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Solo-dad and Principal software engineer, focused on observability and resilience these days. Spend my days being goofy with my kids, chasing my Shiba around the house (she started it!) and playing games
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If Musk and Trump really wanted to identify waste and fraud in the federal government, they would've brought in teams of FINANCIAL AUDITORS, not teenage hackers.

submitted 10 days ago • 3 comments

This is perfect explanation

submitted 35 days ago • 1246 comments

Age verification laws are right up there with real names policies in the pantheon of "you think this is going to help people, but it's actually quite disastrously bad" ideas.

submitted 34 days ago • 24 comments

If the media were doing its job, the headlines tomorrow would be: Trump Begins Presidency by Releasing Domestic Terrorists Elon Musk Performs Nazi Salute at Trump Inauguration Event Trump's Executive Actions Exhibit Complete Disregard for the Constitution

submitted 37 days ago • 9 comments

Fuck it. Trans folks need MATERIAL SUPPORT. @distributeaid.org is launching an HRT Harm Reduction Toolkit that provides 1 year of medical supplies needed to take injection-based HRT. We were planning to go live in January, but I'm not waiting. Fund the kits here: distributeaid.org/hrt-harm-red...

submitted 75 days ago • 130 comments

Weird that we have to say this, but the government doesn’t get to decide what gender a person is.

submitted 37 days ago • 548 comments

Fact checking is not censorship. It's an essential public service. Disinformation kills. Period.

submitted 51 days ago • 189 comments

fascinating definition of freedom we've wound our way into here

submitted 55 days ago • 341 comments

I love this.

submitted 95 days ago • 937 comments

Agreed. Getting back to openness at the core level and away from the walled gardens would be a huge win for the internet

submitted 98 days ago • 0 comments

“10/10” - Arden

submitted 98 days ago • 0 comments

I kind of love that I keep refinding old voices I used to follow and love listening to on here to go with the new ones 🥰 I missed this kind of community

submitted 98 days ago • 0 comments

With a fully remote team of just 20 employees, Bluesky has surpassed 20 million users in its first year since opening to the public and is stealing thunder from rivals hundreds of times its size. At a time when conventional wisdom among bosses is that workers must be in-person to be productive.

submitted 99 days ago • 462 comments

Massive congrats to the team for scaling so effectively and seamlessly the past few weeks! This is an incredible milestone and I love this place

submitted 102 days ago • 0 comments

This is, unfortunately, real — Danielle Allen of Harvard, who has thought a lot about ethics and democracy

submitted 121 days ago • 50 comments

There is no one I beef with harder than the version of me from the supermarket earlier in the day that decided home me wouldn’t need a little snack later.

submitted 129 days ago • 19 comments

Penguin Random House amends its copyright notice globally to prohibit the use of books for training AI; the notice will be included in new titles and reprints (Matilda Battersby/The Bookseller) Main Link | Techmeme Permalink

submitted 131 days ago • 0 comments

technology is not good nor bad but neither is it neutral - Kranzberg's third law technology is an amplifier I wonder if this is the first example of what I call the tyranny of efficiency #TyrannyofEfficiency

submitted 132 days ago • 1 comment

Me this morning realizing that my memorization for Observability tools is not based on their brand names but instead on their subdomain: * ui -> Honeycomb * one -> New Relic * app -> Datadog (and Nobl9 and Bugsnag…) * service -> Sumologic

submitted 132 days ago • 0 comments

The latest changes finally pushed me over the edge. I don’t wanna support an app that’s not gonna allow people to protect themselves.

submitted 132 days ago • 0 comments

Omg I forgot how nice it was to have a feed of people I followed, instead of whatever random shit the other site threw at me

submitted 132 days ago • 0 comments