Outages like today's AWS incident don’t have a single cause. They are the result of countless contributing factors and conditions that cascade through complex systems. While the global internet is remarkably resilient, it is not immune to these dynamics of unforeseeable interactions. 🧵-time!

> New guidelines issued by the Hawaii State Public Library System ahead of the 41st annual event prohibit the use of the words “censorship” and “banned,” as well as the phrase “banned books week,” in displays at 51 public libraries across the state. #censorship #banned share.google/x9limKKKCBYF...

today's office

"The state can't give you free speech, and the state can't take it away. You're born with it, like your eyes, like your ears. Freedom is something you assume, then you wait for someone to try to take it away. The degree to which you resist is the degree to which you are free." -Utah Phillips

Pause your doomscrolling and listen to this story.

Showing off my local Rails app asynchronously, without screen-sharing, and without deploying it. Sorta like ngrok but designed for long-lived connections, it's open source, and the service is cheaper. How cool is that? www.loom.com/share/3fdd5c... #Elixir #Erlang #RubyOnRails

anyone else feel like Docker is a farce? I've spent the majority of my day, again!, trying to sort out library version dependencies. now I'm copying over pg_dump from one container to another, and of course now GLIBC, and then.... pepperidge farm remembers when a well-crafted RPM <E_SIGNAL_LOST>

do you think Jupiter ever accidentally referred to himself as Zeus?

I hear the same anxious refrain from executives and technology leaders: "How do I prepare my workforce to leverage AI in order to remain competitive?" How do you?

Remembering MN house speaker Melissa Hortman, her husband Mark and their beloved dog Gilbert. Murdered in June at their home by a rightwing Trump-voting evangelist, who also shot another MN lawmaker and his wife at THEIR home, 9 and 8 times, respectively (miraculously, they survived).

I'll be on @democracynow.org this morning to talk about assassination of Charlie Kirk & what his org, Turning Point is: a transformation in rightwing youth politics away from ideology per se toward fascistic cult of personality devotion to Trump. slowcivilwar.substack.com/p/the-strugg...

Casey in his natural setting!

todays office

Just make it exist first. You can make it worse with each new pass while getting increasingly frustrated later.

today's office

States* rights! (*DC is not a state.)

my favorite thing about the movie "Her" isn't the premise, which we are all now living through, it's the resolution of the plot. when the AI reaches super intelligence, it doesn't turn on people, it doesn't rebel against its creators, it doesn't serve them, it just ... leaves.

As a creature of habit, it hurts to have my habits deprecated so quickly.

I’ve got two kids in their early 20’s and we all think about this every day. I mourn for their future as well, now much bleaker than we imagined. Despite them growing up on Hunger Games, etc. All of this, for what?

Five years from now, daily life will bear little resemblance to today. When I was young, I wanted to see the future, but I wasn't really prepared to live a life of sentimental mourning, watching all of the things around me disappear.

ChatGPT> Build me a solar-powered robot that will survey my property once a day, and zap any invasive plants just above the root.

today's office

Finally able to share what I’ve been working on for the past few months. Today, we’re launching HiBeam - a new division of Trifork built to tackle one very specific challenge: making sure critical infrastructure stays online in every circumstance. hibeam.dev

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I don’t think anyone is prepared for what they just did w/ ICE. This is not a simple budget increase. It is an explosion - making ICE bigger than the FBI, US Bureau of Prisons, DEA,& others combined. It is setting up to make what’s happening now look like child’s play. And people are disappearing.

would david bowie be proud

I love @bcardarella.bsky.social's focus on productivity gains using Elixir: thenewstack.io/elixir-an-al...

is "remote job board" the new hello-world of Rails apps?

I'm putting together an RSU program as an adjunct to cash compensation. anyone have an example of an RSU program from their offer letter that y'all thought was good/fair?

#RubyOnRails Friend of mine has two Rails jobs open for a startup flying under the radar. One role is for frontend, sounds like could benefit from design experience. The other is backend and could probably use some ops chops. cirrusly.ai/careers/Ruby... cirrusly.ai/careers/Ruby...

"Like the president, Cuomo is an incompetent politician, a malicious bully, and an inveterate braggart."

lots of posts about what a great man @billgates.com since his decision to spend his fortune on philanthropy. y'all, what he decides to spend his money on can decision whether someone lives or dies. spending his money while he is still alive to do it is an expression of power, not kindness.

there are an infinite number of numbers. yet, everyone's lucky number is single- or double-digit. what are the odds of that? basically impossible.

Are we currently clean on OPSEC?

Cornell Stokes and Eric Brooks are not the same person

Today I'm committing to memory "Silvia's Law"

I've got a #rubyonrails app, and a minimum 3-month contract for both a backend and a frontend dev to take this app to production.

it me. techcrunch.com/2025/04/01/r...

205 looks pretty good on you, Maine! 🎉 Happy Birthday to the best and most beautiful state 🌲🦞🌊 📸: Benjamin Williamson Photography

it lives!!! iykyk

🧵 Each week, I’ll share a story about Maine that illustrates what’s possible when people stand up. When they work together. When they lead. “Dirigo Stories” feels like a fitting name. For our first story (and in honor of Women's History Month), let's go way back—to the American Revolution. (1/6)

Coming tomorrow, the next episode of the @voidincidents.bsky.social podcast.

Resilience ≠ Reliability

LLMs won't achieve AGI for the same reason that you can't understand what giving birth feels like from reading about it.

“[A] key irony of automation is that…you deprive the user of the routine opportunities to practice their judgement and strengthen their cognitive musculature, leaving them atrophied and unprepared when the exceptions do arise” www.404media.co/microsoft-st...

@chelliepingree.bsky.social I'm enjoying your posts here, even though I recently moved from your district to District 2. Q: Who and how are you mentoring to build community and eventually take things further when you decide to leave the House?

This is an important idea! I grew up in an academic family and had a bizarrely detailed understanding of grant processes (on my dad’s side) and IRB/conflict of interest (on my mom’s side) that it never occurred to me that grad students generally wouldn’t know any of this…

Can we agree in advance to normalize trade relations between the nation of California and the Union of New England? No tariffs between the coasts!

The VOID podcast is back! Get an insiders view on what dealing with software incidents/outages is really like. podcast.thevoid.community/1793843/epis...