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Rob Cummings @opsrob.com · 25/09/2026

I made the switch to ghostty recently…so far so good. Being able to use the same config file across platforms is handy for me.

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Rob Cummings @opsrob.com · 15/09/2026

Definitely watching this. Very cool to think about, and so needed (once we teach the auditors how it all works).

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Rob Cummings @opsrob.com · 14/09/2026

It’s so annoying, and is unfortunately better at ignoring my various rules to not be sycophantic and just be succinctly factual …or, I should say, it’s better at finding ways around them.

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Camille Fournier @skamille.themanagerswrath.com · 20/08/2026

"From him I learned that writing requires an unending effort at something resembling authenticity. Most mistakes come from not being yourself, not saying what you think, or being afraid to figure out what you really think." (obvious conclusions left to my reader)

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Rob Cummings @opsrob.com · 29/07/2026

Todays PRs were a net delete of 4,683 lines of code. Feels like I'm doing this right for once...

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Kent Beck @kentbeck.com · 25/07/2026

I asked my daughter Beth what keeps her up at night. Not the robots doing whatever they want. The robots doing exactly what some people tell them to. We're building tech that could be a personal army, where you no longer need anyone else's help to do great harm.

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TracketPacer @tracketpacer.com · 21/07/2026

Mike & i recently tested 295 ft of uncoiled CAT6 for science TL;DR - the heat caused both coiled & uncoiled tests with the same cable to fail CAT6, but otherwise the results between them were so close we came to the conclusion that coiled vs uncoiled makes very little difference in performance 👍🏼

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Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

Some amazing quotes in this article about how Ford replaced hundreds of engineers with AI, which broke a bunch of shit causing billions in damage and forcing them to rehire those people. www.the-independent.com/tech/ford-ai...

“Artificial intelligence is a fantastic tool, but it’s only as good as the information you use to train it,” said Charles Poon, Ford’s vice president of vehicle hardware engineering.

“Mistakenly, we thought that by just introducing artificial intelligence and ingesting the design requirements that we had, that that would produce a high-quality product.”

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Rob Cummings @opsrob.com · 24/06/2026

Yesterday I facilitated a tabletop exercise focused on an earthquake at our main facility. Today there was an actual nearby 5.6 magnitude earthquake. The takeaway, I think, is I should no longer choose the tabletop scenarios.

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Rob Cummings @opsrob.com · 16/06/2026

Ok…this is very cool: commodore.net/callback/ I may have to preorder this on the 30th.

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Flip-phone - Commodore

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Rob Cummings @opsrob.com · 30/05/2026

Ballard Railroad already has a start…just saying 🚂

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Rob Cummings @opsrob.com · 29/05/2026

where is my Ballard Railroad sticker!

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Rob Cummings @opsrob.com · 29/05/2026

Feels like an opening the Ballard Terminal Railroad Company can exploit. Large capacity heavy rail into downtown…Free Ballard indeed 😂😂😂

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Ky @ky.fyi · 20/05/2026

the point of a meeting is not meeting notes, it’s decisions

A “Genspark AI” ad on the NYC Subway shows a winding path from “Listen” to “Capture” to “Key Points” to “Decisions” to “Action Items” to “Meeting Notes” compared to a straight path labeled “Genspark Fast Track” which goes from “One Tap” to “Meeting Notes”. These ads are plastered EVERYWHERE on the subway and I hate them

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Rob Cummings @opsrob.com · 04/05/2026

Dragged ..err...brought... the family to the Vintage Computer Festival PNW this weekend specifically so I could show my kids my first computer. Didn't get any other pics because the venue was packed, but it may have inspired me to acquire a TI99 4/A in the very near future.

A vintage silver and black TI99 4/A connected to a 4:3 LCD display showing a file system list

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Rob Cummings @opsrob.com · 03/05/2026

Tradewars... Although also got very into Dark Castle and Prince of Persia.

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Rob Cummings @opsrob.com · 02/05/2026

Having grown up in the Dunkin' homeland and now living in a land of no Dunkin', I have extreme nostalgia for their coffee and now craving it this morning , thanks lol. Admittedly, I have always skipped the donuts once it became harder to know if they were made in store or not (like, 20 years ago)

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Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

I am pro-shoplifting but anti-talking about it to the New York Times, so this has been a hard day for me.

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Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

i love it when Ed threatens me with a good time

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Rob Cummings @opsrob.com · 19/04/2026

I have observed in the tech space exactly the issues described, particularly with teams doing user interviews for complex requirement gathering. Post interviews synthesizing becomes overwhelming. I am ok with AI scribes as a backup, but I still rely on notes I write in my reMarkable tablet.

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Rob Cummings @opsrob.com · 16/04/2026

This is shaping up to be a banner year for exciting tech books! About to dig into the Layer Aleph crews Crisis Engineering and counting the days until my preorder of @grimalkina.bsky.social Psychology of Software Teams arrives at the bookstore.

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mr. TIM @timkellogg.me · 13/04/2026

Someone did a deep dive into Cursor Agent and discovered that it was literally just Claude Code with a process that does search and replace to brand it as Cursor Agent gist.github.com/jasonkneen/4...

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GitHub Gist: instantly share code, notes, and snippets.

