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Cail Young @cail.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Grateful for the State Library of Victoria for supporting my need to exhaustively source all claims in my talks

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Cail Young @cail.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Once again blown away by the production design for @boontavista.com

A darkened warehouse, lit like a Refn movie. A crowd of people sit waiting for a podcast recording to begin.

The hosts of Boonta Vista are seated in the Drive-like space. Theo is decked out in leather. The vibe is anticipatory. The audience is engaged.

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Cail Young @cail.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

Let me just check the Ferve privacy policy to see how to complain oh wait

A screenshot of Safari at tix.miff.com.au with a blank page that just says “test”

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Cail Young @cail.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

I got these despite having last purchased a ticket many, many years ago. Hooray for legal indefinite PII storage I guess? The email was very funny (screenshot)

Screenshot of an email received with the subject Critical Security Incident and message containing only “i feel like miles cyrus sometimes”. The footer has the MIFF and Ferve Tickets logos as normal

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Cail Young @cail.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

@themountaingoats.bsky.social hey thanks for coming to Melbourne. First gig with my partner since kids 8 years ago. Such a wonderful show, and yes, great to see improv in a rock context.

Wide shot of The Mountain Goats on stage at the Forum, Melbourne. A dense crowd is backlit in front of the stage, making a sea of heads. There are shoulders and a couple of backs of heads in the foreground, framing the stage.

The lighting is very rock and roll. The band is a little overexposed.

A medium shot of The Mountain Goats on stage at the Forum, Melbourne. Two rows of purple pinspots bear down on them from above, and a dark sea of people are in the audience below.

The left band member is a multi-instrumentalist - guitars, keys, saxophone, and voice. In the middle is John Darnielle with a guitar. On the right is a drummer with a full kit.

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Cail Young @cail.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

They’d have to have completed their own investigation and issued an arrest warrant, which hasn’t happened. No photos from inside alas but their current warrant list is pretty short. I was surprised to see Kony still on there.

A photo of the outside of the International Criminal Court in The Hague.

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Cail Young @cail.bsky.social · 23/03/2026

Repping @dddmelbourne.bsky.social at Observability Day Europe today. Hopefully some folks got a better framework to think about how to build OTel sampling infrastructure.

Cail standing on stage behind a lectern with “Observability Day Europe” on a sign. The screen behind has a quote - “I must not egress. Egress is the budget-killer. – Paul Atreides, SRE”

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Cail Young @cail.bsky.social · 05/03/2026

Here to see the world’s first Funktion One powered live podcast recording @boontavista.com

A dimly lit nightclub with rows of seats. Red theme lighting and a bright window behind the stage. Most seats are empty. Nobody is on stage yet. The unmistakable Funktion One speakers join a range of novelty lights on the ceiling.

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Cail Young @cail.bsky.social · 31/12/2025

2025. Glad it’s over, to be honest. How it started (kinda) / How it finished (kinda) Not shown: cytoreductive surgery and heaps of rehab and recovery.

Cropped photo of a pathology order slip, with handwritten “39M with ? malignancy”

Screenshot of pathology results showing CEA, CA 125 and CA19.9 tumour markers all below reference levels

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Cail Young @cail.bsky.social · 30/12/2025

vic.gov.au looking great, love this new minimal design

Screenshot of a basic 403 Forbidden page from openresty

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Cail Young @cail.bsky.social · 21/12/2025

cries in XPT, the only interstate general passenger train in Australia

Photo of a dirty XPT, bearing a strong resemblance to the Intercity 125, departing Melbourne towards Sydney

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Cail Young @cail.bsky.social · 11/12/2025

Oh, like this old documentary about the show business!

A screenshot from The Producers, specifically the “Springtime For Hitler” show-within-a-show

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Cail Young @cail.bsky.social · 06/12/2025

Post your fave @boontavista.com title, I’ll go first

BONUS EPISODE: The Tweens And Teens Pheasant Blasting Jamboree

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Cail Young @cail.bsky.social · 12/11/2025

Nice night for it. (Heavily adjusted photo, absolutely invisible to my eyes)

A long exposure of the night sky with green aurora, framed by trees on the sides and bottom. Some streetlight and houses dot the background towards the horizon.

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Cail Young @cail.bsky.social · 07/11/2025

Visiting Bletchley Park last year was great:

A museum case with seven Enigma encryption machines at Bletchley Park

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Cail Young @cail.bsky.social · 20/10/2025

Jewel heist from a museum, you say?

A full body shot of the character Feathers McGraw, from the Wallace and Gromit movies. Feathers is a claymation penguin with a red rubber glove on his head as a disguise.

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Cail Young @cail.bsky.social · 15/10/2025

Maybe 10 years ago on the failed hellsite I posted about how much toasters all sucked and an acquaintance replied “well they should really use optical albedo sensors”. The madlads at Breville finally commercialised a toaster that measures the toast directly. Maybe there is some hope for the future.

A marketing image of a toaster showing twin sensors checking the toast’s colour. The caption reads:

Eye Q™ Optic Sensor Technology

Powered by Sensability ™ Technology, optic sensors see colour change 10 times a second, tracking the browning in real time and stopping the toasting the moment it reaches your desired shade. That means consistent results, every time, without the watching.

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Cail Young @cail.bsky.social · 26/08/2025

New incident prevention strategy just dropped - manifest destiny?

A signboard with safety information at a construction site with the footer THIS SITE WILL OPERATE INCIDENT & INJURY FREE

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Cail Young @cail.bsky.social · 26/08/2025

It’s a shame air travel is so terrible for the planet because COME ON

A strikingly-lit wing shot of a plane mid-flight, as the sun is setting.

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Cail Young @cail.bsky.social · 17/07/2025

I **ran** outside to grab this photo today. Never waste a rainbow.

A tall gum tree frames a stormy sky with a rainbow arcing down to the horizon in the background.

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Cail Young @cail.bsky.social · 21/06/2025

Belgrave Lantern Festival for midwinter again. What a lovely evening.

Night time in a busy street. A blue and purple lit-from-within Lyrebird lantern, carried on the shoulders of a person. The lantern is about a meter long, and the carrier is operating the mouth of the bird with a stick

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Cail Young @cail.bsky.social · 07/05/2025

Maybe there is something in these LLM summaries after all…

Screenshot of an Apple Intelligence summary of an email from Cygnett. The summary says “Received marketing email; unsubscribe link provided” and nothing else.

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Cail Young @cail.bsky.social · 16/04/2025

Achievement unlocked: present baffling image at tech conference wearing @wtyppod.bsky.social merch. Had a great time at KubeCon, I desperately wish there was one in my hemisphere.

A photo of Cail presenting at Observability Day Europe 2025, gesturing behind himself at the projected image of a sink full of dirty mugs

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Cail Young @cail.bsky.social · 14/03/2025

Just get LLMs to summarise everything, I’m sure they wouldn’t make fundamental errors.

Screenshot of an email where the AI summary says that the recipient has been named CEO of a frequent flyer program.

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Cail Young @cail.bsky.social · 06/03/2025

An old film industry colleague built this recently…

A camera with a very large set of bellows and a lens. The whole setup is over a meter long.

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