Sounders lineup:

I have hit the inflection point of xkcd.com/1612/

The news is a lot and so much of this hits harder since becoming a parent, in ways I couldn't have fathomed before. But today my toddler made my baby laugh and vice versa and that will fuel me for a while.

Getting an eye exam for the first time in my adult life (I know) and as soon as I get there their computers go down. I really gotta start keeping track of how often this happens to me.

Not to be dramatic but I'd do anything for him.

My dentist canceled my appointment tomorrow and if that's not the best version of someone else canceling plans you didn't want to go to anyway, idk what is.

Local zoning is the way! A lot of these are being stopped or stalled by neighborhood organizing. These warehouses often need to be purchased, permitted, approved for occupancy and specs. Each one of those steps can be interrupted. Ppl are pressuring corps not to sell, counties to deny permits, etc

Justin is a certified goddamn delight to work with.

Two Sounders injury subs in the first half of the first game of the season.

They look like bad stickers and it just feels yuck. Also bold to assume we make it to July.

The ref's officiating strategy for this game, apparently. #SEAvCOL

“After review, go fuck yourself.” - South Sound.

29 minutes into this game and I feel like half of it has been VAR. #SEAvCOL

RED, KNIGHT, AND BLUE 🇺🇸 @pwhltorrent.bsky.social and Team USA Captain Hilary Knight nets one to send the gold medal game into overtime!

From a discussion in RISF based on the old IBM adage, an updated version for the modern era:

Key to efficient learning is realizing how we ACTUALLY learn, not just what FEELS like learning. I wrote a Claude Skill for some friends to help them think about this and they've liked it -- see Principles for some directions you could explore github.com/DrCatHicks/l...

I continue to be amazed at the difference between Gemini and Claude. The level of delegation difference is remarkable. I cannot believe Google is whiffing on this so hard. You have all of my data! Just let me do the thing!

Citing fear of ICE, pregnant immigrants in Minnesota are -skipping prenatal care -requesting home births, even when not medically advised -going w/o adequate food Many are experiencing complications providers say can be stress-onset: diabetes, high blood pressure, and even water breaking early

Locking up formula still is one of the starkest signals of a failed society to me. jfc.

“If everyone that came before me had just complied and complied and complied, I probably would have entered this theater, any theater, through a colored section. Every good thing you have in your life is a product of someone else’s struggle.”

Today I said I was frustrated because I hadn't seen my headphones in days and could not for the life of me remember what I did with them. My almost-4-yo piped up that she knew where they were. She reminded me I had dropped them between the car seats on Friday coming home from school. She was right.

Lots of MLK posts coming from politicians who are really upset that they're being judged for the content of their character.

All thirteen of my chapters for the second edition of "Observability Engineering" are now drafted to satisfaction. The first half is already in the hands of tech reviewers, and the second half should be to O'Reilly by Jan 30th. Just doing a read thru and cleanup, interstitials, stick art and stuff.

Yesterday I played soccer for the first time since October 2024. It poured rain, we got our asses handed to us, and it was so much fun. It was so good to play with my team again.

Shout-out to the guy in this coffee shop who brought an old cow pattern Gateway mousepad with him to work.

Someone asked me if I’d take a deal where I got $50k, but my worst enemy got $100k. I said, “sounds amazing. I’ve always wanted $150k."

Americans can't afford Christmas gifts or health care.   Trump is naming battleships after himself.   Who is this presidency for? www.wsj.com/politics/nat...

These are concentration camps. No other way to describe them. Truly horrific, and none of it surprising in the least.

It’s that time of the year where Home Alone is going to be on tv a bunch. As relatives go “they should have had a battery powered alarm” and make other judgments on the family’s lack of responsibility in forgetting their kid, get a better source to learn from what happened. ferd.ca/home-alone-a...

I'm on Google's Prodcast this week talking about observability and AI to kick off season 5. Observability makes AI better and safer. Rich context data about your systems makes AI agents more helpful. They need each other! sre.google/prodcast/#se...

Gotta admit "the font is DEI" is a stage of absurdity I could not have predicted

Just spent a ton of time trying to get a problem solved with American Airlines. My mother is visiting for a week to help with childcare before our nanny starts in January. When she went to check in, it couldn't find her trip.

It's so crazy that the human I grew myself is playing Mariokart with me.

Targeting Kelly is one of those “this is why we’ll win” moments, bc it shows how politically impetuous this admin is. There’s clearly no adult in the room to say “wait, maybe don’t go after the charismatic war hero turned literal astronaut who ran after his wife was a victim of political violence.”

this is also uh, why i found the fact that NSA had so many queer employees unsurprising, but to the new right/NatCons, it's basically a mystery why so many elite developers are in the queer community

Respectfully, what’s the debate? The president of the United States has called for the trial and execution of members of Congress in a manner that would make Charles I blush. As a constitutional matter, I fail to see where there is room for reasonable disagreement about what happened yesterday.

I'm at the point where my kid does not need a nap but daycare sometimes lets her nap and so it is 10:23 and we have been fighting bedtime for 2 hours.

I was pretty skeptical about AI in observability. but 277 teams have run nearly 4,500 investigations with @honeycomb.io's Canvas since our beta, and it's actually... good? What convinced me: I've been at Honeycomb almost 7 years and Canvas has taught me things about our own systems I didn't know.

I left Google nearly 2.5 years ago and I still miss MOMA searching. I still have big love for multiple internal tooling teams.

Last night, the Trump Administration sent a letter suggesting Wisconsin should return our FoodShare payments. My response ⬇️

This morning, the president ordered states to not distribute full SNAP benefits for November, and demanded that states “undo” any benefits payments that have already been sent to working families for food. Read our statement in response.

Millions of hungry Americans are not getting their SNAP benefits — because of Trump and Republicans. Millions of families are worried about health care costs skyrocketing next year — because of Trump and Republicans. Democrats will keep fighting for working people.

Sounders playoff game going to PKs, Thomas seems to wreck his pinky somehow after the first save. #MINvSEA

This is why we watch sports,right? Heart health!

Talk to me if you have an interesting profiling use case. I'm doing some explorations :)

this result sticks out as deserving more attention!

—Dems break GOP's supermajority in MS's Senate. Still unknown: —Some school boards I'm watching still counting, tho the right is losing seats. —Seattle mayor will take a while. —RCV for Minneapolis mayor tomorrow. What am I missing that you're watching? And you can explore on my big board:

Seriously, if you're awake at this hour and going over election results across the country, you MUST follow @boltsmag.org (and @taniel.bsky.social ) for crying out loud. You can't have comprehensive local election coverage unless you give them a follow! #Election2025 #ElectionBluesky #ElectionSky

“Turn the volume up” is just insane contemporary speech work.