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Justin Plock

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Justin Plock @plock.social · 10/10/2026
that's pretty sweet. i can't imagine how'd you'd get that though.
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Paul Marvin @paulmarvin.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
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Justin Plock @plock.social · 03/10/2026
@orhun.dev i made a ratatui + duckdb + ollama offline, single binary, data analytics tool github.com/smoketurner/...
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GitHub - smoketurner/quack: One offline agent that answers across your tables, your documents, and the knowledge graph between them.
One offline agent that answers across your tables, your documents, and the knowledge graph between them. - smoketurner/quack
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Bryan Cantrill @bcantrill.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Slides for my #monktoberfest talk today, "Execution in the Kingdom of Agents: Reflections on Abstraction and Complexity"; video to come! speakerdeck.com/bcantrill/ex...
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Execution in the Kingdom of Agents: Reflections on Abstraction and Complexity
Talk I gave at Monktoberfest 2026; video to come!
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Matthew Sanabria @matthewsanabria.com · 02/10/2026
The primitives you expose that others use and build upon matter. Actually, that's sometimes all that matters about a product.
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Abdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
I'd rather have an economy that makes 1,000 millionaires than 1 billionaire.
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Justin Plock @plock.social · 02/10/2026
Is this revenue truly "recurring" though? Unless these are long term commitments with maybe custom pricing (?), it seems very unsticky to me 🤷
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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 29/09/2026
“What if we released malware represented in the form of a cute avatar” is an actual business plan now.
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Dots are OpenAI's new personal agents and soon you'll be able to control several of them - Engadget
Sure, seems safe.
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Justin Plock @plock.social · 29/09/2026
One of the reasons I made quack. Separate DuckDB workspaces + Ollama for chat/embeddings + document extraction and ontology generation. MVP v0 for now. Feedback welcome. github.com/smoketurner/...
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GitHub - smoketurner/quack: One offline agent that answers across your tables, your documents, and the knowledge graph between them.
One offline agent that answers across your tables, your documents, and the knowledge graph between them. - smoketurner/quack
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Dan Ciruli @danciruli.cloud · 28/09/2026
USB-C is the best technology in so long. I bring ONE type of adaptor on business trips now (to charge my computer, my phone, my tablet, my earbuds, my watch, my headphones). I'm sitting in a meeting right now using my Mac and am borrowing the cord from a ThinkPad user. Standards win.
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Biggie @biggienotsmalls.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Should be reposted every month....
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Dare Obasanjo @carnage4life.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
After a few months of living the AI native lifestyle, I now believe the default state is that it makes you worse at your job overtime as you understand less and hand off more thinking to AI. You’re more productive but it takes a lot of effort for your work quality not to drop precipitously.
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Justin Plock @plock.social · 24/09/2026
#preinvent
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Justin Plock @plock.social · 21/09/2026
I'm glad we've re-invented a worse cable TV. Getting a blu-ray player seems like a good option at this point.
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Camille Fournier @skamille.themanagerswrath.com · 20/09/2026
If you want a Sunday morning longread I wrote up a rough version of the talk I gave at LDX3 this week on the Manager's Path in the Age of AI skamille.medium.com/the-managers...
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The Manager’s Path in the Age of AI
This week, I gave a talk at LDX3 New York. When they asked me to speak and asked me for a topic, I said that it was probably time I finally…
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Bryan Cantrill @bcantrill.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
The contagion of fear bcantrill.dtrace.org/2026/09/13/t...
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The contagion of fear | The Observation Deck
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 12/09/2026
mackenzie scott really seems like the only billionaire to figure out that you can be a literal hero to millions with a relative pittance
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PlanetScale @planetscale.com · 11/09/2026
118,538,803 queries per second. 1.22 PiB of data. 512 shards. Powered by Neki. planetscale.com/blog/118-mil...
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118 million queries per second on Neki — PlanetScale
We ran a massive, sharded Postgres database at 118.5 million queries per second, with 200k queries per second on each shard across 512 shards.
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Bryan Cantrill @bcantrill.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Slides from my keynote this morning at #RustConf on the history of Rust at @oxide.computer; video to come! speakerdeck.com/bcantrill/ru...
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Rust, In Sickness & In Health
Keynote given at RustConf 2026 on September 10th, 2026 in Montreal. Video to come!
