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Last weekend we saw local legend, (friend and neighbor) three time Grammy winner Fantastic Negrito at Davies Symphony Hall, performing with the Sam Francisco Symphony Orchestra. Ran into the legendary Boots Riley (rapper turned prolific director) in the lobby afterward. I love Oakland!

Man in a red jacket in front of an orchestra.

SF Symphony with Fantastic Negrito, audience giving standing ovation

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Ian Coldwater 🧊🚫 @lookitup.baby · 16h

BREAKING NEWS: “Do geese see God” is a palindrome

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Dan Ciruli @danciruli.cloud · 29/09/2026

In every episode of I/O You an Explanation, I sit down with an expert to talk about a technology...not to go super deep, but because the best experts can simplify things so everyone can understand. This week, I sit down with Leslie Lee to learn about agents! youtu.be/kVRwjI_PPbE

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Autonomous Agents Are Changing Enterprise Workflows| I/O You an Explanation

YouTube video by Nutanix

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Dan Ciruli @danciruli.cloud · 28/09/2026

USB-C is the best technology in so long. I bring ONE type of adaptor on business trips now (to charge my computer, my phone, my tablet, my earbuds, my watch, my headphones). I'm sitting in a meeting right now using my Mac and am borrowing the cord from a ThinkPad user. Standards win.

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Dan Ciruli @danciruli.cloud · 28/09/2026

Incomprehensible in this day and age to get an error message like this when trying to open a PowerPoint deck in SharePoint.

plain black and white error in a web browser:
Office Online services aren't available right now
We're working to restore all services as soon as possible. Please check back soon. If the error persists please contact Microsoft Support for assistance along with the Url you were trying to access

Error Code for Support
Ref A: A3D035BE9E3D4C869C83C9D484C7DCE5 Ref B: YVR311000114049 Ref C: 2026-09-28T15:43:15Z

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Dan Ciruli @danciruli.cloud · 25/09/2026

Personally, I think that Roger Waters knew that "we don't need no education" is a double negative and, in fact, the song was actually telling everyone to stay in school.

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Dan Ciruli @danciruli.cloud · 18/09/2026

In the last year or two, I showed my kids Wargames and Terminator. I think 2001: A Space Odyssey might be next.

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Dan Ciruli @danciruli.cloud · 18/09/2026

As a guy who worked in API infrastructure, I figured I would already know everything there is to know about API Gateways...but Ashwini Vasanth taught me a ton about the difference. youtu.be/JED5IZlaR7Y

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What is an AI Gateway and Why Do Your LLM Workloads Need One? | I/O You an Explanation

YouTube video by Nutanix

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Dan Ciruli @danciruli.cloud · 17/09/2026

Join me and Kelsey Hightower as we talk to Luca from PlatformEngineering.org about how AI is changing the role of Platform Engineers! Later this morning, 10am PDT. Pass this on to your friends, colleagues, neighbors and passersby! Registration Page: platformengineering.org/events/enter...

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The global home for Platform Engineers

Join the #1 platform engineering community. Learn from leading DevOps and cloud native experts. Connect with fellow platform practitioners.

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Dan Ciruli @danciruli.cloud · 07/09/2026

The weirdest part is when you have houseguests because you do it multiple times EVERY DAY.

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JRho @jrho.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

The most absolutely massive flex from the state fair exhibit. This quilt is made of 40 years of prize ribbons from various categories at the New Mexico State Fair won by Carol St. Clair Johnson. She also won a prize for this quilt.

Massive quilt made of prize ribbons in blue, red, yellow, and white

Center square of quilt made of yellow and red ribbons and yellow rosettes

Block of quilt made of blue, yellow, red, and white ribbons. Ribbons state the year. Some have the prize winning object written on in marker

Carol St. Clair Johnson
born 1954; resides Albuquerque, NM

O Fair New Mexico-41 Fair Years
2023
satin ribbons

After unexpectedly winning her first blue ribbon for a sewn cape in 1981, Carol St. Clair Johnson developed an enduring love for the New Mexico State Fair. The quilt Fair New Mexico-41 Fair Years incorporates more than six hundred of the ribbons she won at the fair every subsequent year except 2020 (when the fair was canceled because of the COVID-19 pandemic). Johnson earned ribbons for needlework, knitting, crochet, pies, cookies, cakes, canning, jewelry, flowers, vegetables, and potted plants. The title of the quilt is a reference to the state song, and the design places the state's Zia sun symbol at the center. The quilt earned Johnson yet another ribbon: Best in Category (miscellaneous quilt) at the 2023 New Mexico State Fair.

