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Josh Parsons @walktothesun.bsky.social · 16h

Seeing OpenAI dumping a trove of mathematical manuscripts and proofs today, I can't help but think about the mismatched expectations and aims when a software dev dumps tens of thousands of lines of code onto people and then asks for a review. 1/n 🧵

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Josh Parsons @walktothesun.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Also important to recognize that authors like Ijeoma Oluo have correctly pointed out that these movements are a continuation of a long and deeply entrenched American tradition, as illustrated by the violence and bloodlust celebrated in Buffalo Bill Cody's stage plays time.com/6114737/buff...

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What the True Story of Buffalo Bill Reveals About the Myth of the Wild West

The racist, exaggerated stories of white male American bravery became a part of our collective understanding of American history.

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Josh Parsons @walktothesun.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

*taps mic* *clears throat* *slight mic feedback* On this date, 30 years ago, I downloaded...

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Kim Crayton [She/Her] @kimcrayton1.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

Thirty years ago I started asking a question the people around me did not have language for and the institutions I worked inside did not have a category for. The question was not complicated. It was: why does this keep happening regardless of who is involved?

front and back cover of The Predator's Table: Facing the Truth About the Myth of White Supremacy by Kim Crayton

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Josh Parsons @walktothesun.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

I'm so glad I was able to make this. These topics, affirming and defending our humanity in tech and bringing better psychology into our software engineering communities just... I feel a very profound source of joy within these conversations that I just want to hang on to and linger within.

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Josh Parsons @walktothesun.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

This is another book that I'm pre-ordering and will be looking forward to reading!

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Josh Parsons @walktothesun.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

I have a new blog post out on honeycomb.io, diving into the insights and lessons of completing a major, multi-quarter Kafka migration project at Honeycomb. www.honeycomb.io/blog/transfo... There are some things that I talk about in this post that I'd like to speak to more of here. 🧵

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Transforming How We Run Kafka at Honeycomb

How we pulled off a large-scale Kafka migration project by learning from past mistakes, prioritizing rollback safety, and building shared knowledge.

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Cat Hicks @grimalkina.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

It's launch week for The Psychology of Software Teams and to pour even more jet fuel into your personal launch I have written a full BOOK CLUB GUIDE which can be used by either solo readers or groups :) Free for you to use, share, remix, adapt catharsisinsight.com/book-club-gu...

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A Book Club Guide to The Psychology of Software Teams

Discussion questions, facilitator notes, and try-it prompts for book clubs reading The Psychology of Software Teams by Cat Hicks, PhD.

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Cat Hicks @grimalkina.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

IT'S POST'S BOOK BIRTHDAY! 🥳 Want a guidebook to the human side of tech? Want to cut through the noise of despair and anger to craft more meaningful work? Want to get sharp metacognitive strategies for this new era? Get all that *and* Launch Squad bragging rights here: www.drcathicks.com#book

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Dr. Cat Hicks

Leading the science of software success

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Josh Parsons @walktothesun.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

Had some music going through my mind while watching this

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Charity Majors @charity.wtf · 21/06/2026

I get asked to read and blurb a lot of books. It's always an honor to be asked -- writing a book is a TON of work -- but I almost never do. If I wouldn't chase you down on the street and urge you to read a book, it feels wrong to blurb it. I would chase you down to read this. My blurb is true.

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Dr. Cat Hicks

Leading the science of software success

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Cat Hicks @grimalkina.bsky.social · 14/06/2026

I've been in a lot of workplaces where the dominant messaging about how we should all act was that competition is what delivers the sharpest knowledge work, and I'd bet a lot of you have heard this too. But the science of group problem-solving tells a different story

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Ian Coldwater 🧊🚫 @lookitup.baby · 14/06/2026

This is the way.

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Karla Monterroso @karlaliliana.bsky.social · 14/06/2026

Multiracial community building carries so much joy. It’s not that it isn’t complex but when it works - you see places like New York City last night and today - light up. It is truly nourishing for a human. It carries none of the hateful anger of the segregationist right. That joy can move mountains.

