Reposted by ben linsaycats being weird little guys @weirdlilguys.bsky.social · 26/12/2025this is why I can never log off 161363258
Reposted by ben linsayDavid Crawshaw @crawshaw.io · 15/12/2025What we are working on right now: blog.exe.dev/meet-exe.dev We all need more virtual machines. We keep building software to work around the fact that VM infrastructure is clunky. Let's have good VM infrastructure instead. 148816
Reposted by ben linsayCharles Louis Richter @richterscale.bsky.social · 10/12/2025SKULL OF THOMAS AQUINAS: TAKE A LEFT NOW PRIEST: No, the GPS says we have to keep going— SKULL: I KNOW A SHORTCUT PRIEST: Do you remember the last ti— SKULL: FOR THOSE WITH FAITH, NO EVIDENCE IS NECESSARY; FOR THOSE WITHOUT IT, NO EVIDENCE WILL SUFFICE 126182436487
Reposted by ben linsayDave DiCello @davedicello.bsky.social · 03/12/2025This composition had eluded me for nearly a decade, but yesterday I was finally able to capture it. A train rolled through just as the Duquesne Incline was crossing over the tracks in #Pittsburgh, creating a picture perfect winter scene. It was worth the hours and hours I've waited over the years. 12080071831
Reposted by ben linsayFlaming_Spork @philo.gay · 29/11/2025WSL stands for Worcestershire Sauce for Linux, 227941
Reposted by ben linsayLita Cho @litacho.codes · 15/11/2025I came back from Sync Conf and shocked how many people are building text editors and the struggles they had with yjs. So rather than wait for my cofounder to finish his blog, I’ll just give a quick rundown on what we do for live collab editing. 162
Reposted by ben linsayMarc Hedlund @marcprecipice.bsky.social · 08/11/2025From my friend Kyle. This is essential reading for all Americans. aphyr.com/posts/397-i-...aphyr.comI Want You to Understand Chicago 24237
Reposted by ben linsayKieron Gillen @kierongillen.bsky.social · 08/07/2025I’m petrified about today’s science news. Genetically modifying crabs to have cheetah genes? This could go sideways fast. 791223814048
Reposted by ben linsayiucounu @iucounu.bsky.social · 18/10/2023GORDON RAMSAY: and the eggs, they are? UGLÙK: they eggs. Taste good. Canapé. RAMSAY: no I mean, where do you get the eggs UGLÙK (gesturing towards Shelob’s lair): Get from big spider RAMSAY: from big spider. Fuck me. Canapé eggs from big spider. Fucking hell. 153309825
Reposted by ben linsayJepsen @jepsen.mastodon.jepsen.io.ap.brid.gy · 07/06/2025Systems Distributed. June 19-20, Amsterdam. systemsdistributed.com 3505
Reposted by ben linsayIan Nowland @inowland.bsky.social · 20/05/2025At AWS, I led the team that built EC2's Nitro virtualization stack— C code deployed to 500K servers. Biggest lesson? Pre-production testing has limits. You must embrace safe production testing. My new blog explains how Nitro did it, and how Junction brings this to any Kubernetes team.junctionlabs.ioFrom Nitro to Junction: Testing in Production at ScaleDuring my time at AWS, I learned that even the most rigorous pre-production testing has limits. I share how we built Nitro's reliability by treating production as part of the test loop—with proper saf... 183
Reposted by ben linsayKevin Burke @burke.bsky.social · 06/05/2025God, it's so dumb that we can't just do all of this stuff transitcosts.com/north-east-c...transitcosts.comNorth East Corridor ReportHow to Build High-Speed Rail on the Northeast Corridor We have most recently updated this report on 04/29/2025. Go to the PDF version (coming soon) Overview Our proposal’s goal is to establish a h... 042
Reposted by ben linsayMarc Brooker @marcbrooker.bsky.social · 03/05/2025Recently, one of our testing tools at AWS found an issue with transaction visibility in PostgreSQL, where the order that transactions become visible differs between the primary and replicas. Sergey Melnik dives deep on the AWS Database Blog: aws.amazon.com/blogs/databa...aws.amazon.comUnderstanding transaction visibility in PostgreSQL clusters with read replicas | Amazon Web ServicesOn April 29, 2025, Jepsen published a report about transaction visibility behavior in Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL Multi-AZ clusters. We appreciate Jepsen’s thorough analysis and would like to provide ad... 2174
Reposted by ben linsayPaul Prudence @mrprudence.bsky.social · 02/05/2025From 8 Trabalhos de Neide Dias de Sá Neide Dias de Sá Published by Do Autor, São Paulo, 1970 24613
Reposted by ben linsayMaxim Peter Griffin @maximpetergriff.bsky.social · 23/04/202523/4/25 - nocturn 317125
