The coordinated nature of this—none are facing voters in 2026—means that either Schumer approved it or failed in his job as Senate Majority Leader to stop it. Dems voting "no" get zero credit until they demand a change in leadership. Schumer out as Leader, Durbin out as Whip.

Got plenty of slots left for the #longhornphp uncon

The #longhornphp 2025 tutorial day is underway! @alenaholligan.bsky.social is presenting on BDD, Florian Engelhardt is walking through building an observability extension with Rust, and @daveliddament.bsky.social is diving into building custom Rector rules.

In our non-DEI meritocracy, Larry Ellison's son bought CBS so that Bari Weiss could then put her sister on air.

If you're in Austin and want to attend #LonghornPHP next week but can't swing the ticket price, we still have some donated in-person tickets available. Pay $20 now, then get that $20 refunded when you show up. ti.to/longhorn-php...

Tired: distributed power generation Wired: Family joules

Time to learn about Valkey from the fine folks at @percona.bsky.social at Texas Linux Fest!

If you've been to #LonghornPHP in the past as an attendee and haven't grabbed a ticket yet, we've got a few wks before the conference & I'd love to see y'all there. If our GA tickets feel pricey, DM me. I'm proud of our schedule and want to give speakers the audience they deserve.

This year, @alenaholligan will be presenting a tutorial and a talk - join us on Thursday for her tutorial "Bridge the Testing Gap: Mastering BDD with Codeception for Cross-Team Success" to master BDD Fundamentals! Get tickets at longhornphp.com

@flightradar24.com Y'all should do something special with SkyCards for Dorkfest ;) Maybe Blue Sky (heh) for LAX for the entire 2h event so folks can quickly catch planes before going back to taking pictures of planes IRL

It's travel-to-Dorkfest o'clock at AUS. Boarded on DL 306 AUS-LAX. See y'all (incl. @crankyflier.com) soon!

No bad news is very good news on Golang cryptography :) #gophersunite

To wrap up lightning talks, we have an update on TinyGo #GophersUnite

Next up in lightning talks: making typeaheads fast with Redis #GophersUnite

Next up at Gophercon lightning talks: building a Git client in Go. #GophersUnite

Next up, it's #neovim demo time! #GophersUnite

Next up: principles of using AI for software dev. For one, don't hand off code for review that you haven't reviewed yourself. For another, exec expectations don't match current reality on what AI can('t) do. #GophersUnite

Next up: using assertions to make sure that if a program is wrong it doesn't compile. #GophersUnite

It's lightning talk time at Gophercon! First talk is about using SSA and control flow graphs for finding e.g. session leaks in the Cloud Spanner SDK #GophersUnite

Expressing API changes as "replace this function with its inlined body" lets Go tooling make codebase upgrades for you. #GophersUnite

By default, common LLMs don't use current code features, and even higher-power ones are a coin flip. Go analysis tools, and the associated MCP server, helps push back against this so emitted code gets modernized on the way out of the model. #GophersUnite

Yo dawg I heard you like ATProto so I'm posting about an ATProto talk from a service that speaks ATProto #GophersUnite

If you need every last drop of performance, you can remove the guard rails Go has. But you probably really really shouldn't because your time is more valuable than the hardware you save on making a great protobuf parser. #GophersUnite

Pin to commit hashes rather than tag versions, and use tooling to capture when your libs do more things than you expect them to. #GophersUnite

The code you ship is the code you need to double-check for vulns/malicious code. The source code corresponding to those artifacts may not be current/accurate. #GophersUnite

"many eyes find malicious code" in OSS isn't necessarily true, as malicious actors can find ways to circumvent those eyes (and folks may assume someone else is doing the many-eyes work) #GophersUnite

Turns out, a lot of the things that make writing software better for humans also make it better for AIs. #GophersUnite

Just about, erm, Go time at Gophercon 2025 Day 1! yesterday was Day 0 of course as this isn't a SQL conference. #GophersUnite

Hello #Gophercon! Repping @fleetdm.bsky.social here while hopefully learning a thing or two. If you want to chat about building an open-core device management product, I (and a few more of us) are around :)

@quinnypig.com Any change I could get a timestamp in the LWIA podcast for test01, since the podcast and the email order headlines differently?

@laranewsom.com heads-up: domain's expired. Also heads-up: the signals talk that landed on the KCDC lineup might be a good fit for this year's longhornphp.com (Oct 23-25 in Austin). CFP's open through Friday: cfp.longhornphp.com. Reply/find me elsewhere with any Q's!

@guy.dev Public ping 'cuz understandably no DMs, but saw your Meme Twin and Redis talks on the KCDC lineup and those look like a decent fit for longhornphp.com (Oct 23-25 in Austin). CFP closes EOD Friday (cfp.longhornphp.com). Sound interesting? Copy-pasting Sessionize submissions should work FWIW.

@amygeb.bsky.social Not DM'able (which is fair) so I'll ping this way: if you're up for e.g. talking Passkeys at Longhorn PHP (Oct 23-25 in Austin), the CFP closes EOD this Friday (cfp.longhornphp.com). Pinging 'cuz I'm thinking back to the five-star talks you had when we both spoke at Midwest 2019.

@stroz.dev DMs don't quite exist for you<->me on here, so doing a public ping instead: Longhorn PHP (in Austin Oct 23-25) CFP closes end-of-day Friday the 1st in case you're interested in submitting anything (believe you submitted to Tek this year). cfp.longhornphp.com. Thx!

Guys I found a large quantity of Delta-9 in Texas who do I call

“Red states don’t care about blue states” “Texas voted for this” Hey did you know millions of different people live in states and they’re all individuals who each have their own differing views and actions

Waymo spotted well north of the Austin geofence. This is at Burnet and Greenlawn.

Golang makes up for the benefits of type aliases and generics and arbitrary key and value types for maps with nil pointer and zero value shenanigans.

The Tea Party protests in April 2009 had about a third of a million people involved, and the political media treated it like a game changer for the Obama presidency. The No Kings rallies were AT LEAST ten times bigger than the Tea Party protests. Will the press keep pretending Trump is popular?

Wouldn't be surprised if more people chanted "USA! USA!" for longer in Austin today for the No Kings protest than at this parade. I like WWII equipment as much as the next dude but I know which events were more patriotic.

the story today is of a profoundly low energy military parade being met with millions of americans in nationwide protests denouncing the dictatorial pretensions of the president

In a direct protest against the @iea.org's plea to use the custom chatbot to explore this report, I am going to read the entire thing (all 304 pages) using my actual brain, and this thread will be where I dump reactions, thoughts, notes etc as I go through it www.iea.org/reports/ener...

This little bit is buried: capex in "AI" is 20% higher than capex in THE ENTIRE POWER SECTOR OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

I haven't set up a @longhornphp.com account yet here, but Longhorn PHP is back for its sixth (!) year this October. As usual, we're at Holiday Inn Austin Midtown Thursday-Saturday; dates for this year are October 23-25. CFP is open; submit talks at cfp.longhornphp.com. See y'all there?

Heads-up @crankyflier.com, Southwest is showing WGA fares as Basic. This is for a flight that I haven't changed since I bought it as WGA.

Night of the Long Threads

Thanks to everyone for attending my #DevOpsDaysAustin presentation on osquery! Slides are here: ian.im/doda25

Presenting on osquery in a couple hours at @devopsdaysaustin.bsky.social!

Calling it now: the acquirers of Walgreens sell off the real estate for more valuable locations, swap to smaller storefronts where possible, shut down a bunch of stores, spin off international markets, and then sell the remaining US stores to UnitedHealth by mid-2028.