Nah bc tell me that I'm wrong

I like to play this game called "when is a city the most itself" and I think London is probably the most London during autumn. This could be confirmation bias (I am now here, it is autumn) but I've visited it in almost every season, so

There is a certain category of parent who thinks that the needs of anyone who isn't a parent do not matter and that the space non-parents take up in the world is, in fact, not valid space

If I don't make it out of the office alive (I'm pretty sure I'm the last one here on a Friday night; ONE MORE CALL, ONE MORE CALL) then let it be known that I'm uh, here

have you people gone fucking nuts.

I don't feel like untangling Celeste.works to be a useful domain so what if I just registered a new domain for a personal blog and left that one to do whatever it did when Google handed it over to squarespace

Every time I think I have a handle on the phrase "open source", some new corner of the world opens up to me

redmonk beers at kubecon next tuesday in atlanta. come hang out with nice people. it's a lovely community. luma.com/redmonk-beer...

Of all the AI features I want in Google Docs: AUTOMATIC TRADEMARK/COPYRIGHT MANAGEMENT. Actually: automatic style guide compliance in general. Like, let me specify a style guide to comply to (MLA etc) and then just autocorrect

In more positive news, I opened a fortune cookie last night that told me the worst was behind me, so that must be true

The office is *so full* of salespeople and they are *constantly talking* and I'm so overstimulated I could cry

After all that, it doesn't fit in any configuration

If one more thing in this move is hard or laborious or generally not smooth I swear I will throw myself into the ocean

YES! DICK CHENEY *IS* DEAD!

I keep hoping that I can avoid learning anything about Hadoop but it seems like I might have to understand Hadoop

I’m raising money for Groveland Emergency Food Shelf, a South Minneapolis nonprofit that provides emergency groceries for those in need. They’re currently struggling to keep up with demand, and they’re getting their first $16k in donations matched. I’ve got $50 on it! Can anyone match me?

Within 5 days of having my own yard to take care of, I understand why people buy leaf blowers

I have personal beef with whomever designed those tiny Alan key into a blind threaded hole as a tightener for various household small fixtures

Something I should've checked on before I moved is whether UK to EU power strips exist 😭

"all my friends are getting married" "All my friends are having kids" "All my friends are dying" Oh yeah? All my friends are getting autism diagnosises

The flattened moving boxes taking up space in my new flat Soliciting applications for the undersized recycling bins out front of my new flat, just fyi

Producing content in only the way one can with 48 hours left in the quarter

Do I try to eat dinner or go to sleep early in the chaos of my life's posessions

My favorite animal is British people putting extremely tropical outdoor plants in their backyards

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How my work days go, as a Senior+ person: 🧵

Wait so I just woke up, it's 7:30am are y'all still playing baseball on the west coast??????

makes me weep to think of the gifts robbed from us because unaffordable housing has made it difficult for people to pursue their passions and hobbies

Waiting inside the theater lobby for the chainsaw man movie should come with a spoiler warning 🥲

Come and join me for a lazy Sunday hacking on the streaming appendix of High Performance Spark 2e (which you can also pre-order :D) -- www.twitch.tv/holdenkarau / www.youtube.com/watch?v=zraw... :D

I like to think that this map of all the regional names for woodlice in the UK could also be a map illustrating the new tribes of humans to be found on the same landmass after The Great Digital Crash and ensuing breakdown of society.

How moving to London is going: forgot to tap out of the Lizzy line on the way back from the airport

This is genuinely the wildest thing I've seen all year

The German company that makes the mechanical ladder used in the Louvre heist has used the image to advertise, with the text 'When you need to move fast' 10/10 response, no notes

God I miss Real Europe. Some guy in this Georgian restaurant just got a birthday cake with like, something halfway to a roman candle on it

Starting a 2025 Q4 thread of not-evil* jobs in tech or using tech skills, which I'll reply to add to as I find new cool things over time *or minimally evil, as this is often the best we can hope for in these troubled times. Assessments based on nothing but my own vibes

like, i've been buying so many houses that i really need digital ID to make this easier. please this is something i do so often we need a national digital identification infrastructure to make my housing transactions better. pleas starmer

digital ID will save you time and money when interfacing with the UK housing market that half of the population cannot even afford in an arcane, hostage-style house-sale system that at this point needs to be razed to the earth and started again

Free will rules

It feels so wrong to fly to London instead of Berlin after a conference 🥲

The EU has nothing on the song Despacito in terms of being a unifying force on the European continent

I had someone say to me this week "but idk it seems like in the UK they need to elect a new prime minster all the freaking time" and I had to hit em with "there were only two prime ministers in office in Canada for my entire school years"

"data has gravity" is probably the phrase that best describes why SREs and devops folks have such a difficult time when it comes to understanding modern data services

“Open source software is free in the same way a puppy is free” - Liz Rice, at #KCDUK

The real DevRel-ing has begun (I'm drinking prosecco at 2:30pm in an airport lounge and writing slides)

AWS is down, post hog

There's nothing like sitting in an airline lounge to remind me that no matter how much money I have I'll still have (or invent) life problems