Forgetting my work credit card at home last week was a rookie mistake for which I am now paying dearly*. *In having to do more work on my expense reports.

1. I've long said that nothing makes me feel that I'm a good writer like reading other people's writing. 2. I legitimately can't tell if the screenshotted text here is real or parody.

An app I use wasn't working, so I went to the status page to see if it was affected by the Cloudflare outage...and the status page was behind Cloudflare.

40 years ago today the world was introduced to a small boy and his best friend. Happy birthday Calvin & Hobbes.

Whatever dance remix playlist is playing at the #KubeCon badge pickup just played a version of "In The Air Tonight" without the drum solo. I will be speaking with the CNCF about this.

The number of things I forgot to pack for #KubeCon does not fill me with confidence for how things will go.

The downside to my Extremely Midwesterner decision to drive to KubeCon is that I can't delude myself into thinking that I'll get caught up on work in the airport.

Whether it's Zohran Mamdani trying to help hungry poor people afford food or it's Donald Trump asking the Supreme Court to starve them to death, both sides have taken an interest in food affordability.

TFW you do a run-through of a conference talk for the first time and the timing is in the allotted window. 👨‍🍳🤌💋

Ugh, I grew up listening to Terry Meiners on WHAS every afternoon. It hurts to know that he's engaging with this bullshit.

Hillary Clinton was right about everything.

Some days I'm bouncing back and forth between so many things that I have to see what's in my paste buffer to remember what it is I was doing.

Surely this means SCOTUS thinks passports should only use a person's name at birth. Get a name change? Too bad! Merely attesting to a historical fact.

The key thing to watch here: they fired a Wired political reporter. That’s the title doing the most effective, pointed work. Teen Vogue’s stuff was culturally impactful, but less focused on investigating the administration. Within the Condé portfolio, Wired and the New Yorker are the canaries.

If you’re having a hard time reproing a bug, it would then introduce this fun little issue of “is this even a real bug, or is it a ‘we hired liebot, the chatbot that lies’ problem”

Some days my biggest contribution at work is trying to use one of our tools that I've never used before. So many UX and documentation gaps uncovered!

Love to relearn the lesson that things work better when you're not being dumb.

We've found DHS is giving local cops a new facial recognition app to find immigrants. Point camera at face, tells the cop to detain person or not. The app is available on Google's Play Store. Google took down apps that report ICE sightings but now hosts this app www.404media.co/cbp-quietly-...

Giving contribution gifts: the risks and rewards Giving contribution gifts can be a great way to reward people for the work they do in your project, but it comes with challenges.

Awful video out of the homeland tonight of the UPS crash at SDF.

I'm no refereeologist, but it's hard to call something an "inadvertent whistle" when it's accompanied by a signal. #Purdue #NCAAMensBasketball

can’t tell if my antidepressants aren’t working or if they just weren’t built for this. like, zoloft was introduced in the 90s it barely needed to work then. if you got sad you could just buy a house.

Oh cool. It's even shittier than I first thought. I hope ArsTechnica and WIRED can hold out.

I keep seeing journalism described as an "ecosystem" and I guess that tracks because it's undergoing an extinction crisis caused by billionaires, too.

This really sucks. Teen Vogue had some of the most consistently-good political coverage over the last few years.

Talking to trans women in tech can help anyone who doubts that women experience the world differently; they can provide you with A/B before/after results. Treat all women in tech better and believe them about their experiences:

I'm a monthly donor to my local food bank, but with Republicans leaning into their "let them starve" fetish, I made my regular contribution twice this month. Please support your local community however you can.

Me who is already overwhelmed in work and life: thank u for the reminder that everything needs my attention GitLab.

now why would i accomplish a four minute task now when i can agonize over it for the next six months

Other writing: September & October 2025 What have I been writing when I haven't been writing here? Duck Alignment Academy Planning ahead is the most important part of code of conduct enforcement — A pre-defined code of conduct enforcement process doesn't make the work easy, but it reduces the…

Took the youngest to see "K-Pop Demon Hunters" in the theater today. I get why it's so popular.

These Pervert Glasses for Perverts make me feel like a pervert

I wish every day* could be World Series Game 7 featuring two teams that I am indifferent to. *Except during March Madness, obvs.

If you're in line to bat at Game 7 of the World Series STAY IN LINE

arXiv will no longer accept review articles and position papers unless they have been accepted at a journal or a conference and complete successful peer review. This is due to being overwhelmed by a hundreds of AI generated papers a month. Yet another open submission process killed by LLMs.

Working on a post that would have been great pre-Hacktoberfest advice and it occurred to me that I could put together a short "Hacktoberfest How-tos for Maintainers" for next year. If you would find that valuable, what would you want to see in it?

Instead of saying "my condolences", what if we said "Mickey Dolenz"?

A little telling that these dudes see a robot taking out the trash and immediately are like “well I clearly can’t compete with that”

Hey folks: Be careful out there tonight. I bought a razor blade and it had a Snickers in it.

I cannot imagine giving a single fuck if someone is abusing SNAP. If it's that easy, maybe you should be too. Paying for groceries when the government can allegedly be easily scammed into buying them for you? Skill issue

Journalists, the phrase you are looking for is "committing acts of war"

Halloween is the perfect example of how the time spent in or around cars are the most dangerous periods of any day for most Americans. And it is rarely acknowledged on a wide scale.

Tell your story. Teach your tools. Inspire your people. Submit your SCaLE 23x talk idea today. www.socallinuxexpo.o... #SCaLE23x

Apropos of nothing: now would be a real cool time for the CNCF to realize that North America includes both Mexico and Canada and decide that KubeCon NA can be somewhere other than the US Just a thought

OH: "I swear, this the worst year to have hands."

Me: I am going to start running again to get in better shape. Me: *actually does it consistently* My shin: Surprise! Here's a stress fracture, you dumb bastard!

Please don't worry. I speak for all stoners when I say I will not waste my precious and expensive gummies on your child