Spent half an hour troubleshooting a buffering issue only to figure out it’s because I was on the neighbors WiFi.

Go update your LinkedIn settings.

Took a couple Tylenol this morning. Just enough for a day's worth of autism because it's trivia night night at the bar and I wanted an edge.

very thankful for the PDS migration tool from Northsky (@transrights.northsky.social) @lucca.northsky.team helped me recover my lost media blobs that occurred when I transferred to blacksky, this tool makes it super simple too, thankfully I did not have a lot of media uploaded so mine was quick :p

Guys when they say boycott Disney they especially mean Marvel. They especially mean Star Wars and Hulu and all your faves. Come on now.

Recording voice overs for Northsky and my office is very echoey so I sat under my kids bed with my mic to do them. Then I needed to do a different tone so I’m back at my desk with a towel over my head and mic.

There is no discourse in Ba Sing Se

I can’t wait for the propaganda to be in everyone’s face.

I'd really like to know how random recruiters are getting my personal phone number.

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Anyone got a spare ticket for KubeCon Atlanta?

Ma’am, you do not sound stupid. Perish the thought. What you’re asking is a fair question. The names are a stylistic choice to be viewed as alternatives to Bluesky, not offshoots, but I can understand how they can be viewed that way. But they’re all meant to be completely independent of Bluesky.

Got very excited when someone shared a reel from our dogs instagram. It was a porn bot 💔

I’m seeing a big spike in manufactured controversies around BlackSky and NorthSky. Don’t buy into any of it as for each there’s a lack of credible source of original post/skeet/tweet. @transrights.northsky.social continues to make progress and we’re alpha testing migrating a select set of users

Anyone attended web summit Lisbon? Was recommended to me recently and I’m curious what people’s experience were such as quality of sessions/tracks as it has multiple tracks that are of great interest.

You should say what the alternatives are so people understand what you mean by this. Not that they should go back to X, but that they can migrate to PDS.witchcraft.systems, selfhosted.social, blacksky.app, @transrights.northsky.social They can use zeppelin.social, blacksky.community, deer.social

Deploy on Friday

It's time to pack for my holiday, or as I've come to know it: Bemoaning my lack of casual attire because I like to dress it up for work. I'll do my usual raiding my wife's closet.

Have you been working in #SRE / #DevOps and are looking to take on more ownership to lead high impact projects or dig your teeth into building a platform with a #PlatformEngineering team? I am #hiring a Senior Platform Engineer! If what I said catches your interest, apply and we can chat :)

Too many flies inside but I have a Venus fly trap and electric fly swatter. It was a massacre but the trap is eating well this week

Mississippi, Bluesky, Blacksky, the ATmosphere, Mastodon, and the Fediverse privacy.thenexus.today/mississippi-... A summary of the situation (both in the ATmosphere and the Fediverse) links to a bunch of interesting discussions, and an appendix on just why age verification laws are so bad. 🧵

People gawk at the number of rollerskates I own and all it takes to retaliate is to mention their expensive hobby. “Oh you’re into mechanical keyboards? How many keycap sets do you own?”

My heart fills with joy as my agentic pipeline successfully provides a weather report after months spent massaging the prompts.

It’s a bit of a red flag that they’re still on X 🫠

Listening to the podcast with @grimalkina.bsky.social on ai/llm in teams and the little example of a AI pre-mortem will be perfect for an AI Ops workshop I’ll be running in a month to pivot us to focusing on devex over dev productivity.

I was so proud of an entry point script I once wrote to handle arbitrary prefixed variables to generate configs with case statements and now anyone can do it with a simple question to a LLM. These are dark days indeed for the artisan scripters.

After a ADK workshop I have discovered that agentic flows are essentially elaborate pipes and queues with some light multiprocessing thrown in for good measure.

JKR? The woman who has been instrumental in UK earning the name TERF island? I am shocked

RT if you also wish ill upon JK Rowling.

AWS we need to talk about your clinginess. Whenever we talk it lasts for hours just so you can watch when all I want is for you to ask a simple question. I need some space, maybe you could have more trust in me listening instead of insisting we hop on a call?

I'm in an all day workshop and people keep getting buried in the weeds on topics so we're way behind schedule. The facilitator/project lead just passed around a bag of D20s and made us all roll initiative

What are some signs a candidate is using a AI interview assistant? Mine is when they interrupt at the very beginning asking me to slow down then proceed to speak faster.

Also, super excited about all of the recent work by @knotbin.com and @transrights.northsky.social supporting identity mobility.

Latest donation round: • $200 CAD one-time to @transrights.northsky.social • $100 USD one-time to @futur.blue for work on zeppelin.social • $100 USD one-time to @knotbin.com for work on ATAirport • Started $25 USD monthly recurring donations to @blackskyweb.xyz (planning to gradually increase)

No matter what I always end up looking like a slightly unhinged evangelist. Thank you @cnsmunich.bsky.social for the opportunity to speak about platforms!

Stumbled upon some sort of flower parade and they handed me a whole bouquet

cloud.google.com/transform/un... Build the right thing, build the thing right. "By connecting your delivery process to how people experience your product, you'll be on the way to not just building software faster, but building better products that succeed in the long run."

I’ve read the Cosmere books, caught up on murderbot and now I need to find a new series to consume as I continue to avoid reading all my engineering books.

Our first in a series of newsletters has gone out to our subscribers! It's a slow ramp-up of information about what we've been up to, some infrastructure changes we've made, and also what folks can expect from subsequent newsletters (which will be a lot more frequent leading up to launch, date TBD)

this says 20 going 8 interested there's gotta be at least 1-2 more protocol enjoyooors among y'all that will be in NYC on the 22nd, u should come. a bunch of cool people will be there, I'll present a bit about payments stuff.

Anyone know the author/maintainer for helmless, I’m seriously considering implementing fargate support in it but need to know more about the internal structure

I’m only a little tempted to get this and dye it a lovely color so I can pretend to be in the control center of a Japanese sci-fi anime.

I trying a split leash for my dogs that has an elastic end and so far they’re spending more time running into and and tripping each other or freezing up as they run in opposite directions than actual walking.

Fellas is it weird to not vibe code

I really wanted the novelties for my keycap set but they were sold out everywhere in Europe except UK so I of course had more reason to visit a friend in london so I could ship them to him.

The weekend is here! Perfect time to submit your #dataBS talk. We want your lessons-learned stories from data work, everything from "my data pipeline: the unsung hero" to "how we got that AI system working" to "what we learned when it fell over." Details and sign-up: bit.ly/dataBSconf-cfs

Just wrapped up my talk at @cnsmunich.bsky.social

Why did I even setup a website with a blog section. Should do an audio blog and it's just late night rants about software quirks I keep running into.