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Berin Szóka @berinszoka.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Photo of the decade: AfD leader Alice Weidel

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Raffo @uppuiu.com · 08/09/2026

I apologize I may have shared my opinion on this same topic on the other social network 😅

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Raffo @uppuiu.com · 27/08/2026

We all know the real sandbox is a markdown file with written "you are an expert, you won't fuck around and you will not get hacked"

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Raffo @uppuiu.com · 15/08/2026

Being able to shut up, take the money and use it to fund again those programs, now that would be a good move.

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Raffo @uppuiu.com · 15/08/2026

I will likely never make a lot of money, but knowing myself I know that I would need to bring to the table the USAID topic and things like www.thelancet.com/article/S014... otherwise I wouldn't be able to sleep. And then I'm sure the deal would not happen.

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Kelsey Hightower @kelseyhightower.com · 24/07/2026

I know some people are working really hard to take humans out of the software development loop, but I hope that day never comes.

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Raffo @uppuiu.com · 15/07/2026

I very much agree with this writeup and it's largely the same conclusion I arrived to. I think the problems aren't new and were already clear at any meaningful scale. AI might make things worse but it's more how we get funding these days than the real problem. Anyway, good luck, this is cool stuff!

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Christopher Schmidt @crschmidt.net · 13/07/2026

So in 2026, the $725B capex to be spent on data centers: - 40% more than new housing construction. - 50% more spending than the US federal government. - ~3x US state capital spend. - 8x all of Africa infrastructure. - 5x all global rail. - 4x all US highway spend. - 10x US solar spend.

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Raffo @uppuiu.com · 25/06/2026

I'd be curious to learn how your database looks like in ConfigHub and how you are mapping resources to the database., if you are willing to share.

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Raffo @uppuiu.com · 25/06/2026

I agree 100%. What the industry has been doing is abusing git for something that doesn't fit git. I understand the appeal and the simplicity, but it's really hard to build operations on top of git and at scale (think many repos in a big company).

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Russ Cox @swtch.com · 30/05/2026

“But it happened” is definitely worth more attention. youtu.be/tlQ7EoJDTQY?...

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"But it happened."

YouTube video by Molly Rocket

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Raffo @uppuiu.com · 20/04/2026

Truly horrible, I'm not wishing I would be there at all.

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Raffo @uppuiu.com · 24/03/2026

Remotely shouting with you!

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Raffo @uppuiu.com · 19/01/2026

The bare minimum.

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Raffo @uppuiu.com · 25/12/2025

Let us know if they found the answer because it's obviously 1.5

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Raffo @uppuiu.com · 16/12/2025

Maybe I need to get an iPhone one day to use this.

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Raffo @uppuiu.com · 02/12/2025

I agree. Helm and similar are not real abstractions, a CRD implementing a higher level API is, but only if it doesn't require users to look into how the generated resources were generated.

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Raffo @uppuiu.com · 16/11/2025

I’ve been coding with my voice for weeks now because I hurt my right hand. Turns out I hate writing to coding agents but I’m absolutely fine talking to them. I can’t explain why, other than we humans are complex and experience and enjoy things differently.

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Raffo @uppuiu.com · 26/10/2025

New nightmare unlocked.

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Raffo @uppuiu.com · 20/09/2025

Yeah but the job market is fragmented, the countries are all divided, the compensations wildly different. I talk as Italian living in Germany as I couldn't get a decent job in any way, a decade ago. Draghi has been telling us how broken things are for a few years now m.youtube.com/watch?v=j3fj...

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Professor Draghi: Europe’s Growth Model Is Fading — Inaction Threatens Our Sovereignty

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Raffo @uppuiu.com · 20/09/2025

EU countries don't even care about getting back the talent that went to other EU countries 😅

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Raffo @uppuiu.com · 20/09/2025

You did good, Mike. Sending hugs to all maintainers out there.

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Raffo @uppuiu.com · 10/09/2025

Helm charts are a bad idea precisely for that reason.. And the brittle templating.

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Raffo @uppuiu.com · 07/09/2025

The same shop is in a street in Berlin and a couple of streets away there is one called BASH, it can't be a coincidence.

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Raffo @uppuiu.com · 27/08/2025

I reflexively posted this, of course.

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Raffo @uppuiu.com · 27/08/2025

Your keynote at railsconf was really good @tenderlove.dev, I really liked it.

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Raffo @uppuiu.com · 11/08/2025

Not zero, but limited and not generic. There a few bespoke things that you can customize which will be transformed at deploy time, but it's a non arbitrary set of things, to avoid issues with templating. I have a Masterplan in mind to make everything even better but I don't get to execute it 😅

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Raffo @uppuiu.com · 10/08/2025

Great post, I agree with everything you said. At GitHub, we have raw Kubernetes YAML as the "contract", users can only use helm to commit the output to their repos. We have a set of default linters that are a combination of OPA and custom ruby code, which validates correctness and common issues.

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Raffo @uppuiu.com · 30/03/2025

Nice! Looking forward to the recording!

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Tom Taylor @tomtaylormade.bsky.social · 28/03/2025

This is truly fucked up. The celebration of punishment, the theft, the dehumanisation. The White House.

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Raffo @uppuiu.com · 12/03/2025

Limoncello, it goes without saying.

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Raffo @uppuiu.com · 28/02/2025

I am doomscrolling from Europe, this isn't pretty.

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Raffo @uppuiu.com · 22/02/2025

Yes, definitely prepare, it's not an easy experience, but one that you will be glad to do. I was 17 when I went and I'm glad my teachers decided it was important for us to see with your own eyes.

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Raffo @uppuiu.com · 22/02/2025

If you ever get the chance again, I'd recommend to visit a concentration camp. It touches something inside that you can't forget and makes the visitors understand why this should never happen again. We can't be this close to what fascism and nazism were and they must be fought before it is too late.

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Raffo @uppuiu.com · 19/02/2025

We don't want to talk to bots. We want to talk to well paid humans that know what they are doing and that are good at it.

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Raffo @uppuiu.com · 16/02/2025

Because you switched to natali rip from natali sucks?

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Raffo @uppuiu.com · 23/01/2025

Very cool, looking forward to the recording!

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Stefan Schimanski @sttts.social · 23/12/2024

Watch (and read) @uppuiu.com diving into our generic control plane prototype github.com/kcp-dev/gene...: toot, blog post and youtube: mastodon.social/@Raffo/11370...

mastodon.social

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Raffo @uppuiu.com · 18/12/2024

They do allow to extend kubernetes a lot and I think this has been a key part of its adoption strategy in lots of companies. As such, I think they still have great value.

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Raffo @uppuiu.com · 18/12/2024

Those are valid points. Webhooks are clearly a super powerful extension point and as such they bring a lot of risks. I think they have been abused by the community and that it's true that most validations can be less custom and most transformations should be somewhere else.

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Raffo @uppuiu.com · 18/12/2024

May I ask why they are a big mistake?

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Raffo @uppuiu.com · 03/12/2024

I enjoyed it. Once it clicks, it's good. But if most of the people are going to have an hard time, you have to be pragmatic and move to something else, it's the only thing that makes sense.

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Raffo @uppuiu.com · 03/12/2024

I built linting with rego at github. As soon as the project was passed to another team, they switched everything to ruby, building generators to write rules to verify properties in resources. I can't say they were wrong, it does the same, but more team members can wrap their head around the language

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