In Swedish, a word for what you eat to bridge the gap between meals (or while waiting for the main course to cook) is stödmacka. It means "support sandwich." A similar word in Norwegian is ventepølse, or "waiting sausage."

gonna start replying to the pig butchering texts with a link to nohello.net

Finally got to meet @didiviking.bsky.social in person at #sreday - her talk showcasing the @victoriametrics.bsky.social cardinality explorer was great!

@hazelweakly.me Ok, I give in. I'm adopting "Lakehouse" terminology and have added it to my personal spell-check dictionaries. One day I will represent a technology that is already in spell-check... one day.

My favorite game to play in touristy parts of the UK is: “which side of the sidewalk are we walking on now?”

Got fired from my job for saying that Samantha on Bewitched didn’t really wiggle her nose, she was just kind of twitching her mouth back and forth.

SO sorry about the treatment your specialists and engineers received at the hands of our secret police goon squad. That's normally something we reserve for a different race of people who we like even less, hope you understand. Please come back

“Developers will never ask you ‘what file system is that?’” - @patrickmcfadin.bsky.social #COC25

Our upcoming talk has the best slides, just sayin’

Really enjoyed @zeroshade.columnar.tech’s talk at #COC25 - TIL when one would use Arrow and Parquet together 💡

If you only read one thing this week, this should be it. Invisible stigma shapes how people with disabilities show up in user research. The main issue: they are invisible, so, easy to miss. Laura Wissiak explains how masking, disclosure, and social bias affect interviews.

I've been having fun working with @joshleecreates.bsky.social on our KCD Warsaw talk, which includes coming up with fun graphics. Here's one we came up with yesterday. If you're Canadian, you'll get this take on the "No Name" brand using #OTel. If you're not, look up "No Name brand". It's a hoot.

I have a confession: I reinstalled Outlook for Mac... of my own free will.

hate to be a this guy, but this

Open formats are arguably even more important than open source - which is one of many reasons why I love #OpenTelemetry - join me in Elicium 1 for an intro! #ossummit

I’m not usually one to indulge in meta-discussions about #DevRel, but @horovits.bsky.social ‘s excellent talk at #ossummit spawned some very interesting ideas and conversations! With the announcement of the formation of the DevRel Foundation under the LF, I’m excited for maturity.

@aeva.online: “we went from no cloud to no code” @hazelweakly.me: “no-code is just somebody else’s code” 😂🤣😂

Only @hazelweakly.me could “accidentally write the GitHub actions for the entire Haskell project” … in a day or two. “And now everybody is using it!” If you’re not as prolific as she is, be careful what you release for others to use 🤪 #ossummit

Shared without additional comment 😅 #osseu

Very entertaining & educational keynote on #curl at #OSSummit Amazing how much curl is involved in driving our modern world. #Thanks Daniel Stenberg!

Hot off Open Source Summit EU keynote: #DocumentDB joins @linuxfoundation.org! Great job Microsoft and proud that we at #AWS are part of this and contribute to it, along with Google Cloud, Snowflake and many others. #opensource #ossummit www.prnewswire.com/news-release...

Later today! I’m looking forward to talking about Open Source Communities with @aeva.online at the Open Source Summit Europe! Catch us at #OSSEU at 1530 if you’re interested in how we’re thinking about sustainability and continuity for Open Source Communities!

“Real-Time” as a term is overloaded. The technically accurate meaning is used interchangeably with “feels like real time”. I propose we call the latter “feel-time” - this is anything on the order of 1-2 seconds. Fast enough for humans.

Going live @ 3PM EDT to discuss #nix, #nixos, #homelab, and #claude: www.youtube.com/live/OyHxdQX...

It was so much fun hearing about @mya.sh ‘s project to bring ML to offline field operations for search and rescue: www.youtube.com/live/8QM0b81...

Iteratively testing actions that are designed to be idempotent is uhm… fun

You've got this. No. Seriously. I don't want it. You've got it.

Dawn (@geekygirldawn.bsky.social) gives a great comparison of the relative growth in several open source hard forks

Next up at #FOSSY Supporting User Groups track ' #DevOps is a Foreign Language (or Why There Are No Junior SREs)' @joshleecreates.bsky.social #opensource

“Load bearing person” what a great expression - from the Q&A portion of @turoczy.bsky.social’s #fossy talk in the community and user groups track

@withenoughcoffee.com why aren’t you at fossy yet? 😝

So many great lessons from @rbowen.bsky.social ‘s talk at #fossy25 - “Your slides are not your presentation. You are your presentation.”

Here we go! #FOSSY Supporting User Groups track: 'Herding Hackers and Hawking Code: The Hustle of a Developer Advocate - Nate Boot'

how do we convince your average leftist that software, too, has a certain politics? and while you’re not obligated to become an FSF purist, it’s worth having some basic awareness of free software and respect for its devs, particularly when it comes to crypto/encryption/machine learning, etc

Shower thought: the true challenge in #observability is closing the gap between *intent* and *action*. What happened? What was supposed to happen?

Sneak peak of my new homelab monitoring stack: #proxmox -> #influxdb OTel receiver -> #clickhouse exporter -> Altinity ClickHouse #grafana datasource Blog post coming soon.

So excited for #fossy this weekend! 2025.fossy.us #pdx

I've finally engrained a habit to type "/" and "?" with my pinky and "." with my ring finger. As a heathen who taught myself to touch type so I could chat on #aim faster, I'm chuffed.

Baby Dolphin Break

Feeling a little called out by the latest from Programmers are also human: youtu.be/rXPpkzdS-q4?...

Joining the crew of @vbrownbag.com was an absolute blast! We had a great chat about how complicated #devops has become and lessons we can take from linguistics to make learning easier 🐢 www.youtube.com/watch?v=M1x_...

It's really funny to me how much $$$ one of my former employers spends on targeted advertising trying to get me to try products that I once worked on.

The schedule for the Single Pain podcast is up! We're exploring the intersection of AI and personal data. This week we'll be working with #n8n and #baserow as well as #claude www.joshuamlee.com/single-pain-...

We're about to record the first of six episodes of Single Pain — where @mya.sh and I will be pair-programming on personal data projects with AI The first episode will be livestream on LinkedIN: www.linkedin.com/in/joshuamlee/ (future episodes also on YouTube)

(Unoriginal) Shower thought: a danger with LLMs is that one can make it much farther before needing to seek expert advice. Here be dragons.

LLMs can be so suggestible. To combat this, I have a note in most of my instructions files/prompts: "Don't just agree. Tell me when you think I am wrong." Today I tried to correct Claude Code, it pushed back, and when I reviewed the broader context — it was right!

Learning CAD and 3D printing has been incredibly rewarding. It’s also forcing me to step back and plan more than my typical heathen software developer ways.

This week (7/16 @ 8:30 PM ET) on @vbrownbag.com: "DevOps is a Foreign Language (Or Why There Are No Junior SREs)" w/ @joshleecreates.bsky.social! We chat with him about what DevOps is, why it's so hard to define, and why there really aren't any "junior" SREs! www.youtube.com/watch?v=mOL8...

I asked Claude code to be critical. “Are you running a homelab or a small cloud provider?” 🤕

It was the WiFi module (that killed my Beelink S12 Pro) #minipc #homelab