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Liz Fong-Jones (方禮真) @lizthegrey.com · 10/06/2026

hi Irish and UK SRE friends, @honeycomb.io is hiring an SRE in the UK or Ireland! You'll get to work with (IMHO) one of the best SRE teams in the industry, and help level up the rest of industry on o11y and SRE! job-boards.greenhouse.io/honeycomb/jo... job-boards.greenhouse.io/honeycomb/jo...

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Senior Site Reliability Engineer

Remote - Ireland

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Ian Coldwater 🧊🚫 @lookitup.baby · 30/05/2026

If your org still hasn’t figured out things like how to patch without production falling over or getting teams to talk to each other, a higher volume of findings will only make those things worse. Before you worry about Mythos, figure out how you’re going to deal with that

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Josh Parsons @walktothesun.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

Today, at work at @honeycomb.io, our teams achieved something truly momentous, by successfully completing the final migration of a large-scale, multi-month migration project. A project that @lizthegrey.com and I are eager to share more with you about soon. I cannot wait to tell this project's story.

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Kim Crayton [She/Her] @kimcrayton1.bsky.social · 03/05/2026

Mel Robbins just posted a sponsored prompt for Microsoft Copilot telling her 10 million followers to hand their financial documents over to an LLM and let it sort out their money problems. Before we talk about why that is dangerous, we need to talk about the word she used to describe the tool.

Screenshot of a Threads post by melrobbins, verified account, marked Author, posted 1 day ago. Text reads: Copy and paste or upload a screenshot of this prompt to take control of your money: I feel overwhelmed, behind, or ashamed about my money, and I want help understanding what's actually going on without judgment. Go slowly and guide me one step at a time. Don't give me everything at once, after each step, stop and wait for my response before continuing. I'll share documents like bank statements, debt statements, bills, and income info when you ask. If I'm not sure what to upload, start by telling me the three most helpful documents to share first. Ask one question at a time until you have what you need, and tell me clearly if anything important is missing. Then explain what's happening in plain language, show me where my money is going, and sort my spending into what I have to pay, what changes month to month, and what I'm choosing to spend. Help me figure out.

Continuation of the same Threads post by melrobbins. Text reads: If I'm not sure what to upload, start by telling me the three most helpful documents to share first. Ask one question at a time until you have what you need, and tell me clearly if anything important is missing. Then explain what's happening in plain language, show me where my money is going, and sort my spending into what I have to pay, what changes month to month, and what I'm choosing to spend. Help me figure out whether my biggest issue is earning, spending, debt, or not having a clear plan. Point out what I may not be seeing or may be avoiding, and what would help me feel more in control right now. If I have debt, help me understand realistic options based on my balances, interest rates, minimums, and what I can actually afford, don't assume I have extra money. If the main issue is income, help me identify realistic ways to earn more based on my skills, time, and situation. End by turning this into five clear steps I can follow. Keep it simple, practical, and non-judgmental.

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Nire Bryce @nirebryce.breadthcharge.net · 13/04/2026

u do not need to spread the fascists' own words to talk about them, u do not need to use what is, essentially, fascist propaganda as a springboard for your take, they are using you to spread it further than they otherwise could.

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 01/04/2026

If all goes according to plan, in a few hours, a crew of astronauts will begin a journey that will take them on a loop around the moon. Here's a video that NASA put together to help people visualize the journey through space, first orbiting the earth before looping around the moon and flying home 🔭

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Josh Parsons @walktothesun.bsky.social · 02/04/2026

I wrote a blog post for Honeycomb and shared a little bit about my journey from observability champion to Honeycomb customer to Bee. Beyond the specifics of the journey, something I want to highlight is why this shit matters so much to me. 🧵 www.honeycomb.io/blog/from-cu...

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From Customer to Bee: An Observability Champion's Journey

How Josh Parsons championed observability at Amperity, ran a winning tooling evaluation, and ultimately joined Honeycomb.

