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Chris K Wensel

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Co-Organizer of https://lu.ma/sf-distsys Developer of https://github.com/ClusterlessHQ, https://cascading.wensel.net, and other data related projects.

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Signal Messenger - Director of Major Gifts We are seeking a Director of Major Gifts to join our Development team as a high-impact individual contributor. In this role, you will be the primary engine for high-net-worth and charitable institutio...

Do you work in fundraising? Do you want a job that isn't evil? Signal is hiring a director of major gifts: jobs.lever.co/signal/68f75...

05.03.2026 03:10 πŸ‘ 137 πŸ” 69 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 2
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GitHub - gadget-inc/silo: experimental background queuing system on object storage experimental background queuing system on object storage - gadget-inc/silo

"A background job queueing system built on top of object storage via slatedb" 🀩

Was just talking about the need for this with @almog.xyz today!

github.com/gadget-inc/s...

04.03.2026 00:52 πŸ‘ 9 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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How to Pick Your Password Manager Phishing and data breaches are a constant on the internet. The single best defense against both is to use a password manager to generate and automatically fill a unique password for every site. There

In recent years, the built-in password managers in browsers and operating systems have come a long way. www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...

01.03.2026 16:30 πŸ‘ 65 πŸ” 21 πŸ’¬ 3 πŸ“Œ 1
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I'm giving away research measures as part of the Learning Opportunities Claude Skill I wrote (link below) and I want to share why: - developers are doing tremendous amounts of personal… | Cat Hi... I'm giving away research measures as part of the Learning Opportunities Claude Skill I wrote (link below) and I want to share why: - developers are doing tremendous amounts of personal experimentati...

A note on why I shared an accessible playbook for measuring rapid agentic coding experiments, so they have legibility in your org.

Software metrics were designed for past assumptions, and I am advising against most right now. We need human-centered measures.

www.linkedin.com/posts/drcath...

01.03.2026 16:44 πŸ‘ 29 πŸ” 4 πŸ’¬ 4 πŸ“Œ 0

if you believe in any form of free enterprise at all, the idea that the Pentagon can not only cut off your contract but designate you a supply chain risk and prevent other companies from buying from you just because you won't build killbots for the government should be terrifying

27.02.2026 23:12 πŸ‘ 9887 πŸ” 2802 πŸ’¬ 203 πŸ“Œ 129
26.02.2026 09:45 πŸ‘ 11311 πŸ” 3190 πŸ’¬ 62 πŸ“Œ 42

Came across the phrase "cognitive DDOS" to describe our present culture.

Understood instantly what it meant.

26.02.2026 02:54 πŸ‘ 2702 πŸ” 996 πŸ’¬ 10 πŸ“Œ 0
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Arcaneum RDR Postmortem | Chris K Wensel 17 RDR postmortems, 208 drift instances, one meta-lesson: specify interfaces not implementations, verify APIs against source code, and plan for the full scope including Day 2 ops.

chris.wensel.net/post/arcaneu...

26.02.2026 03:52 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Easily one of the top charts of all time

24.02.2026 23:06 πŸ‘ 702 πŸ” 175 πŸ’¬ 26 πŸ“Œ 48

loudest common denominator

the mediocre voice in a meeting that gets their way because they are the most vocal

25.02.2026 17:06 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

my new AI powered lamp is trained on millions of lamp interactions so it understands that 50% of chain pulls are to turn it on and the other 50% are to turn it off. and honestly, it's a little spooky how it knows exactly what i want almost half of the time

17.03.2025 22:59 πŸ‘ 6093 πŸ” 1468 πŸ’¬ 4 πŸ“Œ 20
A bus with the destination set to Nowhere In Particular

A bus with the destination set to Nowhere In Particular

Current status

20.02.2026 01:26 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
Karen Sillas Instagram post saying that her dear friend and costar Tom Noonan passed peacefully on Valentine's Day.

Karen Sillas Instagram post saying that her dear friend and costar Tom Noonan passed peacefully on Valentine's Day.

Tom Noonan as Francis Dolarhyde in Manhunter

Tom Noonan as Francis Dolarhyde in Manhunter

Oh, man. Tom Noonan died? His performance as Francis Dolarhyde in Manhunter is one of the most terrifying, mesmerizing I've ever seen in a film.

18.02.2026 04:09 πŸ‘ 1643 πŸ” 373 πŸ’¬ 66 πŸ“Œ 175
I became Senior VP at a multi-million dollar company at age 26. My salary was $600k. This was in 2018.
How did I do it?

Blacked out lines

CEO (my dad) promoted me to SVP.
There are no gimmicks. There are no shortcuts.

I became Senior VP at a multi-million dollar company at age 26. My salary was $600k. This was in 2018. How did I do it? Blacked out lines CEO (my dad) promoted me to SVP. There are no gimmicks. There are no shortcuts.

This is blackout poetry to me

14.02.2026 14:26 πŸ‘ 23260 πŸ” 4794 πŸ’¬ 222 πŸ“Œ 169
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AI for Good The 2026 AI Impact Summit in India is the latest iteration of an event that has become a bellwether for global discourse around the AI industry, especially the question of whether, and how, it can be ...

