Jim Armstrong

I would like to replace our Secretary of Defense please 🇺🇸

Happy Friday!

Lots of folks in tech are looking for work right now, so here's a thread of some tech for good (or at least, hopefully not explicitly evil) roles I found around the web.

US Firms Paid Nearly 90% of 2025 Tariff Costs, NY Fed Study Says Nearly 90% of the economic burden from tariffs in 2025 was borne by US companies and consumers, according to a new study by economists at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York found.

Nearly 90% of the economic burden from tariffs in 2025 was borne by US companies and consumers, according to a new study by economists at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York found

Claude Cowork seems to be a first step to combining the Claude UI with Claude Code’s ability to work directly on local files. It’s still limited to Max plans and is very much an experiment right now.

Today I learned he founded another company called WorldCoin, which is now known as “World - The real human network”

We had the giant US atlas book in the van at all times. Learning to read mile markers and matching them exits marked on the map; learning that while Tennessee and Arkansas took the same space in the atlas they were vastly different scales (and levels of boredom, as a kid).

Boston Common with over 37000 mini US flags to remember the sacrifices of fallen soldiers from the state of Massachusetts.

Memorial Day in Boston, in memory of the 37,000+ soldiers from Massachusetts who died to give us our freedoms. We must continue the fight, even from within.

open chart, keep scrolling down

www.gelliottmorris.com/p/republican...

Microwave Nutella Pudding Cake Recipe This warm, gooey, flourless chocolate cake requires just three ingredients, five minutes and a zap in the microwave Nutella does the heavy lifting here, standing in for sugar, fat and flour and offeri...

Feeling the combo of:
“I’m way too tired to bake anything”

but also

“I want something sweet”?

This is the perfect 3 ingredient, 2 min recipe (4 ingredients if you add Bailey’s on top)

cooking.nytimes.com/recipes/1026...

Why Shopping Local This Indie Bookstore Day Is More Important Than Ever Several independent book store owners are encouraging people to go out to their local independent bookstores to buy some novels to help celebrate Independent Bookstore Day and keep independent busines...

Need an excuse to buy more books? Now you have one! Saturday is Indie Bookstore Day! Show your favorite indie some love.

Every April, we celebrate Independent Bookstore Day to remind us how vital indie bookstores are to our communities and society. It’s a day of joy and solidarity, and significant financial impact for these bookstores. This year, Amazon is undercutting that with a “Book Sale” on the same day—a calculated move by a company that has already put half the bookstores in the country out of business, controls over 60% of the market and sells far more books than all indie bookstores combined. The people at Amazon responsible for the timing of their "Book Sale" should be ashamed, but they are shameless.

Man, this is a pretty fucking gross move from Amazon, huh? Good on @bookshop.org for not mincing words, though:

The Swan Boats have made their annual return to Boston.

🤍

My Three Thoughts - The 2025 Masters Rory McIlroy has won the Masters and the Career Grand Slam, so what will we talk about next year?

NEW: Better late than never, here is the Masters Morning After - bobsturm.substack.com/p/my-three-t...

Grandpa’s version was $1 more

Thank you!

Poll from Bret Fisher Cloud Native DevOps - YouTube I'm getting into AI Agents lately. How many of you are learning how to use AI Agents for Dev and DevOps? Would you like some more AI content? Put ideas for w...

What should I make next? I'm looking into AI Agents for DevOps and Infra work. Here's a poll youtube.com/post/Ugkx_BL...

Yep

Cloud Native Live: Let's dive into the OSSF Scorecard | CNCF Virtual Event - Security is a growing concern in open source software, but how do we measure the reliability of a project?

🔒 Open source security is a growing concern—so how do we measure a project's reliability?

At next week’s @cncf.io event, Port’s @sebi2706.bsky.social will explore the OSSF Scorecard and explain how devs can improve security posture.

📅 Mar 11 | 5PM CET
🔗 Register: community.cncf.io/events/detai...

The 2025 Best Picture Oscar Should Go To The Beekeeper lots of buzz around this one

something to consider imo

briancgrubb.substack.com/p/the-2025-b...

Ugh…but those have, like, so many words…

Graphical User Interface - Choose Your Own Adventure: The Dignified Pursuit of a Developer Platform In this episode, we'll go through UIs typically used as a portal into the platform, etc. The tools we'll explore and compare are Backstage and Port. Vote for your choice of a tool for signing artifa Graphical User Interface - Feat. Backstage and Port (You Choose!, Ch. 05, Ep. 04)

DevOps Toolkit - Graphical User Interface - Feat. Backstage and Port (You Choose! Ch. 05 Ep. 04) - www.youtube.com/watc... #SuggestedRead #devopsish www.youtube.com/watc...

a cartoon of two spidermans standing in front of a nypd van Alt: a cartoon of two spidermen, pointing at each other, in front of an NYPD van

Maybe I'm overly AI-suspicious, but it looks like the image they used for this article was generated by AI.

THIS article shook me (digitaleditionapp.ft.com/i9DX?pid=af_...). It gets to the core of the anxiety I’ve been feeling. Loads of great & brave journalism these past couple weeks giving me hope that one day we’ll get sane @wired.com , @theguardian.com and @financialtimes.com.

Man I feel like an underrated part of why I’m so anxious is the fact that I have to track like 4-5 mediums of communication all the time. Getting mail once a day and then your phone ringing if somebody needs something? Seems incredible

Brief break from hawking The Onion to tell everyone I just subscribed to Wired. Please support publications who do brave work right now.

www.wired.com/v2/offers/wi...

RONALD REAGAN (1988): We should be aware of the demagogues who are ready to declare a trade war against our friends, weakening our economy, our national security, and the entire free world—all while cynically waving the American flag.

SREs, what are the most common questions developers ask you on a daily basis?

Another vote for 1Password. I tried to stop using it and switch to Apple Passwords but 1P is just so much easier, and widely supported across devices & browsers.

Announcing 150M developers and a new free tier for GitHub Copilot in VS Code Come and join 150M developers on GitHub that can now code with Copilot for free in VS Code.

Is it the the version they made free for everyone in VS Code recently? Limits on # of code completions. github.blog/news-insight...

Wild!
I might #YouTubeLive a breakdown of this... anyone git+GHActions savy want to join me?

Good write up here github.com/advisories/G...

(I stream weekly at Bret.live)
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