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Piers Karsenbarg

@piers.dev
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Architecting Solutions at Pulumi. Also husband, dogfather and dad to a small human. He/Him. links.piers.dev

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Piers Karsenbarg @piers.dev · 06/03/2026
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a man and a woman are looking at each other and the man is asking " both "
Alt: a man and a woman are looking at each other and the man is asking " both "
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Piers Karsenbarg @piers.dev · 06/03/2026
Thank you. So many people on twitter suggesting that it’s all his fault for letting AI run with no checks but actually he’s an idiot for not properly managing his IaC state
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Hannah Al-Othman @hannahalothman.bsky.social · 01/02/2026
Just updating my calendar and Shrove Tuesday 🥞, Lunar New Year 🧧, and the start of Ramadan 🌙 are all set to fall on the same day this year (February 17th), which feels pretty special.
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Piers Karsenbarg @piers.dev · 15/11/2025
Same with Google docs. I’m sure @cassidoo.co did a video suggesting using different shades of background for this as well
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Piers Karsenbarg @piers.dev · 14/11/2025
Oreoboreos
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Piers Karsenbarg @piers.dev · 08/11/2025
You did
Screenshot of a post by the user I’m replying to that suggests that they didn’t read their own post.
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Piers Karsenbarg @piers.dev · 08/11/2025
What the hell happened for it to be unavailable?
Web page unavailable because people are too lazy to work out how to stay consistent with the UK online safety act
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Piers Karsenbarg @piers.dev · 06/11/2025
Round my way they used to use plastic bags for the body and head - maybe since you can’t get them anymore, bags for life just don’t work as well?
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Piers Karsenbarg @piers.dev · 03/05/2025
That’s a film I’d watch
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The AWS News Feed @aws-news.com · 01/05/2025
Pulumi ESC provides a centralized solution for managing secrets across multiple environments, helping organizations reduce security risks, simplify credential rotation, and maintain consistent access controls.
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How to strengthen Cloud Security with Pulumi ESC and AWS Secrets Manager
Pulumi ESC provides a centralized solution for managing secrets across multiple environments, helping organizations reduce security risks, simplify credential rotation, and maintain consistent access controls.
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Zachary Cook @zac.direct · 16/04/2025
I'm speaking at #PulumiUP 2025! 🚀Join us for a virtual event packed with real-world platform engineering / #DevOps stories, expert discussions, and technical demos. Excited to share #cloud and #platformengineering stories! Join us for expert sessions, live demos, IaC, and #CloudSecurity lessons.
Zachary Cook bio card for speaking about Pulumi and Platform Engineering at PulumiUP 2025.  Tuesday, May 6th, 9AM ET / 4PM PT / 2 PM (UTC +1)
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Piers Karsenbarg @piers.dev · 20/04/2025
Works great as a CV builder? People think they need it to be “web scale” or “cloud agnostic”? Admittedly the second is partially correct in that it’s more cloud agnostic than managed services.
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Piers Karsenbarg @piers.dev · 19/04/2025
What’s the difference between being over for business and working remotely whilst you’re there?
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LocalStack @localstack.cloud · 10/04/2025
🚀 You can run Pulumi Automation API tests locally using LocalStack! This allows you to test your Pulumi IaC programs locally, with which you can: ✅ Get instant dev feedback ✅ Remove flaky integration tests ✅ Avoid deploying resources to AWS Learn how: blog.localstack.cloud/integration-...
blog.localstack.cloud
Integration testing for Pulumi programs with LocalStack & Automation API
Learn how to use LocalStack and Pulumi's Automation API to run integration tests for your cloud infrastructure on your local machine.
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Pulumi @pulumi.com · 09/04/2025
Pulumi's Model Context Protocol (MCP) server is out! Spin up cloud infra straight from any LLM-based MCP client, including Claude, VS Code, Cursor, Windsurf, and more 🛠 In this video, we create IaC in Python and spin up a Kubernetes cluster in AWS with 1-sentence prompt 💥
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Piers Karsenbarg @piers.dev · 12/03/2025
The username of the poster threw me for a second. I was trying to work out what’s a famous three minute long doctor who scene before actually realising what was happening
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Doctors TARDIS @doctorstardis.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
We can upload 3 minute videos now. YOU KNOW THE RULE
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sarah jeong @sarahjeong.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
less than five hundred years ago even the most powerful monarch was at the mercy of childhood disease and weather. now we can do literal concrete things about both and are in fact actively choosing to die of childhood disease and weather
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Piers Karsenbarg @piers.dev · 09/03/2025
I wonder how much of that is the useful stuff in powershell has been around for a while and is well before any cut off date for the AI models
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Piers Karsenbarg @piers.dev · 08/03/2025
What do folks here think? I suspect that the mindset on bluesky is a bit different from X (report for reach please)
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Piers Karsenbarg @piers.dev · 08/03/2025
Even if this is a joke, this is the reason I’ve avoided using an AI tool in my IDE or for coding in general. I’m worried I’m not going to learn new things
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Piers Karsenbarg @piers.dev · 08/03/2025
I posted this on the other place and I’m interested in seeing the responses to the folks here for comparison: In response to someone saying that that they’re too lazy to look stuff up and they’re getting to the point where they’re using Cursor and not even reading the responses, I wrote:
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muscular baby jeb lund @mobute.bsky.social · 08/03/2025
if you replaced these guys' inboxes with a woman sportswriter's, they'd commit suicide by lunchtime
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Piers Karsenbarg @piers.dev · 08/03/2025
Will orbstack.dev work for you? Does DIND but not sure what your container bug is tbh
orbstack.dev
OrbStack · Fast, light, simple Docker & Linux
Say goodbye to slow, clunky containers and VMs. The fast, light, and easy way to run containers and Linux. Develop at lightspeed with our Docker Desktop alternative.
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Kefimochi @kefimochi.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
✨ HIRE ME ✨ I'm a Full Stack software engineer with 5+ years of experience, looking for my next opportunity. My personal values include psychological safety, D&I, and direct communication. Please share for reach <3 docs.google.com/document/d/1...
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Barry Dorrans @blowdart.me · 03/03/2025
It’s not wrong
A diagram labelled pride versioning