Read β€œAI For Good” from @abeba.bsky.social: When people say β€œAI for Good” - who is this AI really good for? And who gets hurt in the process?

ainowinstitute.org/publications...

10.02.2026 17:32 πŸ‘ 10 πŸ” 5 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

JFC

07.02.2026 22:10 πŸ‘ 467 πŸ” 37 πŸ’¬ 25 πŸ“Œ 2
closeup on sweaty Stellan SkarsgΓ₯rd's face upside down in bed

closeup on sweaty Stellan SkarsgΓ₯rd's face upside down in bed

Stellan SkarsgΓ₯rd in the foreground, fully clothed in his hotel bed, weeping into his pillow. in the background, an out-of-focus Sverre Anker Ousdal sits next to a curtain with a hole in its center allowing searing sunlight inside

Stellan SkarsgΓ₯rd in the foreground, fully clothed in his hotel bed, weeping into his pillow. in the background, an out-of-focus Sverre Anker Ousdal sits next to a curtain with a hole in its center allowing searing sunlight inside

a drenched Stellan SkarsgΓ₯rd in profile on far right in the frame, backgrounded by geometric light fixture and green subtly patterned wallpaper

a drenched Stellan SkarsgΓ₯rd in profile on far right in the frame, backgrounded by geometric light fixture and green subtly patterned wallpaper

closeup on a washed-out Stellan SkarsgΓ₯rd sitting in his car, the light from the tunnel glittering against the window

closeup on a washed-out Stellan SkarsgΓ₯rd sitting in his car, the light from the tunnel glittering against the window

a movie that looks the way depression and insomnia feel

07.02.2026 04:32 πŸ‘ 35 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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One thing I'm excited about with The Consensus is giving you a hub to find interesting 1) jobs and 2) events going on in systems programming.

03.02.2026 00:18 πŸ‘ 21 πŸ” 4 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0

If you've run seaweedfs, versity, juicefs, beegfs, or rustfsβ€”permissively-licensed s3-compatible storage systemsβ€” and are open to chatting about your experience, I'd like to chat with you for The Consensus.

04.02.2026 00:14 πŸ‘ 18 πŸ” 6 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 2
Map identifying the approximate regions where various Indigenous groups lived in North America in 1776.

Map identifying the approximate regions where various Indigenous groups lived in North America in 1776.

The Utah Historical Society just produced a new, excellent map of "The Peoples of North America in 1776." Great resource for anyone teaching, writing, presenting about Native peoples as part of their 250th work. america250.utah.gov/power-of-pla...

03.02.2026 13:48 πŸ‘ 1298 πŸ” 503 πŸ’¬ 34 πŸ“Œ 46
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I wrote a short article about the major companies behind the most recent release of Postgres. Also mentioned interesting commits by smaller contributors, including a first-time contributor who fixed a bug involving ctid scans that might have dated back to 1999.

theconsensus.dev/p/2026/02/02...

02.02.2026 15:02 πŸ‘ 22 πŸ” 4 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

You can find us in the B.

31.01.2026 19:47 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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The OP found manually approving Claude Code’s actions to be a hassle, so he built a physical approval stamp to authorize commands in a traditional East Asian style.

31.01.2026 01:34 πŸ‘ 115 πŸ” 12 πŸ’¬ 4 πŸ“Œ 3

The kind of thing that makes me wish I came up with it

31.01.2026 05:08 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Middle schooler’s band singing Imagine before the walkout

30.01.2026 17:08 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Current status.

Trying to convince folk that using an agent to interpret anything where the data is the adversary is ill advised.

30.01.2026 04:05 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

β€œMelania” is truly the worst experience I’ve had in a theater”

-Abraham Lincoln

29.01.2026 02:24 πŸ‘ 8919 πŸ” 1639 πŸ’¬ 382 πŸ“Œ 116
Elon Musk
@elonmusk
Hitler was a far left socialist. His party was called the national socialists.

HotSotin
@HotSotin
North Korea is a democracy. Its name is Democratic People's Republic.

B.Roll.Benny @brollbenny
urinal cakes are for eating, it has cake in the name

Elon Musk @elonmusk Hitler was a far left socialist. His party was called the national socialists. HotSotin @HotSotin North Korea is a democracy. Its name is Democratic People's Republic. B.Roll.Benny @brollbenny urinal cakes are for eating, it has cake in the name

You can’t tell me we have a functioning economic system when the richest man in human history is one of the most profoundly stupid people in human history

27.01.2026 02:11 πŸ‘ 8599 πŸ” 1818 πŸ’¬ 164 πŸ“Œ 65

Today is a great day to remember Wilhoit's law: β€œConservatism consists of exactly one proposition: There must be in-groups whom the law protects but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect.”

26.01.2026 21:17 πŸ‘ 24 πŸ” 9 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Thinking we need a ./THIS.md file in our git repos that allow LLMs to quickly discover the right library, CLI, MCP server, or framework for a task.

It would declare the purpose of the project, declare how to install, and reference example and documentation pages.

#llm #claude

24.01.2026 19:20 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0