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Mark Z. Jacobson @mzjacobson.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
This is how fast oil use can disappear China's reduction in oil consumption during first half of 2026 due to replacement of fossil vehicles with EVs exceeded the UK’s entire oil consumption during that period China’s CO2 emis fall Q226 due to plummeting oil use carbonbrief.org/analysis-chi...
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Analysis: China’s CO2 emissions fall in Q2 2026 due to plummeting oil use - Carbon Brief
China’s carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions fell by 1% in the second quarter of 2026, as oil consumption plummeted amid the strait of Hormuz crisis.
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Bryan Cantrill @bcantrill.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
The revolt of the reader bcantrill.dtrace.org/2026/09/05/t...
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The revolt of the reader | The Observation Deck
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Josh W. Comeau @joshwcomeau.com · 03/09/2026
This is a *wild* thing to send to your employees. Just canceled my 1Password business subscription. It was super easy to switch, literally just exported my archive and imported it into ProtonPass. Took 2 minutes, and it'll save me ~$100/year.
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Oxide Computer Company @oxide.computer · 01/09/2026
With Oxide, your compute gets more valuable over time, not less. The same Rack Model 0 we launched in 2023 now supports more than 2x the vCPUs per rack with our latest compute sleds and system version 21 which adds support for Zen 5c processors.
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Eric Johnson @edjgeek.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Ok, I am not a rust guy, but I AM a durable functions guy so I am really excited about this. There is now a preview release of the rust sdk for AWS Lambda durable functions!! Check it out and let us know what you think. Also, help us make it better! github.com/aws/aws-dura...
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GitHub - aws/aws-durable-execution-sdk-rust: Experimental preview. NOT FOR PRODUCTION USE.
Experimental preview. NOT FOR PRODUCTION USE. Contribute to aws/aws-durable-execution-sdk-rust development by creating an account on GitHub.
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Hendrik Mans @hmans.dev · 18/08/2026
First time using the Azure developer portal and I already want to burn my computers and move into the woods
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Justin Plock @plock.social · 16/08/2026
Just published v2026.8.4 of Vouch with CI improvements (SLSA Level 3 compliance) and support for AWS IAM Identity Center account manager. github.com/vouch-sh/vou...
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Release v2026.8.4 · vouch-sh/vouch
Installation Homebrew (macOS) brew install vouch-sh/tap/vouch To start the agent automatically: brew services start vouch winget (Windows) winget install SmokeTurner.Vouch APT Repository (Debian/Ub...
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Justin Plock @plock.social · 14/08/2026
nextgen honey pot
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Phil Calçado @philcalcado.com · 12/08/2026
For ten years I've run the same RFC process for how engineers make technical decisions. In just a few months, AI broke its foundational assumption that a good document meant somebody had done research work So I wrote an update for an AI world—as an RFC, obviously philcalcado.com/2026/07/10/w...
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Writing AI-Assisted RFCs
The Structured RFC Process was built on the assumption that people hate writing. LLMs inverted it, so the format had to change to protect the one thing still scarce in a review: human attention.
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Justin Plock @plock.social · 26/07/2026
Release v2026.7.3 of Vouch last night with improved audit logging github.com/vouch-sh/vou...
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Release v2026.7.3 · vouch-sh/vouch
Installation Homebrew (macOS) brew install vouch-sh/tap/vouch To start the agent automatically: brew services start vouch winget (Windows) winget install SmokeTurner.Vouch APT Repository (Debian/Ub...
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Dr. Jonathan Foley @globalecoguy.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
I especially love this diagram.
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Oxide Computer Company @oxide.computer · 18/06/2026
When you’re building distributed systems from the ground up, every layer is a place where you can make the network faster. But every slowdown is a problem you own. sgkaram.bsky.social just pushed his first (of many) Oxide blogs on tuning network performance across an Oxide system. buff.ly/XV9kmIW
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Performance Has Layers | Oxide Computer Company
Tuning network performance across the layers of a stack you build end to end
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Ars Technica @arstechnica.com · 03/06/2026
If you’re one of our many readers who wants an electric car that won’t track you, Slate might have what you’re looking for.
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Slate Auto gets serious about privacy for its bare-bones EV pickup
With no embedded modem, the Slate Truck is the antithesis of today's connected cars.
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Camille Fournier @skamille.themanagerswrath.com · 31/05/2026
Boring but functional post on something I think more leaders need to address: guidelines for respectful use of AI medium.com/@skamille/gu...
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Guidelines for Respectful Use of AI
As companies adopt AI tools, a lot of time is spent on thinking about AI policies from a security, compliance, or even cost-focused angle…
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Justin Plock @plock.social · 26/05/2026
this is cool Joe!
