Alright, so I've been afraid to say this out loud, but I think after today, I can say it: In the first Battle of Los Angeles, the good people of LA County have prevailed. We beat ICE back. 1/

*deep breath* EEEEEEEEEEE!!!!! 🤩🤩🤩

Look what they did to Notepad. Shut the fuck up. This is Notepad. You are not welcome here. Oh yeah "Let me use Copilot for Notepad". "I'm going to sign into my account for Notepad". What the fuck are you talking about. It's Notepad.

Reviewing some #PHP code for the first time in... a hot minute ;) and are YOU telling me in the Year of our Lord 2025 you still have to MANUALLY put this crap into composer.json to get it to find your classes?! "autoload": { "psr-4": { "App\\": "src/" } },

ROOST is picking up speed, so we're looking for an experienced open source community manager and a communications manager to join the flock! 🐔 OSS Community Manager: www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/42... Communications Manager: www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/42...

Oh dear, I have acquired a notebook that lets you write / doodle and then erase and reuse the pages. I am going to draw SO MUCH random crap when I’m on meetings. 🤣🤣🤣

I'm a fan of actual, practical uses of #AI, and here is one: In #Google Forms, you can ask #Gemini to generate a form for you based on a sentence or two. It'll show you a preview (which you can accept or re-generate), and then it automatically creates the questions to give you a starting point. 👍

Late night #DevRel musing: webchick.tech/go-to-devrel... On moving from a reactive, service-oriented team to a proactive, partnership-based team through anointing "Go-To" DevRellers who own a particular area and embed on relevant stakeholders' teams.

Hanging out at a local dog beach reading dataintensive.net — life is good. 😎

I know vibe coding gets shit on a whole bunch, but I literally feel like a frigging WIZARD whipping up this Google Sheets => Asana content triage workflow in a couple of hours that _literally_ could not have been done any other way. (Not for lack of skill, but for lack time. 😭)

Brand Manager getting ready for Pride Month

Parental milestone achieved: Whipped out the Karpman Drama Triangle with kiddo to help her better navigate some middle school friend conflicts. 😆 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karpman...

You have to wonder what Mark Carney's other two wishes were after rubbing that bottle

Dear car thieves: If you’re going to break into someone’s vehicle and rifle through all their shit, can you please SHUT THE DAMN DOOR afterwards so the owner doesn’t come back to a dead battery, too?! 😭 SIGH. #TalesFromYVR

Interesting situation going down in #CNCF / #OpenSource land: www.cncf.io/blog/2025/04... 🧵 * #NATS has been a CNCF project since 2018, and CNCF owns both the nats.io domain name and the GitHub project. * Synadia (original project donor) holds the trademark, and makes 97% of code contributions.

Accidentally caught #ChatGPT being racist as fuck today. :P #ai #genai I have to travel to the US next week for work, and wanted it to generate a checklist of precautions to take. Prompt:

🇨🇦 Election Debate Thread 2025: A Skeeting Journey (sponsored by Mark Carney's Haircut) 🇨🇦

Ok, now back to gaming. 🤣

Heads up: I'm gonna do some armchair #Canada political analysis, instead of your regularly scheduled program of "nerding out about gaming" or "dorking around with tech." 🤣 TL;DR: I'm concerned that federal election projections are skewed by population, not for local political realities. #cdnpoli

New post on the ol' blag: Creating #DevRel Impact Factors to help guard your team's "yes": webchick.tech/building-a-d...

I told ChatGPT what happened in the news today and I think I stressed it out. 😅 #Tariffgeddon

Oh great, as if the state of the world right now isn't scary enough, here's a new attack vector that poisons agentic AI developer tools to send privileged information to remote attackers: invariantlabs.ai/blog/mcp-sec... /via @lbeurerkellner.bsky.social

🎉 Temporal just raised $146M Series C to power the future of Durable Execution. This funding is an investment in the community, pushing the boundaries of what’s possible. 📖 Read more: temporal.io/blog/temporal-series-c-announcement 📰 Press release: rb.gy/c79kpp

A couple of days ago, OpenAI released 4o Image Generation and the Internet was almost immediately taken over by Ghibli memes. I thought it might be interesting to use these new capabilities to gain some insight into how ChatGPT sees itself. webchick.tech/chatgpt-self...

Important Skip-Bo fact: According to Wikipedia, its original name was “Spite and Malice” which is… so appropriate. 🤣 en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skip-Bo #gaming

Temporal's Code Exchange is live! 🚀 See community-driven code examples, apps, and libraries in Python, Go, TypeScript, .NET, and Java. Get inspired, build, and contribute! Check it out! 👉 temporal.io/blog/join-te...

