"This is a different way of thinking, different values, a different view of the world and of their own culture. We are on entirely different pages of civilization with them, on different pages even of our basic understanding of what life is," "Fidel" said. 📹: Unmanned Systems Forces

"They [Russians] have no concept that your freedom ends where another person's freedom begins." -"Fidel", Founder of the 14th Separate Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Regiment The Ukrainian Defender emphasized that they plan operations to avoid losses, whereas the Russians do the opposite.

While the world seeks a path to peace, Russia responds with missiles. The overnight attack on Kyiv shows a deliberate choice to escalate and mock the peace efforts. Russia must stop the killing and negotiate.

I've decided to translate for you a post from the Russian Telegram channel "Nezygar" about the current state of Russian refineries and fuel market⤵️:

Ukraine continues to dismantle the Russian world. youtu.be/U945Ocqd6a8

🇫🇷 "Putin is a predator, an ogre at our gates", – Macron Putin has rarely kept his commitments. He has been a power of destabilization, seeking to revise borders to extend his power. Russia has lastingly become a destabilizing force and a potential threat. We must not be naive.

Hi All, Just sent out this post about today. August 18 could be one of the most important days in modern European history. Decisions will be made and leaders will stand up or not. This cannot be avoided now--and what is decided will determine a great deal. open.substack.com/pub/phillips...

With vibe coding tools going mainstream, it’s entirely predictable we’ll keep seeing many of these cases. Eventually, the “better” vibe coding apps will patch most of these (not all!). Till then we’ll see all information leaks, security issues and trivial to “hack” such sites

An actual blog post: www.cottongeeks.com/articles/202...

"Software Is About Promises", blog post by Bram Adams: www.bramadams.dev/software-is-... "What are you promising your users? And how is this promise testable?" - Great questions to ask yourself when building software solutions.

“Not just Putin — Russia.” In this powerful statement, Garry Kasparov @garrykasparov.bsky.social calls out the collective responsibility of Russian society for the war & genocide in #Ukraine. "This is a fascist dictatorship —&crucially,it’s supported by the overwhelming majority of the population"

New blog post: Dijkstra never took a biology course surfingcomplexity.blog/2025/05/31/d...

Using LLMs for "smart duck" talk about coding problems, I also do that all the time.

The URL used had the path /management/heapdump, possibly a Spring Boot app. I never imagined that my contribution github.com/spring-proje... in 2016 would result in this disaster 9 years later. In Spring Boot, you should set management.server.port and never expose management endpoints externally.

DDoSecrets publishes 410 GB of heap dumps, hacked from TeleMessage's archive server micahflee.com/ddosecrets-p...

Eighty years ago, enemies laid down their arms. Since then, we, Europeans, have built something extraordinary: a Union of peace, democracy, and solidarity. An anchor of stability. Our Union was born as a peace project, and it remains one today.

Tomorrow (Thursday) you can join me, Tim O'Reilly, Addy Osmani, Kent Beck, Chip Huyen, Birgitta Boeckeler, Jay Parikh and several other tech professionals giving our take on how AI will change software engineering - but why software engineers won't be "replaced" by AI or "AI sw engineers." (cont'd)

New blog post on the mental model I've used when working through complex or confusing papers on transactional systems. transactional.blog/b...

My story breaking this news exclusively was 7K+ words and had almost all of this in it, and more: www.npr.org/2025/04/15/n...

New blogpost published! "So, You Want to Learn More About Deterministic Simulation Testing?"

Gave a guest lecture today at Aalto University on 'Autoscaling challenges of multi-tenant SaaS platforms.' Shared insights on capacity management, the dreaded 'noisy neighbor' problem, and workload aggregation. Simulation and slides: github.com/lhotari/workload-aggregation-visualizer

Psychological safety is NOT about lack of disagreement. Psychological safety REQUIRES: * disagreement and debate * setting standards for behavior and performance, and enforcing them * telling people things they don't want to hear * courage, from the bottom up * humility, from the top down

Worth noting that all these American business leaders who write whole books about courage and leadership are real quiet right now as this madness unfolds. They don’t dare to say boo. Silence of the lambs.

