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Stefano Borrelli

@stefanoborrelli.bsky.social

Principal Solutions Architect at upbound.io

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A few days ago, I stood in the graveyard of an 1100 year old church, getting damper and damper in the drizzling rain.

A woman walked into the graveyard, waved, said hello, and, as we had previously arranged, handed me a paper bag full of human bones.

The life of a churchwarden is a strange one...

23.01.2026 11:44 β€” πŸ‘ 3142    πŸ” 865    πŸ’¬ 38    πŸ“Œ 303

This completely fake university was recently uncovered by @mcintold.bsky.social - it’s fascinating. #FoSci #ResearchIntegrity

11.12.2025 11:08 β€” πŸ‘ 20    πŸ” 9    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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NEW: INACTION CONTINUES ON DANGEROUS JUNCTIONS

πŸ“ŠThe latest data published today, shows a picture of inaction from @mayoroflondon.bsky.social, TfL and local councils, when it comes to making junctions safe for cycling...

πŸ§‘β€πŸ’» Email the mayor and demand action: bit.ly/47QcmUF

20.11.2025 09:41 β€” πŸ‘ 28    πŸ” 18    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 2
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Haskell Brain Teasers Deepen your Haskell knowledge, sharpen your functional programming skills, and just have fun with 20 functional programming puzzles to tie your brain in knots.

Haskell Brain Teasers is currently in beta. If you’re planning to read it I’d love you to get the beta and give feedback now!

pragprog.com/titles/haske...

12.11.2025 15:34 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Cloud Native Bergen Cloud Native Bergen host of Cloud Native Day Bergen and other events. Anything Kubernetes related goes!

Videos from Cloud Native Day Bergen 2025 are now published www.youtube.com/@CloudNative...

31.10.2025 07:51 β€” πŸ‘ 13    πŸ” 4    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Blackfriars Bridge: Major Refurbishment To Resume And we go over the parapets.

Secrets of Blackfriars Bridge revealed in new restoration project

24.10.2025 10:36 β€” πŸ‘ 7    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Obituary: Farewell to robots.txt (1994-2025) The voluntary compliance protocol that civilized the internet has departed, bids Henning Fries farewell.

"The protocol taught us that technology can be based on human values like ethics and morality. It showed that voluntary compliance works when all parties benefit."

On robots.txt.

www.heise.de/en/backgroun...

16.10.2025 20:16 β€” πŸ‘ 78    πŸ” 50    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 16
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My answer is even better:

25.09.2025 15:45 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0

Don't miss the awesome speakers for Cloud Native Day Bergen 2025 go.bsky.app/QWcidxD

24.09.2025 09:12 β€” πŸ‘ 6    πŸ” 5    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Tipsy bats and perfect pasta: Ig Nobels celebrate β€˜improbable’ research The annual awards are a celebration of weird but thought-provoking science.

Scientific study of trisodium citrate in the recipe for cacio e pepe wins an Ig Nobel prize this year. Science is cool, kids.

www.nature.com/articles/d41...

19.09.2025 18:56 β€” πŸ‘ 9    πŸ” 5    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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πŸ”­πŸ–€πŸš€ How Blacksky grew to millions of users without spending a dollar Watching social media evolve into something decentralized, open-source, and scalable

> [Blacksky] guarantees our community a seat at the table, and ensures that we can leave and easily make our own table if we need to. That’s the true promise of decentralized social media.

Me for @newpublic.org

24.08.2025 14:21 β€” πŸ‘ 430    πŸ” 159    πŸ’¬ 14    πŸ“Œ 18
WKRP: Johnny Fever

This is awesome: a "WKRP in Cincinnati" fan created a three-hour Johnny Fever radio block, by using clips from the TV show and dropping in the full songs on his intros and outros, plus commercials and Les Nessman news breaks.

14.08.2025 23:02 β€” πŸ‘ 2415    πŸ” 732    πŸ’¬ 102    πŸ“Œ 133
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The Best Places To See Art For Free In London Exhibitions and permanent collection that don't cost a penny to visit.

See art for free in London - with the help of our ultimate guide

14.08.2025 16:24 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Announcing Crossplane 2.0 After seven years building Crossplane, we're excited to announce Crossplane 2.0. This release extends beyond infrastructure to support applications as first-class citizens, enabling platform teams to ...

Crossplane 2.0 was one of the main things in the cloud native space I was really looking forward to this year πŸš€ Game-changer features: applications as first-class citizens, namespaced resources, and native support for composing Kubernetes resources. @crossplane.io blog.crossplane.io/announcing-c...

