Joe Beda

Just vibin’

You can either have beautiful or “pop” but not both. That is how AI works.

Hahaha. Love it.

Freya literally bought a cat scanner.

We going in on this together? If you were in Seattle… 😂

Home injection molding. It’s the obvious next step.

Low key I really want to do this…

I think it is more that they are trying to create differentiation around something that most people don't see as differentiated. Who knew late stage capitalism would lead to advertising on our freaking light switches?

Alisse | Lutron Luxury Made from authentic materials and hand-crafted with intricate attention to detail, the Alisse wall control delivers a bespoke lighting control experience.

Oh, you can spend a *lot* of money on lutron switches that don't have branding. I kinda wish I didn't know that. luxury.lutron.com/us/en/contro...

Official Malört taglines over the last 20 years:

• "Malört, kick your mouth in the balls!"
• "Malört, when you need to unfriend someone IN PERSON."
• "Malört, tonight's the night you fight your dad."
• "Malört, these pants aren't going to shit themselves."

I read an entire book on the history of Malört and I am now a super fan, AMA (“Malört, the redemption of a revered and reviled spirit” by Josh Noel)

Probably a similar thing but I don’t know enough to say. I wonder how strong the firewalls are for each.

One interesting aspect, I think I remember that not all services are available in govcloud. I wonder how that’ll apply to the eu cloud.

Accounts/org api and IAM are also global. Wonder if it is a whole different endpoint and instances for those too? I imagine so.

My assumption is it went from a “nice to have” to a must have and that safe harbor for us firms operating in Europe will break down.

This is fascinating. People don’t trust the US anymore. And Amazon is adapting. Opens up room for more fragmentation in the cloud market.

Probably creates opportunity too. Could we see the US dominance in cloud wane over time?

The Mothership Vortex: An Investigation Into the Firm at the Heart of the Democratic Spam Machine How a single consulting firm extracted $282 million from a network of spam PACs while delivering just $11 million to actual campaigns.

The annoying spam texts destroying the Democratic brand:

$678M raised through those spam tactics

$282M to one consulting firm: Mothership Strategies.

$11M to actual campaigns (1.6%)

The party isn’t just treating donors like marks—it’s being fleeced itself yet continues to back Mothership.

Wow. Just… wow.

YouTube video by Software Circus Nightmares On Cloud Street 29/10/20 - Joe Beda

Also I’m going to link to a talk I gave for Software Circus 5 years ago called “I’m Sorry About The YAML” that goes through some of the issues with YAML for those not familiar with the history and problems. youtu.be/8PpgqEqkQWA

I love Nix for what it is trying to do. Unfortunately so much software isn’t built to be used in that world.

Fun fact — I used Nix as inspiration for some rethinking of container images that never went anywhere over 10 years ago. Makes me feel old. www.eightypercent.net/post/new-con...

Also, the APIs are just “plain old data” and the preferred way to get them to the server is JSON. At this point (I believe) all YAML processing is done client side. I may be out of date though.

It is obviously more controversial than it first appeared to me! Thanks for the context.

Well, any yaml parser can read it so it can be used by a ton of tools out there.

The current plan is for it to only be an output format. Something that is easier to work with. So it isn’t clear there is much need for others to produce it unless they want to.

And we are quick to tell everyone that k8s isn’t right for everyone! There are a zillion ways to run stuff in production. Hopefully k8s made some good tradeoffs but it isn’t right for everyone.

The danger with adopting a config language is that it makes it even harder to get started!

Nix is a lot like Cue (as referenced from the other discussion) in that it is amazing and almost impossible for the uninitiated to use. IMO it’ll never see wide adoption outside of dedicated first adopters because the complexity hill is so steep.

And this solution invented as little new as possible. It is literally YAML. Just a subset that looks very JSON like with some human affordances.

2. IMO those solutions operate at a different level. For tools like kubectl there is a need for something to encode Plain Old Data. That was why YAML/JSON was picked in the first place.

It feels right to layer a more complex system like cue on top of a Plain Old Data data model.

Some considerations:
1. I love cue. And there are other interesting solutions. But these haven’t seen universal adoption. IMO config languages are a problem (like programming languages and make systems) where there is no universal solution. Too many tradeoffs.

How do you get this restricted yaml format out of kubectl without giving the variant a name?

You need something to specify to request that format when calling kubectl. That is my understanding.

He was getting off while I was getting on. Don’t want to be more specific to protect his privacy.

Just flew in to Seattle Lake Union on a float plane. I got to sit up front!