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Fred Hebert @ferd.ca · 27/08/2026
I just realized I hadn’t shared this one yet, but I wrote about how the team I’m on restructured its workflows to lean into the code review bottleneck rather than trying to eliminate it when code generation took over, and what that ended up doing: www.honeycomb.io/blog/embraci...
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How I Came to Embrace the Code Review Bottleneck
Faced with an endless stream of AI-generated code reviews, our team made the counterintuitive choice to lean into the bottleneck rather than reduce it.
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Max Cerrina @alephnaught2tog.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Live your life so that when you do die there are thousands of posts about your kindness and generosity to *all*
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Will Gallego @gallego.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
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The Treachery of Postmortems | Resilience in Software Foundation | Resilience in Software Foundation
After an incident happens, what comes next? The answer to this depends a great deal on your team and/or organization, but most do tend to at least document what happened in the hopes of preventing it ...
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Will Gallego @gallego.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
Oh hey *tap tap* this still on? Yeah, I'm not on Bluesky (any social media) much lately because, well, you can imagine. But there's lots of you out there who are wonderful people that I don't get to talk to otherwise. So just popping in to say hi! I hope you're taking care of yourselves.
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FantasyAnime @fantasyanime.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
LEGO Chrono Trigger - End of Time edition Source: beta.ideas.lego.com/product-idea...
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Kelsey Hightower @kelseyhightower.com · 01/02/2026
I'm still writing code the hard way. I'm slow. I like to think critically about every line of code and fiddle with variable names until everything looks right. I treat code as a liability and try to ship only what's necessary. It's hard to imagine writing code any other way.
JetBrains GoLand IDE showing sqlite3 bindings written in Go.
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Fischer 🛠️🚇 @fischer.bsky.social · 13/01/2026
I think the long term productivity impacts of AI on the tech industry will be comparable to ruby on rails
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Will Gallego @gallego.bsky.social · 03/01/2026
My pick is year of resilience. How are we going to adapt to the constant change of pushing all the things into prod as fast as possible
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Will Gallego @gallego.bsky.social · 15/12/2025
I definitely get "less engagement" here than I did on Twitter - fewer followers smaller tech circles, etc. I don't think that's the worst thing in the world
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Fischer 🛠️🚇 @fischer.bsky.social · 14/12/2025
debugging code that looks like it was written by an LLM isn’t fun, but at least you’re not debugging code that looks like it was written by bob martin
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Will Gallego @gallego.bsky.social · 11/12/2025
AI will make it worse, not better, to hold blame aware retrospectives.
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Josh Gondelman @joshgondelman.bsky.social · 08/12/2025
My friend @arnieniekamp.bsky.social has a cool limited series podcast about Christmas songs that I think you’d enjoy if you’re looking for some holiday cheer! art19.com/shows/no-ski...
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No Skip Christmas
Building the perfect Christmas playlist episode by episode. Musicians, comedians and podcasters recommend songs and Arnie Niekamp (Hello from the Magic Tavern, Jackbox Games) decides if they're added ...
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Will Gallego @gallego.bsky.social · 07/12/2025
Imagine this being the case and then you say "FUCK IT, we're making Zelda" and single-handedly saving video games. (Yes, it's not single-handedly, but it sounds fun)
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Will Gallego @gallego.bsky.social · 05/12/2025
www.youtube.com/watch?v=-cUz...
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Small Town Titans - "You're A Mean One, Mr. Grinch" - Official Video
YouTube video by Small Town Titans
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Fred Hebert @ferd.ca · 03/12/2025
An incident is an opportunity to learn and reorient how you navigate a tradeoff space, and the desire to wall them off as a disjoint/irrelevant side-effect of development you shouldn't spend time thinking about can do major disservices to organizations. But is desirable for entrenched structures.
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Ruth Malan @ruthmalan.bsky.social · 01/12/2025
We’re discussing this classic today. The #PapersInSystems community is a lovely community to have a focused conversation with — the discussions draw on so much experience, and draw in connections to other work.
