Reposted by Stefano BorrelliCloud Native Days Italy @cloudnativedaysitaly.org · 07/04/2026🛠️ On Day 2 (May 19), we're running four intensive hands-on workshops for cloud practitioners. First two are: 1️⃣ Workshop 1: Building Platforms with Crossplane Led by Riccardo Capraro 2️⃣ Workshop 2: Building Infrastructure Tools with Kubernetes Operators and Go Led by Rabieh Fashwall 031
Reposted by Stefano BorrelliCrossplane project @crossplane.io · 17/03/2026Wondering what's new with Crossplane v2.2? Hear from maintainer and release manager Adam Wolfe Gordon on what shipped in v2.2. 👀 blog.crossplane.io/crossplane-v2-2-more-capable-more-reliable-more-observable/ #Crossplane #Kubernetes #PlatformEngineering 052
Reposted by Stefano BorrelliDalmeet Singh Chawla @dalmeet.bsky.social · 11/03/2026Research sleuths are starting to organize, but the field, and the people, remain idiosyncratic — my latest for @cenmag.bsky.social: cen.acs.org/research-int... @mcintold.bsky.social, @reeserichardson.bsky.social, @elisabethbik.bsky.social, @sholtodavid.bsky.social, @eugenie-reich.bsky.socialcen.acs.orgScientific sleuths come in from the coldResearch integrity investigators are starting to organize, but the field, and the people, remain idiosyncratic 02815
Reposted by Stefano BorrelliCrossplane project @crossplane.io · 05/03/2026Join us for the @crossplane.io community meeting today at 10am pac / 1800 UTC! We'll show a demo of the function pipeline explorer, start planning the v2.3 milestone, sig-cli is picking up momentum...lots going on, come hang out with us! agenda doc: docs.google.com/document/d/1...docs.google.comCrossplane Community Meeting AgendaCrossplane Community Meeting Notes/Agenda This document will capture the agenda and meeting notes and links for the recurring Crossplane community meetings. Please add items you wish to discuss direct... 021
Reposted by Stefano BorrelliJay Hulme @jayhulmepoet.bsky.social · 23/01/2026A few days ago, I stood in the graveyard of an 1100 year old church, getting damper and damper in the drizzling rain. A woman walked into the graveyard, waved, said hello, and, as we had previously arranged, handed me a paper bag full of human bones. The life of a churchwarden is a strange one... 383174872
Reposted by Stefano BorrelliAltmetric @altmetric.com · 11/12/2025This completely fake university was recently uncovered by @mcintold.bsky.social - it’s fascinating. #FoSci #ResearchIntegrity 0209
Reposted by Stefano BorrelliLondon Cycling Campaign @londoncycling.bsky.social · 20/11/2025NEW: INACTION CONTINUES ON DANGEROUS JUNCTIONS 📊The latest data published today, shows a picture of inaction from @mayoroflondon.bsky.social, TfL and local councils, when it comes to making junctions safe for cycling... 🧑💻 Email the mayor and demand action: bit.ly/47QcmUF 12818
Reposted by Stefano BorrelliRebecca Skinner @cercerilla.bsky.social · 12/11/2025Haskell Brain Teasers is currently in beta. If you’re planning to read it I’d love you to get the beta and give feedback now! pragprog.com/titles/haske...pragprog.comHaskell Brain TeasersDeepen your Haskell knowledge, sharpen your functional programming skills, and just have fun with 20 functional programming puzzles to tie your brain in knots. 052
Reposted by Stefano BorrelliCloud Native Bergen @cloudnativebergen.dev · 31/10/2025Videos from Cloud Native Day Bergen 2025 are now published www.youtube.com/@CloudNative...youtube.comCloud Native BergenCloud Native Bergen host of Cloud Native Day Bergen and other events. Anything Kubernetes related goes! 0124
Reposted by Stefano BorrelliLondonist: Time Machine @londonist.com · 24/10/2025Secrets of Blackfriars Bridge revealed in new restoration projectlondonist.comBlackfriars Bridge: Major Refurbishment To ResumeAnd we go over the parapets. 071
Reposted by Stefano BorrelliMartin Paul Eve @eve.gd · 16/10/2025"The protocol taught us that technology can be based on human values like ethics and morality. It showed that voluntary compliance works when all parties benefit." On robots.txt. www.heise.de/en/backgroun...heise.deObituary: Farewell to robots.txt (1994-2025)The voluntary compliance protocol that civilized the internet has departed, bids Henning Fries farewell. 08049