I stand with Ukraine Proud to live in a country (the Netherlands) that unconditionally supports Ukraine. Europe needs to re-arm, to support Ukraine and defend itself and democracy. Ukraine is the one defending Europe from Russian aggression. Ukraine should be part of the EU. Slava Ukraini 🇺🇦

Donald Trump is embarrassing the United States on the world stage. We are a country that stands up to dictators and fights for democracy. Minnesota stands firmly with our allies in Ukraine.

GLENN: Why don't you wear a suit? You're at the highest level in this country's office & you refuse to wear a suit. A lot of Americans have problems with you not respecting the office. ZELENSKYY: I will wear a costume after this war will finish. Maybe something like yours. Maybe something better.

10 years ago Nemtsov was murdered. Others who’ve annoyed Kremlin & been killed* Alexey Navalny Ravil Maganov Natalia Estemirova Stanislav Markelov Anastasia Baburova Alexander Litvinenko Anna Politkovskaya Paul Klebnikov Sergei Yushenkov Pro Kremlin people who’ve been killed .

It is now 3 years since the start of the Russian military invasion of Ukraine where lots of my relatives & friends live. Thank you all who support Ukraine defend itself against the relentless attacks! Shame on those who try to destabilize, weaken or even extort a country under existential threat. 🇺🇦

This is a great list of open source programmers. Recommended way to bootstrap your following list.

Outlier AI. You are doing it wrong. Hiring people to post completely nonsenese or copy&pasted issues in reputable open-source repositories - and make maintainers train your AI on it ? not good. There are 50 such issues in last few days in @airflow repo [1] and counting. More details in [2] […]

This contains the shortest and clearest explanation of S3’s $0.02/gib/month cloud economics that I’ve seen, and lots more good stuff. tailscale.com/blog/living-...

Naur's 'Programming as Theory Building' (1985) remains relevant after 40 years: program modifications must be grounded in deep understanding of the problem space. If this knowledge dies, the program loses its quality including maintainability. pages.cs.wisc.edu/~remzi/Naur....

I've been thinking about and working to understand Free Software, Open Source, and business for a very long time. Thanks to @kelseyhightower.com, I tried to distill all of that into a single talk: youtu.be/rmhYHzJpkuo - I'm very proud of it, and I hope it helps you. :)

Great lessons by @marcbrooker.bsky.social about retries and simulation in building and designing high-scale distributed systems. "Try again: The tools and techniques behind resilient systems" www.youtube.com/watch?v=rvHd...

"With rapid-growth companies, I have observed that in the quest for minimal bureaucracy, there is often an accumulation of implicit bureaucracy. Unspoken layers of constraints, norms, and rules accumulate. " cutlefish.substack.com/p/tbm-326-ad...

We reproduced lost writes, aborted reads, and torn transactions in Bufstream and Kafka. We believe every Kafka-compatible system is likely vulnerable to these issues. Some clients may be able to mitigate them, but the official Java client presently does not.

A new #Jepsen report! We worked with Buf to analyze the safety of Bufstream, a Kafka-compatible streaming system. We found three safety and two liveness issues in Bufstream 0.1.0, including the loss of acknowledged writes in healthy clusters. These problems were resolved by version 0.1.3 […]

"...difficult-to-write unit tests are the canary in the bad interface coal mine" - loved this statement from @kentbeck.bsky.social tidyfirst.substack.com/p/desirable-...

Awesome resource for learning more about TDD! @kentbeck.bsky.social Test Desiderata kentbeck.github.io/TestDesidera...

Just blogged: What's New in Apache Pulsar 4.0? pulsar.apache.org/blog/2024/10... - Key_Shared subscription improvements - Secure Docker runtime based on Alpine Linux and Java 21 - Rate limiting as a foundation for multi-tenant resource management - Upgrade paths from previous versions

Just in case it's useful for other GitHub Actions users, I've shared on the ASF builds mailing list how we, in the Apache Pulsar project, share 1.7GB 🐳 Docker images within the CI workflow for downstream system testing jobs using GitHub Actions Artifacts: lists.apache.org/thread/pnvt9...