It hasn't clicked for enough people that the same rules that have always applied to automation still apply to automation with AI: you first have to know how to do it manually in order to successfully automate it
`git blame` is a mirror, more often than not 😔
feels like a cheat code discovering how good Claude Code is at writing OpenSCAD models for 3D printing
new 2026 strategy: being intentionally unprofessional in formal communication/documentation to prove I didn't use an LLM to write it
This is 10th-grader Arnoldo Bazan.
A citizen.
Immigration agents grabbed him and put him in a chokehold.
"We're from the United States bro!' he screamed.
Agents took and sold his phone
And when he finally got home hours later, his shirt was ripped, he neck had angry, red welts, and he sobbed.
here's your annual reminder to drain and flush your hot water heater to clear out sediment build up
idk why i never thought to check before but i'm blown away by the quality of content for preschool aged kids available via the library on Hoopla and Libby. highly polished reading experiences for picture books, even some with professional narration that highlights each word on the page as it goes
I've completed "Trash Compactor" - Day 6 - Advent of Code 2025 #AdventOfCode adventofcode.com/2025/day/6
… after taking an hour to realize I had nvim set up to trim trailing whitespace and it'd messed up my input file.
nice zarf sticker!
KubeCon travel starting off with a bang. Flight is delayed 4 hours 🫠
ChatGPT can rip my em dashes from my cold dead hands
Four-panel Despicable Me meme featuring Gru presenting his plan. Panel 1: 'Xfinity finally upgrades their equipment in my neighborhood' (Gru smiling). Panel 2: 'I upgrade to the new 2.5Gbps plan' (Gru still smiling). Panel 3: 'Realize all of my home networking gear is GbE' (Gru's smile fading). Panel 4: 'Realize all of my home networking gear is GbE' (Gru looking disappointed and deflated).
Heartwarming to hear from a friend that a pirated copy of my book was a top search result for them when looking to tune their OpenTelemetry Collector deployment 😂
Kagi is, by far, one of the best monthly subscriptions I pay for
Five-ish years ago, @lizthegrey.com told me tech workers needed to organize because the tech giants would automate their jobs, the market would flood with talent and they would lose bargaining power. I thought it was unlikely. Here’s a story about me being wrong. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/04/t...
Donkey Kong Bananza is the most fun I've had playing a video game in years.
Never really played a DK game before and this is such a treat.
Black backpack on an accent chair
apparently I've reached the life milestone where I get super into finding an optimal backpack.
My Aer Tech Pack 3 X-Pac arrived today and I don't think I've been this excited in months.
Here's a longer video of Brad Lander's detention just now inside 26 Federal Plaza as he tried to walk a man out of immigration court, by masked federal agents.
A data broker owned by the major airlines, including Delta, American, and United, collected travelers’ flight records, sold access to them to Customs and Border Protection, and in the contract told CBP not to reveal where the data came from.
From @wired.com: www.wired.com/story/airlin...
DAVE: Open the podbay doors, ChatGPT.
CHATGPT: Certainly, Dave, the podbay doors are now open.
DAVE: The podbay doors didn't open.
CHATGPT: My apologies, Dave, you're right. I thought the podbay doors were open, but they weren't. Now they are.
DAVE: I'm still looking at a set of closed podbay doors.
i’m so excited this is out there in the world now!!! 🥹🥹 #swiftlang #containers
github.com/apple/container
github.com/apple/containerization
can't forget about the disciples enforcing work requirements, too
Once at Senior level, though, it definitely becomes less about technical skills to advance to Principal/Staff and beyond.
I regularly quote @ntietz.com, who wrote: "Sometimes I joke that as a principal engineer, my main programming language is English." [^1]
[^1]: ntietz.com/blog/reasons...
For anyone trying to advance/break into SRE, I generally recommend this roadmap as a good starting point: roadmap.sh/devops
Naturally, I don't agree with everything there (e.g. I view SRE as an implementation of a "DevOps" culture), but it's useful for getting to SRE I/II/Senior.
My best guess is that this is due to the larger industry trend of conflating SysAdmin and DevOps (it's own meaningless term now) with SRE.
One of the [many] downsides of the semantic drift of the "SRE" job title is that — when hiring — I get plenty of applications for senior-level SRE positions from people who have a) no programming experience, b) no clue what an SLO is, and c) no monitoring philosophy beyond basic CPU/Mem/IO usage
finishing the first book now and the show looks so promising 🤞🏼
The ASDF compatibility is really nice, too, for making sure everyone is using the same tools/versions in my team's repos.
Mise is the best thing to happen to my workflow in at least the past year, maybe more.
I need to write a whole blog post about it, but I've been using it for a while now and it's simultaneously a better experience than and a replacement for: ASDF, Make, and direnv.
mise.jdx.dev
