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erikshafer.bsky.social
software engineer | devrel | event sourcing advocate | event-driven enthusiast | helping simplify software development | lifelong learner | conference speaker sometimes | heavy metal | MMOs | TTRPGs | MtG | ADHD | remote in Omaha | he/him
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I'm on my new Macbook M4 (yay new job, etc), and have all my mailboxes open on a side monitor. Work, client, personal, blah blah. I keep hearing the new email notification, yet see nothing. That's it. I've gone crazy. Do I start the weekend early? 😆

submitted 8 hours ago • 0 comments

There is no scenario where this goes well for anyone.

submitted 11 hours ago • 23 comments

I am concerned that young, aspiring artists are going to be discouraged from continuing with their passion due to AI.

submitted 2 days ago • 1 comment

Pretty Substantial Wolverine 3.11 Release jeremydmiller.com/2025/03/24/p... #dotnet #wolverine

submitted 4 days ago • 0 comments

Please stop using the word observability when you mean "generate telemetry" Telemetry data is important, but observability is about the understanding, not the data.

submitted 4 days ago • 4 comments

Top national security personnel using the fist and fire emojis after bombing Yemen. It's so disgusting for so many reasons. How did we get here again? Actually, don't answer that.

submitted 4 days ago • 0 comments

After I experienced yet another layoff, I lost nearly all motivation to do anything other than 1) find a way to pay the bills and 2) tend to family matters. But, since I got back to a stable gig (AKA no longer freelancing), why do I NOW have the motivation and creativity for side projects? 😅

submitted 10 days ago • 1 comment

I think I've written more YAML (helm charts) in the last two weeks than I have in my entire career. 😅

submitted 16 days ago • 0 comments

I know this is extremely vulgar idealism, but I do think we should try to aggressively reassert the norm that lying is bad. Not in a "Four Pinnochios" fact-checking kind of way, but in a way that frames this kind of lying as moral degeneracy that is fundamentally corrosive to the human spirit.

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submitted 17 days ago • 2 comments

@techjess.bsky.social Sorry not sorry for the spam, Shadowheart.

submitted 20 days ago • 0 comments

I appreciate that Teams and Slack let me know my microphone is on mute whenever I sneeze. Allergies are pwning me today. 🤧 PS: What if we brought back the term 'pwn' in 2025?!

submitted 25 days ago • 0 comments

Koopa is adjusting to me not working from home every day. Can you tell he missed me? (Okay, he's on my lap. Not a great photo on second thought.)

submitted 30 days ago • 0 comments

DOGE is like if Fyre Festival was a government agency.

submitted 34 days ago • 303 comments

I cannot think of anything more profoundly un-American than a president declaring himself a “king”

submitted 37 days ago • 148 comments

the single most un-american and anti-constitutional statement ever uttered by an american president

submitted 41 days ago • 5624 comments

aaaand now it all makes sense

submitted 52 days ago • 151 comments