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Damian Karlson

@sixfoot.dad
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Eyes up, Guardian. | Choose happy, and fight for it. | Tweets are mine, and not my employer’s. Actively anti-racist and anti-fascist. 👉 🤛 @vBrownBag.com co-producer Tech marketing & community at Platform9.com

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Chris Williams☁️🐍 @mistwire.com · 11/08/2026
User groups come, user groups go (R.I.P. VTUG 🥲) Tomorrow (noon ET) on @vbrownbag.com: "How to Build a Thriving Tech Community" Manvendra runs AWS Cloud Club JECRC and we're getting into: - Common mistakes - Lessons learned - Practical takeaways Join us LIVE! www.youtube.com/watch?v=RduJ...
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Chris Williams☁️🐍 @mistwire.com · 13/07/2026
Guardrails, RAG, and a Bedrock demo built for an exam @faye-ellis.bsky.social says is brutal Join us LIVE Wed on @vbrownbag.com (noon ET) "Responsible AI with Amazon Bedrock" + real talk on the AWS AI Dev Pro cert www.youtube.com/watch?v=5FKD...
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Chris Williams☁️🐍 @mistwire.com · 07/07/2026
New @vbrownbag.com episode is UP: "Getting into Local AI (2/3)" with Du'An Lightfoot! "GPU memory math, agent architectures, observability, token economics — the stuff nobody explains until your bill arrives." youtu.be/WSalm-rvG2E
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Chris Williams☁️🐍 @mistwire.com · 20/05/2026
Yelling at LLM Costs TONIGHT 8:30 PM ET Who's actually paying for all this AI? The @vbrownbag.com Gang talks about: 💸 Frontier model pricing 🖥️ Local models & hidden costs 🏢 What this means for enterprise budgets 🔗 www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jy_U... @sixfoot.dad @giftedlane.bsky.social
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
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Damian Karlson @sixfoot.dad · 15/05/2026
Watching @whitneylee.com deliver a talk about using an AI agent as a coding assistant for developing an internal platform. She’s genuinely a great teacher!
Whitney kicking butt and taking names
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Damian Karlson @sixfoot.dad · 15/05/2026
So awesome that @lookitup.baby came to Austin to speak at KCD Texas!
Ian Coldwater giving a talk at KCD Texas 2026
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Damian Karlson @sixfoot.dad · 06/05/2026
When I was a kid, I wanted to go to space. Instead I am a man that makes sad noises when I wake up.
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Damian Karlson @sixfoot.dad · 23/04/2026
How to tell when you’re done working for the day
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Mark Wragg @wragg.io · 18/04/2026
I'm pretty sure this is how it works
A meme of the moment from the Wizard of Oz where Dorothy discovers the Wizard is just a regular man behind a curtain. The caption reads "THE POWERSHELL PIPELINE" and the man behind the curtain is labelled "JEFFREY SNOVER"
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Damian Karlson @sixfoot.dad · 29/03/2026
Foster dog doing a thing
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Damian Karlson @sixfoot.dad · 26/02/2026
`winget upgrade --all` gives me joy. I'm a simple man.
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Damian Karlson @sixfoot.dad · 22/02/2026
I’m pretty sure that Purgatory is sitting outside a Kohl’s fitting room while “What I Like About You” plays overhead
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Damian Karlson @sixfoot.dad · 05/02/2026
“Why are there socks on the kitchen counter?” isn’t something I thought I’d ask my teenagers today
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Faye Ellis @faye-ellis.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
Join me on January 29 to discuss the top in-demand skills for 2026, what every organization should be doing right now to stay competitive, where the tech industry is going in 2026, and how engineering teams can successfully navigate so much change! www.pluralsight.com/resources/we...
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Damian Karlson @sixfoot.dad · 08/01/2026
I filled out the 2026 AWS survey. You should too! answersforaws.com/survey/
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The 2026 Answers for AWS survey
Which AWS services are people interested in 🧐? Which do they like ✅? Which would they never use again 😡?
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Kavaeric ➡️ AC26 @kavaeric.net · 30/12/2025
Give your senior engineer and devops team a heart attack with this one weird trick
Screenshot of a Github pull request. It shows 1,403,369 new lines added and 2,205 lines removed.
