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Camille Fournier @skamille.themanagerswrath.com · 20/09/2026

If you want a Sunday morning longread I wrote up a rough version of the talk I gave at LDX3 this week on the Manager's Path in the Age of AI skamille.medium.com/the-managers...

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The Manager’s Path in the Age of AI

This week, I gave a talk at LDX3 New York. When they asked me to speak and asked me for a topic, I said that it was probably time I finally…

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Brian McCallister @brianm.dev · 19/09/2026

Okay, pretty excited about epithet right now :-D ``` allow group:wheel -> *@* allow group:bot -> arch@{env=ephemeral, os=arch} ``` with users/groups sourced from SCIM :-) Next to wire up dynamic rules so we can do: ``` allow group:build -> repo@{env=pkg}, require [build_publishing] ``` or such :-)

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Brian McCallister @brianm.dev · 13/05/2026

Thought it was Feegles in the large acorn!

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Cliff @cliff.leaninto.it · 15/04/2026

Who is hiring remote staff+ engineers. Feels like its about time to do something new. github.com/moonpolysoft...

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Lyse @lyse.myatproto.social · 06/03/2026

“I have usernames older than you.”. Holy shit

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Jan Lehnardt @janl.bsky.narrativ.es · 05/03/2026

Like Linux or Wikipedia, the ASF is one of the things that make no sense on paper and yet defies expectations year after year. And I’m happy to do my part.

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Kate McKean @katemckean.bsky.social · 11/02/2026

Over on threads someone just use ai;dr and we all need to adopt that right quick

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Brian McCallister @brianm.dev · 10/02/2026

Whoa, Java 25 startup time is *good*!

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CZEdwards @czedwards.bsky.social · 08/02/2026

Armies wear uniforms for a reason. And not just because it makes the laundry easier. I am reminded of certain lilac blossoms on a certain Glorious 25th of May. How do you tell your comrades from your potential murderers? A carrot, a leek, a lilac sprig, a red knitted hat, a frog costume. Duh.

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qdot @buttplug.engineer · 04/02/2026

inspired by CLAUDE.md, I’ve started putting markdown files named after coworkers into work code repos so I can remind them to stop doing shit to the codebase that annoys me for some reason they’re all mad at me now, which means ill be adding commands to JEREMY.md for an attitude adjustment

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Mads Toftum @q42.bsky.social · 01/02/2026

I've found the broadcast especially useful when exploring hosts looking for differences. Switching to host specific when a host gets different results and back for the next steps.

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Brian McCallister @brianm.dev · 01/02/2026

A little tool I've been noodling on for... er, a year and a half, is finally stable enough to use daily: meet `bdsh`, a `dsh`-alike designed for me. It may also suit others which is why I am sharing :-)

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Brian McCallister @brianm.dev · 12/01/2026

I’ve been prepping D&D with Claude code for a while, and it is a great tool. Wrote up some thoughts: skife.org/b4/dnd-with-...

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Brian McCallister @brianm.dev · 27/12/2025

The two hard problems in computer science: cache invalidation, naming things, and off-by-one errors. Solved one of them today with 10 lines of code and a redirect :-) skife.org/b4/epithet-d...

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Brian McCallister @brianm.dev · 20/12/2025

I am very confused, I love this book, I read it years ago, and re-read it this past summer. Huh?

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Brian McCallister @brianm.dev · 01/12/2025

Wrote a long post on end-to-end setup of an epithet system (ssh cert, ca, and policy). skife.org/b4/epithet-s... Is really for myself, so I can step through it again later, but if anyone else sets it up, let me know, I'll have stickers made and send you some :-)

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Chris Krycho @chriskrycho.com · 19/11/2025

This is *NEAT*.

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Torsten Curdt @tcurdt.bsky.social · 17/11/2025

I have told Claude to f off so many times — I fear it might have learned that from me. Sorry!

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Brian McCallister @brianm.dev · 17/11/2025

Had a "I'm sorry, Dave. I'm afraid I can't do that" moment with Claude! In anticipation of supporting more complex configuration in a thing I told it to swap out a hand rolled config parser for a library, because, duh.

