I finally got around to writing up some stories about what i worked on while at Tecton: blog.achals.com/some-thought... There's two more parts after this one two.

I worked on a few fairly prominent efforts in open source (Istio, OpenAPI), but I think of all of them, it’s gRPC that I think has the coolest story. Pull up a chair and set for a spell (any inaccuracies in what follows are 100% my fault for having a bad memory!).

It’s so funny to think about the fact that there’s people out there deferring every life decision to this

Within 18 months all white collar workers could be replaced by a 1km sphere of flesh in Central Park

From a CTO WhatsApp group I'm in

Excited to share that I’m reviewing talks for the Distributed Data Systems track at Rootconf 2025! 🚀 If you’re working on high-throughput, low-latency systems — — we want to hear what you’ve been building. 📅 16–17 May, Bangalore 🎤 CFP: hasgeek.com/rootconf/roo... @hasgeek.com

Newsletter: The tech media needs to move away from optimism and dreaming about what AI (and AGI) can do, and start focusing on the dangerous financial crises brewing. Failing to hold the powerful accountable is cowardice, and actively harmful to society. www.wheresyoured.at/optimistic-cowardice/

@bcantrill.bsky.social i assume you've seen this already? newsroom.intel.com/corporate/in...

I was booking a flight for my family + parents + siblings when the Alaska Airlines ate and lost all the passenger details for 7 people as well as the flights in my cart. And flight search is now broken. This is fine.

Nice reminder of what attributes to demonstrate and grow as a leader hbr.org/2023/12/8-es...

I don't think I've read anything as gut wrenching as this www.readmargins.com/p/technology...

@seattleaquarium.bsky.social is a magical place

TIL that the server reflection API for grpc in python is broken because it can't describe service methods (github.com/grpc/grpc/is...) 😭

I'm excited there are more and more techie folks landing here 🦋 Tell your friends! Why are they still on X? ICYMI, there are a few good starter packs, which I'll share below 👇

Hey folks, catch me at the Rootconf Mini 2024 conference on Nov 22nd, sharing Tecton’s journey of rebuilding our real-time compute stack. This is a deep dive into architectural decisions, and how we shaped Tecton’s ability to deliver a better product experience. hasgeek.com/rootconf/2024/

I see a matklad post I re-post it: matklad.github.io/2024/10/06/o... #rustlang

Staring down a few weeks off work. Anyone have any suggestions for projects? I’ve been meaning to do something in the ML infra or personal productivity space and pick up rust/typescript/zig in the process

I’m not the biggest John Mulaney fan but fuck yes. sfstandard.com/2024/09/19/c...

These are just a few of my favorite images I captured from this storm of a lifetime. Ridiculous structure, prolific lightning, and a sky full of stars. It doesn't get much better. What a planet we live on.

Finally catching up with Joe Bob's Nightmareathon, and rewatching When Evil Lurks. Such a fantastic and effective movie - just the poster dredged up a bunch of images from the first time I saw it.

Learned much more than I wanted to about Jib+public.ecr.aws+AWS network firewalls tonight. But hey! Builds are green

Compare and contrast.

Something soothing about watching old episodes of The Last Drive-in with Joe Bob

how it feels to do PR reviews

Trump ended his Bitcoin 2024 speech with "Have a good time with your bitcoin and your crypto and everything else you're playing with"

Purchasing land in India - the ultimate in wild goose chases

With BlueSky finally opening up federation, I think it's time to write up something that explains the whole thing, BlueSky, atproto, the works, in one easy to find place. Just the high level bits, hopefully something that any developer can understand: steveklabnik.com/writing/how-...