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Matt Menzenski @menzen.ski · 08/09/2025

Before AI: chop wood, carry water. After AI: chop wood, carry water.

Matt Menzenski @menzen.ski · 23/06/2025

I always swore that I would never buy a minivan, but I gave in and bought an Urban Arrow Family this weekend. I've wanted a front-loader for a decade - they always seemed prohibitively expensive, but came across this one for 50% off and had to do it. 24 miles so far with both kids, we LOVE it.

A cargo bike inside a bike shop. The bike is a white Urban Arrow Family electric-assist front-loading model, with front of bike to left of image.

A bike rack outside the Nelson-Atkins art museum. A white cargo bike is locked to the bike rack. Two children are sitting in the bike's cargo box, with helmets on and backs to the camera. Blue sky in the background with a few clouds.

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Matt Menzenski @menzen.ski · 27/05/2025

Changed my handle from @me.nzen.ski to @menzen.ski - the @me subdomain was fun for a while, but I think it makes more sense to use my actual website as my handle here.

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Matt Menzenski @menzen.ski · 16/05/2025

Very happy that #KansasCity took away a traffic lane on Gregory Blvd between Troost and the Paseo and added a wide sidewalk where there hadn't been one at all before. Yay for traffic calming and yay for all the new walking and scootering routes it opens up for me and my kidns.

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Matt Menzenski @menzen.ski · 12/05/2025

The most important skillset you can bring to platform engineering work is neither "dev" nor "ops". It is "talking to your users".

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Matt Menzenski @menzen.ski · 06/05/2025

I have one! menzen.ski (and I’m actually working on a new post right now, I promise!)

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Matt Menzenski @menzen.ski · 03/05/2025

If you see this, post your getaway vehicle

A bicycle leaning against a tree in a forest next to a gentle singletrack trail. The bike is facing to the right and has front and rear racks and several bags on it. It also has headlights and fenders, and a water bottle.

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Matt Menzenski @menzen.ski · 03/05/2025

I HAD VISIONS I WAS IN THEM 🎶 I WAS LOOKING INTO THE MIRROR 🎶

Julie Andrews with an acoustic guitar singing to a group of children on the mountainside in SOUND OF MUSIC

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Matt Menzenski @menzen.ski · 03/05/2025

Parenting is one big, years-long, lesson in letting go. That thing you think is important is actually not important, and you learn this over and over and over again for years.

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Matt Menzenski @menzen.ski · 02/05/2025

Zuck: the average American has three friends

Still frame from the movie The Big Lebowski. The Dude (left), Walter (right), and Donny (middle, background) are seated in a bowling alley and are looking incredulously to something to the left of the scene.

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Matt Menzenski @menzen.ski · 25/04/2025

Tired of reading productivity advice from single people with no kids.

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Matt Menzenski @menzen.ski · 07/03/2025

I know everyone says "change tech jobs every two years" but let me tell you, getting to do the end-of-life for things that you built eight years ago is incredibly satisfying work. If you change jobs often you miss out on a lot of learning opportunities that only come with time.

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Matt Menzenski @menzen.ski · 18/02/2025

New blog post menzen.ski/posts/2025/0... This one is for the Content Club organized by @bryanross.me in the CNCF Slack. Our February 2025 theme is "Team Topologies in the Real World". (Bryan and @stevefenton.co.uk have also written posts for this, I've linked theirs at the end of mine here).

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On Team Topologies and Deep Work: Delivering Value at Large Scale and Small Scale

This post is part of the Content Club, organized by Bryan Ross. The theme for February 2025 is “Team Topologies in the Real World”. Links to other posts in this group are at the end of this post. I co...

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Matt Menzenski @menzen.ski · 18/02/2025

Reverse Conway Manoeuvres In The Dark

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Salena @salena.bsky.social · 01/02/2025

I was led to believe by R.E.M. that I would feel a lot better about this.

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Matt Menzenski @menzen.ski · 29/01/2025

The intersection of Kustomize and Helm is an amazingly frustrating place to do work. Each of these tools, on their own, is fine, but I'm not having any fun at all when they're used together.

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Matt Menzenski @menzen.ski · 27/01/2025

TIL that while I can exclude my kids' music choices from my Spotify profile, they still get included in my last.fm scrobbles 😫

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Matt Menzenski @menzen.ski · 24/01/2025

All I'm asking for is rich metadata applied consistently to every resource in every piece of software I interact with, ever, the ability to query those resources by that metadata easily, and the ability to add my own metadata. Is that so much to ask?

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Matt Menzenski @menzen.ski · 17/01/2025

indentation issues in helm values.yaml files are going to be the death of me

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Matt Menzenski @menzen.ski · 16/01/2025

I don’t know what a Zoom Room is and at this point I’m too afraid to ask.