Reposted by Stefano BorrelliCloud Native Bergen @cloudnativebergen.dev · 24/09/2025Don't miss the awesome speakers for Cloud Native Day Bergen 2025 go.bsky.app/QWcidxD 065
Reposted by Stefano BorrelliJeremy Martinson @jjmartinson.bsky.social · 19/09/2025Scientific study of trisodium citrate in the recipe for cacio e pepe wins an Ig Nobel prize this year. Science is cool, kids. www.nature.com/articles/d41...nature.comTipsy bats and perfect pasta: Ig Nobels celebrate ‘improbable’ researchThe annual awards are a celebration of weird but thought-provoking science. 195
Reposted by Stefano BorrelliRudy Fraser @rude1.blacksky.team · 24/08/2025> [Blacksky] guarantees our community a seat at the table, and ensures that we can leave and easily make our own table if we need to. That’s the true promise of decentralized social media. Me for @newpublic.orgnewpublic.substack.com🔭🖤🚀 How Blacksky grew to millions of users without spending a dollarWatching social media evolve into something decentralized, open-source, and scalable 14428156
Reposted by Stefano BorrelliDavid Daniel @daviddaniel.bsky.social · 15/08/2025This is awesome: a "WKRP in Cincinnati" fan created a three-hour Johnny Fever radio block, by using clips from the TV show and dropping in the full songs on his intros and outros, plus commercials and Les Nessman news breaks.awphooey.comWKRP: Johnny Fever 1022404731
Reposted by Stefano BorrelliLondonist: Time Machine @londonist.com · 14/08/2025See art for free in London - with the help of our ultimate guidelondonist.comThe Best Places To See Art For Free In LondonExhibitions and permanent collection that don't cost a penny to visit. 041
Reposted by Stefano BorrelliThomas Vitale ☀️ @thomasvitale.com · 14/08/2025Crossplane 2.0 was one of the main things in the cloud native space I was really looking forward to this year 🚀 Game-changer features: applications as first-class citizens, namespaced resources, and native support for composing Kubernetes resources. @crossplane.io blog.crossplane.io/announcing-c...blog.crossplane.ioAnnouncing Crossplane 2.0After seven years building Crossplane, we're excited to announce Crossplane 2.0. This release extends beyond infrastructure to support applications as first-class citizens, enabling platform teams to ... 1175
Reposted by Stefano BorrelliCrossplane project @crossplane.io · 05/08/2025The Crossplane v2 release candidate is available for installation and testing now in your non-production clusters! github.com/crossplane/c... We invite you to try this build and report any issues and questions. Let's work together towards a polished and high quality release for early next week! 061
Stefano Borrelli @stefanoborrelli.bsky.social · 05/08/2025New Crossplane function-pythonic looks good: github.com/fortra/funct... def compose(self): vpc = self.resources.vpc('ec2.aws.crossplane.io/v1beta1', 'VPC') vpc.spec.forProvider.region = self.spec.region vpc.spec.forProvider.cidrBlock = self.spec.cidrgithub.comGitHub - fortra/function-pythonic: Python based Crossplane Function providing a clean and elegant syntax for writing Crossplane Compositions.Python based Crossplane Function providing a clean and elegant syntax for writing Crossplane Compositions. - fortra/function-pythonic 020
Reposted by Stefano BorrelliAlison Fisk @alisonfisk.bsky.social · 19/07/2025Happy weekend! 🦛💙 Here’s a wonderful c. 4,000 year-old ancient Egyptian glossy blue hippo decorated with a little bird perched on the stem of a lotus flower. Egyptian Museum Cairo 📷 by me #Archaeology 18552119
Reposted by Stefano Borrellimcyoung 🏳️🌈 @mcy.gay · 16/07/2025new blogpost about protobuf perf (work related!) mcyoung.xyz/2025/07/16/h...mcyoung.xyzParsing Protobuf Like Never Before · mcyoung 0428
