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Joe Beda @h.olysh.it · 29/08/2026

Some swag we had done for conferences and then the acquisition happened. I have a lot of old heptio swag. My favorite is the sign from our lobby.

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Joe Beda @h.olysh.it · 15/08/2026

Go home Gemini. You’re drunk.

Gemini screen cap

Me: I want to create 700 ml of simple syrup.
What are the ratios and amounts in cups for water and sugar?

Gemini: Checklist:
Did I use forbidden phrases? No.
Did I use user data when it added no specific value? No, I am not using user data here.
Sensitive data? No.
Correction ledger? No conflict.
All good. Proceeding to format the answer.To create exactly 700 ml (about 3 cups) of simple syrup, you need to account for how sugar dissolves in water.
A common misconception is that 1 cup of water and 1 cup of sugar yield 2 cups of syrup. In reality, dissolved sugar only adds about 50% of its volume to the liquid. This means a 1:1 mixture yields exactly 1.5 times the amount of water you started with.
To hit your 700 ml target, use these amounts:
2 cups (473 ml) of water
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2 cups (400 g) of granulated white sugar

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Joe Beda @h.olysh.it · 19/07/2026

I’m at the Cubs game. Against the Twins. Bottom of the 4th and the Cubs are destroying the twins. 9-0. Oof. Beautiful day though! Only a little smoky.

A baseball field from high up in the bleachers. Sunny day with the bleachers filled. Wrigley field.

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Joe Beda @h.olysh.it · 20/06/2026

Ha! I am apparently a VPE at Red Hat. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Screen cap from “intheweights.com” looking up Joe Beda. Has bar charts for various models. Says 841 strength and “top 2%”. The GLM 4.7-Flash model says “Kuberneetes co-creator and VP of Engineering at Red Hat”

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Joe Beda @h.olysh.it · 15/06/2026

Ok. This is cool. I think I’m pulling for Egypt as they are the underdogs.

View of stadium in Seattle with the flags of Egypt and Belgium spread out on the field. A blue sky with wispy clouds. Seattle skyline in background.

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Joe Beda @h.olysh.it · 14/06/2026

Years and years ago we were invited to an event to celebrate the opening of the SpaceX engineering office here in Seattle/Redmond. We got some champagne flutes to take home as a souvenir. To celebrate the IPO these are now going in the trash. 😂

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Joe Beda @h.olysh.it · 11/06/2026

I sat down with @cmcluck.bsky.social and Tim Porter from Madrona to talk about enterprise AI infrastructure and how we are thinking about it. We covered a lot of ground but here is a little snippet. Check it out! youtu.be/hCMwLSgEE3k Full transcript: www.madrona.com/the-best-inf...

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Joe Beda @h.olysh.it · 07/06/2026

This is going to be such a disaster. If they are pitching the IPO this hard… Or maybe it’ll become load bearing bullshit. I hate it here.

An ad from Reddit where SoFi is pitching the SpaceX IPO.

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Joe Beda @h.olysh.it · 06/06/2026

I’m thinking it is a carabiner with some Subaru keys? (Lifted from Reddit. Not sure original source)

A sign from Seattle Tacoma Airport that says: “Announcements: Checkpoint 3 for lesbian item.” And below says “Speech to Text: A new technology being tested at SEA”

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Joe Beda @h.olysh.it · 01/06/2026

A key diagram from the post. The "dangerous middle" is where you think something is well understood and ready to implement but there are hidden assumptions. With agents they can often create something plausible but wrong.

Diagram titled 'R&D is two jobs', with the subtitle 'Research figures out what good looks like; development executes against a known good.' It maps a left-to-right spectrum. At the top, two bars show the reach of two kinds of AI tool: a bold, full-width teal bar reading 'Interactive agent (you in the loop): works across the whole spectrum', and below it a smaller, lighter teal bar covering only the right half, reading 'Autonomous factory: needs a known target.' Beneath the bars is the spectrum itself, drawn as a horizontal double-headed arrow with a pole at each end: on the left, 'Research: find what good looks like'; on the right, 'Development: execute against a known good.' The background gradient shifts from warm parchment on the research side to teal on the development side. A vertical amber marker line sits near the middle of the spectrum, annotated 'drifts left over time', and it lines up with the left edge of the factory bar above, showing the factory only operates to the right of that boundary. Hanging from that boundary is an amber warning box reading 'The dangerous middle: work that looks like development but hides an unproven assumption. Point the factory at it and it converges confidently on the wrong target. And it looks done.' The takeaway: an interactive agent helps everywhere on the spectrum, but the autonomous factory only works once you have a checkable target, and the danger is mistaking still-unproven research for development.