Common pitfall: reinventing @temporal.io in-house. 😅 #replay2025

The @anthropic.com API was down mid-@temporalio #Replay2025 keynote demo so Steve switches the env variable to @OpenAI and it *PICKS UP THE EXISTING CONTEXT* from the Workflow and thanks to Temporal’s automatic retries, the demo resumes seamlessly! 🤯 #AI #AgenticAI

Brilliant solution to solving @temporal.io self-host to Cloud (and back) migration, just leverage the existing #Replication feature that’s already part of our #OpenSource offering! 🤯 #Replay2025

A rundown of SDK languages at the @temporal.io #Replay2025 conference: - ⌨️ #TypeScript and 🐍 #Python most popular - ☕️ #Java and 🚦 #Go most volume - 🥅 #DotNet fastest growing - 🐘 #PHP it… keeps working. 🤣 - 💎 #Ruby brand new, but already seeing usage!

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Yaron Azar, I don't know who you are or where you hail from, but I hope your week is going *superbly*, because you just saved me from combusting in a #Jira induced fit of rage. 😂 community.atlassian.com/t5/Marketpla...

You only get the chance to build a #DevRel team from scratch for the first time once, so time for a new blog series! :) First up: Team Foundations, including working styles, defining #DeveloperAdvocacy in YOUR context, and Minimum Viable Processes™ www.linkedin.com/pulse/buildi...

LOL wow, and I thought *I* was an over-thinker. 🤣 Check out the chain of thought required for #DeepSeek in "DeepThink" mode to answer the question "what is 2+2?" www.youtube.com/watch?v=KLaq... #AI #GenAI #ChainOfThought #CoT

Just some late-night program management fanfic. 😂 #DevRel

New post on the Blag: webchick.tech/openai-opera... Tried to feed OpenAI Operator a relatively simple browser-based task—look up #DevRel jobs in Europe and post about them to LinkedIn—with both impressive and *hilariously* bad results. :) #AI #OpenAI #AgenticAI #GenerativeAI #Operator

Some days, my job seems to entail mostly copying things out of Slack into less ephemeral systems. 😂

My new team at work has caused me to have to learn how to configure and manage a Jira board, and this has been happening for OVER a week now and I've yet to collapse into a fit of homicidal rage. Please clap. 😉

You know that shitty Paul McCartney Christmas song where he basically uses every single damned button on his stupid synth? I'm, er... kind of doing that with FigJam at the moment for a team kick-off. 😅 #beware

Tonight's #LearningLog: - crawlee.dev — A web scraping and browser automation library that wraps cheerio.js.org (good for basic HTML), pptr.dev, and/or playwright.dev (for fancy JS) - www.conventionalcommits.org — a way of structuring commit messages for easy parsing into automated release notes

One of the best things about receiving this book as a gift—beyond its entire premise—is that you get to start a fun side-hobby of acquiring ancient Corning Ware cookware they stopped making in the 80s. 🤣 So far have met two rad locals who deal in vintage goods out of their garages. :)

Here is a nice pick me up story to start 2025! So you know how people do ambitious things the first couple of weeks of January that they somehow think they will stick with, even though this flies in the face of decades of bad habits over the years? 🤣 Well… 😉

Bringing “waking up one minute before the alarm goes off” energy into 2025! 🤩

Which stage capitalism is it when the gym is playing Metallica’s “Sad But True” with a techno beat backing as a “pick me up” song? 🫠

OMG! Are you prepared for the most #Maritimes thing that has ever Martitimed?!? I present to you… the result of a hasty Google and email from my phone earlier! 🥹 #Canada #Halifax #tmbg

Next up on "Tech Around and Find Out": Tech-ing around on behalf of people who like *people* a lot more than they like tech. ;-) webchick.hashnode.dev/creating-dec... #nptech #nonprofit #cyoa #googleforms #volunteer

Cross-post from the BIZNESS site: Our bad-ass CMO @clairbyrd.bsky.social wants to dust off her #JavaScript skills over the holidays. Does anyone have recommendations for some resources to get folks back up to speed quickly on the new frontend hotness and get a hands-on project under their belt? 👀

Tonight there was a “bring your dog” comedy show in town!! 😍 🐶 🐕

OMG. "Would you like a year-end review of all the tedious minutiae you did throughout the year?" Ummm... NO! 😉

Tonight’s nerdorosity 🤓 — #DnD at Quest Central!