Courtesy of Carol St. Clair Johnson

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Dan Ciruli @danciruli.cloud · 25/08/2026

Ooooh! It's a new episode of I/O You An Explanation! This time, Steve Carter helps me to understand distributed storage (and gives a little Nutanix history lesson while he does it). youtu.be/DBUZKm6RAFI audio version: pca.st/38jotvph

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How Distributed Storage Disrupted the Enterprise

YouTube video by Nutanix

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Dan Ciruli @danciruli.cloud · 24/08/2026

Some say "Good fences make good neighbors." I say "Good neighbors make good fences!"

The border of two yards, with a partially installed fence between them.

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Chris Vermilion @verm.me · 18/08/2026

They will, it just takes some time

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Dan Ciruli @danciruli.cloud · 15/08/2026

It was a long talk with @kelseyhightower.com that got me to move from Mastodon and to delete my (then dormant) X account. He convinced me that AT and Bluesky were the right combination of technology and stewardship. My opinion: ANYONE posting on X is supporting Musk (by donating content).

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Hourly Cosmos @hourlycosmos.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

Thor's Helmet - NGC 2359 - From Rolf Wahl Olsen - flic.kr/p/dMQknj

This delicate emission nebula is located in the constellation of Canis Major at a distance of about 15,000 light years. The nebula is illuminated by a central star in its last stage of life. This is a massive so called Wolf-Rayet star which is shedding its outer layers of gas at an extremely high rate due to intense radiation pressure. Wolf-Rayet stars are thought to represent a brief stage of evolution near the end of life for giant super massive stars - the last unstable phase before the star explodes as a brilliant supernova.

In the case of Thor's Helmet a large expanding bubble has formed around the bright central star. Interaction with giant molecular clouds in the area have contributed to the overall intricate shape of the nebula and large bow shock structures radiate out from the bubble in several directions. The nebula is some 30 light years in diameter and the strong blue-green colour is due to OIII emission near the star.

This entire spectacle lies embedded in a dense star field consisting of thousands of coloured jewels each casting their own contrasting light onto this dramatic interstellar scenery.

Image details:
Date: 8th, 14th, 19th December 2012 and 5th, 6th, 9th January 2013
Exposure: LRGB: 530:44:33:33m, total 10hrs 40mins @ -28C
Telescope: 10" Serrurier Truss Newtonian f/5
Camera: QSI 683wsg with Lodestar guider
Filters: Astrodon LRGB E-Series Gen 2
Taken from my observatory in Auckland, New Zealand

Click here to view a closer crop of the ne...

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Dan Ciruli @danciruli.cloud · 11/08/2026

TIL how my 83 year old mother-in-law shares playlists with relatives (or rather, how they give them to her). Screenshots of Spotify 😂

Picture of 2 8.5x11 print outs of screenshots of an iPhone displaying a Spotify playlist.

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The music that plays when no music is playing @badzergling.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

Is there any way that other NYC orgs can put some of the unlucky 2965 techies to work? Asking for a friend* *me i'm asking for me. and also some other friends.

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United Farm Workers @ufw.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

Hoy y todos los días queremos dar las gracias a los campesinos que trabajan arguamente que están allá afuera soportando calor extremo, humo y mucho más, trabajando largas jornadas para poner alimentos en nuestras mesas en el Día de Agradecimiento al Campesino.

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Dan Ciruli @danciruli.cloud · 06/08/2026

I was 14 and had been hit by a car. I had a bad, compound fracture of the tibia but sat in the emergency room for hours while they located my parents. When they finally did (and they signed off on surgery), a doctor said "We need to hurry because if the bone is infected we'll have to amputate."

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Dan Ciruli @danciruli.cloud · 06/08/2026

I HIGHLY recommend Not Like Other Girls by @ghoulpus.bsky.social ! Delicious prose, reminiscent of LeGuin in its ability to make you ponder the role of gender in society. Absolutely loved it (and wanted more)!

The cover of the AL Goldfuss book Not Like Other Girls, featuring a tentacle-faced woman

Cover of Not Like Other Girls in a Kindle screen, showing a 5 star review

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Dan Ciruli @danciruli.cloud · 05/08/2026

Working with Sanjay on one of my first projects at Google will remain one of the highlights of my career. I wish him the best of luck.

