Ian Littman

@quinnypig.com Any change I could get a timestamp in the LWIA podcast for test01, since the podcast and the email order headlines differently?

Yep, it's back.

@laranewsom.com heads-up: domain's expired.

Also heads-up: the signals talk that landed on the KCDC lineup might be a good fit for this year's longhornphp.com (Oct 23-25 in Austin). CFP's open through Friday: cfp.longhornphp.com. Reply/find me elsewhere with any Q's!

@guy.dev Public ping 'cuz understandably no DMs, but saw your Meme Twin and Redis talks on the KCDC lineup and those look like a decent fit for longhornphp.com (Oct 23-25 in Austin). CFP closes EOD Friday (cfp.longhornphp.com). Sound interesting? Copy-pasting Sessionize submissions should work FWIW.

@amygeb.bsky.social Not DM'able (which is fair) so I'll ping this way: if you're up for e.g. talking Passkeys at Longhorn PHP (Oct 23-25 in Austin), the CFP closes EOD this Friday (cfp.longhornphp.com). Pinging 'cuz I'm thinking back to the five-star talks you had when we both spoke at Midwest 2019.

@stroz.dev DMs don't quite exist for you<->me on here, so doing a public ping instead: Longhorn PHP (in Austin Oct 23-25) CFP closes end-of-day Friday the 1st in case you're interested in submitting anything (believe you submitted to Tek this year). cfp.longhornphp.com. Thx!

If your first thought is "that joke isn't gonna fly"...I assure you, chances are quite good that it will. Delta's completion factor is quite good.

Guys I found a large quantity of Delta-9 in Texas who do I call

“Red states don’t care about blue states” “Texas voted for this” Hey did you know millions of different people live in states and they’re all individuals who each have their own differing views and actions

Waymo spotted well north of the Austin geofence. This is at Burnet and Greenlawn.

Golang makes up for the benefits of type aliases and generics and arbitrary key and value types for maps with nil pointer and zero value shenanigans.

The Tea Party protests in April 2009 had about a third of a million people involved, and the political media treated it like a game changer for the Obama presidency.

The No Kings rallies were AT LEAST ten times bigger than the Tea Party protests. Will the press keep pretending Trump is popular?

Wouldn't be surprised if more people chanted "USA! USA!" for longer in Austin today for the No Kings protest than at this parade. I like WWII equipment as much as the next dude but I know which events were more patriotic.

the story today is of a profoundly low energy military parade being met with millions of americans in nationwide protests denouncing the dictatorial pretensions of the president

"We stan short kings"?

Explore this report with AI BETA Terms of use Bot said: Hello! I’m a virtual agent here to help you explore the key findings of the IEA’s special report on energy and AI. Remember, AI can make mistakes, and you should verify the answers independently with the original source materials. Bot said: Hello! I’m a virtual agent here to help you explore the key findings of the IEA’s special report on energy and AI. Remember, AI can make mistakes, and you should verify the answers independently with the original source materials. Sent at April 20 at 11:32 AM Just now You said: If this chatbot makes mistakes, wouldn't it make more sense for me to just read the actual report instead of having it filtered through a mistake-making machine? You said: If this chatbot makes mistakes, wouldn't it make more sense for me to just read the actual report instead of having it filtered through a mistake-making machine? Sent at April 20 at 11:32 AM Just now Bot said: The Special Report on Energy and AI provides neutral, fact-based analysis and data without endorsing any specific fuel, technology, or policy. Bot said: The Special Report on Energy and AI provides neutral, fact-based analysis and data without endorsing any specific fuel, technology, or policy. Sent at April 20 at 11:32 AM Bot said: Is there anything else I can help you with? Bot said: Is there anything else I can help you with?

In a direct protest against the @iea.org's plea to use the custom chatbot to explore this report, I am going to read the entire thing (all 304 pages) using my actual brain, and this thread will be where I dump reactions, thoughts, notes etc as I go through it

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infrastructure. Technology majors Alphabet, Amazon, Meta Platforms, and Microsoft were 10 20 30 November 2022 November 2024 AI-focused Other Market cap of S&P500 companies USD trillion (2024, MER) 2 4 6 Seed Series A Series B Series C Median valuations of start-ups USD billion (2024, MER) IEA. CC BY 4.0 Chapter 1 | The rise of AI and its nexus with energy 23 1 reported to be planning as much as USD 300 billion in AI-related capital expenditure in 2025. This is over 20% higher than the total power sector investment in the United States. Box 1.1 explores the interplay between AI-driven investment in data centres and its implications for the energy sector.

This little bit is buried: capex in "AI" is 20% higher than capex in THE ENTIRE POWER SECTOR OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

I haven't set up a @longhornphp.com account yet here, but Longhorn PHP is back for its sixth (!) year this October. As usual, we're at Holiday Inn Austin Midtown Thursday-Saturday; dates for this year are October 23-25. CFP is open; submit talks at cfp.longhornphp.com. See y'all there?

Heads-up @crankyflier.com, Southwest is showing WGA fares as Basic. This is for a flight that I haven't changed since I bought it as WGA.

Night of the Long Threads

For a cert? Absolutely throw that in the junior bucket, then give people a heads-up that unit testing will be part of the cert. Nothing wrong with nudging folks in the right direction with a certification as the carrot :)

(I don't recall learning unit testing in my CSCI degree, but should have!)

IIRC we stayed split between SVB and Brex. Talked about moving at least some money to a SIB but never did.

Not sure. It's been awhile since I've ported things.

Introspecting your machine with osquery - DevOpsDays Austin 2025 Somewhere in your organization, maybe on your desk, maybe in your data center, is infrastructure that isn't immutable, and it's helpful to know what's going on with that infrastructure. osquery lets y...

Thanks to everyone for attending my #DevOpsDaysAustin presentation on osquery! Slides are here: ian.im/doda25

Presenting on osquery in a couple hours at @devopsdaysaustin.bsky.social!

Your search for blog posts about biz class is as good as mine. I haven't flown in a business class seat on AA since 2015 or so, and then only briefly.

Calling it now: the acquirers of Walgreens sell off the real estate for more valuable locations, swap to smaller storefronts where possible, shut down a bunch of stores, spin off international markets, and then sell the remaining US stores to UnitedHealth by mid-2028.

from heatmap newsletter: "THE KICKER: A new four-lane highway is being carved through Brazil’s Amazon rainforest to make way for an influx of traffic from the COP30 climate summit in Belém later this year."

you really just can't make this stuff up

Seems like there's been an uptick in SAML vulnerabilities popping up. This indicates to me that either a new tool for finding them got popular or a widely used tool got an upgrade around this detection. Anyone know which happened, and which tool?