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Raffi Melkonian @rmfifthcircuit.bsky.social · 29/12/2025
Again,
My super modern regulatory plan is that any entity named for a thing from Tolkien has to publicly explain why Tolkien wouldn't immediately throw it into Mount Doom
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mcc @dryad.technology · 29/12/2025
The Second-Order Streisand Effect is a social phenomenon where if a party makes an effort to censor information, discussion and news about the censorship paradoxically leads to an increased awareness of Barbara Streisand, a musician whom most "Zoomers" would probably have otherwise never heard of
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Damian Karlson @sixfoot.dad · 29/12/2025
Average NFL TV experience: - Side effects include diarrhea, nausea, and vomiting - Consider betting right now! - Holiday car commercial - Kevin Hart selling phones or betting - May cause serious side effects, including cancer - Zoe Saldana selling booze or phones
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Damian Karlson @sixfoot.dad · 27/12/2025
It’s all fun and games until your youngest boy teenager randomly announces “my neck, my back…” Just to press buttons. That’s the only reason.
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Damian Karlson @sixfoot.dad · 17/12/2025
How your email finds me
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Michaela Joffe @joffeorama.bsky.social · 17/12/2025
“try water fox or ice weasel” try chill penguin. install flame mammoth. you just download bubble crab. literally just use boomer kuwanger. sting chameleon has a search bar, use it to find toxic seahorse.
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CCMF Trains @ccmftrains.com · 15/12/2025
Here's a fun project. One of my friends has written a Python wrapper for all of the Lionel TMCC/LCS command sets, which gives us the ability to build custom physical *and* digital controllers. Here's a RPi with a 10in touchscreen that can toggle the power to all of my blocks. So many possibilites!
A basic digital UI showing the names of power districts that can be controlled directly.
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CCMF Trains @ccmftrains.com · 04/12/2025
For the train people who need landscape video. Let's go. www.youtube.com/watch?v=QxM-...
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Lionel Post War Inspired 21in Passenger Cars with Vision 700E Hudson #5344
YouTube video by CCMF Trains
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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 29/11/2025
The Doctor is right and correct
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Damian Karlson @sixfoot.dad · 26/11/2025
Finally, the self-licking ice cream cone
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Damian Karlson @sixfoot.dad · 26/11/2025
My wife taught our dog to ring a wireless doorbell when he wanted to come inside, instead of scratching at the door. I even 3D printed him a foot pedal to make it easier. Now he’ll ring it as many times as it takes to be let in, or to voice his displeasure at being put outside.
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WiLLson ➟ 👨‍💻 🐍 @themeek766.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
The fastest way to outgrow your role? Master the tools no one else bothers to. Most techs fear: • PowerShell • Active Directory permissions • Event Viewer logs You? Study them. Automate them. Explain them. That’s how juniors turn into seniors without waiting for permission
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Ms Rachel @msrachelforlittles.bsky.social · 04/11/2025
No matter how hard people try to convince us having empathy is wrong, it is right. No matter how hard people try to convince us that diversity is a weakness, it is a strength. No matter how hard people try to convince us that love is limited, it is unlimited.
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kat cosgrove @kat.lol · 31/10/2025
What really makes IaC special is that it makes those bugs easily reproducible
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Stephen Foskett @stephen.fosketts.net · 29/10/2025
Live right now, Calvin Hendryx-Parker is presenting "Battle of the Bots", comparing AI coding tools! This is incredible! #AIFD7 techfieldday.com/event/aifd7/
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AI Field Day 7 - Tech Field Day
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Damian Karlson @sixfoot.dad · 25/10/2025
Guess who’s got 500 WS2811 5v pixels and some plans for Christmas decorations?
Table with 500 LED lights on it, ready for a fun new project
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tef @tef.bsky.social · 13/10/2025
it's kinda weird that all the software i am expected to use for work are all written by distributed teams, go, python, postgres, linux, chrome, k8s etc and despite being told "the best teams work in an office together" i don't know of any software i use that's actually written that way
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vBrownBag @vbrownbag.com · 08/10/2025
We're live! www.youtube.com/watch?v=cMIu...