A version number of 2.7.123 is shown

A line pointing to the 2 describes it as “proud version, bump when you are proud of the release”

A line pointing to the 7 calls it “default version. Just normal/okay releases”

A line pointing to the 123 calls it the “shame versions. bump when fixing things too embarrassing to admit”
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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
american masculinity is so amazing. caring about clothes as a man apparently makes you "gay" but our position on geopolitics totally depends on whether you wear a suit
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Piers Karsenbarg @piers.dev · 01/03/2025
Check go mods as well if you use that kind of thing - even if you don’t write go but use “go install” for some software
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Josh Kodroff @joshkodroff.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
If you are not fully aware of the downsides of using Kubernetes and accept them as necessary due to your organization's scale, then you do not need Kubernetes and should instead use a managed container service.
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Piers Karsenbarg @piers.dev · 01/03/2025
I think we could all learn something here
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shauna @goldengateblond.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
literally every time I talk to friends
three panel cartoon by @emilyscartoons.bsky.social … in the first panel one person says "let's not talk about politics any more, I can't bear it" and the other person replies "same." in the second panel, they say nothing. in the third panel, the first person yells "THE THING IS THOUGH" and the second person yells back "THOSE FUCKING IDIOTS"
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Piers Karsenbarg @piers.dev · 20/02/2025
Simple answer is that it supports (nearly) all the different API versions available in the ARM API spec. That’s a lot of endpoints
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Piers Karsenbarg @piers.dev · 15/02/2025
Generally very large organisations who have slowly moved into the cloud
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Piers Karsenbarg @piers.dev · 15/02/2025
Clickops is definitely not dead. I talk to at least one or two companies a week that are only just starting to investigate IaC and are months off starting to implement it
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 11/02/2025
Woke White House bans AP from event over deadnaming the Gulf of Mexico. www.newsweek.com/reporter-bar...
newsweek.com
Reporter barred from Oval Office over 'Gulf of America' clash, outlet says
On January 23, the Associated Press announced that it would continue to refer to the Gulf of Mexico by its original name.
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David Flanagan @rawkode.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
Excited to have @piers.dev walking us through the @pulumi.com Kubernetes Operator at @kubernetes.london
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Piers Karsenbarg @piers.dev · 09/02/2025
Would love to dive into what you mean by “confusing” and how we can make adjustments to limit the confusion. Can you give some examples?
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Chad Loder @chadloder.dev · 04/02/2025
Can't wait for a 25-year-old to bring down the entire Treasury IPAC system because he tried to export some data with a COBOL routine he cooked up on ChatGPT IBM Federal Technology Services dudes flying in some grumpy retiree on a helicopter to tell him he voided the warranty by touching the thing
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Piers Karsenbarg @piers.dev · 03/02/2025
Word that in English is close to the name of an early advisor to the founders who sadly passed and so is memorialised in this way.
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Piers Karsenbarg @piers.dev · 02/02/2025
I was raised on these streets
Screenshot of the game Repton on the BBC microcomputer
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Piers Karsenbarg @piers.dev · 17/01/2025
I’m intrigued by I use google calendar and drive and photos so much that it’s really hard to do
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Piers Karsenbarg @piers.dev · 16/01/2025
Trick question - none of them
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Piers Karsenbarg @piers.dev · 14/01/2025
I did very much enjoy all the replies to him. Unfortunately it probably took a little away from what you were actually trying to find out, but I did enjoy that
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Kylie Eleison @gonebabygone.bsky.social · 14/01/2025
Gonna be a big week for this
Cartoon by Matty Lubchansky
First panel: one person says “wow did you hear about (redacted)? Turns out he’s a real creep” Second person says “that’s a bummer, I love his movies”
Second panel: first person saying “yeah they mean a ton to me too. Lots to reckon with.” A guy crouching in a black robe says “it’s not a big deal, actually, since I…”
Third panel: the guy dramatically casts off his robe and says “I… never cared for his work!” The first person kneels and says “oh my! A true genius!” while the second says “we’re in the presence of a visionary!”
Fourth panel: the second person says “what’s your secret?” and the guy, offscreen hands putting a crown and ermine cape on him, says “I’ve never liked anything, or anyone”
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Piers Karsenbarg @piers.dev · 13/01/2025
Amazing!! Congratulations!!
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Piers Karsenbarg @piers.dev · 13/01/2025
I will admit I never thought I’d see this as a list I’d be added to
Notifications saying that I have been added to a bluesky block list called “block furry posts”
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Piers Karsenbarg @piers.dev · 07/01/2025
Oh you added them to the pulumiConfig section? Yeah env vars are the way.
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a knight with a helmet and a sword says " this is the way "
Alt: A gif from the series “The Mandalorian” with the armourer saying “the is the way”
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Piers Karsenbarg @piers.dev · 07/01/2025
ESC is the way through this. ESC and OIDC
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Piers Karsenbarg @piers.dev · 07/01/2025
It’ll read the environment variables if you use those. Won’t just pull from vscode though
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Piers Karsenbarg @piers.dev · 07/01/2025
You say that but when you see that there isn’t any generated output you’ll start to enjoy yourself.
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