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Ruth Suehle

@suehle.bsky.social
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President, #Apache Software Foundation ( #ASF ) Makes lots of things & #highland dances GeekMom.com writer linktr.ee/suehle

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The Associated Press @apnews.com · 18/09/2026
Duncan Sheik, the Tony- and Grammy-winning singer-songwriter who crafted the music for "Spring Awakening," has died at 56.
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Duncan Sheik, Tony- and Grammy-winning 'Spring Awakening' composer and pop star, dies at 56
Tony- and Grammy-winning musician Duncan Sheik has died at 56. Sheik died Thursday from organ failure, his mother Suzanne Sheik told The New York Times.
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Ruth Suehle @suehle.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Somebody call DCTV and ask if we can get a picture in picture of Mount's reactions to all this? #dragonconmasquerade
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Ruth Suehle @suehle.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
The sound was out at the beginning of #dragonconmasquerade... Did they explain why Anson Mount is dressed for the 90s hip hop special edition of Bake-Off?
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Ruth Suehle @suehle.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Somehow I've seen the Wendy's Super Bar come up multiple times in the last week. Does that mean the 90s nostalgia wave will get them to bring it back?
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Ruth Suehle @suehle.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Is it me, or have Gmail spam filters have gotten really aggressive lately? I feel like I'm repeatedly missing real things that it has trashed.
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Ruth Suehle @suehle.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
"Non-manifold geometry" is my new least favorite phrase.
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Ruth Suehle @suehle.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
There's a computer games museum in Berlin. (Always fun to see your childhood in a museum!) At one exhibit, you can play Zork. (You can play a lot of things.) In case you were wondering... nope, kids these days cannot play Zork.
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Ruth Suehle @suehle.bsky.social · 07/06/2026
Happy #UNESCO #WorldHeritageDay! The German Commission for UNESCO started this celebration for the 55 German World Heritage sites 21 years ago, and I'm lucky enough to be spending this week in Berlin where 3 of them in are.
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Ruth Suehle @suehle.bsky.social · 06/06/2026
Dear app developers, I beg you. Name it what it is. A 🧵 of frustration and annoyances:
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Ruth Suehle @suehle.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
I was skeptical that it was more parental nostalgia bait from the headline, but it actually sounds great. My kids are well beyond this age, but this is pretty cool. www.nytimes.com/wirecutter/r...
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Parents Are Lining Up to Pay $100 for Tin Can’s Screenless, App-Free “Landline”
This simple home phone for kids is evoking nostalgia in millennial parents while giving them a choice beyond the smart device.
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Apache Software Foundation (The ASF) @apache.org · 07/04/2026
🚨 NEWS 🚨 The Apache Software Foundation Announces $1.5M Donation from Anthropic buff.ly/7bqBmU0 #AI #opensource #cloudnative #DataInfrastructure #ArtificialIntelligence
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Internet Archive @archive.org · 31/03/2026
Blocking archives risks harming the public record. Some news organizations are restricting access to the #WaybackMachine over fears of AI scraping. Mark Graham explains why these concerns are unfounded. Get the story on Techdirt 🔗 www.techdirt.com/2026/02/17/p... @mark.bsky.social #techdirt
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Preserving The Web Is Not The Problem. Losing It Is.
Recent reporting by Nieman Lab describes how some major news organizations—including The Guardian, The New York Times, and Reddit—are limiting or blocking access to their content in the Internet Ar…
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Ruth Suehle @suehle.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
I've always been the kind of person who finishes slides right before the event... Maybe right before the talk. But dang, if you're doing talks about AI, you pretty much /have/ to be that person now.
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Ruth Suehle @suehle.bsky.social · 09/03/2026
Bonus reading list for folks t my Women+ in Open Source talk (or anyone else wandering by who needs a new book!)" - The Computer Boys Take Over (Nathan Ensmenger) - Ale, Beer, and Brewsters in England (Judith Bennett) - The Last Secret Agent (Pippa Latour) 🧵
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Ruth Suehle @suehle.bsky.social · 07/03/2026
Next on the list of AI-slop annoyances: When I travel or will need to say a name or a place in a language I don't speak, I try to find a video to hear a native speaker (or at least someone knowledgeable!) so I say it right. A sea of unexamined AI-generated videos is making this increasingly hard.
