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Finding the grain of sand in a heap of Salt How do you find the root cause of a configuration management failure when you have a peak of hundreds of changes in 15 minutes on thousands of servers?

Let's explore the fundamentals of Saltstack and how we use it at Cloudflare. We also explain how we built the infrastructure to reduce release delays due to Salt failures on the edge by over 5%. https://cfl.re/4oCZvef

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📧 Years before Google, “Gmail” was a fan email service on Garfield․com; perfect for anyone who hates Mondays.

It vanished like lasagne into Garfield's belly, but pawprints remain on the #WaybackMachine ⤵️
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#Wayback1T #WebHistory

Air traffic over the contiguous United States on Friday, 31 October.

As the FAA deals with a long list of staffing triggers at facilities across the country tonight, the agency shares that half of the “Core 30 facilities are experiencing staffing shortages, and nearly 80 percent of air traffic controllers are absent at New York–area facilities.”

In other words, bringing back insurance denials for pre-existing conditions. The GOP really thinks this is a winning political issue?

Apple, listen, nobody cares about a super-thin iPhone. People want a *smaller* iPhone option.

BRING BACK THE IPHONE MINI!

Silk Avia - Wikipedia

The US Airways IATA & ICAO codes were released by American Airlines after their merger in 2015.

Silk Avia, an airline formed in Uzbekistan in 2021, saw an epic trolling opportunity.

'Silk Avia has adopted the IATA and ICAO codes of "US" and "USA".'

#avgeek #usa #trolling @americanair.bsky.social

I can confidently say that there is no software I despise as much as @atlassian.bsky.social's Jira.

User hostile, unintuitive, bloated — just truly awful stuff.

No one should be proud that they work on this product.

On 9/16/25, celebrate a date of mathematical beauty Pythagorean Triple Square Day, as one man affectionately calls 9/16/25, is a day like no other this century.

Pythagorean Triple Square Day, as one man affectionately calls 9/16/25, is a day like no other this century.

1. Party Down
2. Trial and Error
3. Better Off Ted

Three of the funniest shows I know of that didn’t survive long enough to develop into their full potential.

Map GIFs are live now on Soar and free for everyone!

It takes less than a minute to create yours, so pick a spot, choose your dates, and hit play! 😎

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This is really cool! Well done!

Who is the "they" in that sentence? 🤔 😆

Anchorage: the world’s cargo hub | Flightradar24 Blog Anchorage, Alaska serves more than 8,000 cargo flights a month as the perfect way station between Asia and North America.

With all eyes on Anchorage today, revisit @aerosavvy.com’s piece from 2023 on why Anchorage is the world’s cargo hub. www.flightradar24.com/blog/aviatio...

Acting NASA Administrator Reflects on Legacy of Astronaut Jim Lovell - NASA The following is a statement from acting NASA Administrator Sean Duffy on the passing of famed Apollo astronaut Jim Lovell. He passed away Aug. 7, in Lake

Rest in peace, Jim Lovell

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someone who is good at the economy explain to me why the US gov subsidizes the fossil fuel industry if it is the best energy source

The law of unintended consequences strikes again...
timharford.com/2025/08/the-...

Enjoy the raise!

"Get it boys!" 🛫

A Boeing 787’s drawing of a Boeing 787 covering 22 states from Michigan’s Upper Peninsula to Texas and Wyoming to Kentucky.

This week in 2017, during an 18-hour, long-endurance engine test for the Rolls-Royce Trent 1000 TEN, a Boeing 787 drew the world’s largest self portrait. flightradar24.com/blog/flight-...

Senators Could Vote Imminently to Remove Their Homes, Travel Info From Internet The Senate could vote imminently to allow members of Congress and their staff to demand websites take down info about their houses and travel details.

Privacy for me but not for thee: www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

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@tatewatkins.bsky.social and I were there for that, and it was indeed epic!

The entire British Concorde fleet in one picture, January 21, 1986, at London's Heathrow Airport

Do Markets Value Fed Independence? An Event Study.

If you care about the internet and you're feeling generous today, then donate to some organizations that make the internet good. I just did
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I wish I could like this post more than once. I hope this is the nail in the coffin for Stoney’s political career.

Selling the country out for parts