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Josh Parsons @walktothesun.bsky.social · 29/03/2026

I wholly understand that what I'm going to say here is absolutely not new or novel, but rather something to reinforce and re-emphasize. This is one example of the continuous occupational hazards our trans/NB/gender nonconforming colleagues continue to face every single fucking day for existing.

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Betty Junod @bettyjunod.bsky.social · 25/03/2026

The intersection of humans and technology is the point -- we create technology in service of human needs and we should not forget that.

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Josh Parsons @walktothesun.bsky.social · 02/03/2026

I was one of the engineers involved throughout the entirety of this incident, and I really appreciate what this report conveys. Most particularly, how the analysis highlights key, intertwining sociotechnical effects that impact incidents like this. 1/

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Ian Coldwater 🧊🚫 @lookitup.baby · 21/02/2026

I’m raising rent relief funds for Minneapolis immigrant families affected by ICE. Donations are down, but ICE is very much still here and there’s still so much need. Can you help? V: @Ian-Coldwater CA: $iancoldwater PP: @coldwater We keep us housed 💛 Please share and help if you can! Thank you!

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Josh Parsons @walktothesun.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

I couldn't quite put my finger on exactly why others' descriptions of moltbook felt both weird and also strangely familiar to me. And then it dawned on me, The Talos Principle: Road to Gehenna explored some of these same ideas.

A screenshot from the first DLC of the game The Talos Principle called Road to Gehenna. In front of a wall of off-white stone with grey blotches is a black terminal screen with a grey and white keyboard below it. Two robotic hands are typing on the keyboard. The text on the terminal screen is in white. At the top of the terminal screen, the word GEHENNA is displayed, stylized with a combination of monochromatic box-shaped glyphs. The terminal is showing the home screen of a virtual forum community made by other androids in Gehenna. Below the word GEHENNA reads:

Displaying active threads filtered for user URIEL_COPY [6].

* Mod Discussion#329 Re: Solutions [8+]
* 454E[]44[][]
* A Message to the Future
* Mod Discussion#330 Re: War Room [8+]
* Ascension: An Objective Review
* The Outer World
* Mod Discussion#335 Re: The Asset [9+]
* Mod Discussion#327 Re: Urgent Topics [ATCH] [8+]
* Mod Discussion #316 Re: PD Findings [7+]
<a line of garbled text, composed of box-shaped glyphs>
Farewell Atlantis [ATCH]
Save Yourselves
Goodbye
A Short Bildungsroman by Uriel_Copy
Scared
Top 10 Things I Love About Gehenna
Jefferson Goldboom (Announcement).
Why do we deserve to be saved?
Straton Fragment #13
A Small Apology
An Historic Occasion [6+]

The word Exit is in the lower right of the screen.

Below the terminal screen and above the keyboard, the word IAN is imprinted on the frame of the terminal in off-white serif lettering

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Josh Parsons @walktothesun.bsky.social · 28/01/2026

My company surprised me today in the most joyful and special way by letting me and other incident responders break a Kafka-themed bee-shaped piñata with a makeshift cardboard stick. The care and whimsy and thoughtfulness of my co-workers brings me so much joy and incredibly moving.

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Marco Rogers @polotek.bsky.social · 24/01/2026

People already working hard to prove how perfect Alex Pretti was. To show he didn't "deserve" to be killed. But it's a trap folks. You're only feeding into a dynamic where people who are considered lesser get no protection. You don't have to be an Alex Pretti to deserve to live.

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Josh Parsons @walktothesun.bsky.social · 24/01/2026

The lyrics running through my head today: Now you're punching and you're kicking and you're shouting at me I'm relying on your common decency So far it hasn't surfaced, but I'm sure it exists It just takes a while to travel from your head to your fists - Depeche Mode, People Are People

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Lady Emily ☄️ @ladyemily.nebula.tv · 24/01/2026

With video of another street execution from ICE going around, a reminder that while video documentation of atrocities is important, you have no ethical obligation to watch videos of people dying. Traumatizing yourself isn’t advocacy. You do not have to watch the video to be outspoken against this

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 20/01/2026

New — I wrote about ChongLy Scott Thao, the elderly Hmong American wrongly arrested and forced out of his home by ICE in his underwear during the punishing Minnesota winter, what witnesses saw, and DHS's racist claim that he fit the description of another Asian man they were looking for. My story:

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Behind the disturbing image of ICE snatching a half-naked, elderly Hmong American from his home

DHS has claimed without evidence that they were looking for someone else when they took ChongLy Scott Thao.