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Dan Ciruli @danciruli.cloud · 05/08/2026

Watching Terminator 2 with my 14-year-old son in the age of AI is really putting it in perspective. What's striking (and seems so unrealistic at this moment) is how willing Miles Dyson was to come around to the danger of the tools he was creating.

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Dan Ciruli @danciruli.cloud · 04/08/2026

Quote of the year from @doctorow.pluralistic.net (on the price of printer ink): "At $10,000 a gallon, it would be cheaper to print your grocery list with the semen of a Kentucky Derby winning stallion." This Trevor Noah interview of Cory is gold. youtu.be/CK8M5sKWRkc

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Why Google, Apple & Big Tech Keep Making Everything Worse | Cory Doctorow and Trevor Noah

YouTube video by Trevor Noah

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Dan Ciruli @danciruli.cloud · 03/08/2026

I hadn't noticed that our video team (finally!) posted the video of the interview I did with @kelseyhightower.com at our .NEXT conference. I can't tell you how much I love hearing him put *perspective* into the evolution of technology (yes, including AI). FUNDAMENTALS! youtu.be/i5DYUHKqzy4

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The Fundamentals of Innovation: A Conversation with Kelsey Hightower

YouTube video by Nutanix

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Dan Ciruli @danciruli.cloud · 29/07/2026

Wow. MCPs being stateless really does reinforce the parallels with web APIs. This feels just like 2013! The innovation (and the capabilities and business it opens up) is so exciting.

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Dan Ciruli @danciruli.cloud · 26/07/2026

It's the latest episode of I/o You An Explanation! In this one, Ashwini Vasanth teaches me all about AI Gateways (and, for an old API guy, talks me through why API gateways weren't enough). And we reminisce about life before mobile phone navigation!) youtu.be/JED5IZlaR7Y

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Ashwini Vasanthakumar (@ashwinivasantha.bsky.social)

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Dan Ciruli @danciruli.cloud · 26/07/2026

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Ashwini Vasanthakumar (@ashwinivasantha.bsky.social)

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Dan Ciruli @danciruli.cloud · 23/07/2026

I first knew @ghoulpus.bsky.social from xer tech talks. But I have LOVED xer move into fiction and fantasy writing. Preorder xer latest story here. Can't wait to read the story, and check out that cover! Real art, created by real people!

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Dan Ciruli @danciruli.cloud · 18/07/2026

Ok, England. Time to rest on your laurels.

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Dan Ciruli @danciruli.cloud · 18/07/2026

I've seen several posts and headlines about this, and none mentions the time. PSA: it's 3:42.66!

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Dan Ciruli @danciruli.cloud · 17/07/2026

Yo! Friend and neighbor Fantastic Negrito has a new live album! lnk.to/FNALIVE?mc_c...

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Fantastic Negrito - Alive! (Live)

Listen to Alive! (Live) by Fantastic Negrito.

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Dan Ciruli @danciruli.cloud · 15/07/2026

Absolutely mindblowing that this exists.

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Dan Ciruli @danciruli.cloud · 11/07/2026

When will I learn to click the "Jump to Recipe" button before starting to scroll?

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Dan Ciruli @danciruli.cloud · 08/07/2026

I love summer, I love long days, June 21st is my favorite day...and this might be my favorite sunlight fact.

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Dan Ciruli @danciruli.cloud · 06/07/2026

Los reyes de Iberia. 🇪🇸

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Dan Ciruli @danciruli.cloud · 04/07/2026

I CANNOT WAIT to hear Roger Bennett talk about this game.

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Dan Ciruli @danciruli.cloud · 30/06/2026

I had a great time sitting down with Laura Jordana and having her explain MCP on the latest episode of "I/O You an Explanation." Give it a listen/watch (here on YouTube, or wherever you get your podcasts). youtu.be/rMAfBKLZkTk

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What Is Model Context Protocol (MCP) and How Does It Work? | I/O You an Explanation

YouTube video by Nutanix

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Dan Ciruli @danciruli.cloud · 30/06/2026

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What Is Model Context Protocol (MCP) and How Does It Work? | I/O You an Explanation

YouTube video by Nutanix

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Dan Ciruli @danciruli.cloud · 26/06/2026

My jerseys are undefeated so far this World Cup.

Photo of me, a white guy in his 50s, wearing a Netherlands National Team jersey.

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