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...
This completely fake university was recently uncovered by @mcintold.bsky.social - it’s fascinating. #FoSci #ResearchIntegrity
11.12.2025 11:08 — 👍 20 🔁 9 💬 0 📌 0
NEW: INACTION CONTINUES ON DANGEROUS JUNCTIONS
📊The 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...
🧑💻 Email the mayor and demand action: bit.ly/47QcmUF
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...
Videos from Cloud Native Day Bergen 2025 are now published www.youtube.com/@CloudNative...
31.10.2025 07:51 — 👍 13 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0
Secrets of Blackfriars Bridge revealed in new restoration project
24.10.2025 10:36 — 👍 7 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
"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...
My answer is even better:
25.09.2025 15:45 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 2 📌 0Don't miss the awesome speakers for Cloud Native Day Bergen 2025 go.bsky.app/QWcidxD
24.09.2025 09:12 — 👍 6 🔁 5 💬 0 📌 0
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...
> [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.
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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...
14.08.2025 16:26 — 👍 17 🔁 5 💬 1 📌 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!
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
new blogpost about protobuf perf (work related!)
mcyoung.xyz/2025/07/16/h...
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...
09.07.2025 20:38 — 👍 24 🔁 7 💬 0 📌 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
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
04.04.2025 10:23 — 👍 8 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0
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.
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!
07.01.2025 11:28 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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.
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