for closers

It's so great all these generous people giving away MacBook Air's on various Meetup Groups. Really restores my faith in humanity.

I've done this and would gladly recommend. The quality is far less questionable than its donor thinks.

Generative AI is most useful for 2 things for me: 1. Summarizing content (when precision is not of paramount importance) 2. Creating refined content for public consumption from detailed notes that include clear goals/structure of output

YES. This is what you want in your company culture, or really any important relationships between people.

Is it fair to say that being a successful manager requires a certain capability for egolessness? I'm thinking in particular about the coaching aspect of management.

Is there some fantastic tool out there that lets OSS companies link GH issues to paid customers? Has to be a common problem.

lol

I am in that tiny segment of people who need an AWS Organizations Factory, not just an Account Factory.

I have an extreme bias toward eliminating toil, attempting to improve the things around me, etc. Mostly it's been good for my career, but the other edge of the sword is that sometimes I can't compartmentalize and put on blinders for my own good.

If you are not fully aware of the downsides of using Kubernetes and accept them as necessary due to your organization's scale, then you do not need Kubernetes and should instead use a managed container service.

Is documenting stuff an act that reduces toil in your mind? Maybe a pre-requisite? Curious what people think in the field, whether you're an SRE or even in technical pre/post-sales.

It is difficult for me to conceive of the lack of empathy it takes to devote one's energies to creating a project like this. Agreeing to fund something like this is a close second: www.404media.co/optifyeai-yc...

The more I read, the more I am convinced that the platform engineering community has a lot of room to improve explaining: 1. What actual components comprise a platform (when speaking about the practice) 2. What the value of platform engineering is (when speaking about an implementation)

Real talk, I don't submit a ton of CfP's because they stress me out. The juice of submitting a KCDC CfP is well worth the squeeze. It's a fantastic conference that is in the sweet spot where it's still got a community feel, but with a ton of fantastic speakers.

If you do a lot of screen sharing (e.g. for webinars, demos, etc.) and use a single ultrawide monitor, maybe with something like OBS, how is that experience working for you versus multi-monitor?

Curiosity is the antidote to being judgmental (especially towards yourself). "What's wrong with me?" -> "What am I doing that's giving me a bad result?" or "What am I not understanding here?"

Are there any SaaS products that make decent AI-generated architecture diagrams?

After having quarterly bonuses, I would never want to go back to annual. We still have annual reviews for performance at my workplace, but each bonus kinda feels like its own mini-review since our bonuses have a discretionary performance input, so there's rarely any surprises for me.

Great talk by @adamhjk.me on OSS licensing. tl;dr: Sell that shit for money. www.youtube.com/watch?v=rmhY...

Good faith challenges to the views and opinions you take for granted is healthy. These things should stand up to scrutiny, or perhaps not be held so tightly. If this freaks you out, look at why. The touchy areas that can't be questioned are the places we most benefit from deeper understanding.

I just recently noticed that my DevOps Days Philly talk is up on YouTube. Check out my thoughts on how to be successful in your organization's platform engineering efforts! www.youtube.com/watch?v=rmBo...

I wrote my personal thoughts about where Developer Relations is going, with a traditional clickbaity title. Very interested to hear where other people think Dev Rel is going. leebriggs.co.uk/blog/2024/12...

Good post by @brig.gs leebriggs.co.uk/blog/2024/12.... My $0.02 - DevRel done excellently certainly has intangibles that are beneficial. But they are measurable. To me, more than anything, the issue was that we got the order twisted - folks became individually famous and used that to drive product

If it shouldn't be this way, it wouldn't be this way. That's not a judgment on the morality of a situation - it's a recognition that right now, this is how it actually is.

Exciting news as we head into re:Invent: now you can use any CDK construct (from constructs.dev or one you’ve built yourself) and deploy it with @pulumi.com alongside our standard provider resources to integrate with other services

A certain amount of work in tech is creative. And sometimes you gotta give creative people some space to do their thing. Do some deeper thinking. Play.

Is there a sample #kubernetes HTTP/S workload that allows you to tweak error rates, response times, etc. to simulate failures? Bonus points if it has open telemetry, is distributed (for demoing traces), built-in load generation (HTTP requests) etc.

Can I turn off re-skeets?

Not loving the "back to old Twitter" experience in that I don't need social/political stuff when I'm trying to learn about work stuff. Not that these things aren't important, I just don't want it ad infinitum when trying to focus on work. Separate professional/personal accounts ftw.