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Daniel Moch @danielmoch.com · 13/09/2026

“It is useless to rail against capitalism. Capitalism did not create the world; the machine did.” – Jacques Ellul

Daniel Moch @danielmoch.com · 17/07/2026

It’s a fascinating to experience a world where you can say something and your choice of one or two words tells me a meaningful amount about your political alignment

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Daniel Moch @danielmoch.com · 12/06/2026

This has always made sense to me, and it’s a bit shocking that we’re so apt to forget it www.thefp.com/p/arthur-brook…

Text Shot: Putting strictly moral questions aside, serious academic research finds that adulterous behavior is an accurate predictor of professional misconduct, duplicitousness, low conscientiousness, and a tendency to betray promises.

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Daniel Moch @danielmoch.com · 06/06/2026

For the past week I have been making my way through The Rise and Fall of Mars Hill, a podcast published by Christianity Today about the Seattle megachurch. www.danielmoch.com/posts/2026/0...

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Megachurches and the Temptation of Mass Appeal

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Daniel Moch @danielmoch.com · 29/05/2026

Something about this feels like an apt synecdoche of our era

The week's greatest (read: saddest) sports story comes from the Enhanced Games, a new Vegas-based competition showcasing athletes openly using steroids and other performance-enhancing drugs (PEDs), and vowing to crush records in marquee events like the 100-meter dash and the 100-meter freestyle swim. Interestingly, a competitor who vowed he'd "juice to the gills" performed worse than he did when he couldn't use drugs. Even more embarrassing: The 50-meter backstroke winner was a non-enhanced athlete, thus, writes James Dator for SB Nation, "tearing apart the entire premise for the games." All told, one world record was beaten while three unenhanced athletes won their events. It's a victory for man over pharma.

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Daniel Moch @danielmoch.com · 28/05/2026

Seasons of even small suffering thin out my soul www.danielmoch.com/posts/2026/05/…

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Lorin Hochstein @norootcause.surfingcomplexity.com · 27/05/2026

Tired: thinking, fast and slow Wired: thinking, shallow and deep

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Daniel Moch @danielmoch.com · 25/05/2026

I’ve been reading James K.A. Smith’s "Make Your Home in This Luminous Dark" and was taken aback by this passage commenting on Teresa of Ávila’s "Interior Castle": www.danielmoch.com/posts/2026/0...

One of the threads of Teresa’s Interior Castle that is so prescient and timely is her attunement to the fears and anxieties that lurk within us—anxieties only amped up by late modernity. … What are we afraid of? … At bottom, Teresa suggests, we are afraid of being misunderstood, unseen, unrecognized, bereft of love. We want to be known, recognized, liberated because we are loved as we are.

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Daniel Moch @danielmoch.com · 22/05/2026

James Clear recently asked, “If your family inherited only your habits …, which ones would be your richest gifts?” I was struck by the question, and not in a good way. www.danielmoch.com/posts/2026/0...

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Daniel Moch @danielmoch.com · 16/05/2026

When telling someone a web URL, instead of saying www long form, pronounce it “sextupleyou.”

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Daniel Moch @danielmoch.com · 16/05/2026

I first encountered this a few months ago and have been haunted by it since

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Daniel Moch @danielmoch.com · 02/05/2026

Anyone able to recommend a domain registrar? My current provider seems unable to handle even simple support requests.

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Filippo Valsorda @filippo.abyssdomain.expert · 28/04/2026

A bit over two years after starting to work on it... Go is officially FIPS 140-3 certified 💥 csrc.nist.gov/projects/cry... I am pretty confident Go is now one of the most—if not the most—seamless and complete FIPS 140-3 compliance solutions... with a single env var, out of the box.

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Daniel Moch @danielmoch.com · 21/02/2026

Just finished @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social’s Southern Reach trilogy. I’ll probably read Absolution at some point, but right now I feel like I need to sit with the lack of easy answers.

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Daniel Moch @danielmoch.com · 03/01/2026

I think Kingsnorth is onto something, but his discussion of science in Chaoter VII of “Against The Machine” needs more nuance www.danielmoch.com/posts/2026/01/…

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Daniel Moch @danielmoch.com · 26/12/2025

Hiked Lookout Mountain’s Bluff Trail today www.danielmoch.com/posts/2025/12/…

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Daniel Moch @danielmoch.com · 25/12/2025

Merry Christmas to those who celebrate. Here is a short reflection on a Christmas passage, written for my kids. www.danielmoch.com/posts/2025/12/…

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Daniel Moch @danielmoch.com · 06/12/2025

The Unbearable Lightness of Excusing Oneself From Online Discourse

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Daniel Moch @danielmoch.com · 30/11/2025

Normalize meal-time video chats with friends and family

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Daniel Moch @danielmoch.com · 13/11/2025

Who’d have thought morning show hosts make terrible theologians

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Daniel Moch @danielmoch.com · 11/11/2025

Wait, so lunch sides today are potato salad *and* potato chips? Not a choice but both?

