Stefano Borrelli

My answer is even better:

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

Tipsy bats and perfect pasta: Ig Nobels celebrate ‘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...

🔭🖤🚀 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

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.

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

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 🚀 Game-changer features: applications as first-class citizens, namespaced resources, and native support for composing Kubernetes resources. @crossplane.io blog.crossplane.io/announcing-c...

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!

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

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! 🦛💙

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 📷 by me

#Archaeology

Parsing Protobuf Like Never Before · mcyoung

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

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.

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...

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

Merge Crossplane v2 changes into `main` by negz · Pull Request #6489 · 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...

The Crossplane v1.20.0 release is now available to install into your control planes! 🎉

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

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

github.com/crossplane/c...

Standing room only at the @crossplane.io v2 session #kubecon

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

Stop by our booth 6A at #kubecon.

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.

Proposal: Crossplane v2 by negz · Pull Request #6255 · 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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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"

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!"

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

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.

I am absolutely not starting any kind of competition, unless there is some dark UI pattern that is getting triggered in the app. Ping me the next time you get one and I can track against my usage.

Duolingo has been getting worse in a lot of aspects and (as someone with a 3000+ day streak) the educational value of their lessons are questionable.

Focaccia dough in a baking pan.

A picture of Focaccia out of the oven.

Made focaccia to go along with our soup tonight. The house smells amazing.

I'm biased but I think k8s is the best base right now for infra platforms. For Crossplane itself, look at using KCL or Python for your functions.

Take your time to learn and make mistakes, things can behave in ways you never expected.

This is a great dive into the inner workings of Bluesky and the possibilities of atproto.

Marp: Markdown Presentation Ecosystem Marp (also known as the Markdown Presentation Ecosystem) provides an intuitive experience for creating beautiful slide decks. You only have to focus on writing your story in a Markdown document.

marp.app for some of our presentations that need to have autogenerated content.

Vanity Journals, Conflicts of Interest, and the Quest for Research Integrity November 2024 has been another intriguing month for the forensic scientometrics community.

There are many ways to unethically promote opinions as science and to boost citation rates. I explore one way today fosci.substack.com/p/vanity-jou...
#Research #Integrity #FoSci