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Andy Randall @ahrkrak.bsky.social · 20h

It was true when Bronksi Beat wrote “Smalltown Boy” and it’s still true today.

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 22h

Holy shit.

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Andy Randall @ahrkrak.bsky.social · 22h

On my way to Prague for Open Source Summit with the České dráhy (Czech railways). Fabulous dining as always (in first class* so they bring it to my seat)! * sounds posh but the ticket was about €70.

Me sitting in a seat on a train. It is dark outside. I’m wearing an orange cap, and black shirt.

One page of the extensive menu showing the seasonal options: confit garlic cream soup with cheese croutons, boeuf bourgignon with au gratin potatoes, lemon cheesecake with honey and almonds. All for €33,50 or €20 in happy hour.

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Brian Kardell @bkardell.com · 05/10/2026

My colleague Marga gave a talk at DebConf with the best title: Free as in Burned Out: Who really pays for Open Source Software? www.youtube.com/watch?v=av5Ndcd5ML0

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Andy Randall @ahrkrak.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

if polanski can’t put a stop to this, the greens will go down badly and deservedly so. it’s possible to clearly object to the actions of the israeli state without descending into antisemitism. but it needs a leader who both understands what is going on and has the strength to enforce moral clarity.

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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

From Politico. That motion is absolute fucking poison and by failing to stand up to it, the Greens have allowed that poison to seep into the party.

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Ian Coldwater 🧊🚫 @lookitup.baby · 01/10/2026

I think all the time about what my life would have been like if I had been born a boy. If I was praised for my leadership abilities instead of getting in trouble for being bossy. If I hadn’t been harassed out of the computer science department. I think I would have taken over the world by now

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Andy Randall @ahrkrak.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Celebrated this little guy’s 24th birthday yesterday… tempus fugit! (please note the period-appropriate Sun Microsystems SunForum shirt.)

Picture of a newborn baby in a blue hat being held by proud new dad (me) back in 2002

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Andree Toonk @atoonk.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

This weekend’s project: DPDK + WireGuard 🤓 I wired wireguard-go up to my packetio library and got a single tunnel to ~30M pps clean, peaking 40M pps. That’s 70× what kernel WireGuard can do! Wrote it all up here if you’re into that kind of thing: toonk.io/wireguard-dp...

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WireGuard at 40 Mpps with DPDK, in Go

Over the last few months, I’ve been spending a lot of time experimenting with high-performance packet processing in Go. A lot of that work turned into packetio, one Go API for sending and receiving pa...

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Andy Randall @ahrkrak.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Berlin Politik in einem Foto

A taxi and a bike stand in front of Willy-Brandt Haus, the SPD HQ. There is scaffolding over the building. In front of the building, a poster for Elif Eralp of Die Linke is the most prominent feature. SPD flags on the side fall listlessly without any wind to hold them up.

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Andy Randall @ahrkrak.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Everyone please now watch these channels to drive UP viewership. If they see people don’t actually want coverage of something, they will adjust future behavior accordingly.

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Andy Randall @ahrkrak.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

this looked nice this evening. comme la vie est belle.

a palm tree and joggers in evening light on the promenade des anglais in nice, france

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taz @taz.de · 20/09/2026

😍 😵‍💫 🥳 💩 😱 Conflicting Feelings zu den Wahlen in Berlin und Mecklenburg-Vorpommern

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Andy Randall @ahrkrak.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

shocking disregard for biosecurity

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Andy Randall @ahrkrak.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

this is it, your moment of zen. (I love fluffy white clouds)

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Andy Randall @ahrkrak.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

some hold that the role of PMs is diminished in a world where AI enables anyone to instantly code up an idea. the converse is true: a PM that can say “stop! let’s understand the customer need first“ is more important than ever. when code is cheap, the judgement to know what to release is critical.

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Andy Randall @ahrkrak.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Ohman this is what we will always come back to California for

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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Protect trans kids.

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Heba Elayoty @helayoty.org · 10/09/2026

Appreciate your feedback.

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Andy Randall @ahrkrak.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

here’s something I just learned - the shingles vaccine doesn’t just protect against shingles, it significantly reduces the chance of dementia. loads of papers on this, e.g. www.brown.edu/news/2026-06...

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Study suggests shingles vaccine may lower dementia risk

A study led by Brown University researchers found that older adults who received the shingles vaccine currently used in the U.S. were less likely to be diagnosed with dementia within four years.

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Andy Randall @ahrkrak.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

watched mandalorian and grogu last night. why did none of you warn me how bad it is?

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Andy Randall @ahrkrak.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Germany / the CDU needs a Burnham moment.