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Ian Coldwater 🧊🚫 @lookitup.baby · 11/11/2025

Hey #KubeCon, be extra kind to the staff today. One of them I chatted with yesterday whispered to me that people were giving them a hard time today

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Daniel Moch @danielmoch.com · 11/11/2025

Sometimes I get the feeling “fun” is a sanitized word technologists use when they mean “addictive.”

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Daniel Moch @danielmoch.com · 11/11/2025

Even at #KubeCon the demo gods refuse to smile

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Daniel Moch @danielmoch.com · 11/11/2025

Excited to participate in the Public Sector BoF at #KubeCon later today. Stop by if you’re interested in how the public sector is adopting cloud native technologies! sched.co/2Ax2b

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KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America 2025: BoF | Public Sector CNCF User Group

View more about this event at KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America 2025

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Daniel Moch @danielmoch.com · 10/11/2025

Dev-Prod Parity has been a thing since 12factors, but I wonder if that can only be accomplished if limited to mechanism. Policies really need to change between dev and prod, no?

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Daniel Moch @danielmoch.com · 10/11/2025

So far Atlanta’s #KubeCon makes Detroit’s seem Bahamian by comparison.

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Daniel Moch @danielmoch.com · 05/10/2025

Be careful who you emulate. The desire to change the world can lead either to service or hubris.

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Daniel Moch @danielmoch.com · 01/09/2025

This won’t be news to anyone I have spoken to over the past few weeks, but my family and I have relocated from Greater Orlando to the Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex. It is a good career move for me, but what sealed the deal was my family’s excitement about moving to the area.

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Daniel Moch @danielmoch.com · 25/06/2025

Just sat down to host a speaker office hour at #OSSummit. I’ll be here until 11. Come and find me behind the escalators if you want to talk s3c!

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Daniel Moch @danielmoch.com · 25/06/2025

Speaking at #OSSummit today on software supply chain security in the public sector. Check it out if you’re around!

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Jordan Kasper @jordankasper.com · 23/06/2025

Fun talk from @eddiezane.bsky.social and @danielmoch.com at #ossummit about working in air gapped environments with open source tools.

Two men stand at a podium delivering a conference talk with a projector screen in the background

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Daniel Moch @danielmoch.com · 22/06/2025

At the gate, MCO -> DEN for #OSSNA #opensourcesummit See you there!

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Konrad Hinsen @khinsen.net · 20/06/2025

New blog post: "Why computational reproducibility matters" blog.khinsen.net/posts/2025/0... 🧪

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Daniel Moch @danielmoch.com · 12/06/2025

I’m as excited about macOS Containers as anyone, but I also think the fine folks at lima-vm.io deserve credit for already putting together a great solution for Docker on macOS

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Daniel Moch @danielmoch.com · 05/06/2025

TIL that *proximal* cause is a term of art in philosophy, while *proximate* causation is a legal concept. www.danielmoch.com/posts/2025/0...

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Daniel Moch @danielmoch.com · 29/05/2025

It's an "n=1" data set, but it appears that missing my evening dose of magnesium can cut my sleep in half. Just learned that the hard way.

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Noah Abrahams @nabrahams.bsky.social · 21/03/2025

I haven't seen a lot of people mentioning this, but if you are going to #Kubecon and you have a US passport (among many others) you need to get the Electronic Travel Authorization before you go to the UK. It can take up to 3 business days, though mine took 15 minutes. www.gov.uk/guidance/app...

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Apply for an electronic travel authorisation (ETA)

What an ETA is, who can get one and how to apply before coming to the UK.

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Daniel Moch @danielmoch.com · 07/03/2025

I’m happy to share that I was recently elected Co-Chair, Public Sector User Group at Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF). If you work in the public sector and are interested in learning more about cloud technologies, I'd love to talk to you!

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Daniel Moch @danielmoch.com · 20/02/2025

It is noteworthy how often I will have a vague thought that I do not fully understand it until I have written it out. It is embarrassing how poorly I have recognized and understood this dynamic. www.danielmoch.com/posts/2025/0...

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Daniel Moch @danielmoch.com · 15/02/2025

Local coffee shop playing The Decemberists and The Smashing Pumpkins. 🎶🎵

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Daniel Moch @danielmoch.com · 06/02/2025

It was a pleasure working with the folks @openssf.org on this!

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