A few days ago, I stood in the graveyard of an 1100 year old church, getting damper and damper in the drizzling rain. A woman walked into the graveyard, waved, said hello, and, as we had previously arranged, handed me a paper bag full of human bones. The life of a churchwarden is a strange one...

This completely fake university was recently uncovered by @mcintold.bsky.social - it’s fascinating. #FoSci #ResearchIntegrity

NEW: INACTION CONTINUES ON DANGEROUS JUNCTIONS 📊The latest data published today, shows a picture of inaction from @mayoroflondon.bsky.social, TfL and local councils, when it comes to making junctions safe for cycling... 🧑‍💻 Email the mayor and demand action: bit.ly/47QcmUF

Haskell Brain Teasers is currently in beta. If you’re planning to read it I’d love you to get the beta and give feedback now! pragprog.com/titles/haske...

Videos from Cloud Native Day Bergen 2025 are now published www.youtube.com/@CloudNative...

Secrets of Blackfriars Bridge revealed in new restoration project

"The protocol taught us that technology can be based on human values like ethics and morality. It showed that voluntary compliance works when all parties benefit." On robots.txt. www.heise.de/en/backgroun...

Don't miss the awesome speakers for Cloud Native Day Bergen 2025 go.bsky.app/QWcidxD

Scientific study of trisodium citrate in the recipe for cacio e pepe wins an Ig Nobel prize this year. Science is cool, kids. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

> [Blacksky] guarantees our community a seat at the table, and ensures that we can leave and easily make our own table if we need to. That’s the true promise of decentralized social media. Me for @newpublic.org

This is awesome: a "WKRP in Cincinnati" fan created a three-hour Johnny Fever radio block, by using clips from the TV show and dropping in the full songs on his intros and outros, plus commercials and Les Nessman news breaks.

See art for free in London - with the help of our ultimate guide

Crossplane 2.0 was one of the main things in the cloud native space I was really looking forward to this year 🚀 Game-changer features: applications as first-class citizens, namespaced resources, and native support for composing Kubernetes resources. @crossplane.io blog.crossplane.io/announcing-c...

The Crossplane v2 release candidate is available for installation and testing now in your non-production clusters! github.com/crossplane/c... We invite you to try this build and report any issues and questions. Let's work together towards a polished and high quality release for early next week!

New Crossplane function-pythonic looks good: github.com/fortra/funct... def compose(self): vpc = self.resources.vpc('ec2.aws.crossplane.io/v1beta1', 'VPC') vpc.spec.forProvider.region = self.spec.region vpc.spec.forProvider.cidrBlock = self.spec.cidr

Happy weekend! 🦛💙 Here’s a wonderful c. 4,000 year-old ancient Egyptian glossy blue hippo decorated with a little bird perched on the stem of a lotus flower. Egyptian Museum Cairo 📷 by me #Archaeology

new blogpost about protobuf perf (work related!) mcyoung.xyz/2025/07/16/h...

We announced the new native Go FIPS 140-3 mode today! FIPS 140, like it or not, is often a requirement, and I was increasingly sad about large deployments replacing the Go crypto packages with non-memory safe cgo bindings. Go is now one of the easiest and most secure ways to build under FIPS 140.

As we test Kubernetes clusters beyond the supported 5,000+ nodes limit at LinkedIn, we're finding out 'List API' calls are a bottleneck in cluster reliability. So I'm publishing a deep dive about why this is a problem and what you can do about them. ahmet.im/blog/kuberne...

I am once again pitching my romantic comedy: - two academics start dating - discover they are each other's terrible reviewer - hijinks ensue Working title: Love is Double-Blind

v2 APIs have been merged into Crossplane's main branch github.com/crossplane/c...! Read more about v2 here: github.com/crossplane/c...

The Crossplane v1.20.0 release is now available to install into your control planes! 🎉 A huge thank you goes out to our release MVPs Carl Lunde and Tobi - thank you for your efforts! 🙇 Read all about this awesome new release in the release notes below: github.com/crossplane/c...

Standing room only at the @crossplane.io v2 session #kubecon

What's new in Crossplane v2? docs.crossplane.io/v2.0-preview... Stop by our booth 6A at #kubecon.