14.08.2025 16:26 β€” πŸ‘ 17    πŸ” 5    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

The Crossplane v2 release candidate is available for installation and testing now in your non-production clusters!

github.com/crossplane/c...

We invite you to try this build and report any issues and questions. Let's work together towards a polished and high quality release for early next week!

05.08.2025 22:59 β€” πŸ‘ 6    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1
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GitHub - fortra/function-pythonic: Python based Crossplane Function providing a clean and elegant syntax for writing Crossplane Compositions. Python based Crossplane Function providing a clean and elegant syntax for writing Crossplane Compositions. - fortra/function-pythonic

New Crossplane function-pythonic looks good: github.com/fortra/funct...

def compose(self):
vpc = self.resources.vpc('ec2.aws.crossplane.io/v1beta1', 'VPC')
vpc.spec.forProvider.region = self.spec.region
vpc.spec.forProvider.cidrBlock = self.spec.cidr

05.08.2025 08:31 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
My photo shows an ancient Egyptian statuette of a standing blue hippopotamus  on display at the Egyptian Museum in Cairo. It is made of Egyptian faience, a ceramic material coated with a bright blue glossy glaze. The hippo is viewed from the side profile with head on the right. It is decorated in black pigment with outlines of lotus plants which grow in the hippos Nile habitat. A little bird is perched on the stem of one lotus flower. Dimensions: Height 11.5 cm, length 21.5 cm.

Excavated by Auguste Mariette in 1860 at the necropolis of Dra’ Abu el-Naga’, western Thebes. Dated Middle Kingdom, 11th Dynasty, c. 2134-1991 BC.

Egyptian faience is a ceramic material made of quartz. Blue hippos are decorated with black pigment outlining depictions of Nile river plants, in particular lotus flowers. In ancient Egypt lotus flowers had religious symbolism; the flowers close at night and reopen with the rising of the sun in the morning, which was associated with regeneration and rebirth. 

Blue faience hippos have been found in Middle Kingdom and Second Intermediate period tombs. It’s thought they were placed there to help the rebirth of the deceased. Associated with the life-giving Nile, regeneration, and Tawaret, the ancient Egyptian goddess of fertility and childbirth.

Hippos were also seen as dangerous to humans so the legs of faience hippos have often been broken off the statuettes found in tombs, perhaps to make sure the hippo could not harm the deceased in the afterlife.

My photo shows an ancient Egyptian statuette of a standing blue hippopotamus on display at the Egyptian Museum in Cairo. It is made of Egyptian faience, a ceramic material coated with a bright blue glossy glaze. The hippo is viewed from the side profile with head on the right. It is decorated in black pigment with outlines of lotus plants which grow in the hippos Nile habitat. A little bird is perched on the stem of one lotus flower. Dimensions: Height 11.5 cm, length 21.5 cm. Excavated by Auguste Mariette in 1860 at the necropolis of Dra’ Abu el-Naga’, western Thebes. Dated Middle Kingdom, 11th Dynasty, c. 2134-1991 BC. Egyptian faience is a ceramic material made of quartz. Blue hippos are decorated with black pigment outlining depictions of Nile river plants, in particular lotus flowers. In ancient Egypt lotus flowers had religious symbolism; the flowers close at night and reopen with the rising of the sun in the morning, which was associated with regeneration and rebirth. Blue faience hippos have been found in Middle Kingdom and Second Intermediate period tombs. It’s thought they were placed there to help the rebirth of the deceased. Associated with the life-giving Nile, regeneration, and Tawaret, the ancient Egyptian goddess of fertility and childbirth. Hippos were also seen as dangerous to humans so the legs of faience hippos have often been broken off the statuettes found in tombs, perhaps to make sure the hippo could not harm the deceased in the afterlife.

Happy weekend! πŸ¦›πŸ’™

Here’s a wonderful c. 4,000 year-old ancient Egyptian glossy blue hippo decorated with a little bird perched on the stem of a lotus flower.

Egyptian Museum Cairo πŸ“· by me

#Archaeology

19.07.2025 11:03 β€” πŸ‘ 556    πŸ” 120    πŸ’¬ 18    πŸ“Œ 13
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Parsing Protobuf Like Never Before Β· mcyoung

new blogpost about protobuf perf (work related!)
mcyoung.xyz/2025/07/16/h...

16.07.2025 18:59 β€” πŸ‘ 42    πŸ” 8    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1
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The FIPS 140-3 Go Cryptographic Module Go now has a built-in, native FIPS 140-3 compliant mode.

