Tim (@pims)

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The “latency” graphs drop. Hopefully that’s not revenue you’re looking at 😁

They're Arresting Us for Miscarriages Now What the hell happened to the Overton Window?

Is this just our new normal? Women being arrested if a cop doesn’t like how they miscarried, and lawmakers debating whether to put us to death before breaking for fucking lunch? Has everyone lost their minds?

The maternal mortality rate rose in Texas *33%* since they banned abortion.

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Happy to announce Hurl 6.1.0 🎉!

🔸 Redacting sensitive values from reports and logs with secrets
🔸 New queries: IP address, HTTP version
🔸 New filters: base64Encode/Decode, toString
🔸 More curl options

hurl.dev/blog/2025/03...

Looks like AWS is getting in on the disaggregated Kafka game.

aws.amazon.com/blogs/big-da...

i need to try harder to not let the world eat me alive every day, i feel physically bad

been working on a site & repo to test apache iceberg (similar to caniuse.com). it executes a basic test by standing up combos of catalog, storage, and query engine. anyone want to contribute? sneak peek here: iceberg.fyi

Apple getting out of the UK feels like a Brexit I would support.

Please Bsky give me the "turn off retweets" feature I know I need it and I'm sure at least some of you would like it for me

But what if I have 1,001 customers? 😁

Over 700 million events/second: How we make sense of too much data Here we explain how we made our data pipeline scale to 700 million events per second while becoming more resilient than ever before. We share some math behind our approach and some of the designs of o...

Here we explain how we made our data pipeline scale to 700 million events per second while becoming more resilient than ever before. blog.cloudflare.com/how-we-make-...

If you see this, quote with a photo of a bridge from your gallery

UI is hell: four-function calculators One of the simplest and best-known computing devices on the planet is a fascinating study in interface design.

UI is hell, or why you can't design a four-function calculator: lcamtuf.substack.com/p/ui-is-hell...

Once again

Congestion Pricing Gets Kids To School On Time, Data Shows - Streetsblog New York City Data shared with Streetsblog shows school buses traveling faster and being late less since congestion pricing began.

Ever since congestion pricing went into effect, school buses have been moving faster and getting more kids to school on time, one bus company told Streetsblog.

ps. please if you're here consider a fedi account also, they have significant structural and advantages & aren't run by vc.

Feels horrible because we _know_ it won’t be applied fairly.

“When Mexico sends their people…”

Apple opposes investor calls to end its DEI efforts: 'We strive to create a culture of belonging' - 9to5Mac Apple filed its annual proxy report for shareholders today ahead of its annual shareholders meeting next month. The report reveals...

Apple opposes investor calls to end its DEI efforts: 'We strive to create a culture of belonging' 9to5mac.com/2025/01/10/a...

I guess that, as between my two countries, I’m feeling more Canadian than I thought these days, because “Canada provides big piece of public firefighting equipment to LA, where it gets grounded by a an American exercising his sacred freedom to fly drones just wherever” feels very on the nose to me.

wow!! Congrats!

Gotta be one of the best writers about software around

leet!

Very hard to teach an organization to interact as teams when they've normalized as interacting as individuals. No one even knows what they're doing wrong when they message someone privately instead of dropping a message for a team to pick up. They don't see the centralization of experience and power

Is it too early for “skeet of the year” award?