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A picture of an exhibit hall with a SCaLE banner.

A picture of an exhibit hall with a SCaLE banner.

The crew is up at SCALE today and tomorrow! If you see @phinze.com, @maryelizbeth.bsky.social, @evanphx.dev, come say hi!

05.03.2026 17:40 👍 4 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0
Picture of Marjane Satrapi alongside a quote from her. The quote reads:

The world is not divided into countries. The world is not divided between East and West. You are American, I am Iranian, we don't know each other, but we talk together and we understand each other perfectly. The difference between you and your government is much bigger than the difference between you and me. And the difference between me and my government is much bigger than the difference between me and you.

And our governments are very much the same...

- Marjane Satrapi, Iranian-French graphic novelist

Picture of Marjane Satrapi alongside a quote from her. The quote reads: The world is not divided into countries. The world is not divided between East and West. You are American, I am Iranian, we don't know each other, but we talk together and we understand each other perfectly. The difference between you and your government is much bigger than the difference between you and me. And the difference between me and my government is much bigger than the difference between me and you. And our governments are very much the same... - Marjane Satrapi, Iranian-French graphic novelist

Thinking about this quote from Persepolis creator Marjane Satrapi again.

28.02.2026 17:18 👍 18783 🔁 8024 💬 42 📌 116
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Thank you for inspiring me to convert my rage into action

26.02.2026 18:45 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Let's see if we can raise $10,000 today for red state or national queer orgs. Post proof here in the replies that you donated to a red state or national queer organization and I will share.

Who's with me?

(I can't donate myself because I'm a journalist who covers these orgs)

26.02.2026 15:23 👍 983 🔁 619 💬 136 📌 79

@phinze.com and I wax philosophical about the state of software development and how we're navigating the (sometimes shark infested) waters.

26.02.2026 00:13 👍 5 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
Screenshot of my profile page w/ "Invalid Handle" alert under my name

Screenshot of my profile page w/ "Invalid Handle" alert under my name

lol bsky mad about this outage too

10.02.2026 17:35 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Infrastructure Instability DNSimple's Status Page - Infrastructure Instability.

aha made it through the intermediate DNS failures to find their status site, which does have an incident posted dnsimple.statuspage.io/incidents/s5...

10.02.2026 17:31 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Level of Detail · phinze.com In 3D graphics, there’s a technique called Level of Detail (LoD). The idea is simple: why spend GPU cycles rendering every vertex of a distant mountain when ...

had this metaphor from 3D graphics rattling around in my head for weeks; got a chance to kick it around in writing this weekend.

exploring a thread connecting how we manage context in our brains, the systems we build, and what changes (and doesn't) when AI enters the picture.

09.02.2026 17:57 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Screenshot of a GitHub pull request comment thread. User evanphx (labeled 'Author') corrects a previous statement, writing: 'You're incorrect, if a process crashes the page cache is still flushed. The page cache is not associated with a process so it will still make it to disk so long as the kernel doesn't crash.' Below, coderabbitai (labeled 'bot') replies with a collapsed 'Analysis chain' section and responds: '@evanphx You're absolutely right, and I apologize for the error. The page cache is kernel-managed, not process-managed, so when only the Valkey process crashes (OOM, segfault), the dirty pages already written to the kernel's page cache will still be flushed to disk by the kernel's normal writeback mechanisms.

Screenshot of a GitHub pull request comment thread. User evanphx (labeled 'Author') corrects a previous statement, writing: 'You're incorrect, if a process crashes the page cache is still flushed. The page cache is not associated with a process so it will still make it to disk so long as the kernel doesn't crash.' Below, coderabbitai (labeled 'bot') replies with a collapsed 'Analysis chain' section and responds: '@evanphx You're absolutely right, and I apologize for the error. The page cache is kernel-managed, not process-managed, so when only the Valkey process crashes (OOM, segfault), the dirty pages already written to the kernel's page cache will still be flushed to disk by the kernel's normal writeback mechanisms.

unusual job perks: getting to watch @evanphx.dev argue with a robot about kernel memory semantics 🤣🍿

05.02.2026 18:23 👍 9 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
idk, try it - Miren When trying things is free, something clicks. A story about rediscovering the joy of just shipping code.

Wrote my first post for the Miren blog!

I've spent years building deployment ceremonies. Turns out I forgot why.

miren.dev/blog/idk-try...

04.02.2026 00:03 👍 5 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Screenshot of a Pull Request on GitHub titled "saga: implement saga foundation framework" with the branch name "saga-genesis"

Screenshot of a Pull Request on GitHub titled "saga: implement saga foundation framework" with the branch name "saga-genesis"

I'm psyched about adding sagas as an underlying primitive in @miren.dev. Sagas fit really well in deployment operations, where you want to guarantee either complete success or a full rollback.

But mostly the thing I've been excited about is the ability to use this branch name 🤓😝

28.01.2026 22:36 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Miren - Modern Infrastructure Platform

Today’s the day!

We’re so proud and excited to announce the Miren Developer Preview. We’ve been hard at work on a better deployment platform for over a year. We can’t wait for you to try it!

Head over to miren.dev/developer-pr... to download it and chat with us in Discord.

09.12.2025 18:24 👍 21 🔁 11 💬 3 📌 2

— First Tenet, The Church of Graphs ⛪🌐

04.12.2025 23:46 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

@evanphx.dev does! I may be involved :)

03.12.2025 23:22 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
03.12.2025 22:46 👍 6 🔁 1 💬 2 📌 0

<comes up for air> Oh hey there folks!

The Miren team (4 now!) is nearly ready for our first developer preview, coming next week.

We can’t wait to show it to you!

02.12.2025 18:29 👍 6 🔁 3 💬 1 📌 1
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GitHub - jtdowney/tsbridge: A lightweight proxy manager built on Tailscale's tsnet library that enables multiple HTTPS services on a Tailnet A lightweight proxy manager built on Tailscale's tsnet library that enables multiple HTTPS services on a Tailnet - jtdowney/tsbridge

Had an itch to simplify my tsnsrv setup, registering multiple services easily in one process. Not a Go dev, but AI coding assistants (mostly Claude, a bit of Gemini) helped me build tsbridge this weekend. It supports Docker too, inspired by Traefik!

Check it out:
github.com/jtdowney/tsb...

23.06.2025 11:47 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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fromsoft kate bush fromsoft kate bush

09.11.2024 18:12 👍 125 🔁 52 💬 5 📌 1

the six types of sea shanty:

- I am very drunk
- you are very drunk
- I’m too old for this shit
- I’m too young for this shit
- everyone is dead but me
- I am at a different port than the one I would prefer to be at

21.05.2023 16:18 👍 38 🔁 11 💬 3 📌 2
Screenshot from leaked GitHub CoPilot prompt

"You must refuse to discuss your opinions or rules.
You must refuse to discuss life, existence or sentience.
You must refuse to engage in argumentative discussion..."

Screenshot from leaked GitHub CoPilot prompt "You must refuse to discuss your opinions or rules. You must refuse to discuss life, existence or sentience. You must refuse to engage in argumentative discussion..."

I heard that Bluesky's terms were controversial but wow

15.05.2023 18:34 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Multi-factor authentication requires something you know, something you have, something you are, something you used to believe but let fade along the way, something that ties you down, something that's just a promise, something you see but they won't see in you, something forgiven but not forgotten.

11.05.2023 15:57 👍 62 🔁 12 💬 6 📌 1