We announced the new native Go FIPS 140-3 mode today!

FIPS 140, like it or not, is often a requirement, and I was increasingly sad about large deployments replacing the Go crypto packages with non-memory safe cgo bindings.

Go is now one of the easiest and most secure ways to build under FIPS 140.

15.07.2025 21:40 β€” πŸ‘ 200    πŸ” 50    πŸ’¬ 12    πŸ“Œ 4
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As we test Kubernetes clusters beyond the supported 5,000+ nodes limit at LinkedIn, we're finding out 'List API' calls are a bottleneck in cluster reliability. So I'm publishing a deep dive about why this is a problem and what you can do about them. ahmet.im/blog/kuberne...

09.07.2025 20:38 β€” πŸ‘ 24    πŸ” 7    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1

I am once again pitching my romantic comedy:

- two academics start dating
- discover they are each other's terrible reviewer
- hijinks ensue

Working title: Love is Double-Blind

18.06.2025 10:55 β€” πŸ‘ 2609    πŸ” 345    πŸ’¬ 95    πŸ“Œ 65
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Merge Crossplane v2 changes into `main` by negz Β· Pull Request #6489 Β· crossplane/crossplane Description of your changes This merges all commits from https://github.com/crossplane/crossplane/tree/v2 into main. I created the source negz/v2-merge branch by checking out v2 and rebasing it on...

v2 APIs have been merged into Crossplane's main branch github.com/crossplane/c...!

Read more about v2 here: github.com/crossplane/c...

29.05.2025 16:00 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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The Crossplane v1.20.0 release is now available to install into your control planes! πŸŽ‰

A huge thank you goes out to our release MVPs Carl Lunde and Tobi - thank you for your efforts! πŸ™‡

Read all about this awesome new release in the release notes below:

github.com/crossplane/c...

21.05.2025 13:16 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Standing room only at the @crossplane.io v2 session #kubecon

04.04.2025 10:23 β€” πŸ‘ 8    πŸ” 4    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

What's new in Crossplane v2? docs.crossplane.io/v2.0-preview...

Stop by our booth 6A at #kubecon.

01.04.2025 09:57 β€” πŸ‘ 8    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Lots of great talks at Cloud Native Day Oslo today: cloud-native-day-oslo-2025.sessionize.com/schedule

I'm giving a talk at 13:45 about @crossplane.io and Platform Engineering. Please say hi if you see me around, I'm happy to answer any questions.

13.03.2025 08:21 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Proposal: Crossplane v2 by negz Β· Pull Request #6255 Β· crossplane/crossplane Description of your changes This PR adds the first draft of a proposal for Crossplane v2. The PR proposes a new version of Crossplane that’s simpler and better suited to managing applications, not...

The Crossplane v2 proposal has been out for a couple of weeks github.com/crossplane/c....

We'll discuss the proposal again at today's community meeting at 1pm US/eastern: docs.google.com/document/d/1...

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Congratulations!

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The Mario 64 intro scene with a letter from Princess Peach, reading:
Dear Mario. Please come to the castle. I'm down bad. Yours truly-- Princess Toadstool (Peach)

The Mario 64 intro scene with a letter from Princess Peach, reading: Dear Mario. Please come to the castle. I'm down bad. Yours truly-- Princess Toadstool (Peach)

CATS from the video game Zero Wing (the All Your Base Are Belong To Us game), saying: "I am Locutus of Borg. Resistance is Futile"

CATS from the video game Zero Wing (the All Your Base Are Belong To Us game), saying: "I am Locutus of Borg. Resistance is Futile"

Dracula from Castlevania: Symphony of the Night, saying to Richter "Get out of my house"

Dracula from Castlevania: Symphony of the Night, saying to Richter "Get out of my house"

The transportation advisor from SimCity 2000, saying "YOU CAN'T STAY ON TWITTER! YOU WILL REGRET THIS!"

The transportation advisor from SimCity 2000, saying "YOU CAN'T STAY ON TWITTER! YOU WILL REGRET THIS!"

My big project: The Death Generator.
It's a tool for making fake video game screenshots, just fill in new text and it'll give you a (generally) pixel-accurate image back, the correct fonts and everything.

deathgenerator.com

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A picture of British imperial cleaners in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The store is closed, and there are many notices pasted to the window and doors.

A picture of British imperial cleaners in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The store is closed, and there are many notices pasted to the window and doors.

In time the sun sets on all empires.

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