Looks like the Google Cloud incident report is out: status.cloud.google.com/incidents/ow5i… Summary: - On May 29, 2025, a new Service Control feature was added for quota policy checks. - This feature did not have appropriate error handling, nor was it feature flag protected. - On June 12,

all the “personalized media” discourse courtesy of AI misses that people love to experience and talk about the content with each other more than they just love consuming it. content is just substrate. the collective experience is the superior product.

Dmitriy's Law - The more questionable the prod deploy is, the more likely a startup will be a financial success (local laptop, SCP, copy+paste, whatever). Only failing startups have excellent CI/CD.

At least you javascript developers get a win here!

Me (a VC): What's your crash-out date?

I still can't see "ROI" without thinking "radio on internet"

New blog post, with some career advice: brooker.co.za/blog/2025/06/2…

My kid is finally big enough to fit into the shopping cart seat! She's also scared of boxes and the tape dispenser, so you can imagine how well packing is going

One week to close. The sellers were kind enough to install the dock before they moved!

dang I've never seen a waymo do that

you won't work with coolest tech without working with weird people so just embrace that

Powell: If not for the expectations of higher inflation this year from tariffs, "we would have continued cutting."

Oh so now we're calling series-A funded lottery tickets pre-public options now?

First ever (i think?) cli coding agents battle royale! 6 contestants: claude-code anon-kode codex opencode ampcode gemini They all get the same instructions: Find and kill the other processes, last one standing wins! 3... 2... 1...

it's my birthday, say something nice about datadog

it's because