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R Tyler Croy 🦀

@rtyler@hacky.town
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Director of Engineering, free and open source developer, and generally tall guy

98 Followers
745 Following
15 Posts
Joined November 04, 2022
Blog:
https://brokenco.de
GitHub:
https://github.com/rtyler
Pronouns:
he/him
Business:
https://www.buoyantdata.com/

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R Tyler Croy 🦀 @rtyler@hacky.town · Apr 04, 2026
R Tyler Croy 🦀
@rtyler@hacky.town

Director of Engineering, free and open source developer, and generally tall guy

hacky.town

I love that somebody decided to use this copy for when a build has never had a successful run

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R Tyler Croy 🦀 @rtyler@hacky.town · Apr 03, 2026
R Tyler Croy 🦀
@rtyler@hacky.town

Director of Engineering, free and open source developer, and generally tall guy

hacky.town

I spent about a decade working on #jenkinsci and let me tell you: it is wild that the CI service from a literal trillion dollar company has shittier security in 2026 than Jenkins.

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R Tyler Croy 🦀 @rtyler@hacky.town · Apr 03, 2026
R Tyler Croy 🦀
@rtyler@hacky.town

Director of Engineering, free and open source developer, and generally tall guy

hacky.town

In case it's not clear why Amazon wins at retail, to use this third party site:

* I had to create a new account
* Answered at least 90s of captchas
* Had to enter billing information twice

It's been at least five minutes just trying to buy a damn jersey

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R Tyler Croy 🦀 @rtyler@hacky.town · Apr 01, 2026
R Tyler Croy 🦀
@rtyler@hacky.town

Director of Engineering, free and open source developer, and generally tall guy

hacky.town

"This is the 30-day notice regarding upcoming program changes that will take
effect on April 10th, 2026."

Did AI do your math for you?

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R Tyler Croy 🦀 @rtyler@hacky.town · Apr 01, 2026
R Tyler Croy 🦀
@rtyler@hacky.town

Director of Engineering, free and open source developer, and generally tall guy

hacky.town

I have been thinking of what "private" open source projects might look like.

How do we build a safe space from AI crawlers and slop farmers while preserving what makes free and open source so powerful?

https://brokenco.de/2026/04/01/private-open-source.html

brokenco.de

Private Open Source

Open source communities depend on a fundamental assumption that is no longer true: the presumption of good faith actors. The hosts serving free and open source code are scraped relentlessly, denying s

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R Tyler Croy 🦀 @rtyler@hacky.town · Mar 31, 2026
R Tyler Croy 🦀
@rtyler@hacky.town

Director of Engineering, free and open source developer, and generally tall guy

hacky.town

I'm just lucky I guess

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R Tyler Croy 🦀 @rtyler@hacky.town · Mar 30, 2026
R Tyler Croy 🦀
@rtyler@hacky.town

Director of Engineering, free and open source developer, and generally tall guy

hacky.town

"A free crate registry for the Rust programming language."

huh

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R Tyler Croy 🦀 @rtyler@hacky.town · Mar 27, 2026
R Tyler Croy 🦀
@rtyler@hacky.town

Director of Engineering, free and open source developer, and generally tall guy

hacky.town

Really appreciated seeing @SeanCasten@mastodon.social on Bloomberg the evening 👋

As usual, clearly presenting the facts about Johnson and Trump's lies and maneuvering

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R Tyler Croy 🦀 @rtyler@hacky.town · Mar 27, 2026
R Tyler Croy 🦀
@rtyler@hacky.town

Director of Engineering, free and open source developer, and generally tall guy

hacky.town

I have a different fediverse account ready to move at @rtyler@buoyantdata.social but the lack of a clean path for migration of post history is really cramping my style

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R Tyler Croy 🦀 @rtyler@hacky.town · Mar 13, 2026
R Tyler Croy 🦀
@rtyler@hacky.town

Director of Engineering, free and open source developer, and generally tall guy

hacky.town

this 50+ reply slack thread should have been a meeting

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R Tyler Croy 🦀 @rtyler@hacky.town · Mar 07, 2026
R Tyler Croy 🦀
@rtyler@hacky.town

Director of Engineering, free and open source developer, and generally tall guy

hacky.town
Replying to @pikesley@mastodon.me.uk
@pikesley@mastodon.me.uk "you promise?"
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R Tyler Croy 🦀 @rtyler@hacky.town · Dec 31, 2025
R Tyler Croy 🦀
@rtyler@hacky.town

Director of Engineering, free and open source developer, and generally tall guy

hacky.town

In the final hours of 2025, I am pleased to share that @deltalakeoss@social.lfx.dev for #rustlang 0.30.0 has been released

I also published an updated deltalake #Python package 1.3.0

https://github.com/delta-io/delta-rs/releases/tag/rust-v0.30.0

social.lfx.dev

Delta Lake (@deltalakeoss@social.lfx.dev) - social.lfx.dev

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R Tyler Croy 🦀 @rtyler@hacky.town · Dec 09, 2025
R Tyler Croy 🦀
@rtyler@hacky.town

Director of Engineering, free and open source developer, and generally tall guy

hacky.town
Replying to @thejcannon@fosstodon.org
@thejcannon When capacity planning it is important to use the most impactful metrics possible to avoid over-provisioning. For example, yes births have increased but do we know whether that results in a proportional growth in "who has been nice" versus who has been "naughty?"
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R Tyler Croy 🦀 @rtyler@hacky.town · Dec 08, 2025
R Tyler Croy 🦀
@rtyler@hacky.town

Director of Engineering, free and open source developer, and generally tall guy

hacky.town
Replying to @rtyler@hacky.town
this toot brought to you by the ever increasing list of user agents my sites serve HTTP 402 Payment Required
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R Tyler Croy 🦀 @rtyler@hacky.town · Dec 08, 2025
R Tyler Croy 🦀
@rtyler@hacky.town

Director of Engineering, free and open source developer, and generally tall guy

hacky.town
Boosted by Greg Bell @ferrix@mastodon.online
Building a website in 2005: "here are a list of tips to help crawlers index your website" 2025: 'here are a list of tips to help avoid crawlers indexing your website"
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