"There's a reason you separate military and the police. One fights the enemies of the state, the other serves and protects the people. When the military becomes both, then the enemies of the state tend to become the people." Cautionary tale from 2 decades ago.

Bundler belongs to the Ruby community andre.arko.net/2025/09/25/b...

With a heavy heart, I have to remind everyone that Kubernetes v1.30 Uwubernetes is now EOL. If you are still running on v1.30, please upgrade your clusters uwu 👉👈😔

They're being commissioned as Lieutenant Colonels. An LTC is usually a battalion commander, brigade XO, or a staff officer under a General. That's a lot of military authority/influence for people with zero military training. I'd say this is unprecedented, except there is precedent and it was bad.

this shot belongs in the Louvre

You're telling me that Herb roasted this chicken?

The more people talk about ATProto (Bluesky) vs ActivityPub (Mastodon, Pixelfed, et al), the more I think identity in a social graph is such a narrow slice of the problem.

It's not a matter of legal opinion. It's written in plain language in *the very first sentence* of the 14th Amendment. constitution.congress.gov/constitution...

bluesky really, really needs "turn off retweets"

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list of priorities in 2025: 1. me

Today is the last day you can post this picture

Happy New Year from Dorothy Parker (and me).

If you use a shorter, wider mug you can have as much cocoa and 3x the marshmallows Follow me for more life hacks

Noah was easily one of the kindest people I've ever met. It's always hard to hear news like this, but especially about someone like him. I'm glad I got to spend time with him along the way.

Millennial CEOs be like "at the jerb we all fam"

Have they ever had André 3000 on Mystery Science Theater 3000?

HOBBIES I HAVE ON DATING APPS: • hiking • gardening • swimming MY ACTUAL HOBBIES: • looking at photos of frogs • eating large bowls of spaghetti • sleeping

Every dad gift ideas list is like: Scotch rocks, socks that are also a knife, bacon wallet, hammer subscription

Literally all of these are delicious. I legitimately do not understand why anyone thinks otherwise.

Something I almost posted in a PR today and later realized I should have: Someone will inevitably feel the urge to follow the internet tradition of offering unsolicited advice that they think will be helpful for my use case, so I'll just head that off by assuring those folks: I know.

When I was in the army, we had a joke "being Airborne means never passing on an opportunity to let everyone around you know you're better than they are". I notice that same smug sense of superiority a lot in the Rust community.

absolutely incredible attack vector

(someone used a carefully crafted branch name to inject a crypto miner into a popular Python package: github.com/ultralytics/...)

When people ask me why I became a software engineer

RadioShack Crystal Phone (1990s)📞✨

This is malicious compliance. I approve.

Did she ever get in touch with her real grandchild or did she swap them for Jamal?

Tired: "bike is short for bichael" Wired: "mike is short for micycle"

roasted to death by the emoji keyboard

Still trying to learn how ATProto works at various levels. One way I learn things deeply is by implementing them myself. Is there a good way to test integration between Bluesky and a custom PDS?

Still trying to learn how ATProto works at various levels. One way I learn things deeply is by implementing them myself. Is there a good way to test integration between Bluesky and a custom PDS?

Someone on Mastodon asked a Postgres question about timestamps as generated columns. I responded with a GitHub gist and now my name will be mentioned at a PHP conference. gist.github.com/jgaskins/417...

We need more music where the singer says "take 'em for a walk, Artie" and then a guy with a clarinet just goes nuts for like 8 minutes

We could really use some kinda boat stuck in some kinda canal right about now. Would definitely lift our spirits.

@aphoenix.bsky.social Hey Abby! 🎉

Big "night before Helm's Deep" energy tonight

I really want Bluesky to succeed, but I also want to see a healthy ecosystem spring up around the AT Protocol, and that includes Bluesky alternatives. If we want to avoid a repeat of what happened with Twitter then a healthy ecosystem is a requirement.

Formal affordances are the elements that pull a player toward certain actions, they “cry out” for the player to take those actions. Material affordances are the actions a system actually allows the player to take. Agency occurs when the two are in balance. (Mateas 2001)

Other Guy In Revolving Door Not Doing Shit To Help Move This Thing

i will do it i will pan fry the forbidden meat rock

Has anyone come across any good guides for running your own bsky or whatever? I have a Mastodon server and I think I want to do more here, but I want to run my own server.

when life gives you lemons, select lemons on the equip screen and then confirm “equip lemons”

A while back I experimented with creating an ActivityPub app that stores all of a user's data in an S3 bucket (or compatible API like MinIO) that they own. The app acts as simply an ActivityPub concierge and the user retains control of their data. It worked pretty well.

Sha’Carri Richardson prepping the block. photo by Elijah Agurs.

The US medical system be like "Dr. Pepper is out-of-network. Is Dr. Thunder okay?"

yes it's called uwubernetes, yes i did it to pander to terminally online furries and to make rich old white guys have to say uwu. yw