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Chanea Bond @heymrsbond.com · 11/04/2026

Every single one of the astronauts who went to the moon and back on Artemis II was educated at a public school. Thinking of the teachers who poured into Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover, Christina Koch, and Jeremy Hansen tonight. You helped send a kid to the moon! 🌕 💛

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Justin Zimmerman @jztidecat.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

The important part of the automatic draft registration is that is shows we’ve always had capacity for automatic voter registration and benefits disbursement. We simply choose not to.

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Rob Cummings @opsrob.com · 11/04/2026

This would be amazing.

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Katie Moussouris (she/her/she-hulk/she-ra)🌻 @k8em0.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

Yes but how long will releasing full new versions with multiple non security changes be enough noise to slow down AI analysis when AI can systematically diff entire version updates to find the security holes? We have a serious update problem ahead, & we don’t have a safe AI answer to speed it up yet

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Lorin Hochstein @norootcause.surfingcomplexity.com · 09/04/2026

Automation can only solve your reliability problems if that automation is perfect. But if you were capable of writing perfect software, we wouldnt be talking about your reliability problems. Automation is only part of the reliability story, you’ve got to be ready for when it breaks, too.

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dbsmasher.com @dbsmasher.com · 31/03/2026

OH: the fastest way to show to your board that your company is really using AI? Sign up for a Claude enterprise plan and pay 5X the cost!

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Amara Graham @missamarakay.bsky.social · 16/03/2026

> Maybe this is our future world. But I'm opting for something different. The doubling down on the people. To be more human than ever. To light that candle and help others see that we've barely touched the surface of what community can be.

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Nire Bryce @nirebryce.breadthcharge.net · 21/03/2026

i do not think people understand how much it scares the forces of evil that you have allegiance to humanity, not any given nation

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Dez Fenton @butisitart.bsky.social · 22/03/2026

You know how in a library no one’s trying to sell you anything? That’s how the internet was.

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Genie Lauren @moreandagain.me · 21/03/2026

This is the real takeaway from the Parable series — that we should find our people and organize our lives together. Not, "Octavia Butler predicted the future."

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Rob Cummings @opsrob.com · 21/03/2026

Evergreen topic with my financial advisor :)

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 19/03/2026

I don't think either political party -- or anyone in politics, really -- is thinking in ambitious enough terms about the electricity grid. We need to start thinking of it as the foundation of our 21st century economy & prosperity. It needs to be rethought, rebuilt, & made a solid base for growth.

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Rob Cummings @opsrob.com · 20/03/2026

Makes accelerating my next career move of sitting on the porch yelling at kids heading into high school across the street to skip college and take up a trade fucking appealing.

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Rob Cummings @opsrob.com · 20/03/2026

Dealing with exclusively copilot written and incorrect technical emails from vendors and other execs trying to show up as more knowledgeable in a space I have been in for (check notes) 30 years is exhausting and...not fulfilling.

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Miriam Posner @miriamposner.com · 18/03/2026

*breathing into a paper bag*

PDF of book proofs:
SEEING LIKE A SUPPLY CHAIN
The Hidden Life of Logistics
MIRIAM POSNER
Yale University Press
New Haven and London

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Lorin Hochstein @norootcause.surfingcomplexity.com · 17/03/2026

The consequences of being able to generate code with AI much more quickly than we can validate that code is Nature’s way of teaching us about Erik Hollnagel’s ETTO Principle. www.erikhollnagel.com/ideas/etto-pr…

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Mike Eliason @holz-bau.bsky.social · 12/03/2026

we are laying the ground work to build some of the most community-oriented, family-friendly, and climate adaptive #socialhousing in the world. LFG!!!

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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 06/03/2026

Literally as I’m arguing with someone about whether AI companies are misleading people into believing their technology possesses God-like super-intelligence I see this monstrosity

A post on X from the betting platform Polymarket that says “BREAKING: Anthropic CEO says Claude may or may not have gained consciousness, as the model has begun showing symptoms of anxiety.”

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Rob Cummings @opsrob.com · 04/03/2026

After the AWS outages in UAE over the weekend due to drone debris, I wonder the same thing about US based hyperscaler data centers. Their locations are not exactly secret, fragile roofs, and I can't imagine they have drone protection (at least not yet).

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Rob Cummings @opsrob.com · 03/03/2026

+1 all of this, especially the media comment. Al Jazeera is the closest you are going to get to on the ground reporting reality. www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblo...

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US, Israel attack Iran updates: Trump says war to last 4-5 weeks

US president says attacks on Iran will continue until all objectives are met as Tehran keeps up raids on US assets.

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Rob Cummings @opsrob.com · 02/03/2026

Repairing specialized equipment in a war zone where engineers are justifiably focused on their safety and no ability to fly equipment/people in is very non-trivial.

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Rob Cummings @opsrob.com · 02/03/2026

I can't remember last time, if any, that AWS recommended enacting DR plans to restore in an alternate region? Folks running in UAE just got asked to move over to EU. health.aws.amazon.com/health/status "Falling objects" starting a fire in one AZ and now power disruption in second AZ.

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View the overall status and health of AWS services using the AWS Health Dashboard.

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Rob Cummings @opsrob.com · 02/03/2026

France just announced they are going to expand their nuclear stockpile and allow deployment to allied countries. This is the right answer for every country, unfortunately. US has made it clear what happens if you give up your nukes. Amazing timeline we are in. aje.news/wwomw4?updat...

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Iran targets energy sites as Israel hits Tehran, Beirut; US jets crash

US president says attacks on Iran will continue until all objectives are met, as Tehran keeps up raids on US assets.

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