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Matthew Riley @matt.dev · 15/04/2026

Flowers for Claudernon

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Matthew Riley @matt.dev · 02/04/2026

How does he think lower-level/systems programming will evolve?

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Matthew Riley @matt.dev · 16/03/2026

Without naming your job, tell me something you say over and over again at work. "Hold on. What's the threat we're trying to defend against here? And why will this help?"

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Matthew Riley @matt.dev · 18/02/2026

"The chicken nugget problem" bsky.app/profile/mekk...

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Jeff Dean @jeffdean.bsky.social · 09/01/2026

The recent days have been horrific. We can't become numb to repeated instances of illegal and unconstitutional action by government agencies. It's even worse when public officials are blatantly lying in ways that contradict dozens of pieces of video evidence.

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Matthew Riley @matt.dev · 31/12/2025

Oh, phew. I was worried there for a second.

A parking sign that reads:
NO
UNAUTHORIZED
PARKING
VIOLATORS
WILL BE
IMPOUNDED

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Matthew Riley @matt.dev · 22/11/2025

What could more pixels possibly add to those emotional arcs?

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Matthew Riley @matt.dev · 17/11/2025

kinda hard to explain to Unix admins why "superfund" would be a bad thing

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Kai Ryssdal @kairyssdal.bsky.social · 09/10/2025

This is the lesson of 2025

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Matthew Riley @matt.dev · 05/10/2025

Discovered today that "colorable" is a contranym -- it can take one of two opposite meanings, either "seemingly valid" or "intended to deceive".

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Matthew Riley @matt.dev · 29/09/2025

Chrome is hiring for our Product Security team! These are the folks that support Chrome's growth by figuring out how to manage more bugs, in more areas, on more aggressive timelines, with less human toil. www.google.com/about/career... www.google.com/about/career... www.google.com/about/career...

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Staff Software Engineer, Chrome Product Security, Core — Google Careers

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Matthew Riley @matt.dev · 23/09/2025

In a 6-3 decision, the Supreme Court rules virtualization illegal. "The kernel executive may not be denied full access to hardware." Kagan, writing for the Court's SREs: "What, we're using Docker now? What the fuck."

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Matthew Riley @matt.dev · 17/09/2025

I guess this is the sad price you have to pay for putting your restaurant on the highway.

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Matthew Riley @matt.dev · 17/09/2025

Seatbelts in a restaurant! Never thought I'd see the day. go-review.googlesource.com/c/go/+/674835

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Gerrit Code Review

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Matthew Riley @matt.dev · 30/08/2025

Absolutely loved Mincemeat when we saw it on Broadway.

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Matthew Riley @matt.dev · 29/08/2025

Ehh. My endorsement is more narrowly about Runza. Although: SAC museum is neat!

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Matthew Riley @matt.dev · 29/08/2025

I only know about Runza but the conclusion seems inescapable.

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Matthew Riley @matt.dev · 26/08/2025

Going to find out how long my stockpile of pens will last.

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Matthew Riley @matt.dev · 20/08/2025

You can keep your galaxy brain edgelords. I'm proud to have a governor who can play literal 2D chess.

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Matthew Riley @matt.dev · 12/08/2025

Also. The deep and rich meaning that "nuanced" carries there. Excellent.

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Matthew Riley @matt.dev · 12/08/2025

Thank you for the peek behind the curtain! It's delightful to learn the real world and my headcanon had some overlap. :)

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Matthew Riley @matt.dev · 02/08/2025

Ask not for whom the rat trap sings It sings for thee

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Matthew Riley @matt.dev · 02/08/2025

/dev/null is webscale.

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Matthew Riley @matt.dev · 02/08/2025

"Call Me With Almost, But Unfortunately Not Total, Certainty"

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Matthew Riley @matt.dev · 02/08/2025

in context: xcancel.com/mdriley25519... The question there was why this was different from ElastiCache.

xcancel.com

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Matthew Riley @matt.dev · 02/08/2025

I am 1000% convinced AWS engineers launched MemoryDB (speaks Redis/Valkey but has a durability story) as a "mission of mercy".

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Matthew Riley @matt.dev · 18/07/2025

It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a Holdco in possession of a pot of Bitcoin, must be in want of a small publicly-listed US company.

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Matthew Riley @matt.dev · 13/05/2025

Big Tech leadership, 2025

Homer Simpson as a youth football coach: "Now, while I wasn't able to cut everyone I wanted to, I *have* cut a lot of you"

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Matthew Riley @matt.dev · 17/04/2025

Under other circumstances I would have been excited to learn that "contemnor" is a word.

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Matthew Riley @matt.dev · 10/04/2025

Holy fuck. Any company that thinks they're going to avoid the need to fight -- or to utterly debase themselves -- is not dealing with reality.

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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 09/04/2025

You set the house on fire, watched it burn, and then lost your nerve and put it out. You now have a partially burned house. Great job.

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Matthew Riley @matt.dev · 07/04/2025

President Dwayne Elizondo Mountain Dew Herbert Camacho *cared* that his country was suffering. He eagerly sought intelligent advice and let it change his mind. He was held to account by a vigorous legislature. For us, today, Idiocracy might as well be The West Wing.

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Popehat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 30/03/2025

The White House Correspondents Association deems speaking truth to power to be “the politics of division.” They’ve joined the growing regiment of submission.

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Matthew Riley @matt.dev · 28/03/2025

The Nine Billion Borrow Check Errors Of God

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Karen Attiah @karenattiah.bsky.social · 14/03/2025

Everything is so unbelievably stupid right now.

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