I’ve spent most of my birthday playing video games and the PS5 has kernel panicked enough for me to be Very Close to building a living room gaming PC 🙃 I miss when consoles just worked

I'm shocked and a little disappointed that there's no good kubernetes-native way to run a cluster-local CA / mTLS setup that doesn't require a specific CNI OR a bunch of manual operations. _Vault_ can do this well, why can't anything else?! 😭

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Kinda sad I only have 1 day in Osaka because this feels like a much more me compatible city than Tokyo is

I’m extremely ready to go home on Tuesday, but pretty much everywhere I’ve been and everyone I’ve met this trip has been so incredibly friendly. It’s gonna be weird to go back to Berlin, where the mood of the people matches the weather.

Indian restaurant: “At spice level 5 you might cry” Me: “sign me the fuck up” Kitchen: *laughs*

Playing with “veiled” canes (glass with color on the outside, clear on the inside), cut up and applied to the surface

The worst thing to come out of the pandemic, for me personally, is the dropping the autism mask because trying to build it back up is torture :(

Productive flameworking weekend, prepping goblet and vase tops

@jesslynnrose.bsky.social Japan advice 😅 Last time I was in Japan I only saw Tokyo - and mostly in the city. I’m probably going to be on Niijima for a week next month and want to spend a week somewhere else too - Osaka? (it’s way cheaper to fly there than Tokyo rn too)

Hotshop goblet practice

Realizing that for work I give magic sand depression, and that for fun I make the magic sand into art... i really just can't get enough of sand can i?

it’s very much an “I want to disappear into a hole and either write a database or never emerge” kinda week. Not sure which I’m gonna go for.

I just taught my last glassblowing class, and tallied up that I've taught _90_ people this summer, which is absolutely wild - but it's been an incredible experience to guide folks through working with a material that I fell in love with so much 😍

Making use of some of my recent practice goblets - they’re getting better! (Opening vessels on the torch is definitely still not my strong suit, but getting better!)

I really struggled to shape this one, and was definitely a “what can you save” effort - the blue turned to butter, and the stiff cane combination made it want to get weird fast. I think I know how to make this go better next time though - and that’s what counts 😅 #art #glass

It’s been a long time since I wrote a blog post rather than a talk - but in architecting our platforms to run “anywhere” - I spent a lot of time thinking about “minimal” footprints… and made some interesting discoveries. Mostly that #SQLite is still pretty awesome. www.fermyon.com/blog/sqlite-...

Applications open on Sunday for a class I really want to take in Japan in October, and although I'm woefully underqualified so assuming I'm gonna get rejected, I'm already anxious about waiting to hear back 😭🥲 (A week of glass class with one of my fav artists would be so incredible thoooo)

What are folks using for #OCI registries (and registry caching proxies or fan-out replication) these days - especially with large numbers of clients?

I made a new #vase! Still playing with the idea of various flowing forms. This orange on black was loosely inspired by the idea of flowing lava. #art

having a well tuned intuition is a curse sometimes 🙃

Making 🐝 pendants (they're gonna be available... 👀)

A lot of fun shapes in today’s class cups 🎉 teaching continues to be shockingly fun tbqh

I think I’m gonna finally buy a cargo bike 🙃

The terraform cloud UI falling over right as I start shipping annoying infra upgrades is.... not my fav 😭

Cannot wrap my head around people pissed at Itch for not suing Visa & MC. Not only would they not have a chance in hell for too many reasons to enumerate before my battery dies, but also this is not, in the year of our lord 2025, the “bad press” for Visa and Mastercard that some posters think it is.

I’ve made a bunch of little mini vases to practice random shapes lately and they’ve been super fun to do (but oh god I am running out of places to put glass)

New vase, playing with patterns

Buzz buzz

Tfw your photo of kiln treats looks like you wrote a raytracer

Another day of teaching ✅ Watching people go from trepidation to beaming smiles as the process goes on is so great

Today’s classes ✅ These were great fun and everyone got their cups into the kiln 🎉

macOS 26 dropped firewire support and now I need a dedicated "never update this or connect it to the internet" mac for my film scanner 😭

First classes: taught 😅

A year ago today I took my first “make a cup” intro class in Seattle (the blue cup), and this week I ~solo (hot shop work requires an assistant, but without like… guidance) blew the vase to the left. Tomorrow, I’m learning to teach, and maybe? actually _teaching_ my first make a cup classes 😅

Installing a macOS developer beta for the first time in a long time. Excited to play around with the new containerization tools 👀

I’ve been using jetbrains stuff for a week or so now and… I think I might actually be switching to IDE’s for a bit. Feels weird to consider, but especially now that RAM is so “cheap” - Goland at least has been performing pretty well, and it has some neat tools.

New glass! I made a decanter, and it’s the biggest piece I’ve made 😅 Holds ~1.5L in the main body which makes it perfect for cold brew season - excited to start using it 🎉

ArgoCD has some neat features, but the fact that "I always want to deploy the tip of my application branches" requires building a rube goldberg deployment machine makes it absolutely infuriating at times 😔

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I've reached the "starting to design my own tools" part of glassblowing and I have some kind of feelings about this (mostly bad because I'm writing OpenSCAD rn). But this is the 2nd iteration of part of some "rollers", used in flameworking to take the weight of pieces while tooling them.

I made another vase last week. I'm really happy with this one :D

I was on a podcast again? This time… telling you to use SQLite and touch more grass? fallthrough.transistor.fm/episodes/blo...

it finally happened, i forgot about freedom units and ordered something 2.54 times larger than I wanted it to be 🙃

I saw a Copilot review on github for the first time today and I'm mostly upset that it uses " rather than ` when repeating the diff github.com/ublue-os/blu...

I made more glass this week! Really enjoying using the opaline pink (in the left goblet)

I rarely injure myself working with glass, but when I do, jfc radiant heat burns are definitely my least favorite. Unfortunately one of my fav things to do in glass are where I get those the most (shaping feet for goblets with heat and centrifugal force) and I now have a burn across 2 fingers :(

> ...and you will only need to drill one 7/64" Hole... every time I talk to americans about anything that could possibly involve a power tool I really do have to wonder why they continue to use such ridiculous units 😜

Did a whole roast turbot / potatoes / asparagus with a miso/chanterelle beurre blanc followed by creme brulee for dinner and i am now very food-happy (didn't take photos, sorry 😂) a beurre blanc might be one of the less healthy sauce options, but damn they can be pretty great occasionally 😅

Big whether changes really fuck with me and the last couple of weeks of “hot” -> “barely warm” -> “hot” mean that basically every time I stand up I nearly faint and I’d like to stop feeling like this actually 😭