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Platform Engineering/DevOps @ Burns & McDonnell, Legislative spouse, Interests in theology and sharks - Opinions expressed here are mine alone.
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Digging the way we are playing. Nice job #SportingKC

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we could have had taco trucks on every corner

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Great turnout for the KS House Dems tour in Topeka! #ksleg

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New FEMA Alert Notifies Public Whenever ‘Twister’ Airing On TNT theonion.com/new-fem...

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Emperor Sheev Palpatine Draws Criticism for Accepting Super Star Destroyer Gifted by Exegol hard-drive.net/hd/entertain...

submitted 10 days ago • 3 comments

All they have to do now is automate gerrymandering, redlining, or any other discriminatory practice to avoid being held accountable.

submitted 10 days ago • 7 comments

The very definition of evil is incarcerating for life in one of the worst hellholes on Earth men who did everything right. But it’s beyond evil—beyond demonic—to then not try to do anything to save the men you consigned to Hell, *and* to in fact libel and slander them daily when they cannot reply.

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“God’s kingdom is a bunch of tax collectors, sinners, and sick people eating and drinking with Jesus.” Hauerwas and Willimon, Lord Teach Us

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Reading resumes and folks need to proof what AI produces. Multiple resumes with exact same words and phrases.

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White shark chomps on seal off Massachusetts: '1st of the season'

submitted 19 days ago • 1 comment

Strains bounds of propriety? Strains…bounds…of…proprietary? Am I having a stroke? What is happening?

submitted 20 days ago • 1947 comments

The moment when you play connections and the first meaning you think of for curl is the command line tool.

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What a save from Pulskamp. #SportingKC #SKCvPOR

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Gracious. #SportingKC has another ridiculous goal scored against them. #PORvSKC

submitted 21 days ago • 1 comment

a cardinal from north america, you say

submitted 23 days ago • 6 comments

A read: arstechnica.com/tech-policy/...

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Never tell me the odds

submitted 27 days ago • 0 comments

Crazy #SportingKC game winning without taking a shot

submitted 28 days ago • 1 comment

Last night in Emporia, Democratic leaders hosted a powerful over 2-hour town hall, giving Kansans a space to speak out, ask tough questions, and get organized for the fights ahead at both the state and federal level. @kansasdems.bsky.social #ksleg #kansas #townhall

submitted 39 days ago • 1 comment

Who are the favorites to succeed Pope Francis? Here are some of key names to watch in the weeks ahead.👇

submitted 41 days ago • 27 comments

In an executive order, Trump targeted the Smithsonian and the National Museum of African American History & Culture suggesting that it is “divisive” and pedaling “improper ideology.” So, I took a trip back to the museum, and what I saw was a place trying to tell the unvarnished truth about America.

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Feel like I’m watching a different team. Loving it. #SportingKC

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An interesting read. arstechnica.com/information-... -- Appreciate your work @benjedwards.com

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My thoughts on the CVE funding mess, and some of the values that will be missed because CVE just made them work. (As a co-founder of the system, and as an Emeritus member of the board.) shostack.org/blog/thought...

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Kansas Senate takes easy route to deflect Gov. Laura Kelly’s line-item budget vetoes kansasreflector.com/2025/04/10/k... *Sigh*

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Enjoying #GoogleCloudNext and the opportunity to learn.

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Each time I see a talk about decreasing cognitive load for Devs, I wonder when folks are going to do work that actually starts decreasing cognitive load for platform engineers. It seems like much of the complexity keeps shifting down on to platform teams.

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Excited for Google Next.

submitted 54 days ago • 0 comments

Question: At this point, if someone asks, "Have you read the phoenix project?" and you work doing DevOpsy things, how does it make you feel? I sort of felt like my bona fides had been questioned.

submitted 60 days ago • 1 comment

Wondering when we might win again. Tough sledding for #SportingKC

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In 25 years of covering national security, I’ve never seen a story like this: Senior Trump officials discussed planning for the U.S. attack on Yemen in a Signal group--and inadvertently added the editor-in-chief of The Atlantic. www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

submitted 69 days ago • 805 comments