Andrew Jessup

The 6 Mistakes You’re Going to Make as a New Manager Transitioning from an individual contributor to a manager is tough but rewarding. The key is to delegate, find new sources of fulfillment, focus on quality over quantity, maintain proper engagement…

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I realized that many of the mistakes I've made during my transition into management are very common, and that's why I decided to write this down.

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Are you stopping by Osh?

Whereabouts?

Plate on the north side has been consistently good for us.

Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social • 1h Going to become "the bad boy of Jeopardy" and by that I mean "I'm going to use my phone to look up the answers" until "Ken Jennings beats my ass" 9 • 176 Ken Jennings @kenjennings.bsky.social You mean look up the questions.

This is the hardest I’ve ever been owned online

I put smoked salmon in some marinara sauce last night and let me tell you what, don’t do that.

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Movie you’ve watched more than six times using gifs.

(“Hard mode” no Star Wars, Star Trek, or LOTR)

A comic called "how to draw goose neck". In panel 1 the goose's neck is very short and is labeled "no". In panel 3 the goose's neck is the right size and is labeled "yes". In panel 3 the goose's neck is longer and is labeled "no". In panel 4 the goose's neck is extremely long and terrifyingly snakelike and it's labeled "yessss".

A comic called The Canada Goose: A Role Model For Our Time. In panel 1, the goose is labeled "assertive" and is hissing furiously. In panel 2 it's "brave" and is standing up to a fearsome swan. In panel 3 it's "good parent" and is standing up to a dog while protecting its goslings. In panel 3 it's "team player" and is flying in a beautiful V. In panel 5 there's a close up of its head and it's labeled "crisp, modern aesthetic". In panel 6 it's eating grass and pooping and labeled "high fiber diet".

There's a lot of talk about Canada Geese and whether they're good and my answer is Yes.

zuck wearing a shirt that says "aut zuck aut nihil"

jay graber, bluesky ceo, wearing a shirt that says "mundus sine caesaribus"

A textured background featuring the colors of the Ukrainian flag, with a bright blue top half and a vibrant yellow bottom half. The fabric-like texture of the colors emphasizes the flag's design, representing Ukraine.

#StandWithUkraine 🇺🇦

I've been on this train. And now I live in Ann Arbor. And I endorse this message.

👊

*Hugs*

What are you getting in? Mfd?

What's Up In Workload Identity - November 2024 SPIFFE? WIMSE? All that and more inside the November edition of What's Up in Workload Identity.

Hey folks, — In case you are into workload identity news (I know, "very niche" topic), you might want to check out the November edition of "What's Up in Workload Identity:
workloadidentity.news/p/whats-up-i...

This edition highlights SPIKE, a SPIFFE-first Secrets Management solution.

Basically it's translating a broad user auth token issued and validated online by an IdP into a new token that can be validated offline by anything that can validate a SPIFFE SVID.

Netflix built a much simpler system with E2E tokens that seemed to scale really well.

The implementation proposed here was only ever a POC, but there's a SPIFFE SIG pushing on the concept.

Design Document: Delegated authentication context with SPIFFE Design Document: Delegated Principal Authentication with SPIFFE Author(s): Andrew Jessup, Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) Marcos A. Simplicio Jr., Universidade de São Paulo (USP) Charles C. Miers, U...

Doing this safely (ie. without passing around broadly scooped user bearer tokens) isn't easy though.

Here's a write up with more context docs.google.com/document/d/1...

We spent a while looking into this when exploring delegated identity for SPIFFE. In practice nesting identity for every service call is hard on impl. and perf. and encourages brittle authz policies. Usually identity of last service and initial user is all you need.

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Me, discovering the "Center Stage" feature of the new MacBook camera.

We used the four quadrants for the original SPIFFE.io docs. It's changed a bit since then but it helped us a lot with the original structure.

Elon Musk posting Dune quote, “Respect for the truth comes close to the basis for all morality”

The full quote, which Musk cuts off, is perfectly ironic:

“My father once told me that respect for the truth comes close to being the basis for all morality. ‘Something cannot emerge from nothing,’ he said. This is profound thinking if you understand how unstable ‘the truth’ can be.”

Optimist: The cup is half full

Pessimist: The cup is half empty

Product Manager: You are not the economic buyer for water and this cup was never designed for you.

A computational analysis of potential algorithmic bias on platform X during the 2024 US election | QUT ePrints Graham, Timothy & Andrejevic, Mark (2024) A computational analysis of potential algorithmic bias on platform X during the 2024 US election. [Working Paper] (Unpublished)

A computational analysis of potential algorithmic bias on platform X during the 2024 US election eprints.qut.edu.au/253211/ (via @dfeldman.org)

And snow!

The goal of #kubernetes was to establish an interface for cloud vendors to efficiently binpack customer workloads at scale.

It was never about simplifying infrastructure or creating a portable abstraction.

Honestly the lazer focus on capturing notes as efficiently as pen and paper. I wanted something that could *actually* replace my pile of notebooks and post-its and haven't looked back.

@jasonrosewell.bsky.social

It is really cool to see a new secret store built on top of SPIFFE in a native way. This is a great way to show how a common production identity framework can make other things much simpler and automated.

There is a lot of block and tackle here but he core flow is surprisingly simple.