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Jason McIntosh @mcintosh.farm · 29/09/2026

"Our investigation developed proof beyond a reasonable doubt that President Trump engaged in serious crimes against our nation," Yeah pretty much this says it all. But people don't like the message, so they attack the messenger.

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Jason McIntosh @mcintosh.farm · 28/09/2026

Trans: I don't have to understand trans nor do I want to NOR need to. They're human beings and I don't have to understand them to be decent to someone trans, let them live their lives as they choose, etc. THIS is how I argue for rights - I want EVERYONE treated the same no matter who they are.

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Jason McIntosh @mcintosh.farm · 28/09/2026

Datacenters. To me, it's a bit like restricting CAFO's - all a matter of regulations AND research. You limit who, where, how, and impacts. EXAMPLES: REQUIRE them to pay for the new electricity. Don't allow incentives. 3000' minimum distance to a house. Water restrictions. Waste restrictions. ETC.

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Jason McIntosh @mcintosh.farm · 24/09/2026

www.youtube.com/watch?v=OmMN... NICE video on pocket hole wood working stuff ;) For wood workers out there - been VERY impressed with workshopcompanion.com stuff

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Pocket Holes Overexplained

YouTube video by Workshop Companion

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Jason McIntosh @mcintosh.farm · 24/09/2026

ONE thing I've noticed - AI does rather well at handling my typos. I have at endency to do what I just did - try to go to fast and make spaces after the character I'd intended. AI seems to handle and adjust to this rather well (or at least..... @claudecode.bsky.social handles this). Nice!

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Jason McIntosh @mcintosh.farm · 15/09/2026

One of the things about AI I'm MOST thankful for? Having AI deal with NPM/PNPM/Javascript/UI work ;) it does VERY well at it and I no longer have to look at package.json or lockfiles or eslint or half a dozen other things that drove me insane. I'm a backend guy for sure!

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Jason McIntosh @mcintosh.farm · 15/09/2026

GOTTA love @charity.wtf :) charity.wtf/p/confession... great post like she always does - NO AI slop included! :) (AI slop is good for docs, code, and artifacts... not for stories ... unless you want videos of hampsters taking on storm troopers... hrmmm)

charity.wtf

Confessions of an Unrepentant Slop Snob

A framework for thinking about when AI involvement is additive or a violation

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Jason McIntosh @mcintosh.farm · 04/09/2026

I'm actively considering upgrading my #homelab to 10gb networking... but I KNOW many devices don't go to 10gb (older stuff)... but still thinking it'd help a LOT. Have to do a few upgrades on a few machines, and my NAS needs then a 10gb network card for sure...

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Jason McIntosh @mcintosh.farm · 31/08/2026

A favorite thing to do as a developer is reduce lines of code. Reducing the amount of complexity, duplication, or otherwise simplifying codebases is one of the best feelings and one that doesn't happen NEAR enough. Refactoring helps, but so does "use standard libs" or "this is old/unused kill it"

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Jason McIntosh @mcintosh.farm · 26/08/2026

AI: EVEN WITH latest models, STILL treat it like pair programming and you're the senior dev. It is getting better... but still misses things. "This returns a string, let me add JsonNode to parse the results" STOP - there ARE concrete classes to help! KNOW the libraries/SDKs/APIs you're using!

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Jason McIntosh @mcintosh.farm · 26/08/2026

Nice update comparing #rabbitmq to #kafka www.rabbitmq.com/docs/compare... - though I haven't been in this space in a LONG while... I have a STRONG like of rabbitmq still :) The guys on that team were amazing back when I did a lot of rabbitmq work.

rabbitmq.com

RabbitMQ vs. Apache Kafka | RabbitMQ

An honest, technical comparison of RabbitMQ and Apache Kafka — where the two designs agree, where they differ, and which one to use for which use case.

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Jason McIntosh @mcintosh.farm · 25/08/2026

Allies are how we progress. Enemies are how we lose. Enemies & allies should be selected based upon how they treat their people. AND who someone looks up/chooses as friends/allies says more about them than most other actions. FYI I love #canada!

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Jason McIntosh @mcintosh.farm · 25/08/2026

Unpopular opinion: Trump WAS right that Iran was an issue no one dealt/wanted to deal with. What he screwed up on was NO plan (not even a bad plan). Start publicly with allies, congress, goals, keep those consistent, etc. THEN go alone if needed. PLAN! It isn't wrong to step it. It's wrong HOW.

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Jason McIntosh @mcintosh.farm · 25/08/2026

If anyone wants to ever buy me anything, I"m a size Pro XG Switch (store.ui.com/us/en/catego...) and a Dell 740xd (used is fine) rackmount server ;) My lab is just ITCHING for some upgrades... :P

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Switch Pro XG 24 - Ubiquiti Store

Professional-grade, 24-port Layer 3 Etherlighting™ switch with (16) 10 GbE, (8) 2.5 GbE, and (2) 25G SFP28 ports.