Reposted by Stefano BorrelliFilippo Valsorda @filippo.abyssdomain.expert · 15/07/2025We announced the new native Go FIPS 140-3 mode today! FIPS 140, like it or not, is often a requirement, and I was increasingly sad about large deployments replacing the Go crypto packages with non-memory safe cgo bindings. Go is now one of the easiest and most secure ways to build under FIPS 140.go.devThe FIPS 140-3 Go Cryptographic ModuleGo now has a built-in, native FIPS 140-3 compliant mode. 1119949
Reposted by Stefano Borrelliahmet alp balkan @ahmet.dev · 09/07/2025As we test Kubernetes clusters beyond the supported 5,000+ nodes limit at LinkedIn, we're finding out 'List API' calls are a bottleneck in cluster reliability. So I'm publishing a deep dive about why this is a problem and what you can do about them. ahmet.im/blog/kuberne... 1257
Reposted by Stefano BorrelliNeil Renic @ncrenic.bsky.social · 18/06/2025I am once again pitching my romantic comedy: - two academics start dating - discover they are each other's terrible reviewer - hijinks ensue Working title: Love is Double-Blind 942595341
Stefano Borrelli @stefanoborrelli.bsky.social · 29/05/2025v2 APIs have been merged into Crossplane's main branch github.com/crossplane/c...! Read more about v2 here: github.com/crossplane/c...github.comMerge Crossplane v2 changes into `main` by negz · Pull Request #6489 · crossplane/crossplaneDescription of your changes This merges all commits from https://github.com/crossplane/crossplane/tree/v2 into main. I created the source negz/v2-merge branch by checking out v2 and rebasing it on... 020
Reposted by Stefano BorrelliCrossplane project @crossplane.io · 21/05/2025The Crossplane v1.20.0 release is now available to install into your control planes! 🎉 A huge thank you goes out to our release MVPs Carl Lunde and Tobi - thank you for your efforts! 🙇 Read all about this awesome new release in the release notes below: github.com/crossplane/c...lnkd.inLinkedInThis link will take you to a page that’s not on LinkedIn 022
Reposted by Stefano BorrelliBassam Tabbara @bassam.tabbara.com · 04/04/2025Standing room only at the @crossplane.io v2 session #kubecon 074
Stefano Borrelli @stefanoborrelli.bsky.social · 01/04/2025What's new in Crossplane v2? docs.crossplane.io/v2.0-preview... Stop by our booth 6A at #kubecon.docs.crossplane.ioCrossplane Docs · v2.0-preview · WhatCrossplane v2 makes Crossplane more useful, more intuitive, and less opinionated. Crossplane v2 makes three major changes: Composite resources are now namespaced Managed resources are now namespaced … 071
Stefano Borrelli @stefanoborrelli.bsky.social · 13/03/2025Lots of great talks at Cloud Native Day Oslo today: cloud-native-day-oslo-2025.sessionize.com/schedule I'm giving a talk at 13:45 about @crossplane.io and Platform Engineering. Please say hi if you see me around, I'm happy to answer any questions.cloud-native-day-oslo-2025.sessionize.comCloud Native Day Oslo 2025Schedule 022
Stefano Borrelli @stefanoborrelli.bsky.social · 06/02/2025The Crossplane v2 proposal has been out for a couple of weeks github.com/crossplane/c.... We'll discuss the proposal again at today's community meeting at 1pm US/eastern: docs.google.com/document/d/1... -github.comProposal: Crossplane v2 by negz · Pull Request #6255 · crossplane/crossplaneDescription of your changes This PR adds the first draft of a proposal for Crossplane v2. The PR proposes a new version of Crossplane that’s simpler and better suited to managing applications, not... 021
Reposted by Stefano BorrelliAlice Averlong 🏳️⚧️ @alice.averlong.com · 08/12/2024My big project: The Death Generator. It's a tool for making fake video game screenshots, just fill in new text and it'll give you a (generally) pixel-accurate image back, the correct fonts and everything. deathgenerator.com 1241220048488
Stefano Borrelli @stefanoborrelli.bsky.social · 27/11/2024I am absolutely not starting any kind of competition, unless there is some dark UI pattern that is getting triggered in the app. Ping me the next time you get one and I can track against my usage. 100