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Josh Parsons @walktothesun.bsky.social · 18/01/2026

The ideas in this thread are so well stated, especially this, and it just flipped a switch in me that I think is tangential to this thread, but hits at something that continues to be a crucial theme of mine: What does it mean for me in my career to meet people where they are? /1

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Josh Parsons @walktothesun.bsky.social · 07/01/2026

This is an example and the model for the kind of energy I'm going to be carrying with me.

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Ian Coldwater 🧊🚫 @lookitup.baby · 03/01/2026

When you’re doom posting about how everything is inevitable and no one can stop them, you’re doing their work for them. Stop that

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Josh Parsons @walktothesun.bsky.social · 01/01/2026

I really like how Emily has expressed this. I'm in strong agreement with her on this idea, and it brings to mind something I've been carrying with me a lot from one of my favorite parts of 17776 from Jon Bois.

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Cat Hicks @grimalkina.bsky.social · 28/12/2025

Software cultures are absolutely deprived of compassionate moments where we get to be human together and experience being on the same side together. I really believe that humanness changes people's lives and I'm not giving up on its power. I have seen it measurably work, again and again.

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Josh Parsons @walktothesun.bsky.social · 20/12/2025

It's difficult to put into words exactly how much happiness these two have brought me over the years. It is an overwhelming amount of joy and happiness that is still going strong.

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Kim Crayton [She/Her] @kimcrayton1.bsky.social · 02/12/2025

Every day, people tell me how essential this work is. How much clarity it brings. How much it challenges harmful narratives. How much it helps us all break free from the supremacy myth. How much it supports those harmed by it. And yet, far too many remain spectators.

If You Value This Work, Today Is the Day to Show It

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Cat Hicks @grimalkina.bsky.social · 24/11/2025

There actually has not been enough reflection in the tech community about DOGE

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Josh Parsons @walktothesun.bsky.social · 22/11/2025

I'd like to share a bit about what it's like to go through guided reflection in this community with Kim's facilitation. At the heart of it are direct questions and prompts that ask us to engage by earnestly interrogating our experiences.

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Beatrice Adler-Bolton @reallandsend.bsky.social · 16/11/2025

Alice Wong taught us that disabled people don’t just leave memories behind—they leave infrastructure. Lineages of care. Methods of collectivity, survival. She named the connective tissue that holds our communities together, even across death, even across the losses that come too fast and too often.

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Kim Crayton [She/Her] @kimcrayton1.bsky.social · 03/11/2025

I recently came across the term “the politics of care” while watching the YouTube video From Prince to Commoner: What Andrew’s Downfall Tells Us About Power. The concept is explored beautifully in an academic article by Berenice Malka Fisher and Maurice Hamington, which asks:

The "Politics of Care" and the Unmaking of White Male Supremacy

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Cornbread Countess @breadbae.blacksky.app · 29/10/2025

Since your government hates you and doesn’t care if you starve despite you paying taxes into a system that should help you like SNAP… This is where you can get food if you need it.

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Josh Parsons @walktothesun.bsky.social · 29/10/2025

A couple of months ago, I joined @kimcrayton1.bsky.social's Profit Without Oppression community and also started participating in a 14-week series of facilitated conversations with Kim, as I and a group of white men work through Ijeoma Oluo's book Mediocre.

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Cat Hicks @grimalkina.bsky.social · 18/10/2025

I am grateful to the way that @anildash.com continually names and makes space for the existence of "the reasonable majority" in tech, and the ways this industry deals out chilling effects on those working toward shared social good (which spoiler alert also = real innovation!)

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