reid @reid9.bsky.social · 30/04/2026Can we move past looking at the mythicized origins of tech companies for management book fodder? Not yet? Okay. 000
reid @reid9.bsky.social · 18/04/2026sometimes community care is getting between 2 people on some strong uppers getting into a fist fight on the red line platform, then breaking up ANOTHER fight that one of them started on a train car, and the person you saved from the second fight saying "he's probably a f*g" 000
reid @reid9.bsky.social · 10/03/2026Do you think these trends, or at least those discussion points still more or less hold up today/has there been a shift or stayed the same? I also assume there's also been a slow but steady decline in the popularity of tutoring over the years, at least in the US. 100
reid @reid9.bsky.social · 14/02/2026Ah yes, the thing that has zero original thoughts and requires pedantic levels of explicit direction. We just need to go zero to one! 000
reid @reid9.bsky.social · 07/01/2026I feel like 2026 is not the year to pretend like management and tech can be this morally pure ethical fantasyland if you just ignore the layers of exploitation making it happen 120
reid @reid9.bsky.social · 30/12/2025I now usually wait to be the absolute last person to board (no carry-on). Enormous psychological gains 000
reid @reid9.bsky.social · 25/12/2025if we have to keep the term "cost center" around maybe we can at least apply it to all functional teams rather than just any team whose work we want to devalue. actually, maybe i agree with drucker - all teams are cost centers, and the only profit center is a check that doesn't bounce 110
reid @reid9.bsky.social · 19/12/2025who wants to watch this for 8 hours with me www.youtube.com/watch?v=WCs-...youtube.comyou have found the mythical seal caveYouTube video by AZALI 000
reid @reid9.bsky.social · 18/12/2025Is plex included in the retention benefits? Is it like COBRA where I'll need to pay extra to retain coverage? 010
reid @reid9.bsky.social · 07/12/2025@lizthegrey.com phrase from today that will stick with me: "paws on keyboard" 🐾🐾 181
reid @reid9.bsky.social · 04/12/2025literally said this today at work + saying it tomorrow in a talk 010
reid @reid9.bsky.social · 03/12/2025desperately not wanting to be part of the system (that feeling is part of the system) 010
reid @reid9.bsky.social · 02/12/2025I feel like the Steam Machine is going to revitalize the HTPC market. 000
reid @reid9.bsky.social · 01/12/2025one sentence horror: "And when I explained this to Alice, my ChatGPT therapist, she understood." 000
reid @reid9.bsky.social · 29/11/2025but, going to start trying the opposite. no big reason other than my original point, that my shrinking economic and social fears (reasonably) affected my desire to be public, and finally doing work that matters to me and (hopefully) others has had enough of a qualitative change 020
reid @reid9.bsky.social · 29/11/2025partially the problem is that as a half black autistic queer with lots of lore, my problems and fears feel like they very often don't align with others, especially in tech. even in online communities when i was younger, nothing really stuck, and i'm finally mostly used to it 120
reid @reid9.bsky.social · 29/11/2025now that i have actually saved some amount of money (and maybe have a hint of a hint of a reputation), and have a well paying and survivable job, i'm slightly less afraid of this. but the fear is still there 120
reid @reid9.bsky.social · 29/11/2025realizing that my long-held avoidance of posting anything vaguely meaningful has been because of a conviction that what is happening in this country would happen; as well as drive to keep the feed clean in case the horrible companies that often gatekeep jobs check my social media 130
reid @reid9.bsky.social · 31/08/2025gotta remember "post-covid" is "post-me-wanting-to-think-about-covid" 010
reid @reid9.bsky.social · 20/03/2025@chicago.devopsdays.org slides up: speakerdeck.com/reidsavage/a... might turn the speaker notes into a post as well at a l8r d8 #DevOpsDaysspeakerdeck.comAnti-DevOps: SRE at HoneycombSiloes and boundaries are natural and useful; they constrain the problem space, make it possible to reason in the face of overwhelming complexity, and g… 030
reid @reid9.bsky.social · 18/03/2025I have photos for his mom, hmu if you find a way to contact him lol 100
reid @reid9.bsky.social · 13/02/2025goal: be gayer (like in the site reliability engineering sense) 010
reid @reid9.bsky.social · 15/01/2025more people died of gun violence in 2024 in the US than even the most inflated estimates of tiananmen square handed down from the reincarnation of winston churchill himself 000
reid @reid9.bsky.social · 15/01/2025"x y z is bad about china" idk my birth country is the greatest exporter of violence in the history of the world i'm good on criticizing their internal issues all day 100
reid @reid9.bsky.social · 15/01/2025i will exchange my ability to "bear arms" (utterly meaningless for me) for healthcare and to not be violenced on the street without reprecussion. what is freedom without healthcare? not freedom and never has been 100
reid @reid9.bsky.social · 25/10/2024omg who wants an invite to my I Saw The TV Glow themed birthday in the Birthday Room at Regal Cinemas in Chicago, Illinois 000
reid @reid9.bsky.social · 23/10/2024"you can smile if you want". what about a surprise DL photo when i haven't showered or shaved makes you think i want to smile (i desperately do but physically cannot) 000
reid @reid9.bsky.social · 19/10/2024i did a similar thing, i mean, for the further endings you end up playing the content again basically wholesale more or less - for full emotional impact i guess a restart would be ideal. but that's a lot of hours and you'd probably pick it up anyway. 000
reid @reid9.bsky.social · 08/10/2024onyx gang. just android w the play store.* *i have no idea if this would solve your problem. 100
