It's our practice and experience that is used to train the machines. Train your own model.

Just found out my daughter is going to be speaking at her first tech meetup. The dope part is @kelishightower.bsky.social made it happen on her own and sent me the link as a surprise. "What It's Like to Learn Cloud-Native Today — A Beginner's Kubernetes Story" www.meetup.com/cloud-native...

One great thing about LLMs that resonates with me came from @kelseyhightower.com: that to enable MCPs, devs are finally willing to write great docs and accurate API specs, because without them the LLMs simply don't work. Just wish we always did this for other humans. youtu.be/HdUbTyvrfKo?...

This may be @kelseyhightower.com's best interview, so good! title doesn't do justice to the topics covered nor to the wisdoms Kelsey shares as a natural educator www.youtube.com/watch?v=HdUb...

I got smarter today.

Angertainment is a great way to describe the emotional experience most social media platforms are optimizing for.

Cheap money makes everything more expensive.

I'm learning about prediction markets and I think America has a gambling problem.

Fantastic interview with @kelseyhightower.com. Discusses DevOps, open source, AI hype and personal growth. "All paths lead to self-learning" "When people wear a title, they forget to evolve" "Senior engineer, junior human" The story about his first contribution to Kubernetes is inspiring 🎉!

Good video capturing journey of our industry, and the following topics: from servers to containers and serverless, #DevOps vs. #Platform engineering, of course #Kubernetes, of course #AI too 😜, tool sprawl/complexity and what's next? Worth a watch and Kelsey sharing his wisdom and experience!

I know you're not supposed to read the comments, but I'm sucker for positive feedback.

It's rare that I get to reflect back on my entire tech career and my philosophy towards work and life, but this interview captures it perfectly. One of the few recordings of myself I've watched end to end. www.youtube.com/watch?v=HdUb...

🎯 That's why I think people are the most important part of the equation.

Some companies are waiting for a new technology to unlock an imaginary innovation when everything required to build a company the size of Google was available 20 years ago.

I flew to Amsterdam and did an interview with the @jetbrains.com team. We covered everything from DevOps to AI, and why I think it's so important for people to constantly reflect on their careers to avoid having 20 years of 1 year experience.

@kelseyhightower.com on platform engineering: The deployment inputs you ask for – version, CPU, memory, disk, region – are the API your developers rely on. VMware, cloud, whatever the backend is… the API is what matters. 👉 Full interview: jb.gg/p27tj8

I remember when SSL certificates cost more than hosting your website. And good luck remembering to renew it before the old one expired. 10 years ago @letsencrypt.bsky.social changed all that. letsencrypt.org/2025/12/09/1...

Sometimes you gotta do it yourself.

What'd I miss?

It's today! LinkedIn Live with @kelseyhightower.com & the Flox team. One week after #KubeCon North America, we’re going live for a quick debrief and deep dive into what’s new in Kubernetes. Join us 👉 buff.ly/ypJD72S

For the first time ever, I had to make a payment in crypto. I can now confidently say that crypto payments combine the speed of a dial up modem and the ease of updating the drivers on a 1998 HP Laserjet printer.

Relax people. I don't write code in nano, but thanks for all the vim suggestions.

Meanwhile, I'm over here coding like it's 1999.

There’s a very surreal conversation I keep having on here where people seem unable to hold two ideas at the same time, and I’m not sure why. It’s simply true that the Big AI platforms like ChatGPT are: 1. Extremely bad for society, in many ways. 2. Very genuinely popular with lots of people.

If it works, you should be able to explain it in simple terms.

We've reached the point with "AI" that no one wants to pay a premium today for what will become a commodity tomorrow.

I added one more book signing for KubeCon Atlanta, see y'all tomorrow.

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Swing by the @flox.dev booth today at 13:00 EST. @kelseyhightower.com, Flox Founder/CTO Michael Brantley and I will be talking about running our Flox Environments (powered by nix) in Kubernetes. Not just how, but why, and how conversations 8+ months ago got us to this point.

Introducing Kubernetes, Uncontained by Flox! 🎉 Run the same immutable, declarative env across local → CI → prod Kubernetes on x86 & ARM. 🟣 Faster deploys 🟣 Reproducibility 🟣 SBOMs-by-default. Live demos + chats with our engineers + @kelseyhightower.com at #KubeCon Booth 1850. buff.ly/pFqSlEZ

entire west coast pulled thru: CA, OR, and WA this is the minimum bar to help your neighbors yall.

Kubernetes is the sum of all the shell scripts, and practices, system administrators have cobbled together over time, presented as a single system behind a declarative set of APIs.

I wonder how many airlines have offered to pay air traffic controller's salaries during the shutdown, which has to be cheaper than canceling flights or refunding tickets.

Looking for an amazing tech writer to join my org and write for Cash App. 100% remote. Spread the word! block.xyz/careers/jobs...

This event kicks off in about 30 mins. Here is one of the slides from the deck we will walk through today as we attempt to find a solution to the cross config problem, which requires us to build configuration consensus across multiple tools.

I've asked the team behind Cue to come prepared to discuss the limits of configuration management when dealing with different configuration systems, for example, using Terraform, Kubernetes, and GitHub Actions to manage a single project, something that occurs more often than you would think.

Final call! 📣 Join us with @kelseyhightower.com tomorrow, Tuesday, Nov 4, at 17:00 UTC to explore the future of configuration with our Configuration Control Plane, and turn configuration from a source of risk into a source of reliability! Register here: luma.com/ysloofz3

How I’m going to the holidays when people expect gifts. Kelsey made it possible to bin gifts. Save money. Simple.

I don't celebrate the holidays by spending money. I celebrate the holidays by spending time. Community over consumerism.

If you take away the land, you take away people's natural ability to feed themselves. As a result, if you don't work, you don't eat, turns into, if you don't work for me, you don't eat.

"They got money for wars, but can't feed the poor" - 2Pac, Keep Ya Head Up

I don't buy the AI narrative around prosperity for all. There is plenty of money to go around yet it tends to flow to the top. I can't imagine a world where those in control of AI, assuming it actually works, will resist charging an ever increasing subscription fee cementing the haves and have nots.

Chatbots — LLMs — do not know facts and are not designed to be able to accurately answer factual questions. They are designed to find and mimic patterns of words, probabilistically. When they’re “right” it’s because correct things are often written down, so those patterns are frequent. That’s all.

I've heard of pay for play, but pay for pardon is new to me.

This was one of the best meetups I've ever spoken at. My talk was good, but the 2+ hours of Q/A was better. Thoughtful questions led to thoughtful answers, and it felt like the entire room was locked in the whole time.

We went from being asked to think different to not thinking at all.

bub and thing

I see you Amsterdam.

Energy!

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