Lots of great talks at Cloud Native Day Oslo today: cloud-native-day-oslo-2025.sessionize.com/schedule I'm giving a talk at 13:45 about @crossplane.io and Platform Engineering. Please say hi if you see me around, I'm happy to answer any questions.

The Crossplane v2 proposal has been out for a couple of weeks github.com/crossplane/c.... We'll discuss the proposal again at today's community meeting at 1pm US/eastern: docs.google.com/document/d/1... -

My big project: The Death Generator. It's a tool for making fake video game screenshots, just fill in new text and it'll give you a (generally) pixel-accurate image back, the correct fonts and everything. deathgenerator.com

In time the sun sets on all empires.

Made focaccia to go along with our soup tonight. The house smells amazing.

This is a great dive into the inner workings of Bluesky and the possibilities of atproto.

There are many ways to unethically promote opinions as science and to boost citation rates. I explore one way today fosci.substack.com/p/vanity-jou... #Research #Integrity #FoSci

Last year the Crossplane team released Composition Functions, allowing you to use any programming language to create desired state for infrastructure. This year the focus was on Developer Experience. @vfarcic.bsky.social covers a lot of the highlights in www.youtube.com/watch?v=SoJj...

We are now close to having 200 tech-related starter packs in our list. The total number of starter packs has exploded, going from a few thousand to 40k in the span of a week. github.com/stevendborre...

Unfortunately not surprised by the creeping enshittification of meetup.com

BRB accomplishing beyond what I ever thought possible

The 9% of Chicago roads under IDOT Jurisdiction account for 45% of all fatal crashes.

“Writing faculty have both the agency and the academic freedom to examine generative AI’s dishonest training origins and conclude: There is no path to ethically teach AI skills. Not only are we allowed to say no, we ought to think deeply about the why of that no.”

Quite a lot of discussion around @bsky.app here at #KubeCon, and consensus that it was @kelseyhightower.com 's clear exit from the other place that was the tipping point for the cloud native community coming over here en masse. Thank you Kelsey for your leadership in this and so many other ways.

I know it has been a crappy week, but our cat Livy and I somehow started going for walks around the block together. It's the best thing ever.

Created a feed for #KubeCon and #CloudNativeCon + all co-located events (all relevant hashtags included) for those of you who might find it useful. Sorted by HN Ranking algorithm. bsky.app/profile/did:...

I saw a draft of this talk for Platform Engineering Day at #kubecon, and I think it will be a great session. Hugo will be showing how to combine Crossplane Functions with the Dapr runtime. sched.co/1izsZ

Crossplane and UXP 1.18 are out! Note that this release has breaking changes if you are using EnvironmentConfigs. github.com/crossplane/c... github.com/upbound/univ...

Kubernetes is now on BlueSky! Tune in here for news about the project, straight from the contributor community! This account is owned and managed by the Contributor Comms subproject of SIG ContribEx: github.com/kubernetes/c...

If you are new to Bluesky and looking for folks to follow, I have a list of over 100 tech-related starter packs in a git repo. Please open a pull request if you have any updates. github.com/stevendborre...

Cloud Native folks! If you’re not heading to SLC for KubeCon NA and instead fancy a trip to Edinburgh to give a talk, we’ve a spot at the next meetup on November 12th: meetu.ps/e/NBkjd/qC7c...

Well, this is awkward. My cat brought me a dead mouse and I think she expects me to eat it. How do I politely refuse without offending her?

When setting your Bluesky profile in GitHub, use the bsky.app/profile prefix (like bsky.app/profile/stef...)

Crossplane v1.18.0-rc.1 is out. Biggest changes coming in 1.18: - the removal of the built-in Environment engine. The crossplane CLI will convert existing compositions to use function-environment-configs - tons of upgrades in the package engine.

What can ancient Rome's mos maiorum teach us about protecting science? Let’s ensure science remains a beacon of truth. 🏛️🔬 Read more from @mcintold.bsky.social here open.substack.com/pub/fosci/p/... #TrustInScience @digitalsci.bsky.social #ForensicScientometrics #FoSci #ResearchIntegrity

"Dalla Ragione has spent more than a decade scouring the masterpieces of 15th- and 16th-century art for answers to one of the great questions of Italian agriculture: Whatever happened to the boisterous selection of fruits that, for centuries, were a celebrated part of Italian cuisine and culture?"