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Matt Menzenski @menzen.ski · 16/01/2025

I really want a Dvorak typewriter

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Matt Menzenski @menzen.ski · 15/01/2025

Post a picture of yourself from a different era (me in fall 2010 after a 120 mile fixed gear ride)

A man standing next to a bicycle. He is leaning and sort of sitting on the top tube of it. He is wearing a black cycling cap with cycling sunglasses on the brim, a black and red cycling jersey unzipped to show a white t-shirt undeneath, and grey cycling pants which are longer than shorts but shorter than pants. The bike is a brown Surly Cross-Check fixed gear, with a large front disk brake, a rear rack with panniers, and bullhorn bars with a headlight on them. He is in a residential neighborhood on a nice day - a house and garden are visible in the background. He looks kind of tired, like he just did a long ride on the bike.

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Matt Menzenski @menzen.ski · 14/01/2025

When you receive one of your favorite books in the mail to your home address, but you don't remember ordering it (and can't find any order in your email), and you don't think any of the people who know it's a favorite of yours have your home address... hmm.

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leon @leyawn.bsky.social · 07/01/2025

where does the new york times even find these people

A screenshot of a New York Times update that says: In Grand Central Terminal, Leon Chang, 26, of Brooklyn, said he had not heard of congestion pricing and asked what it was. When explained it was a toll for cars entering Manhattan, he then asked “What do you mean? What is a car?” Walking outside, we showed him a vehicle parked on the street. He gently touched the hood of the car. “You wish to forbid these majestic beasts from entering the city,” he said in a wistful tone. “It is a folly of man. The desire to tame the world around us.”

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Matt Menzenski @menzen.ski · 02/01/2025

And the LAUNCHPAD 😍😍😍

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Matt Menzenski @menzen.ski · 02/01/2025

@dagster.io really is just awesome. Especially loving all the metadata/visibility it provides above and beyond actually running jobs and materializing assets.

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Matt Menzenski @menzen.ski · 30/12/2024

FWIW @matthewskelton.bsky.social is an imposter, please do not follow or engage. I've reported this account for impersonation. (Matthew Skelton's real account is @matthewskelton.com )

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Matt Menzenski @menzen.ski · 24/12/2024

I see your “camel-cased column names” and raise you “column names beginning with a $”

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Matt Menzenski @menzen.ski · 21/12/2024

Interviewer: can you explain this gap in your resume? Programmer: that’s not a gap, it’s a tab Other programmer: no, it’s four spaces

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Matt Menzenski @menzen.ski · 19/12/2024

Anyone know when the 2024 Jira Wrapped drops? Looking forward to seeing what my top projects were this year.

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Matt Menzenski @menzen.ski · 19/12/2024

Meet our new-to-us third cat. Her name is Tomato Cat.

Cat standing on a half-wall looking at camera

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Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 16/12/2024

die-hard | adjective | strongly or fanatically determined or devoted Die Hard | noun | a Christmas movie

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Matt Menzenski @menzen.ski · 15/12/2024

Took my kids (5 and 3) to the trampoline park and swimming at the Y yesterday, and to a different trampoline park today, by myself. I am bushed.

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Matt Menzenski @menzen.ski · 12/12/2024

Where are my fellow Lego nerds at? #lego

View of a corner in a house. The ceiling is sloped - it is a finished attic. There are white floating shelves on the wall to the right, covered in assembled Lego sets. On the left there is a white chair behind a white desk with drawers. On the wall behind the desk are many drawer units mounted to the wall. All the drawer units have little labels on the little drawers in them. There must be a thousand little drawers. On top of the drawer units is a row of Lego cars.

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Chaucer Doth Tweet @levostregc.bsky.social · 12/12/2024

Usinge AI to learne to wryte ys lyke having a robot go to the gym for you

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Matt Menzenski @menzen.ski · 10/12/2024

When you update an open-source tool that you use and it has a new feature that you had requested 🤩

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Matt Menzenski @menzen.ski · 10/12/2024

I will not write my own Kubernetes operator. I will not write my own Kubernetes operator. I will not write my own Kubernetes operator. I will not write my own Kubernetes operator. I will not write my own Kubernetes operator. I will not write my own Kubernetes operator. I will not write my own Kubern

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Matt Menzenski @menzen.ski · 06/12/2024

It’s the most wonderful time of the year (making lots of cookies time)

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Matt Menzenski @menzen.ski · 05/12/2024

RFC, ISO, IaC, PaC, SaaS, CI/CD, PaaP

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Matt Menzenski @menzen.ski · 05/12/2024

Can’t find my flat-bar pogies :(

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Matt Menzenski @menzen.ski · 04/12/2024

Very happy to report that my Spotify wrapped does not include the paw patrol theme song or the blaze theme song

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Matt Menzenski @menzen.ski · 04/12/2024

As a trained linguist and as someone who is team kubecuddle I want to point out that language change is natural and version 1.9 was a long time ago. The community of speakers was much smaller then; it’s natural that as the community has grown, communication norms have shifted.

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Matt Menzenski @menzen.ski · 03/12/2024

I am excited to share that I’ve been selected to serve as a program co-chair for the Platform Engineering Day conference, co-located with KubeCon EU 2025 in London!

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Hello Matt Menzenski,

We are pleased to inform you that you have been selected as a Program Committee Member for CNCF-Hosted Co-located events at KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2025!

Please find the details below on the co-located event you’ve been assigned based on your answers from the interest survey:

Assigned Event: Platform Engineering Day Europe
Assigned Role: Program Co-Chair

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