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Justin Plock @plock.social · 06/05/2026
i think the difference is, as an IC, i can build the agents around my abilities and workflow. if hired as a new manager and told to manage an existing agent team, not sure how much i'd enjoy that. who's going to share memes all day?
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Justin Plock @plock.social · 06/05/2026
i'd rather be an IC using AI tools than a manager forced to manage teams of agents
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Nic McConnell @mcconnell.bsky.social · 02/05/2026
A class at my kids’ school put up little statements about the good they want to do in the world and I was over the moon about this one - then I learned they meant to say “teach people in jail” which is also good!
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Eric Johnson @edjgeek.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
It's 2026 and people are still writing posts about cold starts being the reason not to go serverless. So I made a gravestone, built a benchmarker, and wrote about it. edjgeek.com/blog/lambda-...
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Cold Starts Are Dead — edjgeek
Lambda cold starts in 2026 are 200-400ms for Python, sub-100ms for Go and Rust, and 90-140ms for Java with SnapStart. The data says the argument is over.
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Werner @wernervogels.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
The best teams solve problems nobody notices. Ravi Nagayach, Prashant Singh, Kshitij Gupta, and the Lambda networking team have been doing exactly that for about a decade. Read their story here: www.allthingsdistributed.com/2026/04/the-...
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Bryan Cantrill @bcantrill.bsky.social · 12/04/2026
The peril of laziness lost bcantrill.dtrace.org/2026/04/12/t...
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The peril of laziness lost | The Observation Deck
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Justin Plock @plock.social · 03/04/2026
I think it's time I finally donate this hoodie from 2013. RICON|East was the only conference I've ever been too with personalized hoodies. Mine has my @jplock GitHub handle down the right sleeve. 🪦 Basho
Black zipper sweatshirt with RICON|East on the side
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Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 03/04/2026
My upcoming book, Crisis of the Common Good, is all about the underlying spiritual sickness in America - how we have come to worship profit, consumption, and technology at the expense of real meaning and connection. Here are the dates for the book tour.
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Kelsey Hightower @kelseyhightower.com · 01/04/2026
Watching the tech industry unleash unpredictable software into production in the name of AI adoption, then spend twice as much time and money trying to limit the blast radius, proves humans should be investing in our own intelligence before allowing the machines to mimic us.
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Konnor Rogers @konnorrogers.com · 19/03/2026
Look mom! Another reason to stop using Vercel. vercel.com/legal/terms#... (Is this even legal?)
By submitting Your Content on or through the Services, you grant Vercel a worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free, fully paid, sublicensable and transferable license to use, copy, modify, adapt, reproduce, distribute, display, publish, store, perform, and create derivatives of Your Content to provide and improve the Services, develop new products and services, secure and protect the Services and third parties from fraud, abuse, malware, malicious files or content, viruses and the like.
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Justin Plock @plock.social · 14/03/2026
reminds me of this book, similar topic a.co/d/08PmjcOo
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Justin Plock @plock.social · 06/03/2026
Been working on a side project to improve the AWS CLI experience with a hardware based security posture. vouch.sh
vouch.sh
Vouch — Hardware-Backed Developer Credentials
Open-source credential broker that issues short-lived SSH, AWS, GitHub, and Kubernetes credentials after FIDO2 hardware verification.
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Justin Plock @plock.social · 23/02/2026
Definite buzzkill to have a good use case for IPv6 only to discover GitHub *still* doesn't support it on github.com ....in the year of our lord 2026.
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GitHub · Change is constant. GitHub keeps you ahead.
Join the world's most widely adopted, AI-powered developer platform where millions of developers, businesses, and the largest open source community build software that advances humanity.
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Justin Garrison @justingarrison.com · 13/02/2026
This was very well organized and I generally agree with all of the scale and architecture guidance blog.algomaster.io/p/scaling-a-...
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How to Scale a System from 0 to 10 million+ Users
Scaling is a complex topic, but after working at big tech on services handling millions of requests and scaling my own startup (AlgoMaster.io) from scratch, I’ve realized that most systems evolve thro...
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Justin Plock @plock.social · 10/02/2026
Congratulations @oxide.computer !
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Dropwizard @dropwizard.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
🚀 Dropwizard 5.0.1 has been released! #Java #Dropwizard Release Notes: github.com/dropwizard/dropwizard/re…
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