Spotted in The Observer by a relation :D Thank you (and your son) @seamas.bsky.social 💖

Mamdani has only been Mayor for a day & criminals are already fleeing New York

BREAKING: Explosions felt across New York City as full socialism begins

2026 is the year of the Kubernetes Desktop

“If God wanted us to listen to audiobooks she wouldn’t have given us eyes to watch TV” - Gene Belcher

Anthropic is donating the Model Context Protocol to the Agentic AI Foundation, a directed fund under the Linux Foundation. #devopsish x.com/anthropicai/st...

Ordinarily I’m against the sort of government agricultural support programmes that buy output from producers at high prices and dump it at a loss on the open market. In this case however

Just completed final watch through of the finished ROGUE TROOPER film… 25 years of pestering @2000ad.bsky.social to let me give it a shot, 3 years of production to make the thing & now… it’s DONE! Can’t wait for you to see it. So, so proud of our team. We’ve made something a bit special. ❤️

MOTHERFUCKER -- that's amazing. It's like the first time I heard Jake Shimabakuro

These are all bad images. Anyway, here’s mine.

New blog post! ✨ I argue that AI will make formal verification go mainstream. martin.kleppmann.com/2025/12/08/a... Three reasons for this: 1. LLMs are getting increasingly good at writing proofs using proof assistants. This will make formal verification vastly cheaper than it's been to date.

AWS's S3 object storage is at a different level of scale. It serves ~150M RPS (!!) and offers 11 nines of durability (!!!) [if you store 100M objects, you can statistically expect to lose one every 1,000 years] I'll talk with the team building it. What would you like to know?

incredible writing

Damn. Tom was, all round, a scholar and a gent. My dad envied his quietly perfect artist’s wardrobe and treasured his friendship. As did I. Travel well. I hope the wine’s okay.

At the risk of starting the flame war to end all flame wars... Modern LLMs (GPT-5.1, Claude 4.5, Gemini 3) produce excellent code and can be a significant productivity boost to software engineers who take the time to learn how to effectively apply them - especially if used with coding agent tools

cc @monadic.bsky.social My brain is vividly recalling one Pat Kerpan standing on a stage circa 2009 saying "And remember - it's *always* a distributed state problem!"(for anything)

Too little too late. The truth is that to be right in tech, you often have to be willing to be badly wrong first. And for a long time. Hard for governments to admit to this.

Any configuration template becomes more complex than learning the untemplated config file

Post-mortem now published by Cloudflare. Configuration is mentioned 19 times. lnkd.in/e-HTsxgE ** welcome to config hell **

for me the NUMBER ONE ask from GitOps customers is here

Back from kubecon London is comfortingly wet with rain

I (along with many others) was there!

Artem Lajko wrote a wonderful post about ConfigHub Find out why and how to get started itnext.io/confighub-wh...

From an article in today's Financial Times. Such an obvious statement of fact. It's hard to understand why direct public investment in social rent housing - so successful for decades - is now unthinkable.

Well my kubecon flight landed early and the airport was a breeze

Mars colony may be easier than fire and forget home printing

I feel like we have the opportunity to turn David Lynch's quote into this moment's "Keep Calm and Carry On" and it's a far better rallying cry too.

Have you ordered your copy of "The Casebook of Stamford Hawksmoor" by @bryan-talbot.bsky.social yet? Out tomorrow - here's the downthetubes review: downthetubes.net/in-review-th...

Bucks, almost uniquely, favours mayonnaise with chips.* And rightly so. * No, it really won't be salad cream.

My favorite comment on the FT story

😮 Norway finds out that its electric busses - produced by a Chinese firm - can be remotely controlled from China! The good news of this is that the Norwegians realised this because they did a cybersecurity test. We need to think about, and test, stuff like this more. www.focus.de/panorama/wel...

simulation hypothesis test

So what is a #Supermoon? Well, the Moon is typically ~¼ million miles away (30 Earths in a row), but thanks to its elliptical orbit, that distance changes. Tonight the Full Moon is 2-Earths closer than normal (221,823 miles away), making it appear ~15% brighter than usual hence #Supermoon! 🔭🧪

“We’re the hard men of Gondor, son, and we haven’t had any dinner.”

We've published a new installment of our "Road to GA" blog series. This time it's about the huge modularization effort the Spring Boot team has done and which is coming in Spring Boot 4: spring.io/blog/2025/10... #java #spring #springboot

“Reform is fascist. We must stop Nigel Farage.” Michael Heseltine is on a mission to stop Reform UK. Superb interview by @alicettimes.bsky.social, with ”share token”. www.thetimes.com/article/9048...

Klaxon!

#RIP Prunella Scales. Photo by John Deakin, 1964.

I can’t stand the flag stuff. But I really love this country. For all our sins, and we should talk about all of them, England and Britain have a culture, a compassion and a humour I’m really proud to be part of. This article touches on a lot of it but you could go way further.

BREAKING NEWS: Two men start a podcast. Alex Hudson and I have set up Crashed, where we'll tackle everything there is to know in the world of tech, weekly. This week: OpenAI Atlas and Last of the Summer Wine, and how they're connected. Listen in: t.co/7vAuAP9j4s

just added the MEGA TERMINAL CHEAT SHEET from "The Secret Rules of the Terminal" to our list of posters at wizardzines.com#posters

This remains the funniest way to hear about an internet outage, though.

What could possibly cause such a systemic outage

Which comes first? * agi * reliable cloud

1. You should never have any single points of failure across your online services 2. Cloud hosting means you are running your critical services on someone else’s computer 3. You can shadow run critical services with realtime incremental data copying for peanuts.

Today’s Canadian painting is “Algonquin Sunset” painted by David Lidbetter.

What is Configuration as Data? Why would anyone want to use that approach to manage configuration? I wrote a brief post to explain it: medium.com/@bgrant0607/... If you already use the rendered manifest pattern, you're partway there. I'll bee talking about it at Kubecon. #Kubernetes #GitOps

Really can’t overstate how good this book is! Get it!