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Joe Beda @h.olysh.it · 26/05/2026

Here is the main 3x3 grid from that post. This is over twice as good as a 2x2 grid! Or perhaps more like a D&D alignment chart?

A 3×3 grid titled 'Nine Kinds of Agents'. The horizontal axis is labeled 'Tech Depth' with three columns: Consumer, Knowledge Worker, and Developer. The vertical axis is labeled 'Autonomy' with three rows from top to bottom: Fully Autonomous, Chat, and Autocomplete. Fully Autonomous row: Consumer cell — 'Autonomous personal agents', examples: ChatGPT Agent, Perplexity Comet, OpenClaw; Knowledge Worker cell — 'Autonomous enterprise agents', examples: Salesforce Agentforce, ServiceNow, Harvey AI; Developer cell — 'Dark Factory', examples: Gas Town, StrongDM, OpenAI harness engineering. Chat row: Consumer cell — 'Consumer chat', examples: ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude.ai; Knowledge Worker cell — 'Knowledge worker chat agents', examples: Glean, Claude CoWork; Developer cell — 'Interactive coding agents', examples: Claude Code, Cursor, Windsurf, Codex, Cline, Aider. Autocomplete row: Consumer cell is intentionally empty — consumer AI skipped this phase; Knowledge Worker cell — 'Knowledge worker assist', examples: M365 Copilot, Notion AI; Developer cell — 'Coding autocomplete', examples: GitHub Copilot, early Cursor.

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Joe Beda @h.olysh.it · 23/05/2026

Made a bunch of tweaks including cover images and such so once the enhanced support in bsky lands, it should look like this.

The bluesky post UI where I'm posting my "hello, world" post. It shows a cover image that matches the blog theme along with information about the publication itself including a favicon.

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Joe Beda @h.olysh.it · 03/05/2026

Beautiful evening for a ball game.

A dusk view of a game in progress at TMobile field in Seattle. The mariners are playing the royals and are up 2-1. The city skyline is in the distance.

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Joe Beda @h.olysh.it · 29/04/2026

Having a little treat after work. Some Malört served in its traditional glass: a urine specimen jar.

A bottle of Malört and an empty and clean urine specimen jar on a black textured counter.

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Joe Beda @h.olysh.it · 12/04/2026

When Heptio was acquired by VMware we had to give up our downtown Seattle office. We had just gotten a new light up sign for the reception and no one wanted it so it has been sitting in my garage for the past 8 years. I have space now so just hung it up and it is magnificent.

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Joe Beda @h.olysh.it · 28/03/2026

If anyone here at #ATmosphereConf misses @krisnova.net I have some stickers to hand out.

On the back of my badge: “Fuck the Internet. I'm going to go climb mountains
- Nóva”

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Joe Beda @h.olysh.it · 26/03/2026

Made it to #ATmosphereConf. Feel free to say hi if you see me!

Badge for the conference. It is a DIY badge with my horrible handwriting. Has my name and pronouns (he/him) alone with “Ask me about” listing k8s, machine identity and “my handle @h.olysh.it”.

Stickers at the bottom saying “we can just do things”, a “no Caesars” symbol and the bsky butterfly.

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Joe Beda @h.olysh.it · 22/03/2026

First time at a spring training game! Go @mariners.com!

Sunset picture of a ballpark. Wispy clouds. From along the first base line.

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Joe Beda @h.olysh.it · 21/03/2026

Not the aurora but a view from a plane this evening!

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Joe Beda @h.olysh.it · 23/02/2026

I write talks by first writing a doc with an outline. Figured I'd feed that to gemini and let it create the deck. No go. We have a long way before the experience we have with coding agents can apply to other apps and domains. This should be a slam dunk but the plumbing just isn't there.

Gemini discussion.

me: Create a slide deck from the outline in "Talk outline: Platform S..."

Gemini: Something went wrong. Try again.

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Joe Beda @h.olysh.it · 15/02/2026

So much to see. But for me, the highlight so far was seeing the sunset in the Sahara after a camel ride. If you can get down to Merzouga and stay in a desert camp, it is amazing. It is a *long* drive though.

A camel siting in the sand with dunes and mountains behind him.

A sunset over sand dunes with amazing light.

4 camels resting on sand dunes viewed from the top of a sand dune.

A couple silhouetted against the milky way.

