me, feeling sick over the weekend: Ugh, why am I always the one who catches the preschool colds? me, getting licked on the nose while putting my son to bed: Ahh, I see.

If you're a technical IC who cares about application performance, you should check out Monster Scale Summit. I had a great time keynoting last year, and the speaker lineup this year looks excellent! youtu.be/eon5E356kNE

I'm trying really hard to replace unnecessary apologies with gratitude (in the vein of "thanks for your help" instead of "sorry for the trouble") The problem is my muscle memory around apologizing is strong And so sometimes I ask a server for extra napkins and then say "sorry very much"

Can everyone building agent orchestration tools *please* stop using the term "overseer" to describe human oversight? We already learned this lesson with master > main. Words matter.

Maybe "Sisu".

Sheep.

A fantastic discussion with @rstephens.me @aeva.online and Chris about the Complex World we live in. It’s the power of the @redmonk.com community redmonk.com/videos/compl...

New video up: a conversation about how the observability market is evolving and the role vendors like @dynatrace.com are playing. Worth a watch if you’re thinking about tooling and data strategy. redmonk.com/videos/obser...

I really like this piece from @kateholterhoff.com

very cool. well done, anthropic. pyfound.blogspot.com/2025/12/anth...

what do VMs, microservices and agents have in common? and what does Yeats have to do with all of that? redmonk.com/sogrady/2026...

Join the dora.community today for a discussion with @wiredferret.bsky.social about progressive delivery. Heidi will give a brief overview and then we'll have a lean coffee-based discussion about the topic. Meeting starts at 12PM ET, details on the mailing list. #DORA #GBGB #Community

Maybe not every SaaS service needs a year in review...

our kids sleep with stuffed animals that you can warm up in the microwave before bed. the result is super cozy, but it’s always a little unsettling to be the person in charge of nuking the baby animals.

the most relatable part of Little Mermaid as a parent is the horror of discovering your child has built a shrine out of random trash they found on the playground, and they are emotionally attached to every single “treasure” whole fucking house is full of dinglehoppers I can’t throw away.

Still can’t speak Spanish past what I remember from high school, still terrible at chess, still fiercely protective of my streak

The @redmonk.com team allows* me to plan activities for the team holiday happy hour every year, and I am SO EXCITED for today's Show and Tell festivities. *begrudgingly allows

I talked with @zachlloyd.bsky.social from @warp.dev about how the terminal is changing, why agentic development needs new interfaces, and what comes after writing code by hand. redmonk.com/blog/2025/12...

Have you been following the JavaScript Bundler Grand Prix? Consider recent announcements including @voidzero.dev's Vite+, @bytedance.bsky.social's Rspack 1.6, @vercel.com's @nextjs.org 16 (beta) release enabling Turbopack by default, & @anthropic.com's Bun acquisition. redmonk.com/kholterhoff/...

ain't no party like a reinvent party cuz a reinvent party don't sto ---- wait hold on, it's almost midnight and I haven't done my duolingo yet, give me a couple minutes

Text 1: “I’m so excited you texted me! I promise I won’t be annoying!” Texts 2-5: “and if I am annoying here are various ways you can signal that I’m annoying!” (but alas this pattern matching didn’t hit until ~2 hours after text 5.)

Sudden realization 8 years in - am I still supposed to be gauging the temperature of my kids’ baths with my elbow? Is that just an infant thing that you are naturally supposed to stop doing?

I love moments when I'm reminded how amazing my colleagues are, and right now is a @kateholterhoff.com appreciation moment. She does such great work!

That feeling when you get ready to go out to dinner and then realize you could have looked presentable all day if you had just done this 8 hours earlier

Totally not the point of this post, but I love this line from @charity.wtf: "infrastructure is the code you have to run in order to run the code you want to run" www.honeycomb.io/blog/the-meh...

Forgot to post this yesterday… twinning with @rstephens.me at #kubeconNA!

I used Lasagna Love earlier this year after we had a loss in the family. I didn't have a financial need, I just wanted a home cooked meal and the feeling that someone cared. The lasagna ended up being delivered the same week my brother lost a close friend, and I shared the meal with him too.

“we’re taking another selfie, this time look like you like us” Getting ready for @redmonk.com beers with @sogrady.org and @kateholterhoff.com Join us at 7:00 and see if Steve gets more smiley as the night progresses

This #kubecon keynote from @puerco.mx and @staceypotter.bsky.social is an absolute delight. more luchadore-themed talks please!

4 year old: let’s have a staring contest 8 year old, approximately 5 seconds later: I win! 4 year old: actually, let’s have a blinking contest

if someone says there's good news and bad news about something related to super glue, you should mentally brace yourself for mostly bad news. (it's me. I'm the bad super glue news.)

I have an application or a browser tab that is periodically making clicking noises. This would be irritating. Until I realized that I was mentally blaming all of the screens viewable on my right monitor first simply because my speaker is also on the right. Now I'm just laughing at human brains.

All hail Brenda www.tiktok.com/@belligerent...

LMAO. @kateholterhoff.com accidentally turned on Zoom's AI Companion at the start of a call and then immediately turned it off. It still sent us a recap.

It's a launch day at @redmonk.com! My colleague @monkchips.com, along with his lovely coauthors @kimmykimkimber.bsky.social @wiredferret.bsky.social & @azimman.bsky.social have released their Progressive Delivery book into the world! Let me tell you about their book! redmonk.com/rstephens/20...

I try so hard to teach my children about having a good moral compass And then they go and leave their Halloween candy bags unattended directly outside my office while they're at school And frankly it's just rude to make me model the behavior back to them

Children in costumes is my best life. I love Halloween.

This is disappointing news on next year's KubeCon location. www.linkedin.com/posts/cloud-...

What do you get when you mix Akamai's edge network with @fermyon.com's WebAssembly platform? A fun conversation about what’s next for serverless edge computing! Join Allen Duet (Akamai) and Matt Butcher (Fermyon) as we talk about distributed serverless compute. redmonk.com/videos/akama...

Double-entry accounting is one of the underrated "this changed the world" innovations. Everyone gets excited about the Italian art renaissance and no one gets excited about the Italian accounting renaissance, and that's a damn shame. (kind of said in jest... but also kind of not)

Normally I try to call them retros but I think post-mortem is correct in this instance.

today I realized I apparently haven't logged into facebook since sometime before June 26 2023. I know the date because that's the timestamp of the oldest of many messages I had waiting for me. It was an invitation to a friend's backyard BBQ. I RSVP'd my regrets.

Well done, PSF 👏

“are you ready to go to *the fanciest* restaurant you have EVER been to??“ <rolls in with an awed 4 year old to the Olive Garden>

P99 Conf runs today and tomorrow! Historically #p99conf features technically rich talks, and this year's agenda seems to indicate 2025 will be more awesomeness! You should drop in for a session or two if you have time. www.p99conf.io/agenda/

Past conversations with my preschooler: 4 -yo: "That's the s-word" Me: Sorry, which word? 4: (whispers) "Stupid" 4: "That's the d-word" Me: It's what word? 4: (furtive glance) "Dumb" Tonight's conversation:

OpenAI dropping Atlas definitely gives some additional context to Atlassian acquiring the Dia / Arc browsers.

Legit question, not bait: if someone sends out a group email asking for everyone to vote on which day to meet up, is the polite thing to reply all or not? I instinctively avoid reply all, but maybe I'm putting too much strain on the originator by dropping everyone else from the message?

next day’s function high-class luncheon #dreamforce

I am a sucker for branded latte art