I'll be presenting on "Isolation Isn't All Bad, For Your Database" at @devnexus.bsky.social 2026 in March! Come to this great community Java and Cloud conf and see me and other great speakers present. Use this code to get an extra $100 off the registration: SEEMESPEAK

🍷 Join us for Pouring into Progress — an evening of wine, music, and community at Niko’s Wine Cellar! Support Tara’s campaign while enjoying a relaxed night with neighbors. RSVP now: tinyurl.com/pouringintop...

Happy Birthday, Tara!

Sneaking AI instructions into your LinkedIn profile is peak programmer humor. www.linkedin.com/posts/davidh...

🚨 Big deadline tonight! Help us show the strength of our grassroots movement by midnight. Every donation counts toward building a healthier, more connected Sandy Springs. 👉 Donate: secure.anedot.com/overzat-for-...

My campaign website is live: overzatforsandysprings.com! Take a look, share it with your network, and let me know what stands out to you. Your feedback and support will help us build a stronger, more connected Sandy Springs. What matters most to you? Let me know! #OverzatForSandySprings

Happy Election Day, Canada! I hope everything goes well.

@overzat4council.bsky.social Tara’s official account for the city council race. Follow today to get all the updates!

Reflecting on Earth Day yesterday, I'm proud of how Sandy Springs embraces sustainability. From our parks and green spaces to city efforts in recycling and energy efficiency. It’s more than a goal here. It’s a way of life as we work toward a cleaner, greener future. 🌍 #EarthDay #SandySprings

To the guy that stole my credit card today, you have terrible taste and that's why my bank declined your charges so fast.

The tools are out there to self publish. Whether it’s Substack or self hosting, depending on the effort you’re willing to put in. Ask any friendly software or tech person and you can get to controlling your own content quickly and easily.

I don’t know why I need to point this out, It is hard to get Americans to vote. You’ve got to convince them, it has to not be raining, and the wait needs to be short. People have other things they had to not do so they could go vote. Acting like a lot of non-citizens are doing this is weird.

Imagine you’re a conservative who was against higher taxes and for free markets last week but are now for higher taxes to fund the government and against those terrible markets taking advantage of us. Would you be worried about people noticing your lack of values?

Fear has a way of being contagious. But courage is also contagious.

Nooooooo! What a great headline!

Is Signal FIPS certified? LMGTFY.

Unfortunately I think this theory has only been reinforced with more evidence over time.

March 20 is Buc-ee's Day in Georgia. In honor of "drinks and food including but not limited to Beaver Nuggets...." trackbill.com/bill/georgia...

State of the art conversational AI is a leap forward from asking your phone for the weather. www.sesame.com/research/cro... Worth trying out a chat.

After a DevNexus of positive presentations, Baruch Sadogursky closed it with a presentation on Enshitification! And why everything is horrible. Thank you for the reality check.

Are SBOMs a thing all software teams do? Or is it just security marketing? A few random people I asked at DevNexus were unsure. It’s not difficult and seems nice at least.

“The problem is we are using Hibernate…” Exactly! Thank you, Simon Martinelli. DevNexus starting well.

ChatGPT cannot draw a glass of wine that is completely full. youtu.be/160F8F8mXlo

Pugberus.

Just a handy guide from your friends at www.smbc-comics.com

"From the way folks have been talking, you’d think everyone falls into two buckets: those who voted against the mayor who promised to blow up the city and those who voted for the mayor who promised to blow up the city."

Atom xkcd.com/3050

KafkaStreams 3.5 broke compatibility with 3.4 by changing a boolean byte, '0' or '1', to a '2'. They provided a setting "upgrade.from" to not break things if the upgrade breaks all your stuff. And that's how my day has been.

In children per year, the US birth rate is at an all-time low, but in Miles’ per hour it’s at an all time high.

Please never trade your real savings for meme tokens. It doesn't matter how much you like the meme. That is not investing.

Newsletter: No, Trump didn’t make $50 billion from his memecoin. www.citationneeded.news/trump-memeco...

lemon pig of 2024 before and after absorbing all my bad luck over the calendar year like a fucked up little yellow dorian grey. it is nearly time to rest, my faithful child.

The 2024 Unofficial #AdventOfCode Survey results have been published! 🎄⭐️⭐️🎉😊 Available at: jeroenheijmans.github.io/advent-of-co... Some highlights: C++ taking 3rd place, JavaScript dropping behind Java, Neovim further chipping away at vim, and a ton of wholesomeness in the "Other..." answers! <3

I just completed all 25 days of Advent of Code 2024! #AdventOfCode adventofcode.com github.com/seanmcnealy/...

the seoul tourism board is feeling so tired lmao

This was shared with us and made us smile! 😊

Was just reminded of Big Data or Pokemon at work. pixelastic.github.io/pokemonorbig...

UPDATE: Colleague is not Australian. Also, some of you have anger issues.

I need to start a manosphere podcast. Theory: start with conspiracies about testosterone levels and microwaving your balls or whatever, and slowwwly Segway into reading Elizabeth Gaskell and working on fine penmanship.

This was my tenth(!) year building 25 days of puzzles for #AdventOfCode. You can solve them all for free! Most people write code to solve them, but you can solve them however you like. I hope they help people become better programmers. 🌟 The first puzzle comes out in two hours: adventofcode.com

Some survival advice for some of y’all out there. Good luck, everybody!

Fish Paste! Enjoy. youtu.be/YdIRePu9a1w

The Future of Orion xkcd.com/3012