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Joe Beda @h.olysh.it · 11/02/2026

Taking @krisnova.net into the desert in Morocco. Miss you Nova.

A close up of a window and door frame with a bunch of stickers. In the middle is a Nova sticker that says “Fuck the Internet. I’m going to climb mountains. - Nova”

A wide view of a brown building with two arched doors. The arches are covered in stickers. Ziz Canyon, Morocco.

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Joe Beda @h.olysh.it · 28/01/2026

Making Ribollita for dinner. I you are also finding some calm and routine in this chaos.

A pot full of vegetable minestrone soup. A bowl of croutons and another bowl of kale in the background. It’s all sitting on a stove top.

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Joe Beda @h.olysh.it · 17/01/2026

So tired of Google just being broken by AI shit. It turns out that, in fact, the Moxa ioLogik E2200 does *not* support a restful API. *sigh*

Google query: does the moxa e2200 support a restful api?

Answer:
Yes, the Moxa ioLogik E2200 series supports a RESTful API for IIoT applications.

While it is primarily known for industrial protocols like Modbus/TCP and SNMP, the series includes RESTful API support to allow IT engineers to easily retrieve I/O data using standard web protocols.

Key Details of API Support
* Protocols Supported: Along with RESTful APIs, the E2200 series supports Modbus/TCP, EtherNet/IP, SNMP (v1/v2c/v3), and Moxa’s proprietary AOPC and MXIO library.
* Activation: To use web-based features, you typically need to enable the Network API through the device's configuration interface.
* Use Cases: The RESTful API is designed for cross-platform integration, allowing data transfer to web resources and cloud services without needing specialized industrial gateway hardware.

For detailed configuration steps and a full list of available commands, you can refer to the ioLogik E2200 Series User's Manual.

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Joe Beda @h.olysh.it · 29/12/2025

Hey! Some friends of ours had their doggo, Goose, escape from a training place in Bellevue. If you see him let me know!

Goose. Big brown dog that looks like a goober. He is.

Map of where he escaped near Bellevue Square.

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Joe Beda @h.olysh.it · 28/12/2025

The best banana bread recipe ever. I picked this up at a Trader Joe’s next to the bananas something like 25 years ago. Key is over ripe bananas and lots of them. Making it now. I’ll post a pic when it is done.

Image of a well worn paper with stains on it.

Banana Bread Recipe
- 3 or 4 ripe bananas, smashed
- 1/3 cup meited butter
- 1 cup sugar (can easily reduce to 3/4 cup)
- 1 egg, beaten
- 1 teaspoon vanilla
- 1 teaspoon baking soda
- Pinch of salt
- 1-1/2 cup of all-purpose four

No need for a mixer for this recipe. Preheat the oven to 350 F (175°C). With a wooden spoon, mix butter into the mashed bananas in a large mixing bowl. Mix in the sugar, egg, and vanilla. Sprinkle the baking soda and salt over the mixture and mix in. Add the flour last, mix.

Pour mixture into a buttered 4x8 inch loaf pan. Bake for 1 hour.

Cool on a rack. Remove from pan and slice to serve.

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Joe Beda @h.olysh.it · 19/12/2025

I’m loving the San Juan County flag!

An Orca whale on a blue field leaping through a ring of stars. Text on the left says “San Juan County” vertically. Framed on a wall.

This is on a ferry boat and you can see seating and windows in the background.

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Joe Beda @h.olysh.it · 18/12/2025

For your consideration: Willie in his best Christmas finery.

A small tan dog wearing a red christmas tie. He looks both “all business” and somewhat pensive with his ears back.

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Joe Beda @h.olysh.it · 27/11/2025

For this I love Le Creuset cast iron dutch ovens. We have 3 in red, blue and green. With these we can make any color pot we like. ;)

3 Le Creuset pots in various sizes. They are red, green and blue.

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Joe Beda @h.olysh.it · 27/11/2025

For soup take the thighs out and remove skin (start with bone in, skin on) and chop the meat. Add it all to a pot with some water. Add rice or noodles. I use orzo. Salt, pepper to taste. Cook it long enough for everything to mellow out.

A pot of chicken soup on a stove. You can see carrots and herbs floating on top.

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Joe Beda @h.olysh.it · 27/11/2025

Recipe time! I want to share one of my favorite meals. Roast chicken thighs. Then turn the leftovers into soup. It’s simple: carrots, celery, onion diced up. Garlic. Take chicken thighs and brown them in olive oil. Put the thighs on the veggies. 1 cup stock. Herbs, salt, pepper. 1-2 hrs at 350.