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Jason McIntosh @mcintosh.farm · 17/08/2026

For those looking at git alternatives to github (to be fair it's up... mostly ... 99%? of the time). There's harness.io (disclosure I work for them, OSS: github.com/harness/harness), gitlab.com, about.gitea.com and other solutions (I like self-hosting). Re-evaluate regularly all of them!

harness.io

Harness: AI for DevOps, Testing, AppSec, and Cost Optimization

Harness is a unified, end-to-end AI software delivery platform to manage the SDLC using purpose-built AI agents.

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Jason McIntosh @mcintosh.farm · 29/07/2026

ONE OF THE most annoying things I see in code lately is mocks that don't need to be mock objects. Just seeing today, cleaning up "mock out the #Micrometer registry" for SimpleRegistry objects. Even on http clients - use a real server for mock RESPONSES - helps identify framework issues!

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Jason McIntosh @mcintosh.farm · 29/07/2026

For any "XP" programmers remembering paired programming. A lot of times, that's ALSO what AI feels. Sitting watching while a junior programmer works through various things. Only I can yell at AI - I'd not yell at a junior dev! NORMALLY a junior dev ALSO learns from their mistakes.

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Jason McIntosh @mcintosh.farm · 27/07/2026

I don't have a lot of impact on my local legislature/government - one of the few blue in a massive red area but i CAN take action. I've installed a large solar system. My next vehicles will be electric. I've increased donations to Arbor Day & PBS & others. What are others doing?

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Jason McIntosh @mcintosh.farm · 26/07/2026

*@#$^% The amount of times I had to tell AI this am "Look spring boot 4 defines jackson versions, DO NOT do it", and AI responds "spring boot 4 doesn't define jackson versions for 3 let me do this for you". 5 models are better, but still struggle at times. STILL DO NOT trust blindly!

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Jason McIntosh @mcintosh.farm · 24/07/2026

joe.dev/posts/new-20... Love this from @h.olysh.it - this is the conversation about ai I’m having now with upper level engineers. Not the technical impacts but what are the cultural impacts. Who benefits is a big question in that.

joe.dev

The new 20% time, minus the time

Attention is replacing hours. But is it 120% time all over again?

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Jason McIntosh @mcintosh.farm · 20/07/2026

I interact with many orgs "We're vmware. We migrated to Proxmox /nutanix/etc. k8s on hardware in datacenters! EKS/GKE! AWS EC2 only k8s is bad! ECS FTW! etc!" It's PEOPLE that drive this BUT not sure how much it really matters. AS LONG AS your CUSTOMERS are happy - i'm partial to on prem though!

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Jason McIntosh @mcintosh.farm · 18/07/2026

Seriously about to drop #rook-ceph in my lab k8s cluster. Performance has been HORRIBLE(4x microk8s nodes on proxmox). NFS on truenas is performing REALLY well (also a VM). OR iSCSI with #democratic-csi or something else? COULD do #ceph via #proxmox & ceph-csi as an option. Thoughts?

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Jason McIntosh @mcintosh.farm · 13/07/2026

At times I swear working with AI is like chasing my kids around. "Don't do that, do this!" "STOP, don't do that!" "No this is what I REALLY meant, let me explain in depth". "Did you really just do that?" "Apparently i didn't explain this right" 😮‍💨 Helps but can be very trying at times.

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Jason McIntosh @mcintosh.farm · 10/07/2026

Gotta say... fable model is a lot like having an intelligent coworker, where sonnet/opus is more like a tool you use. Much more interesting and intelligent and solid responses. BUT gotta be careful of how much time you take of that coworker and isn't always right. I'm impressed though.

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Jason McIntosh @mcintosh.farm · 05/05/2026

Burger King app SUCKS. I order through app. App crashes/stops responding half way to store. I restart app. Cart is still there, not seeing a purchase, hit purchase, and... now I have TWO charges on my card. I get only one order. BK says "we'll offer a coupon we can't refund". UGH.

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Jason McIntosh @mcintosh.farm · 24/04/2026

The ONE good thing about AI for security purposes? FAR less "You're SPF records are wrong! DMARC! " kinds of reports. And by being scanned with decent AI, we're actually improving the whole ecosystem and finding what might have been zero day exploiters in the past.

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Jason McIntosh @mcintosh.farm · 18/03/2026

I switched a number of years back from Eclipse/STS to IntelliJ. i'm curious though... is STS/Eclipse still used? Popular? I'm tempted to try it again just because. I LIKE to try different tools on a regular basis. Competition is GOOD!

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Jason McIntosh @mcintosh.farm · 16/03/2026

"Coding has been drudgery, historically" - reading how AI solves this "problem". Coding is NOT drudgery for me and the devs I know. WE LIKE coding. People are missing that AI is taking away what was fun for a lot of people - like using AI to do a puzzle/game. Yes I use AI but I still MISS coding.

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Jason McIntosh @mcintosh.farm · 18/02/2026

Oy. build issues last few days on #spinnaker. NPM publishing broke (moved to trusted publishing). THEN Testcontainers broke - GHA runner upgrades. THEN spotless plugin issue just... lot of weird quirks ALL at once on builds made for a LONG few days fixing builds. BUT new releases are out!