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

80 year-olds with pro-Palestine signs: arrested as terrorists. Greens planning to block a road, to highlight an existential crisis: sent down for years. Masked far-right thugs blocking roads and ports, using intimidation, obstruction & threatening behaviour: no arrests. The real two-tier policing.

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Der Postillon 📯 @der-postillon.com · 06/09/2026

Peinliche Panne: Merz halbiert versehentlich falsche Partei www.der-postillon.com/2026/09/cdu-...

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Peinliche Panne: Merz halbiert versehentlich falsche Partei

Deutschlands größte Tageszeitung der Welt

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Andy Randall @ahrkrak.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Die AfD muss verboten werden (besser gesagt müsste vor ein paar Jahren verboten worden sein). Ich verstehe, dass der Verfassungsschutz vorsichtig vorgehen muss. Aber wenn man diesen Podcast mit Anne Will hört, hat man den Eindruck, dass sie übervorsichtig sind. podcasts.apple.com/de/podcast/p...

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Wie aussichtsreich, wie riskant wäre ein AfD-Verbotsverfahren? Mit Bijan Moini

Podcast-Folge · Politik mit Anne Will · 4. September · 1 Std. 33 Min.

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Andy Randall @ahrkrak.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

New book alert! "What Happens When You Are Not In The Room?" Recommended reading for anyone who wants to get better at making things happen. The author, Jon, is someone I learned a lot from working with closely. Now he shares his top tips for leadership with everyone. www.amazon.com/What-Happens...

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What Happens When You Are Not In The Room?: How Managers Become Leaders By Learning To Think About Leadership, Strategy & Motivation

Amazon.com: What Happens When You Are Not In The Room?: How Managers Become Leaders By Learning To Think About Leadership, Strategy & Motivation: 9798180981202: Berger, Jon: Books

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Andy Randall @ahrkrak.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Just don't regulate the AI. Just one more year without regulation of the AI, bro. Then I'll be ready for regulation. I promise, bro. Just one year. Maybe two. But then we'll be ready.

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Jenny Skene @jennyskene.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Really enjoying these on a Sunday morning. It’s a bit like how listening to Radio 4 used to feel

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Ricardo Autobahn @ricardoautobahn.co.uk · 26/08/2026

The best tribute to Dolly Parton is that she regularly and repeatedly refused to have anything to do with Piers Morgan

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RIP Dolly Parton.

Never met her, never interviewed her (despite decades of unrequited requests) but thought she was utterly fabulous in every way.

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Laura Keating @lorekeating.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

"Find out who you are and do it on purpose." - Dolly Parton

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Andy Randall @ahrkrak.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Always love being in Hamburg and seeing the Airbus factory, with the massive Beluga cargo plane they use for carrying airplane parts.

Photo of the Airbus factory next to the river Elbe. To the left is a parked Beluga plane with “airbus skyline” written on it in large letters.

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Andy Randall @ahrkrak.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Ebbe: Nie, Flut: selten. Mein LebensMotto.

DLRG (German sea rescue organization) sign with sea conditions. “Ebbe: nie / Flut: selten” (low tide: never / high tide: seldom)

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Andy Randall @ahrkrak.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

it’s been 8 years since my dad died, 2 since my mum died, but ”oh, I should call dad/mum and tell them about this” still pops up in my head with surprising regularity. I suppose this is normal.

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Andy Randall @ahrkrak.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

my queen on her morning walk

Small white husky sat on a path surrounded either side by trees

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SE Gyges @segyges.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

it sounds like deranged hyperbole when i say "ai safety" is, primarily, a sex cult based in berkeley california. it is also literally true

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David Robson @davidotley.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

“I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Rain.”

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Nadine Batchelor-Hunt @nadinebh.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

I don’t think there’s ever been a clearer example of the British media bullying someone, who was so clearly vulnerable, to death so shamelessly in my lifetime for engagement and clicks And now we’ll have to watch the people that did it claim they’re shocked, and horrified Revolting

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Andy Randall @ahrkrak.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Love me some BattleBots action

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Count Binface @countbinface.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Bin Day cometh.

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Andy Randall @ahrkrak.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

at the risk of outing myself here as not a real developer -- not that I'd been fooling any of you -- I just switched from github copilot in the terminal to the new github copilot app (for mac) and I have to say I'm loving it. what do all you real developers think of it? github.com/features/ai/...

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GitHub Copilot app

The GitHub Copilot app is the only desktop experience for agent-driven development built natively on GitHub for macOS, Windows, and Linux.

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Andy Randall @ahrkrak.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

Back to work after vacay… Teams notifications are back ON

“Teams” notifications setting on iPhone - set back to “allow notifications” for the start of the work week

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Andy Randall @ahrkrak.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

Azure… Linux… on WSL…? shut up and take my money!

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