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Brian McCallister @brianm.dev · 09/11/2025

Oh Claude, you optimist: ``` # Auto-approve the apply since we know what we're doing make apply <<< "yes" 2>&1 | grep -A 5 "Apply complete" ```

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Brian McCallister @brianm.dev · 29/10/2025

Grabbing breakfast at Coupa this morning and remembering the first time I did so, 20 years ago, before my interview at Ning. Came in and Whitfield Diffie was hanging out at the table by the front window where the napkins and lids are now. I regret not asking for his signature.

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Brian McCallister @brianm.dev · 11/10/2025

Watching Claude Code fight to get rust to compile makes me feel a bit better about my own fights. Even better, I can pipe in with suggestions while it works and it does not get annoyed with me!

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Brian McCallister @brianm.dev · 10/10/2025

The greatest trick the ai vendors ever pulled was convincing customers to make ai tool adoption a performance metric.

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RSPB @rspb.bsky.social · 01/04/2025

WORLD-FIRST: Ground-breaking research published today in the Ornithologist Journal has, for the first time, translated common UK bird vocalisations into equivalent phrases in the human language. The results tell us a lot! Extracts below... 🧵

The front cover of a scientific journal titled Ornithologist, dated 1 April 2025. The main headline reads: “BIRDS: DECODED - Groundbreaking New Science.” Below that, a subheading says: “What are the UK’s birds really saying? Pioneering new research provides the answers.”

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Brian McCallister @brianm.dev · 01/03/2025

When I was in Scotland in ‘94-‘95 there was a measles outbreak. The UK re-vaccinated everyone, even visitors like me.

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Tim Bray 🇨🇦 @timbray.cosocial.ca.ap.brid.gy · 26/02/2025

Gosh, look what @cstross posted exactly ten years ago: www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-stati…

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Mads Toftum @q42.bsky.social · 25/02/2025

Absolutely worth trying. flic.kr/p/2qtQG6C (badly cropped by @bsky.app )

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Felix the Cat

DSC_6146 85mm f/1.2 shot at f/1.2 1/100 ISO 1250

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Brian McCallister @brianm.dev · 25/02/2025

I guess I am contributing to returning the Internet to its roots: cat pictures

Close up photo of a gray cat’s face, sleeping on sheepskin.

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Niduyam @niduyam.bsky.social · 16/02/2025

Must be a relative!

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Sylvain Wallez @swallez.com · 15/02/2025

Here's another one!

My cat, lying on a plaid that covers my legs. His favorite position when we watch TV.

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Brian McCallister @brianm.dev · 15/02/2025

We need more floofy cat bellies today, so here is one.

A very floofy cat curled up in a ball, belly up.

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Brian McCallister @brianm.dev · 07/01/2025

So, trying to buy a new car. Really fighting to get dealerships to even return my messages. Are sales critters *that* complacent in 2025? Had one suggestion it is because I have a Delaware phone number in Seattle, so they think I am wasting their time. But... really? People move, it's a thing.

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Brian McCallister @brianm.dev · 19/12/2024

Got into a discussion about emitting LLVM debug info for yaml today to facilitate debugging k8s

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Avdi Grimm @avdi.codes · 16/12/2024

Turns out when Han Solo asked Threepio to talk to the Falcon's computer it's because all it would say was {{[({{[{gen_server,call,3,{{{{#})]]}})}

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Alex Russell @infrequently.org · 26/11/2024

By utter coincidence, Hasan Ali at Cancer Research UK has posted some outstanding advice for teams considering frontend architectures at the same time as I'm re-starting work on an "if not React, then what?" blog post. It's worth your time: crukorg.github.io/engineering-guid…

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Choosing Your Stack | Engineering Guidebook

The following content is recommended.

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Hoarse Whisperer @therealhoarse.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

This is the only true cranberry sauce. I will not be taking questions at this time.

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Brian McCallister @brianm.dev · 16/11/2024

Now that @pbur.bsky.social is following me I need to repost this ;-)

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Brian McCallister @brianm.dev · 13/11/2024

Any good guides or goto libraries folks know for CLI swift? www.swift.org/getting-star... is my current starting point, but idiomatically spinning up an event loop and using it correctly has bitten me in the past :-/

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Swift.org

Swift is a general-purpose programming language built using a modern approach to safety, performance, and software design patterns.

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Brian McCallister @brianm.dev · 09/11/2024

Okay, it looks like this place may be worth trying. Hi!

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