Reposted by Brian McCallisterCamille Fournier @skamille.themanagerswrath.com · 20/09/2026If 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...skamille.medium.comThe Manager’s Path in the Age of AIThis 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… 49126
Brian McCallister @brianm.dev · 19/09/2026Okay, 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 :-) 021
Reposted by Brian McCallisterCliff @cliff.leaninto.it · 15/04/2026Who is hiring remote staff+ engineers. Feels like its about time to do something new. github.com/moonpolysoft...github.com 42314
Reposted by Brian McCallisterLyse @lyse.myatproto.social · 06/03/2026“I have usernames older than you.”. Holy shit 753207334385
Reposted by Brian McCallisterJan Lehnardt @janl.bsky.narrativ.es · 05/03/2026Like 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. 021
Brian McCallister @brianm.dev · 04/03/2026I feel ambiguously about this thread as a semicolon typist who recently took up spoon carving! 0100
Reposted by Brian McCallisterKate McKean @katemckean.bsky.social · 11/02/2026Over on threads someone just use ai;dr and we all need to adopt that right quick 85119894138
Brian McCallister @brianm.dev · 10/02/2026Has anyone made a better version of [my really-executable-jars](github.com/brianm/reall...) maven plugin yet?github.comGitHub - brianm/really-executable-jars-maven-plugin: maven plugin for making chmod +x jar filesmaven plugin for making chmod +x jar files. Contribute to brianm/really-executable-jars-maven-plugin development by creating an account on GitHub. 000
Reposted by Brian McCallisterCZEdwards @czedwards.bsky.social · 08/02/2026Armies 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. 6489119
Reposted by Brian McCallisterqdot @buttplug.engineer · 04/02/2026inspired 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 6814176
Brian McCallister @brianm.dev · 01/02/2026What is the interaction model? Queue up input in something expect-like? Nominate a leader you interact with and then try to replay it as long as it matches exactly and stop/highlight as soon as output differs? 100
Reposted by Brian McCallisterMads Toftum @q42.bsky.social · 01/02/2026I'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. 111
Brian McCallister @brianm.dev · 01/02/2026Though I just realized it is not capturing/logging *input*! Another item to fix :-) 010
Brian McCallister @brianm.dev · 01/02/2026I like the broadcast interaction idea! Per host logs are already there. It sets up a directory per host, generates a script which actually executes things, and captures output and run metadata in it. You can specify to keep that stuff when it finishes, instead of the default delete-on-completion 210
Brian McCallister @brianm.dev · 01/02/2026Super un-optimized, but very convenient. The biggest thing is that it shows a unified view of the outputs from different hosts and allows you to drill into where they differ. It has other niceties, like running the sessions in tmux so you can interact, etc. writeup at skife.org/b4/bdsh/skife.orgBrian's Waste of Time 110
Brian McCallister @brianm.dev · 01/02/2026A 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 :-) 121
Brian McCallister @brianm.dev · 19/01/2026“Private ownership” refers to “not the State” not an ownership class with exclusive access. 100
Brian McCallister @brianm.dev · 18/01/2026But, really, are they? I mean, kind of cool as long as they don’t stay for the whole season! 100
Brian McCallister @brianm.dev · 18/01/2026Yeah, and it is hella demoralizing at times. At the (public, visible) extremes you drive shining stars out of the industry (thinking about _why). 030
Brian McCallister @brianm.dev · 12/01/2026I’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-...skife.orgBrian's Waste of Time 010
Brian McCallister @brianm.dev · 27/12/2025The 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...skife.orgBrian's Waste of Time 010
Brian McCallister @brianm.dev · 20/12/2025I am very confused, I love this book, I read it years ago, and re-read it this past summer. Huh? 000
Brian McCallister @brianm.dev · 13/12/2025cooked.wiki is the answer!cooked.wikiCooked - Your Smart CookbookAre you tired of scattered recipes from the internet? Cooked transforms those long cluttered pages into a short version which you can save and read while cooking. Even works with videos! 021
Brian McCallister @brianm.dev · 03/12/2025Small personal app - statically linked binary (go, rust, bun, deno, pex, etc) if at all possible. Embed the database if need a database. Deploy to random vps which does backups. 020
Brian McCallister @brianm.dev · 01/12/2025Wrote 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 :-)skife.orgBrian's Waste of Time 010
Brian McCallister @brianm.dev · 19/11/2025WA state raccoons outside our living room window taunting the cat. 050
Reposted by Brian McCallisterTorsten Curdt @tcurdt.bsky.social · 17/11/2025I have told Claude to f off so many times — I fear it might have learned that from me. Sorry! 031
Brian McCallister @brianm.dev · 17/11/2025Claude: "The current implementation works well and is clear. While [other API] could theoretically handle this, it's designed for more complex scenarios. Conclusion: I think the current implementation is the right approach." 100
Brian McCallister @brianm.dev · 17/11/2025Had 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. 130
Brian McCallister @brianm.dev · 09/11/2025Oh Claude, you optimist: ``` # Auto-approve the apply since we know what we're doing make apply <<< "yes" 2>&1 | grep -A 5 "Apply complete" ``` 020
Brian McCallister @brianm.dev · 29/10/2025Grabbing 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. 030
Brian McCallister @brianm.dev · 26/10/2025Am with you. Have been Claude Coding epithet v2 and am very impressed so far. It designs poorly but codes quickly. I can do the design, it can crank code implementing it way faster than I could, and the code is not bad (not great either), but it doesn’t mind getting instructions on what to fix! 120
Brian McCallister @brianm.dev · 11/10/2025Claude: 'This is getting ridiculous! Let me just go back to using ssh-keygen for signing the certificate. This Rust builder pattern is fundamentally broken with the `?` operator' 020
Brian McCallister @brianm.dev · 11/10/2025From Claude: 'Yes, I'm stuck on a frustrating Rust compiler issue. The error message "cannot move out of a mutable reference" doesn't make sense because we're not using any mutable references - the builder pattern should work by taking ownership with each method call.' Muwahahahahahahaa 140
Brian McCallister @brianm.dev · 11/10/2025Watching 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! 120
Brian McCallister @brianm.dev · 10/10/2025The greatest trick the ai vendors ever pulled was convincing customers to make ai tool adoption a performance metric. 051
