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Comic. PERSON 1 with white hat: How tall are you? PERSON 2: 5ft 24cm [caption] When switching to metric, make the process easier by doing it in steps.

Metric Tip

xkcd.com/3164/

this is actually impressive, making up a brand new nobel peace prize replacement is a genuine innovation in bribery

absolutely nobody does corruption like FIFA

J'ai assez hâte qu'ils enlèvent la piste cyclable sur Décarie pour que ça améliore le trafic.

But even if Signal had the billions needed to recreate AWS, it’s not just about money. The talent to run these systems is rare & concentrated. The expertise, the tooling, the playbooks, the very language of modern SRE came out of these hyperscalers, and is now synonymous with 'the cloud.' 9/

Quick thoughts on the recent AWS outage AWS recently posted a public write-up of the us-east-1 incident that hit them this past Monday. Here are a couple of quick thoughts on it. Reliability → Automation → Complexity → New failure modes …

New blog post on the recent AWS incident: surfingcomplexity.blog/2025/10/25/q...

wait did ronald reagan just say go blue jays

Observability without queries is just sparkling data storage

god that dns plan race condition. nightmare

EVERYBODY GO READ THE AWS INCIDENT WRITE-UP! aws.amazon.com/message/1019...

That was Nick Suzuki’s best game of the season. And that’s saying something even if it’s only been eight games, because he’s been good in just about all of them.

Even more exciting, DynamoDB is now available in us-east-1.

norootcause on Sora Have the audience shout out the name of the show one word at a time

Fun with Sora

sora.chatgpt.com/p/s_68f6e3ae...

Today is when Amazon brain drain finally caught up with AWS column: When your best engineers log off for good, don’t be surprised when the cloud forgets how DNS works

This article by @quinnypig.com nails it

www.theregister.com/2025/10/20/a...

Four pairs of brown loafers are sitting on top of a rug. The first pair is relatively matte; the second pair is also matte, but has uneven wrinkling; the third part is relatively matte; the fourth pair is very shiny.

Of these four pairs of shoes, which two pairs do you think are the lowest in quality?

Make a choice before opening this thread. Then I'll tell you something about shoe quality. 🧵

Ensemble Montréal proposing to remove bike lanes in Parc-Extension. That’s exactly the kind of thing I’m worried about: sabotaging up-and-coming bike-friendly neighbourhoods.

all the anxiety human evolution developed to help me spot bears now kicks in when i have to answer emails

Je ne suis pas du genre à partir de rumeurs, mais a-t-on déjà vu Soraya Martinez Ferrada et Denis Coderre au même endroit en même temps?

Je pense que c'est la même personne

Death, taxes and #Habs Cole Caufield scoring in overtime!

A Conspiracy To Kill IE6 • Chris Zacharias The bittersweet consequence of YouTube’s incredible growth is that so many stories will be lost underneath all of the layers of new paint. This is why I wanted to tell the story of how, ten years ago,...

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Buff Guys Typing on Laptops Meme doing a little honeycomb propaganda about wide events

Somehow this one didn't get wiped from the @honeycomb.io laptop before I bought it after leaving.

@lizthegrey.com and @charity.wtf feel free to use this if you want, although questionable if you'd want to

postmodern finance theory

git-of-theseus plot showing 600k out of 1.4M lines of code last touched in 2025, then 300k, 200k, 100k lines of code respectively surviving from 2024, 2023, and 2022. the remaining 1/4 of the codebase was composed prior to 2021.

Slides for my #SREcon talk on Fast, Reproducible Builds with Docker Bake: drive.google.com/file/d/1g-H6...

Fun fact, 42% of our codebase (by LOC) was written this year, and we're only 9 months in! And yes, we're doing 2x builds & merges per week with only 50% more devs, thanks, AI & fast builds!

Je ne suis pas raciste mais… je fais campagne pour démanteler un moyen de transport écologique, économique, efficace et surtout qui diminue la congestion routière.

www.seangoedecke.com/seeing-like-...

use 1password

alikhil.dev/posts/the-si...

Genuinely incredible branding this was

I’m thankful avenue du Parc is finally getting the attention it deserves.

Cnbc headline Jim Cramer: Why the crazy spending of this AI boom isn't like the dot-com bubble

Oh shit oh fuck it's gonna pop

Veleno is missing as well?