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Jason McIntosh @mcintosh.farm · 29/01/2026

IMHO: Observability platforms are rarely something you should build. The commercial vendors like @honeycomb.io or newrelic are worth EVERY penny (Grafana is ok but go cloud & try honeycomb first). "do-it-yourself" is for CORE business PRODUCTS! Then apply this to CD/CI/SSO/Git/etc.

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Barack Obama @barackobama.bsky.social · 25/01/2026

The killing of Alex Pretti is a heartbreaking tragedy. It should also be a wake-up call to every American, regardless of party, that many of our core values as a nation are increasingly under assault.

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Jason McIntosh @mcintosh.farm · 25/01/2026

"IF you're not cheating [in war], you ain't trying". I've heard variations of this theme. In programming: If you aren't using AI, you aren't trying. You still got to WATCH it's results (claude just tried to write a test by text code to add the checks ugh). BUT still can save a LOT of time

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Jason McIntosh @mcintosh.farm · 22/01/2026

SO I've ported most of my stuff to OpenTofu at this point. I'm curious though... what about packer? Packer in particular is STILL THE DEFACTO solution for AMI/machine image building. I've not seen an equivalent fork near to the quality of Tofu for this...?

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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 21/01/2026

Leonard Nimoy was more than a colleague—he was a friend, an ally, and my political soulmate. Leonard played a half-human, half-Vulcan officer—a being caught between two worlds. Yet in his own life, he was perhaps the most profoundly human person I have ever known.

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Jason McIntosh @mcintosh.farm · 20/01/2026

Will never ever buy: Movie, Song, etc. off of ANY online store. BUY the dvd & convert for home. Go with GOG for games. This is the way (THANK YOU Handbrake/others). Works on Kodi, Plex, kids tablets. NO nightmare of licensing/access issues. I'm considering moving away from streaming too lately.

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Jason McIntosh @mcintosh.farm · 19/01/2026

can we make it 3 more years? :( How much of the world will be broken even more than it does today? TRADITIONAL Republican GOALS - smaller government, balanced budget, etc. SOME good ideals but not always VIABLE but understandable. Reality is so different and the party has lost it's path.

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Jason McIntosh @mcintosh.farm · 16/01/2026

Was a potential juror for Jury duty. The defendant was a person of color. Defense attorney question - does law enforcement target those of color more than not? VERY FEW said "yes" to this (I was one). I don't know if few thought yes or no one wanted to speak up. I find that concerning...

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Jason McIntosh @mcintosh.farm · 07/01/2026

Seriously @developers.google.com what were you thinking on 403 vs. 429 for "too many requests" on API rate limits? I've been trying to understand the intent here? developers.google.com/workspace/gm... (working on github.com/spinnaker/sp... tied to this PR moving away from batching)

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Resolve errors | Gmail | Google for Developers

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Jason McIntosh @mcintosh.farm · 16/11/2025

Translating promql grafana queries into otel clickhouse queries... Claude generated some interesting results. Helps with the basic query stuff, but as always gotta tweak it. Still somewhat of a timesaver from writing it ALL by scratch (though many were ALREADY copy/paste). Still required work

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Jason McIntosh @mcintosh.farm · 14/11/2025

ALSO huge thanks @cloudflare.social for DNS & Domain management. Makes running a lab SO MUCH easier/cleaner WITHOUT breaking the bank!

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Jason McIntosh @mcintosh.farm · 14/11/2025

OK lab is all on clickhouse (I still do SOME Prometheus just to be able to run random queries). Got logs (which... dear lord are painful IMHO in Grafana right now), metrics, traces, next... EVENTS (aka wide cardinality data). Even added ILO health checks w/ alerts!

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Jason McIntosh @mcintosh.farm · 13/11/2025

When did "Hoax" change to "I lied my arse off and you shouldn't know about it"?

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Jason McIntosh @mcintosh.farm · 13/11/2025

I've already shoved 125 MILLION rows into my @opentelemetry.io github.com/jasonmcintos... (using a simple clickhouse server)... :) In 16 hours... I'm probably doing a bit much in my lab... given I THINK I just crashed my k8s nodes...

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homelab-work/applications/monitoring at main · jasonmcintosh/homelab-work

Generic tools/scripts/docs around my homelab work. Contribute to jasonmcintosh/homelab-work development by creating an account on GitHub.

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Ocean Conservancy @oceanconservancy.org · 13/11/2025

This #WorldKindnessDay, show some love to the ocean that gives us all so much. 🌊💙🌊 Visit our Action Center today and discover how you can advocate for kindness toward our beloved blue planet! 🌎 🔗 Join the wave: bit.ly/438LIn6

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Jason McIntosh @mcintosh.farm · 13/11/2025

Moving from prometheus to clickhouse on my lab. Can't easily capture "this change event" in obs1.0 NEED DATA, not "metrics". But... grafana: I can do it but it sucks UI, config wise, searching, etc. without a LOT of work. Go with @honeycomb.io or NewRelic or some other vendor for prod.

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Jason McIntosh @mcintosh.farm · 03/11/2025

Just a few new #spinnaker enhancements in play... an API to finally allow killing "zombie" pipelines! Number of tickets had to answer "can you go kill this" oy!

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