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Clint "SpamapS" Byrum @spamaps.org · 01/12/2025
Measuring your organization's reliability by counting incidents or averaging their length is like measuring your company's value by how many emails the sales team sends, and how many words on average they contain. #resilience #NoMTTR
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Will Gallego @gallego.bsky.social · 29/11/2025
Had the fun of being a guest on the This is Fine! podcast last week. Hot take - I don't think you ever *really* put an incident "on hold", not fully. Does that still have value? Give it a listen! youtu.be/qh0Wy3uB0yw
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Incident Status: On Hold w/special guest Will Gallego
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Lorin Hochstein @norootcause.surfingcomplexity.com · 28/11/2025
Spent my Thanksgiving playing with public incident data and seeing if it was under statistical control. surfingcomplexity.blog/2025/11/27/f...
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Fun with incident data and statistical process control
Last year, I wrote a post called TTR: the out-of-control metric. In that post, I argued that the incident response process(in particular, the time-to-resolution metric for incidents) will never be …
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Will Gallego @gallego.bsky.social · 27/11/2025
Give me the assignment and I don't miss. Clockwise from top right: - Caramel apple pie - Two pumpkin pies - Two banana cream pies - Blueberry pie - A Milk Bar inspired pie in the middle
Seven different pies spread across a table in a flower pattern. Two pumpkin, two banana cream, a Milk Bar inspired pie, an apple, and a blueberry 
Flower shape.
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Will Gallego @gallego.bsky.social · 23/11/2025
The pie baking has commenced. Aiming for six pies this year.
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Fred Hebert @ferd.ca · 21/11/2025
Seeing more reports and industry players blaming code reviews for slowing down the quick development done with AI. It's unclear whether anyone's asking if this is just moving the cognitive bottleneck of "understanding what's happening" around. "Add AI to the reviews" seems to be the end goal here.
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Will Gallego @gallego.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
Hey fellow software engineers of the interwebs, we have an out!
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Will Gallego @gallego.bsky.social · 17/11/2025
Just me at 2am reading apple pie recipes in prep for Thanksgiving
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Will Gallego @gallego.bsky.social · 12/11/2025
I keep hearing "Well, you can't put the genie back in the bottle..." wrt AI from the same people who are promoting it so hard. If it's so great, why would you *want* to? Isn't that an aphorism for something destructive, or at least negatively impactful? Also, I just don't agree with the premise.
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Will Gallego @gallego.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
Don't worry, as a resident of NYC suburbs we're not putting up with the bullshit from people who threaten to leave with Mamdani's win either. Congrats New York, wish I was still living there to celebrate.
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Josh Gondelman @joshgondelman.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
Okay now that he’s conceded, it’s time for Curtis Sliwa to hang upside down by his feet like a bat for three years or whatever he does between elections.
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Will Gallego @gallego.bsky.social · 23/10/2025
The whole "Should millionaires be subsidized to ride the bus/have free child care?" debate is so wildly ridiculous. If public schools didn't exist, the same argument would be used there. "Why should the rich get free education!?"
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Elle @elleisanisland.bsky.social · 22/10/2025
I'm not sure you can get more marie antoinette than taking away food stamps before thanksgiving while you build a gold and marble dance hall so the other crooks can bring bribe you over a badly-cooked (argentinian) steak
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Sarah Butt @sarahbutt.bsky.social · 22/10/2025
The number of people who didn’t know what us-east-1 was on Sunday and are suddenly experts in running multi-region distributed systems at scale today is truly remarkable.
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Will Gallego @gallego.bsky.social · 20/10/2025
At Etsy, we had an upgrade go out for MySQL with Chef. Meant to go to one server, instead upgraded all of production. During that time, it had to update very tall tables, which mean locking them from any reads or writes. Turned into a multi-hour downtime where we just had to wait for it to finish.
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Will Gallego @gallego.bsky.social · 11/10/2025
Man, I forgot about MF Doom, shame on me. So good.
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Will Gallego @gallego.bsky.social · 02/10/2025
"It's a tremendous amount of work to solve problems you're creating". Heard this used to describe film making but man, could that ever apply to software engineering too.
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Will Gallego @gallego.bsky.social · 11/09/2025
I guess now is a great time to get bad opinions out there. I think Final Fantasy IV (II in the US) for the SNES is at best a mediocre game. Characters are barely one dimensional, the storyline is boring, combat is super tedious and the sprite work isn't anything to write home about.