Reposted by ben linsayShriram Krishnamurthi @shriram.bsky.social · 13/03/2025There's no reason a language like this needs to just stay in a cartoon. Here's a working implementation of this language, built in @racket-lang.org: github.com/shriram/xkcd...github.comGitHub - shriram/xkcd-3062: XKCD 3062XKCD 3062. Contribute to shriram/xkcd-3062 development by creating an account on GitHub. 119722
Reposted by ben linsayAlexander Clarkson @aphclarkson.bsky.social · 26/02/2025IR is such a US-coded discipline that you have loads of analysts and journalists with IR backgrounds still churning out wordcount about what Trump will do with US hegemony even as the geopolitical reality looks more and more like this: 211571357
Reposted by ben linsayNosferaPru @prufrockluvsong.bsky.social · 22/02/2025I'm just a wolf who's intentions are good oh lord please don't let me eat Red Riding Hood 351063245
Reposted by ben linsayCamille Fournier @skamille.themanagerswrath.com · 23/02/2025On the other hand 061
Reposted by ben linsayrich harris @rich-harris.dev · 13/02/2025same. went straight through to voicemail, no hold. fellow NYers: call the number below, identify yourself as a constituent, state your zip code, and say that you're calling to ask that the governor remove the mayor. it'll take less than 60 seconds 1473
Reposted by ben linsayMaxim Peter Griffin @maximpetergriff.bsky.social · 13/02/202513/2/25 - nocturn 0618
Reposted by ben linsayCamille Fournier @skamille.themanagerswrath.com · 09/02/2025If you're coming to KubeCon EU, my co-author Ian and I will be speaking about starting and scaling platform engineering teams sched.co/1txG8sched.coKubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2025: Starting and Scaling a Platform Engineer...View more about this event at KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2025 3469
Reposted by ben linsayncnvrgnt @inconvergent.net · 27/06/2024they are having some impossible architecture adjacent problems over at the utah teapot factory 0223
Reposted by ben linsayHYTRADBOI @hytradboi.bsky.social · 01/02/2025The program is up and tickets are live at www.hytradboi.com/2025/#program. I'll keep updating this thread as the last 10 talks hit camera-ready. 15227
Reposted by ben linsayoliver @eikopf.com · 22/01/2025every algorithm ever written is a compiler, except for compilers, which are databases 617632
Reposted by ben linsayMark McBride @mccv.bsky.social · 30/01/2025beach boys voice Indexing json b My co-founder and me Around postgress tables we did roam Drinking all night Got into a fight 141
ben linsay @blen.blinsay.com · 30/01/2025nice stateless service you’ve got there. would be a shame if someone snuck some state into it www.junctionlabs.io/blog/dns-and...junctionlabs.ioDNS and the December 2024 OpenAI OutageIn December 2024, OpenAI faced a significant outage lasting approximately four hours. This incident highlighted a critical challenge in container orchestration: maintaining reliable service discovery ... 070
Reposted by ben linsayleon @leyawn.bsky.social · 22/01/2025SOCRATES: I am wiser than this man; he fancies he knows something, although he knows nothing— DARRYL, SOCRATES' FRIEND (Editor's note: There is no historical evidence that Socrates actually had a friend named Darryl. This is likely a character invented to facilitate the joke.): fuck him up socrates 584537915
Reposted by ben linsaybrianloveswords @brianloveswords.com · 20/01/2025SHA256? more like SKA 365 🕴🏽 314818
Reposted by ben linsayTricia Lockwood @tricialockwood.bsky.social · 19/01/2025runklestilskin: you may have custody of this Creature, but you are never allowed to move again because she’s sitting on you; also, she will throw up in your toolbox every night me: gimme that thing you old no-name-ass-having bitch 15100676
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Suggestion [Challenging: Failure] - You thought you did everything right. You had the money, the power, and the fame. Where did it all go wrong? Why couldn't those sniveling little city dwellers see that you were meant to lead them? You're now a twice certified loser from a family of winners. Your father's name is on a bridge. Your name is next to a Wikipedia entry that says "sexual harassment allegations."](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:eqh433fdh2bqhvt455e3tg67/bafkreibvgcmgeluhegcun73wdfsve7nzg3djqxf5cnpxz6t54i7jsf5uby)
