Matthew Riley

Ask not for whom the rat trap sings
It sings for thee

YouTube video by gar1t Episode 1 - Mongo DB Is Web Scale

15 years. Still gold. www.youtube.com/watch?v=b2F-...

/dev/null is webscale.

"Call Me With Almost, But Unfortunately Not Total, Certainty"

in context: xcancel.com/mdriley25519...

The question there was why this was different from ElastiCache.

Matthew Riley @mdriley25519 • 8/20/21 It seems like MemoryDB is an acknowledgement of how many shops use Redis as a *database* and not a *cache* • AWS built a service with Redis APl and performance profile but with DB-class durability. And if you're selling durability you can't call it a "cache" Matthew Riley @mdriley25519 That said, easy to imagine AWS thought customers would see a starker difference here than they have. When you're AWS, the idea of putting data into something without strong durability is unthinkable. If you're a startup, it's called Tuesday. 6:50 PM • 8/20/21

Elsewhere, elsewhen

I am 1000% convinced AWS engineers launched MemoryDB (speaks Redis/Valkey but has a durability story) as a "mission of mercy".

It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a Holdco in possession of a pot of Bitcoin, must be in want of a small publicly-listed US company.

YouTube video by USCSB Safety Pays Off: The Value of Vigilance

USCSB calls for aid! youtu.be/2z7h5BOZ2Hk?...

@swiftonsecurity.com you seeing this shit?

White House proposes shutting down chemical safety agency Since 1998, the Chemical Safety Board has played a key role in probing the causes of major chemical accidents.

nooooo not www.youtube.com/user/USCSB

www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi...

Microsoft cuts nearly 3% of global workforce, about 6,000 jobs, in latest push for efficiency Microsoft began laying off thousands of employees, targeting less than 3% of its global workforce in a move to streamline operations and reduce management layers.

Today was MSFT. :(

www.geekwire.com/2025/microso...

Homer Simpson as a youth football coach: "Now, while I wasn't able to cut everyone I wanted to, I *have* cut a lot of you"

Big Tech leadership, 2025

Under other circumstances I would have been excited to learn that "contemnor" is a word.

Holy fuck. Any company that thinks they're going to avoid the need to fight -- or to utterly debase themselves -- is not dealing with reality.

You set the house on fire, watched it burn, and then lost your nerve and put it out. You now have a partially burned house. Great job.

President Dwayne Elizondo Mountain Dew Herbert Camacho *cared* that his country was suffering.

He eagerly sought intelligent advice and let it change his mind. He was held to account by a vigorous legislature.

For us, today, Idiocracy might as well be The West Wing.

The White House Correspondents Association deems speaking truth to power to be “the politics of division.”

They’ve joined the growing regiment of submission.

The Nine Billion Borrow Check Errors Of God

Everything is so unbelievably stupid right now.

White House posts video of immigrants in shackles, calls deportation footage 'ASMR' President Donald Trump has made the crackdown on undocumented immigrants living in the United States a priority for his second term in the White House.

Again, how can you not hear the deafening echoes of history here?
www.cnbc.com/2025/02/18/w...

With a name like Isolate it has to be good

Top US Election Security Watchdog Forced to Stop Election Security Work The US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency has frozen efforts to aid states in securing elections, according to an internal memo viewed by WIRED.

CISA and desist www.wired.com/story/cisa-e...

can't believe they went with "Project 2025" when "Opus DEI" was right there

a panel of a Penny Arcade comic Gabe, sitting at a computer: "You're mad at some words?" Tycho, unperturbed: "Don't act surprised. It shames us both."

I have been mad at a word or two in my day

That's from www.fidelity.com/customer-ser...

It hurts my head imagining the nonsense they must be doing on the backend in order to support this.

It gets worse! Here's how you authenticate to Fidelity if you have the misfortune to need to call them on the phone

I don't have the content warnings or character limit to fully discuss the issue here, but if you're not trans, please go read my Hachyderm post:
hachyderm.io/@chandlerc/1...

It'll be hard. I get it. But the trans community is going to need your help for the next several years to survive.