Stefano Borrelli @stefanoborrelli.bsky.social · 27/11/2024Duolingo has been getting worse in a lot of aspects and (as someone with a 3000+ day streak) the educational value of their lessons are questionable. 200
Stefano Borrelli @stefanoborrelli.bsky.social · 25/11/2024Made focaccia to go along with our soup tonight. The house smells amazing. 2180
Stefano Borrelli @stefanoborrelli.bsky.social · 24/11/2024I'm biased but I think k8s is the best base right now for infra platforms. For Crossplane itself, look at using KCL or Python for your functions. Take your time to learn and make mistakes, things can behave in ways you never expected. 110
Stefano Borrelli @stefanoborrelli.bsky.social · 24/11/2024This is a great dive into the inner workings of Bluesky and the possibilities of atproto. 030
Stefano Borrelli @stefanoborrelli.bsky.social · 21/11/2024marp.app for some of our presentations that need to have autogenerated content.marp.appMarp: Markdown Presentation EcosystemMarp (also known as the Markdown Presentation Ecosystem) provides an intuitive experience for creating beautiful slide decks. You only have to focus on writing your story in a Markdown document. 010
Reposted by Stefano BorrelliLeslie McIntosh @mcintold.bsky.social · 21/11/2024There are many ways to unethically promote opinions as science and to boost citation rates. I explore one way today fosci.substack.com/p/vanity-jou... #Research #Integrity #FoScifosci.substack.comVanity Journals, Conflicts of Interest, and the Quest for Research IntegrityNovember 2024 has been another intriguing month for the forensic scientometrics community. 0136
Stefano Borrelli @stefanoborrelli.bsky.social · 18/11/2024Last year the Crossplane team released Composition Functions, allowing you to use any programming language to create desired state for infrastructure. This year the focus was on Developer Experience. @vfarcic.bsky.social covers a lot of the highlights in www.youtube.com/watch?v=SoJj...youtube.comDeveloper Experience for CrossplaneYouTube video by DevOps Toolkit 020
Stefano Borrelli @stefanoborrelli.bsky.social · 17/11/2024We are now close to having 200 tech-related starter packs in our list. The total number of starter packs has exploded, going from a few thousand to 40k in the span of a week. github.com/stevendborre...github.comGitHub - stevendborrelli/bluesky-tech-starter-packs: A list of tech-related Bluesky starter packsA list of tech-related Bluesky starter packs. Contribute to stevendborrelli/bluesky-tech-starter-packs development by creating an account on GitHub. 2102
Stefano Borrelli @stefanoborrelli.bsky.social · 16/11/2024The Savoia hotel is on the outskirts of town, but it is a short bus ride to the center of Bologna. 010
Stefano Borrelli @stefanoborrelli.bsky.social · 16/11/2024Unfortunately not surprised by the creeping enshittification of meetup.com 040
Stefano Borrelli @stefanoborrelli.bsky.social · 13/11/2024BRB accomplishing beyond what I ever thought possible 020
Reposted by Stefano BorrelliAlex @acannon.bsky.social · 13/11/2024The 9% of Chicago roads under IDOT Jurisdiction account for 45% of all fatal crashes. 48919
Reposted by Stefano BorrelliHypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 12/11/2024“Writing faculty have both the agency and the academic freedom to examine generative AI’s dishonest training origins and conclude: There is no path to ethically teach AI skills. Not only are we allowed to say no, we ought to think deeply about the why of that no.”insidehighered.comBurn it down: a license for AI resistance (opinion)Resistance is not futile, Melanie Dusseau writes. 8251117
Reposted by Stefano BorrelliAndy Randall @ahrkrak.bsky.social · 11/11/2024Quite a lot of discussion around @bsky.app here at #KubeCon, and consensus that it was @kelseyhightower.com 's clear exit from the other place that was the tipping point for the cloud native community coming over here en masse. Thank you Kelsey for your leadership in this and so many other ways. 917622