Piers Karsenbarg @piers.dev · 06/03/2026media.tenor.coma 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 " 040
Piers Karsenbarg @piers.dev · 06/03/2026Thank 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 130
Reposted by Piers KarsenbargHannah Al-Othman @hannahalothman.bsky.social · 01/02/2026Just 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. 1132
Piers Karsenbarg @piers.dev · 15/11/2025Same with Google docs. I’m sure @cassidoo.co did a video suggesting using different shades of background for this as well 130
Piers Karsenbarg @piers.dev · 06/11/2025Round 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? 000
Reposted by Piers KarsenbargThe AWS News Feed @aws-news.com · 01/05/2025Pulumi ESC provides a centralized solution for managing secrets across multiple environments, helping organizations reduce security risks, simplify credential rotation, and maintain consistent access controls.aws-news.comHow to strengthen Cloud Security with Pulumi ESC and AWS Secrets ManagerPulumi ESC provides a centralized solution for managing secrets across multiple environments, helping organizations reduce security risks, simplify credential rotation, and maintain consistent access controls. 001
Reposted by Piers KarsenbargZachary Cook @zac.direct · 16/04/2025I'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. 012
Piers Karsenbarg @piers.dev · 20/04/2025Works 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. 010
Piers Karsenbarg @piers.dev · 19/04/2025What’s the difference between being over for business and working remotely whilst you’re there? 130
Reposted by Piers KarsenbargLocalStack @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.cloudIntegration testing for Pulumi programs with LocalStack & Automation APILearn how to use LocalStack and Pulumi's Automation API to run integration tests for your cloud infrastructure on your local machine. 043
Reposted by Piers KarsenbargPulumi @pulumi.com · 09/04/2025Pulumi'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 💥 1146
Piers Karsenbarg @piers.dev · 12/03/2025The 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 000
Reposted by Piers KarsenbargDoctors TARDIS @doctorstardis.bsky.social · 10/03/2025We can upload 3 minute videos now. YOU KNOW THE RULE 18290774576
Reposted by Piers Karsenbargsarah jeong @sarahjeong.bsky.social · 12/03/2025less 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 584923980
Piers Karsenbarg @piers.dev · 09/03/2025I 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 100
Piers Karsenbarg @piers.dev · 08/03/2025What do folks here think? I suspect that the mindset on bluesky is a bit different from X (report for reach please) 200
Piers Karsenbarg @piers.dev · 08/03/2025Even 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 200
Piers Karsenbarg @piers.dev · 08/03/2025I 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: 100
Reposted by Piers Karsenbargmuscular baby jeb lund @mobute.bsky.social · 08/03/2025if you replaced these guys' inboxes with a woman sportswriter's, they'd commit suicide by lunchtime 175115652412
Piers Karsenbarg @piers.dev · 08/03/2025Will orbstack.dev work for you? Does DIND but not sure what your container bug is tbhorbstack.devOrbStack · Fast, light, simple Docker & LinuxSay 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. 120
Reposted by Piers KarsenbargKefimochi @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... 29432257
Reposted by Piers Karsenbargderek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 01/03/2025american 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 803500887472
Piers Karsenbarg @piers.dev · 01/03/2025Check 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 040
Reposted by Piers KarsenbargJosh Kodroff @joshkodroff.bsky.social · 28/02/2025If 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. 001
Reposted by Piers Karsenbargshauna @goldengateblond.bsky.social · 01/03/2025literally every time I talk to friends 236203804200
Piers Karsenbarg @piers.dev · 20/02/2025Simple answer is that it supports (nearly) all the different API versions available in the ARM API spec. That’s a lot of endpoints 000
Piers Karsenbarg @piers.dev · 15/02/2025Generally very large organisations who have slowly moved into the cloud 010
Piers Karsenbarg @piers.dev · 15/02/2025Clickops 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 210
Reposted by Piers KarsenbargAlejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 11/02/2025Woke White House bans AP from event over deadnaming the Gulf of Mexico. www.newsweek.com/reporter-bar...newsweek.comReporter barred from Oval Office over 'Gulf of America' clash, outlet saysOn January 23, the Associated Press announced that it would continue to refer to the Gulf of Mexico by its original name. 541708249
Reposted by Piers KarsenbargDavid Flanagan @rawkode.bsky.social · 11/02/2025Excited to have @piers.dev walking us through the @pulumi.com Kubernetes Operator at @kubernetes.london 091
Piers Karsenbarg @piers.dev · 09/02/2025Would love to dive into what you mean by “confusing” and how we can make adjustments to limit the confusion. Can you give some examples? 110
Reposted by Piers KarsenbargChad Loder @chadloder.dev · 04/02/2025Can'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 1356882
Piers Karsenbarg @piers.dev · 03/02/2025Word 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. 010
Piers Karsenbarg @piers.dev · 17/01/2025I’m intrigued by I use google calendar and drive and photos so much that it’s really hard to do 120
Piers Karsenbarg @piers.dev · 14/01/2025I 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 010
Reposted by Piers KarsenbargKylie Eleison @gonebabygone.bsky.social · 14/01/2025Gonna be a big week for this 212257442
Piers Karsenbarg @piers.dev · 13/01/2025I will admit I never thought I’d see this as a list I’d be added to 150
Piers Karsenbarg @piers.dev · 07/01/2025Oh you added them to the pulumiConfig section? Yeah env vars are the way.media.tenor.coma 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” 010
Piers Karsenbarg @piers.dev · 07/01/2025It’ll read the environment variables if you use those. Won’t just pull from vscode though 100
Piers Karsenbarg @piers.dev · 07/01/2025You say that but when you see that there isn’t any generated output you’ll start to enjoy yourself. 000