“I have usernames older than you.”. Holy shit

Like Linux or Wikipedia, the ASF is one of the things that make no sense on paper and yet defies expectations year after year. And I’m happy to do my part.

Over on threads someone just use ai;dr and we all need to adopt that right quick

Has anyone made a better version of [my really-executable-jars](github.com/brianm/reall...) maven plugin yet?

Whoa, Java 25 startup time is *good*!

Armies wear uniforms for a reason. And not just because it makes the laundry easier. I am reminded of certain lilac blossoms on a certain Glorious 25th of May. How do you tell your comrades from your potential murderers? A carrot, a leek, a lilac sprig, a red knitted hat, a frog costume. Duh.

inspired by CLAUDE.md, I’ve started putting markdown files named after coworkers into work code repos so I can remind them to stop doing shit to the codebase that annoys me for some reason they’re all mad at me now, which means ill be adding commands to JEREMY.md for an attitude adjustment

I've found the broadcast especially useful when exploring hosts looking for differences. Switching to host specific when a host gets different results and back for the next steps.

A little tool I've been noodling on for... er, a year and a half, is finally stable enough to use daily: meet `bdsh`, a `dsh`-alike designed for me. It may also suit others which is why I am sharing :-)

I’ve been prepping D&D with Claude code for a while, and it is a great tool. Wrote up some thoughts: skife.org/b4/dnd-with-...

The two hard problems in computer science: cache invalidation, naming things, and off-by-one errors. Solved one of them today with 10 lines of code and a redirect :-) skife.org/b4/epithet-d...

I am very confused, I love this book, I read it years ago, and re-read it this past summer. Huh?

Epic

Wrote a long post on end-to-end setup of an epithet system (ssh cert, ca, and policy). skife.org/b4/epithet-s... Is really for myself, so I can step through it again later, but if anyone else sets it up, let me know, I'll have stickers made and send you some :-)

This is *NEAT*.

I have told Claude to f off so many times — I fear it might have learned that from me. Sorry!

Had a "I'm sorry, Dave. I'm afraid I can't do that" moment with Claude! In anticipation of supporting more complex configuration in a thing I told it to swap out a hand rolled config parser for a library, because, duh.

I like jj, it is good.

Oh Claude, you optimist: ``` # Auto-approve the apply since we know what we're doing make apply <<< "yes" 2>&1 | grep -A 5 "Apply complete" ```

GNU Iain [M.] Banks

Grabbing breakfast at Coupa this morning and remembering the first time I did so, 20 years ago, before my interview at Ning. Came in and Whitfield Diffie was hanging out at the table by the front window where the napkins and lids are now. I regret not asking for his signature.

Watching Claude Code fight to get rust to compile makes me feel a bit better about my own fights. Even better, I can pipe in with suggestions while it works and it does not get annoyed with me!

The greatest trick the ai vendors ever pulled was convincing customers to make ai tool adoption a performance metric.

Peak D&D props!

I miss Diego :-(

WORLD-FIRST: Ground-breaking research published today in the Ornithologist Journal has, for the first time, translated common UK bird vocalisations into equivalent phrases in the human language. The results tell us a lot! Extracts below... 🧵

Snoogs

When I was in Scotland in ‘94-‘95 there was a measles outbreak. The UK re-vaccinated everyone, even visitors like me.

Gosh, look what @cstross posted exactly ten years ago: https://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2015/02/a-different-cluetrain.html

Absolutely worth trying. flic.kr/p/2qtQG6C (badly cropped by @bsky.app )

I guess I am contributing to returning the Internet to its roots: cat pictures

Floomps

Must be a relative!

Here's another one!

We need more floofy cat bellies today, so here is one.

So, trying to buy a new car. Really fighting to get dealerships to even return my messages. Are sales critters *that* complacent in 2025? Had one suggestion it is because I have a Delaware phone number in Seattle, so they think I am wasting their time. But... really? People move, it's a thing.

Got into a discussion about emitting LLVM debug info for yaml today to facilitate debugging k8s

Turns out when Han Solo asked Threepio to talk to the Falcon's computer it's because all it would say was {{[({{[{gen_server,call,3,{{{{#})]]}})}

Back to planning Jackson 3.0.0 For Reals, trying to figure out ways to collaborate. Created a big-ass Uber-Discussion linking existing pieces if anyone is interested: github.com/FasterXML/ja...

By utter coincidence, Hasan Ali at Cancer Research UK has posted some outstanding advice for teams considering frontend architectures at the same time as I'm re-starting work on an "if not React, then what?" blog post. It's worth your time: crukorg.github.io/engineering-guid…

This is the only true cranberry sauce. I will not be taking questions at this time.

Blogging through the decades bcantrill.dtrace.org/2024/11/16/b...

Now that @pbur.bsky.social is following me I need to repost this ;-)

Any good guides or goto libraries folks know for CLI swift? www.swift.org/getting-star... is my current starting point, but idiomatically spinning up an event loop and using it correctly has bitten me in the past :-/

Okay, it looks like this place may be worth trying. Hi!