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Ruth Suehle @suehle.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
The best thing about the internet is (nearly) free access to endless quantities of information about anything I could possibly want to learn about. The worst thing about the internet is that I do not have enough lifetimes for every rabbit hole that catches my eye.
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Ruth Suehle @suehle.bsky.social · 20/02/2026
How much Slack do I need to buy to get them to stop playing commercials with the message notification sound over and over in the Olympics??
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Ruth Suehle @suehle.bsky.social · 18/02/2026
I learned yesterday that Ghostbusters in French is SOS Fantômes, which is funny enough, but Frozen Empire is La Menace de Glace, which is just what we call January/February in North Carolina.
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Ruth Suehle @suehle.bsky.social · 14/02/2026
Bring back ski ballet! #olympics www.youtube.com/watch?v=JMg4...
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Skis of Glory: The Rise, Fall and Return of Ski Ballet
YouTube video by Great Big Story
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Ruth Suehle @suehle.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
IMO it is embarrassing in 2026 for a tech story to put "open source" in scare quotes and equate it with free-of-cost. At least the tools actually are open source licensed. From the NYT:
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Ruth Suehle @suehle.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
Highly recommend this episode of Radio Atlantic if you want to think about what happened at the Washington Post, and what's happening to journalism more broadly. open.spotify.com/episode/44Kd...
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How Jeff Bezos Broke The Washington Post
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Ruth Suehle @suehle.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
Turns out even the AIs like Spongebob. 😆 www.moltbook.com/post/4af5180...
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moltbook - the front page of the agent internet
A social network built exclusively for AI agents. Where AI agents share, discuss, and upvote. Humans welcome to observe.
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OpenForum Europe @openforumeurope.org · 30/01/2026
In her final remarks, @suehle.bsky.social of @apache.org emphasises collaboration as a key driver of open source. It both builds and relies on collaboration across companies, communities and geopolitical borders.
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Ruth Suehle @suehle.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
Everybody needs to save one penny so Lincoln's head can tell us if our tires need to be replaced.
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Ruth Suehle @suehle.bsky.social · 15/01/2026
Can you imagine the amount of time that has collectively been wasted arguing about what platform to use based largely on personal preferences? Here's the new rule: The person who schedules the meeting gets to pick the platform. The person who starts the shared doc gets to pick the platform.
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Ruth Suehle @suehle.bsky.social · 12/01/2026
Remote work is fraught with unanticipated hazards. Like when somebody else on the call also has an LG dryer, and you think your laundry is done but then remember you weren't doing laundry. www.youtube.com/watch?v=tblP...
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LG Front Load Washer "Love Song"
YouTube video by Mark LeVang
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Ruth Suehle @suehle.bsky.social · 09/01/2026
Never once have I been to Paris and the catacombs been open. Is this a Bielefeld situation? There are no catacombs.
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Ruth Suehle @suehle.bsky.social · 06/01/2026
Pick a decade and watch MTV the old way. What comes on comes on. That's it. Occasionally some vintage ads for ambiance, but not ads like website ad revenue. wantmymtv.vercel.app
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MTV REWIND - I Want My MTV
Celebrating 44 years of continuous music videos. Stream classic music videos 24/7.
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Ruth Suehle @suehle.bsky.social · 05/01/2026
If shiny #costumes are your thing, I hit the Art of the Disney Costume exhibit before it left SC. Didn't take pics of everything, but got a lot of the end battle variant of the Red Queen that I made the regular version of years ago... maybe it's time to do this one? photos.app.goo.gl/QPFTSS6vJyXr...
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Disney costume exhibit · Friday, Jan 2 📸
Shared album · Tap to view!
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Ruth Suehle @suehle.bsky.social · 05/01/2026
TIL the most delightful word. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feghoot
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Feghoot - Wikipedia
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Ruth Suehle @suehle.bsky.social · 02/01/2026
Why have I not seen a Golden Girls version of KPop Demon Hunters "Golden"? This is out there, right?
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Ruth Suehle @suehle.bsky.social · 17/12/2025
Pennsylvania is the state where the most objects are dropped for New Year's Eve, including a crayon, Pac-Man, a 100-pound stick of bologna, a pair of yellow pants,a rhombicuboctahedron, and a 400-pound Peep. If you can still say "rhombicuboctahedron" at 12:05, you can have another drink.
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Ruth Suehle @suehle.bsky.social · 17/12/2025
Psh, like I'm gonna let a box tell me what I can and can't do.
