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• Post #3660780

  If you have never seen an eagle nest before, this is one in St. Paul Minnesota, along the Mississippi river.

• Post #2569173

  #WritersCoffeeClub 6: Talk about something you've written which you expected would (or expect will) divide readers. Mwahahaha. Software Telemetry, my technical book. I deliberately wrote it with most of the example scenarios involving organizations running their own infrastructure. Most technical books assume cloud and kubernetes. Mine didn't. This was a love-letter to the orgs who rock it old-school, whose internal politics don't let them go cloud, or business model is...

• Post #1125815

  Today's economic boycott is not the one thing that'll save us, but it is the kind of exercise we all need to work our way to the actions that WILL save us. Do your part, learn to be uncomfortable, and later we can have a general strike as a treat. #uspol

• Post #700789

  Adobe and the US government have reached a settlement in the ongoing business practices suit relating to high termination feeds for subscriptions, and making it very hard to actually cancel. DOJ gets $75M, and Adobe will somehow provide $75M of free services to people. No statement of wrongdoing. https://www.reuters.com/world/adobe-pay-75-million-resolve-us-lawsuit-over-fees-subscription-cancellations-2026-03-13/

• Post #700787

  I may be retired, but I have not been saved from having a browser-tab bar full of blue icons hard to tell apart. I blame volunteer work.

• Post #700785

  Yesterday, my wife showed me a news article where some Kuwaiti guy was lamenting that Trump didn't stay bribed, and WTF man? Makes me wonder if the flow of free goodies from the Middle East is going to slow. Guy doesn't know how to play. #uspol

• Post #700783

  #PennedPossibilities 960 — Describe the longest romantic relationship your MC has ever had. (If they’ve had one.) The 4-book thing has the cool answer. 141 years because the MC kept their partner alive until the partner died in an industrial accident involving an explosion in a hydrogen cryo-fuel farm.

• Post #631703

  I've spent my whole career working with neurodivergent people in tech. Here's to the people who thrive with interrupts, who work best when juggling four different things, are pretty great incident responders, and can code while talking on slack. Here's to the people who need four uninterupted hours to get anything done, but what they get done is fantastic, and they have the in depth knowledge to explain nuances you didn't even know were there, making them the fo...