I’m petrified about today’s science news. Genetically modifying crabs to have cheetah genes? This could go sideways fast.

GORDON RAMSAY: and the eggs, they are? UGLÙK: they eggs. Taste good. Canapé. RAMSAY: no I mean, where do you get the eggs UGLÙK (gesturing towards Shelob’s lair): Get from big spider RAMSAY: from big spider. Fuck me. Canapé eggs from big spider. Fucking hell.

better a cow than a fascist

Systems Distributed. June 19-20, Amsterdam. https://systemsdistributed.com/

At AWS, I led the team that built EC2's Nitro virtualization stack— C code deployed to 500K servers. Biggest lesson? Pre-production testing has limits. You must embrace safe production testing. My new blog explains how Nitro did it, and how Junction brings this to any Kubernetes team.

smashing pumpkins fan pope

God, it's so dumb that we can't just do all of this stuff transitcosts.com/north-east-c...

Recently, one of our testing tools at AWS found an issue with transaction visibility in PostgreSQL, where the order that transactions become visible differs between the primary and replicas. Sergey Melnik dives deep on the AWS Database Blog: aws.amazon.com/blogs/databa...

From 8 Trabalhos de Neide Dias de Sá Neide Dias de Sá Published by Do Autor, São Paulo, 1970

23/4/25 - nocturn

2025.04.11

a hideous and intolerable allegory

2025.04.04

There's no reason a language like this needs to just stay in a cartoon. Here's a working implementation of this language, built in @racket-lang.org: github.com/shriram/xkcd...

2025.03.06

IR is such a US-coded discipline that you have loads of analysts and journalists with IR backgrounds still churning out wordcount about what Trump will do with US hegemony even as the geopolitical reality looks more and more like this:

I'm just a wolf who's intentions are good oh lord please don't let me eat Red Riding Hood

On the other hand

2025.02.19

same. went straight through to voicemail, no hold. fellow NYers: call the number below, identify yourself as a constituent, state your zip code, and say that you're calling to ask that the governor remove the mayor. it'll take less than 60 seconds

13/2/25 - nocturn

If you're coming to KubeCon EU, my co-author Ian and I will be speaking about starting and scaling platform engineering teams sched.co/1txG8

they are having some impossible architecture adjacent problems over at the utah teapot factory

2025.02.05

The program is up and tickets are live at www.hytradboi.com/2025/#program. I'll keep updating this thread as the last 10 talks hit camera-ready.

every algorithm ever written is a compiler, except for compilers, which are databases

beach boys voice Indexing json b My co-founder and me Around postgress tables we did roam Drinking all night Got into a fight

someone talk me out of indexing jsonb in postgres

nice stateless service you’ve got there. would be a shame if someone snuck some state into it www.junctionlabs.io/blog/dns-and...

2025.01.25

SOCRATES: I am wiser than this man; he fancies he knows something, although he knows nothing— DARRYL, SOCRATES' FRIEND (Editor's note: There is no historical evidence that Socrates actually had a friend named Darryl. This is likely a character invented to facilitate the joke.): fuck him up socrates

SHA256? more like SKA 365 🕴🏽

How your email finds me

runklestilskin: you may have custody of this Creature, but you are never allowed to move again because she’s sitting on you; also, she will throw up in your toolbox every night me: gimme that thing you old no-name-ass-having bitch

Relieved to learn the guy who built an eel pit in his basement is on other platforms

Shorter Yarvin: liberals have corrupted all aspects of society with the intent of suppressing the innate and natural need of humanity to acknowledge me as a fancy little duke

the spread of misinformation on bluesky is really quite harrowing. always feed your cat every time he meows. he has never been fed. he is starving.

David Lynch’s Dune taught me that it’s not exactly okay to be weird but that some people might appreciate it even when you yourself are deeply embarrassed

Food $800 Data $150 Rent $3000 Congestion charge $9 Utility $150 someone who is good at the economy please help me budget this. my family is dying

I couldn't find any good games for my password manager. So I made one. 1Crossword connects to your 1Password vault and generates a crossword entirely out of your passwords! The crosswords are fun, simple, and great for sharing on social media when you finish. Enjoy!

another banger www.scattered-thoughts.net/writing/the-...

Tired: There is another Q train immediately behind this one. Wired: Patience, for what follows is not overfleshed. T: Please stand clear of the closing doors. W: Behold! The orifice seals!

on my second pass at a sans-io protocol implementation and i can't imagine going back to doing things any other way

ah yes, my old friend ASSERT!AppleDCPDPTXPowerController.cpp:564 No device added after powering on the rails