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Building ETL Pipelines In The Cloud with M. Abdullah Bin Aftab
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vBrownBag @vbrownbag.com · 06/10/2025
Join M Abdullah Bin Aftab & the vBrownBag crew on Wednesday October 8 at 9am central to learn how to design, automate, and scale cloud-based ETL pipelines using AWS, Azure, and GCP! youtube.com/live/cMIuYKy...
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Building ETL Pipelines In The Cloud with M. Abdullah Bin Aftab
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TracketPacer @tracketpacer.com · 01/10/2025
shooting my shot 🏀 we’re hiring & here’s the lowdown. this would be a great role for someone beginning or mid career. pls apply or pass on to anyone u know who might fit! (it is my current position, i am moving to other projects within the same team & would be training this person)
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David Buchanan @retr0.id · 29/09/2025
tired: it's always DNS inspired: ICANN feel it coming in the air tonight
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Whitney Lee @whitneylee.com · 27/09/2025
Percent-based canaries are just the beginning. Argo Rollouts + service meshes add routing superpowers like header rules and traffic mirroring. Nicholas Morey explains. Watch the full episode (~20 min) → youtu.be/ToF9fb2sjlE ( ^◡^)っ #ArgoRollouts #Kubernetes #ServiceMesh
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Kara Sowles Deloss @feynudibranch.bsky.social · 24/09/2025
Please boost because damn the job market is tough out there right now. The good news is, Temporal is hiring 😎 Come work with me! Staff Developer Advocate roles in the US and India, plus a bunch of others at: temporal.io/careers
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Careers
View our open roles and apply to be a part of this journey. If none of the positions are a fit for you, send us an email describing your dream job.
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Damian Karlson @sixfoot.dad · 17/09/2025
I've never listened to chill/study/lofi videos in my life, yet YouTube insists on waterboarding me with them. WHYYYYYY
Just a bunch of YouTube video suggestions about "lofi coffee break" and "chill songs for work" and "gentle jazz" which represent a genre of video that I've never watched, listened to, nor intend to in the future.
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Damian Karlson @sixfoot.dad · 16/09/2025
This is one of my favorite presentations ever. It’s incredibly informative while also being fun and light-hearted.
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Damian Karlson @sixfoot.dad · 15/08/2025
Every online seller should do this. Tariffs are just an extra tax on the consumer.
An order total including the tariff amount
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Chris Williams☁️🐍 @mistwire.com · 13/08/2025
Last weeks @vbrownbag.com is UP: "Cannibalism (as a Metaphor for Love) in Open Source" with @kat.lol ! In this episode we got into a bunch of topics: Horror movies, cannibalism, contributing to open source, burnout, how we (sometimes) destroy the things we love😅 youtu.be/h7FGF3BaJ2I
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Cannibalism (as a Metaphor for Love) in Open Source
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Damian Karlson @sixfoot.dad · 12/08/2025
Hey @snipe.lol just thought you’d want to see this graphic…just because www.anthropic.com/news/1m-cont...
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Claude Sonnet 4 now supports 1M tokens of context
Claude Sonnet 4 now supports up to 1 million tokens of context on the Anthropic API—a 5x increase.
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weeder @weeder.bsky.social · 08/08/2025
*young me, developing a strong sense of justice* This is gonna be great, what an asset, this will never drive me insane
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Jill Weinberger @jillybobww.bsky.social · 08/08/2025
If you consider yourself an ethical, intelligent, & informed person & you insist on any version of, "We have to stop fighting for the rights of <vulnerable group> in order to achieve our other goals," I don't know what to tell you other than that you are not ethical, intelligent, or informed.
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Chris Williams☁️🐍 @mistwire.com · 04/08/2025
This week (8:30PM ET) on @vbrownbag.com: "Cannibalism (as a Metaphor for Love) in Open Source" with @kat.lol Listen in as we (maybe) talk about: - OSS contributions! - If we shouldn't eat people, why are they so darn tasty? - Wine pairings www.youtube.com/watch?v=gMh6...
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Mike Fiedler @miketheman.com · 28/07/2025
Heads Up, #Python Developers! There is an active phishing attack targeting PyPI users. • Threat: Emails from noreply@pypj.org (with a 'j') link to a fake login page. • Action: Do not click any links. If you already did, change your PyPI password ASAP. • Note: PyPI itself has not been breached.
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