Chicken thighs in a pot with herbs on top ready to go in the oven.

Out of the oven ready to serve. Willie (small brown dog) is looking over very interested.

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Joe Beda @h.olysh.it · 23/11/2025

So excited for my first #f1 race.

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Joe Beda @h.olysh.it · 14/11/2025

#KubeCon T-shirt came with wristband calling me large and straight. True. Also RUDE!

Black rubber band with text saying “STRAIGHT - LARGE”

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Joe Beda @h.olysh.it · 12/11/2025

If you see me at #kubecon I have a stack of Nova stickers if you want a few.

A stack of stickers that say “Fuck the internet I’m going to go climb mountains - Nóva”

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Joe Beda @h.olysh.it · 12/11/2025

Woohoo! @castrojo.bsky.social kicking off Day 2 of #kubecon. Go Jorge!

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Joe Beda @h.olysh.it · 11/11/2025

Hey @bryanl.dev! Call out to your talk from a couple of years ago talking about being inspired by rails. Keynote at #KubeCon from Joseph Sandoval from Adobe.

Photo of a quote from Bryan at keynote at KubeCon.

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Joe Beda @h.olysh.it · 11/11/2025

Excited to be back at #KubeCon. It’s been a minute. Fun to see all the new faces. I do miss how it was back in the day though.

Photo of Chris on the main stage during KubeCon 2025. Colorful illustration behind him with leaves and peaches and birds.

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Joe Beda @h.olysh.it · 10/11/2025

A couple of weeks ago @kenmartin.bsky.social sent me an email asking me to “Invest in the DNC” with a slick powerpoint deck attached. This was my (as of yet unanswered) response. I’ll invest in the Dems when they give me something to invest in.

Email screen cap. Text:

Hi Ken,

Thank you for sharing this.

The first attachment here is asking me to “invest in the DNC”.

What am I investing in?

The focus here is on winning but I don’t have confidence in the Dem establishment to actually stick to its values. What even are Democratic values now?Whether it is candidates with Nazi tattoos or all the consultants banding together to throw trans (and other marginalized people) under the bus with a shitty open report, I’m not sure the dems are a party I want to associate myself with.

Y’all are definitely better than Trump but beyond that I don’t know what you stand for. You talk about building a big tent but there are limits. I don’t want to be part of a tent that includes people that think that people I know and love shouldn’t have basic rights.

How about we start with a clear establishment of what the values of the dem party are and go from there?

I’m also still sticking to my guns on not donating until and unless I see change in the party leadership. There has to be room for new voices. I’d love to see the party learn from and boost new talent like, say, Mamdani instead of fighting those people tooth and nail.

I’m sure that there will be a bit of a blue wave after the trauma that Trump is putting everyone through. But what happens after that? If its more Biden like leadership that doesn’t move things forward and tries to return to a world that no longer exists then we’ll end up back where we are.

I know that much of this is out of your control. But you are in the unenviable position of being the face of an organization that you don’t have a lot of control over. I fear that if I throw my support behind the DNC I’m signaling that I’m ok with continuing with the failed people and policies that have gotten us to where we are now.

Thanks,
Joe

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Joe Beda @h.olysh.it · 03/11/2025

I’m at Costco. I any me to pick some up for you?

A big Costco bag of “Fanncy whole cashews”

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Joe Beda @h.olysh.it · 19/10/2025

That was an amazing event - both the conference and the party. I really enjoyed Copenhagen. And nova and I spent a layover in Reykjavik coming back and had a great time. That was her first visit to Iceland.

Nova in front of “Hotel Borg” in Reykjavik wearing a bright blue hat and green jacket.

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Joe Beda @h.olysh.it · 05/10/2025

Hanging out at a bar with my favorite people (Willie, the dog, and @rbeda.bsky.social, the spouse) watching the M’s. First run in the post season since 2001!

Willie hanging out at Harry’s bar looking for some pizza.

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Joe Beda @h.olysh.it · 30/09/2025

Just pulled up this 2022 article from @theguardian.com on oligarchs planning their bunkers. www.theguardian.com/news/2022/se...

What I came to realise was that these men are actually the losers. The billionaires who called me out to the desert to evaluate their bunker strategies are not the victors of the economic game so much as the victims of its perversely limited rules. More than anything, they have succumbed to a mindset where “winning” means earning enough money to insulate themselves from the damage they are creating by earning money in that way. It’s as if they want to build a car that goes fast enough to escape from its own exhaust.

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