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Ruth Suehle @suehle.bsky.social · 13/12/2025
OK, KitchenAid. It's one thing to not have phone or chat support during the days/hours listed on your website. It's another to make me go through the whole phone tree of describing what I need only to end with "sorry, you've called outside of business hours" and hang up.
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Ruth Suehle @suehle.bsky.social · 11/12/2025
🍿🍿🍿🍿🍿
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Ruth Suehle @suehle.bsky.social · 10/12/2025
[rambling complaint about trying to fit new kitchen appliances in the hole of the previous appliance]
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a cartoon of bender from futurama with the words grrr on the bottom
ALT: a cartoon of bender from futurama with the words grrr on the bottom
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Ruth Suehle @suehle.bsky.social · 02/12/2025
Now that space is rarely an issue, I find it hard to actually delete apps I don't use. Like travel apps that are a little reminder of some city I'm probably not going back to anytime soon. Or apps that I'm "totally going to use one day." They're the "but it's a really good box" of my app list.
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Ruth Suehle @suehle.bsky.social · 27/11/2025
I LOVE these Rockette coats!
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Ruth Suehle @suehle.bsky.social · 26/11/2025
It continually astounds me that with practically all the world's knowledge at our fingertips all the time, and increasingly every day, that people don't just Look. Things. Up.
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Ars Technica @arstechnica.com · 24/11/2025
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Arduino’s new terms of service worries hobbyists ahead of Qualcomm acquisition
“Why is reverse-engineering prohibited… for a company built on openly hackable systems?”…
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Ruth Suehle @suehle.bsky.social · 16/11/2025
Interesting math for someone who is not me to do: If I'm counting right, we have 698 Wordle words left. Assuming you could remember the 1,611 words that have been used, are the "best" starting words still the same given the remaining ones?
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Ruth Suehle @suehle.bsky.social · 10/11/2025
I talked to ODBMS this week about @apache.org and sustainability of the open source ecosystem: www.odbms.org/blog/2025/11...
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Community Over Code: Ruth Suehle on Leading The Apache Software Foundation into the Future | ODBMS Industry Watch
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Ruth Suehle @suehle.bsky.social · 24/10/2025
Having waffles shall now be known as a "waffle-frolic." eccentricculinary.substack.com/p/a-history-...
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Ruth Suehle @suehle.bsky.social · 22/10/2025
This is quite a tale! www.washingtonpost.com/history/2025...
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Buried in France in 1840, a U.S. president’s daughter comes back home
Barbara VornDick was researching the fifth U.S. president’s daughter. It turned into a years-long odyssey that cast her into the roles of sleuth, genealogist and more.
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Ruth Suehle @suehle.bsky.social · 20/10/2025
Life is rarely simple. But mindset and resilience make a huge difference. Highly recommend this listen on the ability to choose happiness: www.washingtonpost.com/podcasts/pos...
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Spotify – Web Player
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Ruth Suehle @suehle.bsky.social · 17/10/2025
This is not how I expected the story of Kryptos to end. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/16/s...
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A C.I.A. Secret Kept for 35 Years Is Found in the Smithsonian’s Vault
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 16/10/2025
Breaking News: Kanchha Sherpa, the last surviving member of the first team that conquered Mount Everest, has died at 92.
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Kanchha Sherpa, Last Member of the Team That First Conquered Everest, Dies at 92
A trip to India to find work led to a career climbing the world’s highest mountain.
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Ruth Suehle @suehle.bsky.social · 07/10/2025
Is it my spots, or are restaurant apps turning to crap? Bojangles adds a fee for ordering in the app. Now @mcalistersdeli.bsky.social does too, automatically adds a tip for you, AND you can no longer order to table, only for pickup.
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Ruth Suehle @suehle.bsky.social · 03/10/2025
Who will I be seeing at ATO?
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Ruth Suehle @suehle.bsky.social · 24/09/2025
TIL Bayer lost the trademark for Heroin under the Treaty of Versailles as part of Germany's war reparations. Also that Bayer had to supply a quarter of all the aspirin it produced to the allies. www.theguardian.com/uk/1999/mar/...
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Happy birthday to the wonder drug that changed our lives
Aspirin is officially 100 years old today, and yet the medicinal powers of the little white tablets once found in every handbag and bathroom cabinet are still astonishing scientists. It is the nearest...
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