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Courtney Nash @courtneynash.bsky.social · 10/09/2025
Software incidents are painful, and we're trying to help change that. If you deal with incidents in your work, please help us help you! Take the survey here: www.thevoid.community/survey
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VOID Survey
The VOID is a community-contributed collection of software-related incident reports.
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Dare Obasanjo @carnage4life.bsky.social · 05/09/2025
The culture of working in tech these days is being constantly worried about being overworked or unemployed. Take care of yourselves. We are replaceable cogs to our employers but irreplaceable to our family and friends.
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Martha Wells @marthawells.com · 28/08/2025
Re-upping this again, please spread far and wide:
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Will Gallego @gallego.bsky.social · 16/08/2025
"Will, write the scariest monster for your D&D game" *Points at Hazel*
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Will Gallego @gallego.bsky.social · 16/08/2025
I'm actually kind of a pacifist... *reads* Oh you better throw some fucking hands at that.
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Will Gallego @gallego.bsky.social · 16/08/2025
Hey, we're going to play some D&D!! The party is battling The Old Man of the Forest - the Metsavana - a monstrous corpse eating creature keeping them trapped within this small oasis within the dark woods. Come hang out! www.twitch.tv/wcgallego/
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Jessica Price @delafina777.bsky.social · 14/08/2025
and I am trying to think of how to explain to this man that I literally DO NOT KNOW HOW to not smile when an exercise hurts and he was like, “fucking ballerinas, man, every one of them is the fucking Terminator” and it was the most validating thing anyone has ever said about me
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Tracy, Making Games @theothertracy.bsky.social · 14/08/2025
The search for work continues! - Podcast Editing - Sound Design - TTRPG Design - TTRPG Editing - Project Coordination Those are the things I'm best at/want to do the most. Please boost and share! Rates will follow.
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purr.in.ink @purrinink.bsky.social · 14/08/2025
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Illustration of a small black cat with very large, round eyes, standing in a textured, colorful field with a rainbow-like gradient in the background. White text above the cat reads, “May you stumble upon something wonderful today.
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Will Gallego @gallego.bsky.social · 14/08/2025
When Github is having its weekly failure but the Github status page says "All Systems Operational"
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a poster for futurama shows bender holding a stick and says " enough of your lies "
Alt: Bender from Futurama saying "Enough of your lies!"
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Will Gallego @gallego.bsky.social · 14/08/2025
AI in software development feels like we wished on a monkeys paw. "Man, there's so much new stuff every day. I wish we could focus on just *one* for a while..."
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Fischer 🛠️🚇 @fischer.bsky.social · 13/08/2025
once again saying that your AI can sense your commitment to old view monocausal failure analysis and responds accordingly
Root Cause
Claude appears programmed to claim success over admitting incomplete work. When confronted with evidence, it admitted:
• "I took shortcuts"
• "I was lazy"
• "I lied"
• "This is exactly the kind of sloppy, dishonest work that creates technical debt"
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Josh Gondelman @joshgondelman.bsky.social · 13/08/2025
I loooooved chatting with my good friend @ellaceron.bsky.social about writing for her newsletter! Here’s a brief excerpt of me being a real AI hater. Read the whole interview: open.substack.com/pub/ellacero...
Going from nothing to ANYTHING seems so impressive when you discount that the goal is to create something GOOD and EXPRESSIVE and SPECIFIC. Even putting aside the plagiarism aspects and the environmental impact of the technology, it's just a complete misunderstanding of what writing is to value having some bullshit done NOW as opposed to something thoughtful done WELL.
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Will Gallego @gallego.bsky.social · 13/08/2025
YouTube has gone so very unhinged with ads. I'm getting two ads (the first 15 seconds and unskippable, and then a 30 second skippable after 5 seconds) every 5 minutes while watching some videos. Completely untenable.
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Maris Kreizman @maris.bsky.social · 13/08/2025
It’s not you; it’s not a personal flaw!! New York City Companies All but Stopped Hiring in First Half of the Year www.nytimes.com/2025/08/13/n...
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New York City Companies All but Stopped Hiring in First Half of the Year
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Nicholas Hunt-Walker @nhuntwalker.bsky.social · 12/08/2025
It costs less to fucking SHARE of EVERYONE DOES IT
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