Reposted by Ben MeierSiobhán @shibbi.me · 24/07/2026AI is an apocalyptic technology. “Apocalypse” doesn’t mean “end of the world”. It means “revelation” or “disclosure”. AI will expose every crack in our society that we have heretofore more-or-less successfully papered over. Nothing will be able to stay as it was. (And that’s (bad | good).) 76811
Ben Meier @ben.bsky.meierhost.com · 29/04/2026Codex has first class skills.md support. We use it all the time. 120
Reposted by Ben MeierBen Werdmuller @werd.io · 25/04/2026One of the most important pieces of AI commentary: "software brain" is important to understand if we want to get through this era with our humanity intact. werd.io/the-world-is...werd.ioThe world is not a databaseOne of the most important pieces of AI commentary: "software brain" is important to understand if we want to get through this era with our humanity intact. 0134
Reposted by Ben MeierBen Schorr @bschorr.bsky.social · 03/04/2026Good planning requires more than just a spreadsheet. 101
Ben Meier @ben.bsky.meierhost.com · 22/03/2026Actively building something internally at the moment for driving SLO definitions with LLM assisted anomaly detection and error budgeting at scale across thousands of k8s-clusters. Chaos engineering also feeds into protecting those SLOs. 100
Ben Meier @ben.bsky.meierhost.com · 01/03/2026I've also seen this behaviour eliminate valuable onboarding tasks for new starters, so they are left with high risk/high complexity options only. 0120
Reposted by Ben MeierMartin Kleppmann @martin.kleppmann.com · 18/02/2026The second edition of Designing Data-Intensive Applications, by myself and @chris.blue, is finished and sent off to the printers! Ebooks should be available in the next week, and print books in 3–4 weeks. Sigh of relief. 😅 (BTW, this is a good opportunity to support your favourite local bookshop!) 27674140
Reposted by Ben MeierFilippo Valsorda @filippo.abyssdomain.expert · 20/02/2026Dependabot security alerts have terrible signal-to-noise ratio, especially for Go vulns. That hurts security! Just turn it off and set up a pair of scheduled GitHub Actions, one running govulncheck and the other running CI with the latest version of your deps. Less work, less risk, better results!words.filippo.ioTurn Dependabot OffI recommend turning Dependabot off and replacing it with a pair of scheduled GitHub Actions, one running govulncheck, and the other running CI against the latest version of your dependencies. 49220
Ben Meier @ben.bsky.meierhost.com · 14/02/2026And having 0 incidents, thus makes you worse at responding to incidents. 130
Ben Meier @ben.bsky.meierhost.com · 12/02/2026And they're definitely not on call for it when it breaks.. wheres the feedback loop? 000
Reposted by Ben MeierJoe Hellerstein @joehellerstein.bsky.social · 11/02/2026📄 New blog post! AI will soon write most distributed code. Distributed code is where our worst bugs —Heisenbugs— live. The real lever isn’t “test more,” it’s **aim better**: AI should target frameworks where correctness contracts are explicit and checkable. jhellerstein.github.io/blog/codegen...jhellerstein.github.ioCoding Agents Meet Distributed RealityAI is about to write most of the code in the world. Most of the code in the world participates in a distributed system. And distributed code is where our worst… 0112
Ben Meier @ben.bsky.meierhost.com · 05/01/2026Hahaha "All encryption is end-to-end, if you’re not picky about the ends." 010
Ben Meier @ben.bsky.meierhost.com · 19/12/2025Ooo the new gig laptop is a custom 48GB 14" M4 Pro which is pretty nice 😎 000
Ben Meier @ben.bsky.meierhost.com · 19/12/2025Quite enjoyed this post www.joanwestenberg.com/thin-desires... > The person who bakes bread isn't trying to fix the world. They're not making any attempt to either dent or undent the universe. > They're trying to spend a Sunday afternoon in a way that doesn't leave them feeling emptied out.joanwestenberg.comThin Desires Are Eating Your LifeThe defining experience of our age seems to be hunger. We're hungry for more, but we have more than we need. We're hungry for less, while more accumulates and multiplies. We're hungry and we don'... 000
Ben Meier @ben.bsky.meierhost.com · 28/11/2025These last few weeks have been the first time really contributing to a React code base for more than just a few adjustments. And I'm getting it now. I can also see how much discipline you need to keep things tidy. I'd still try and use HTMX first so I can lean more on my backend experience. 050
Ben Meier @ben.bsky.meierhost.com · 28/11/2025Excited for what the new year will bring: a new role! 020
Reposted by Ben MeierP(aul) Frazee @pfrazee.com · 25/11/2025If everything is a top priority, then everything gets done quickly. That's basic management 711149103
Ben Meier @ben.bsky.meierhost.com · 16/11/2025I've been using a Cotopaxi Allpa 28L Travel Pack, and it's been great for 2-4 night trips 👌 040
