I wrote this Format dialog back on a rainy Thursday morning at Microsoft in late 1994, I think it was. We were porting the bajillion lines of code from the Windows95 user interface over to NT, and Format was just one of those areas where WindowsNT was different enough from

Software engineers on their knees, crying, throwing up

got asked to do a panel discussion on a technical topic I've spent 6 years building experience and opinions on, worried it's gonna look like bullying no matter who they put on the opposite side

the best conference talk opening ever and forever or no? fucking flawless. Corey Quinn youtu.be/RQWFwZBfGv8

google wasn't satisfied killing their own products, had to start going after their customers products, too

Alan Moss, Amazon’s VP of Global Ad Sales (and apparently a user-hostile schmuck), appears to have forgotten who Prime Video's customers are. Prime Video costs money. Am I the customer or the product here?

I hate merge commits. First thing I do when I join a repo is turn that shit off. Rebase or squash only.

giving a talk about not using Kubernetes audience member: we use Kubernetes because it's 25% cheaper on Google Cloud me: yeah, because you're doing 50% of the work yourselves *surprised Pikachu face* 😂

Universally: “I am trying to do X. The documentation HERE says I should see result Y. I am instead seeing Z. Here is a minimal reproduction case.” This will cause you to close a majority of cases before submitting them as you discover a mistake you’ve made.

Gymnastics is the Turing test of video generation models

"[Microsoft Azure] is excited to announce Retina, a cloud-native container networking observability platform that enables Kubernetes users [...] to visualize, observe, debug, and analyze workload traffic" Cloud-native Kubernetes is an oxymoron ┻━┻ ︵ ¯\(ツ)/¯ ︵ ┻━┻

All of the people claiming AI is useless are the same people who were claiming that blockchain is a massive scam, that NFTs were worthless, that social media was just pushing open standards in order to increase their stranglehold over the net and choke out small business

Just finished up my first day at CrowdStrike. Got to push a quick fix to prod before logging off for the day. Looking forward to a long weekend!

If Ukraine 🇺🇦 really did attack Twitter, I think the only logical thing is for Elon Musk to sign a cease fire immediately, give them half of Twitter and make sure he says thank you to President Donald J. Trump.

Yesterday a quasi-judicial body in Italy fined Cloudflare $17 million for failing to go along with their scheme to censor the Internet. The scheme, which even the EU has called concerning, required us within a mere 30 minutes of notification to fully censor from the Internet any

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