RTO mandates hit at exactly what @bcantrill.bsky.social is talking about on stage at #monktoberfest: trust (or, more accurately, the lack of trust in an organization).

Jon "maddog" Hall dropping wisdom at #monktoberfest.

One of these things is not like the others…

Maine never fails to impress. #monktoberfest

“Attending @monktoberfest.com = a lifelong condition.” - @grimalkina.bsky.social

Love this talk by @gabyberk.bsky.social at @monktoberfest.com. A strong reminder that soft skills are hard.

Hi @npr.org! We worked late tonight putting together this handy pocket guide! It doesn't address road design issues, but if we're going to educate road users, we should include drivers. It's the size of a folded business card. Print it, fold it, put it in your wallet!

the post office is a public service. it doesn’t need to make money. public transit doesn’t need to make money. the library doesn’t need to make money. some things exist for the public good and we desperately need lawmakers to stop thinking about them in terms of capitalism. these are not businesses.

Watch this turn out to be some intergalactic space being chucking space pebbles at our solar system for fun.

I feel like I'm not pronouncing this correctly.

Maybe AI isn't the thing we should be worried about having hallucinations.

And here I am thinking I already knew the true origin story of #Monktoberfest. @sogrady.org @redmonk.com

An iconic photo by Ms. Smith.

we're all specks floating through space on a rock the size of nothing in comparison to the vastness of this incredible universe. and for some reason, some humans on this planet waste their entire lives trying to make it miserable for others. wake up and enjoy the opportunity to just. exist.

It's hard to overstate how much @ricmac.cybercultural.com's work on Cybercultural/Bubble Blog matters for keeping tech history alive. cybercultural.com

My parents went to dinner to celebrate their 57th wedding anniversary yesterday. They sat at a four-top. The restaurant was crowded, so they offered the two empty chairs at their table to anyone who needed them. Two people joined them. Turned out, they were celebrating their anniversary as well.

love, hope, kindness, empathy, art, craft, life, hugs, smiles, taking a moment, sharing a drink, sitting quietly together, thanking the bus driver, opening a door for an elder, or giving them your seat, celebrating your friends' wins, helping your neighbour when their car is stuck in the snow.

Having the Tour de France go through your sleepy little provincial town decreases support for the far-right, boosts regional GDP, and enhances your feelings of pride

I can't remember the details, and can't find them now, for my favorite Robert Redford anecdote, but: When Indecent Proposal was being discussed, someone asked a film critic if she would sleep with Robert Redford for $1 million, and she replied, "Yes, but where would I get the money?"

On Sundays, I pretend I’m a chef. My friends indulge me. Luckily, there are bottles of wine to dull the taste buds. Tonight’s attempt was restaurant worthy apparently.

In 2017, I shared a conference agenda with the Boston Philharmonic’s conductor and NASCAR’s Jeff Gordon. My dad: “One of these things is not like the others.” Next March, Eric and Kim put me on the agenda with Paul Kedrosky and Adrian Cockcroft. My dad's words remain true.

Anecdotal, but I'm both amazed and petrified with the number of non-geek folks I've run across who are using ChatGPT as a replacement for Google Search.

The new orange iPhone 17 Pro Max looks sweet and delivers a nice pop of color in a world that needs more creativity. But as someone who uses the device for street/travel photography, I'm torn between hip and cool and blending in (yes, I put gaffer tape on my Canon logo when I travel).

Anyone have some good examples of #opensource projects that understand the value in onboarding, documentation, thanking contributors, etc.? Please RT for reach - I want to include them in my talk at #CommunityOverCodeNA

This is the official spokesperson for the White House, stating that the President hopes to deploy the United States military to occupy every city controlled by the political party that opposes him. Explicitly.

Yes, do this. "You cannot arrest someone because they are Hispanic" is worth fighting for. It's worth shutting down the government for. And it's worth attracting attention to.

I am cautiously pro-LLM in my own work, but collectively I fear the car is the predictive historical model: small wins for individuals + huge wins for a handful → massive externalities and collective action problems that will take generations to fix. Original post: urbanists.social/@straphanger...

This is the year for oysters and beer.

The future of the nation depends on the Democratic Party getting new leaders.

Making a Sunday pomodoro sauce. 2 bulbs of garlic is the same as 8 cloves, right?

“Creative practices are not about doing what everyone else does to gain recognition. It should be personal.” The photographers and writers history will remember will be the artists who break free from the screen. Long live the flâneurs.

Just saw someone refer to Cheryl Hines as The Marvelous Mrs. Measles and 💀💀💀💀💀💀

Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson signed an executive order curbing the power of federal law enforcement officers and National Guard troops that Trump has threatened to deploy to Illinois. Fixed it for you. The words you choose to use matter.

Watched the Billy Joel doc on HBO Max. Reminded of the sheer number of entries he's contributed to the Great Rock & Roll Songbook. Hit. After hit. After hit. Dylan biopic. Bruce biopic coming soon. It's a helluva year for songwriters. Yes, you too, Taylor. www.imdb.com/title/tt3645...

Classifying the cloud isn’t as simple as it used to be. And that's a good thing. I wrote a few words about how the way we define providers is blurring, because workload boundaries are blurring too. www.linkedin.com/pulse/how-ar...

I don’t have them eating out of my hands just yet, but they do wait politely for me in the morning.

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Let's see if this second cup of coffee does the trick.

Words/phrases Democrats should never use: * bipartisan * my Republican friends * real, valid, legitimate, serious, important (to describe issue raised by Republicans) * yea (when voting on Republican bills) * distraction (to describe bad thing Republicans did) * woke (in derogatory sense)

For those of us who’ve been around longer than we’d probably like to admit, building AI prompts feels a lot like the days we spent hand-coding websites in raw HTML. It was exciting learning and creating something that did something. Also, blinking text.

OUT: Firecracker shrimp IN: Fission shrimp

long live the open web!

who called it a Kubernetes penetration test and not a clusterfuck

And, once again, those "soft skills" are hard. Otherwise everyone would be good at them.

4o > 5. Much >.

Cicadas chirping like that alien in “Independence Day.” Early morning sounds of nature giving way to the manufactured sounds of humans. First cup of Americano almost empty. And pretty sure it’s going to be a toss-up between pet and rabies in my attempt to domesticate the backyard squirrel.

In a world of Mark Cubans, be something else. Anything else.

@sfchronicle.com reports this morning that a “car”, again magically with no agency from the driver, killed a 4yo child. 30% of the city’s households don’t own a car. I’d love to know how the Chronicle would report it if a violent majority regularly killed a minority with guns or knives.

He did it to Philly and turned them. I was in the audience that day. An entire political party should be a cakewalk.