Ben Meier @ben.bsky.meierhost.com · 16/11/2025This is great. Hot desking at a friends place would be far better than a strange office for hire. Body doubling works. 010
Ben Meier @ben.bsky.meierhost.com · 28/10/2025And many folks assume that when a cloud region/AZ is "down" it's a binary condition. Instead of the strange brown-out, half up half down state that usually emerges in reality. 020
Ben Meier @ben.bsky.meierhost.com · 19/10/2025Wonderful weekend mornings. The bad: toddler wants to wake up and play at 4 am. The good: they fall back asleep by 6 and everyone including the dog can have a lie in. 000
Ben Meier @ben.bsky.meierhost.com · 04/10/2025Yup, Score is an abstract container app specification that can be deployed on multiple runtimes like docker compose, k8s, ECS, Lambda, etc. And provides a spec for resolving resource dependencies 020
Ben Meier @ben.bsky.meierhost.com · 07/09/2025Ooh, that frame.work desktop is very neat. Hopefully next time I've got time and a need for a desktop it'll still be an option 🤞 040
Ben Meier @ben.bsky.meierhost.com · 05/09/2025Managing VPCs and subnets and routing tables feels so old school and cloud 1.0. I wish the industry had moved on further from this by now. 210
Ben Meier @ben.bsky.meierhost.com · 05/09/2025The days' mission, platform engineering example for a Score → AWS lambda and Valkey setup. 100
Ben Meier @ben.bsky.meierhost.com · 05/09/2025Fair enough, just musing, I see your point that any subscription or hook like that would be a bad thing 000
Ben Meier @ben.bsky.meierhost.com · 05/09/2025Maybe one could do a subscription model, and ship the new imaged appliance with updates along with a return envelope to ship back the old one, just swap over some persistent storage/USB stick. Something you can't exactly do with a 1U/server/expensive bit of kit. 100
Reposted by Ben MeierJohn Scalzi @scalzi.com · 31/08/2025Remember, kids: A real big goal of "AI" is to entirely sever capital from labor, and no, there will be no universal basic income, you can all just starve and die, thanks www.axios.com/2025/08/26/a...axios.comAI is already taking jobs away from entry-level workersSoftware and customer service are most at risk right now and could be the canary in the coal mine. 11632381060
Reposted by Ben MeierLuke Hinds @lukehinds.bsky.social · 19/08/2025Manager: "What's this milestone about ..'Living on a prayer'?" Lead: "That's the documentation deliverable" Manager: "What's the status of that?" Lead: "We're halfway there" Manager: "Why is progress so slow?" Lead: "You fired Tommy" Manager: "So?" Lead: "Tommy used to work on the docs" 16922
Ben Meier @ben.bsky.meierhost.com · 18/08/2025We used to have the craziest make file + jsonnet scripts to compile final dashboard json from individual components, so cursed. 110
Ben Meier @ben.bsky.meierhost.com · 16/08/2025I found the recent one for Linear pretty good, only mentions "AI" once, and explains specifically what its going to do. 010
Ben Meier @ben.bsky.meierhost.com · 16/08/2025Stumbled upon a signed copy of @benaaronovitch.bsky.social 's Stone and Sky in Bristol today, good start to the PTO week 👍 000
Ben Meier @ben.bsky.meierhost.com · 11/08/2025Grated my finger instead of the cheese today. Nice one. 000
Ben Meier @ben.bsky.meierhost.com · 10/08/2025Why do payment processors have such obscure URLs for 3d secure or credit card info. Like, why do I want to put my details into `live.opacy.eu.elavon.com/....` o.o 010
Reposted by Ben MeierJeremy Morrell @jeremymorrell.dev · 10/08/2025This is very good from @werd.io werd.io/evaluating-ai/werd.ioEvaluating AIHow to think about vendors, technology, and power 061
Ben Meier @ben.bsky.meierhost.com · 08/08/2025LLMs are rapidly normalizing us to just overlook trivial errors and mistakes. And that's treated as a feature. 010
Ben Meier @ben.bsky.meierhost.com · 05/08/2025I've spent the last week and a bit designing and building an authn+authz stack from scratch with users, oauth, developer tokens, memberships, and invites. Something that's been done thousands of times before but is still fun and fulfilling to implement again. 000
Ben Meier @ben.bsky.meierhost.com · 01/08/2025Basically impossible to get anything done in Europe between mid-July and September. 020
Ben Meier @ben.bsky.meierhost.com · 30/07/2025Implemented user sign up with google oauth, login, logout, and session token based authentication today, and it's a nice comprehensive story to test and demo together. Nice to do it with minimal dependencies too. 000
Ben Meier @ben.bsky.meierhost.com · 14/07/2025Apply grip tape to the seat as well for maximum speed. 120
Ben Meier @ben.bsky.meierhost.com · 04/07/2025😎 Very nice. Are you a "measure and design carefully and print once" or a "iterate fast and print many" kind of person? 140
Ben Meier @ben.bsky.meierhost.com · 28/06/2025DEDUPLICATE (your rabbitmq messages)media.tenor.coma dalek from doctor who is standing in a dark room and says `` externi '' .Alt: a dalek from doctor who is standing in a dark room and saying exterminate 030