Adam Bernot

@bernot.dev

Sometimes when I'm running through the woods, I think about the cloud. SWE @ Google Cloud (posts are my own), @kubernetes.io contributor, @prometheus.io wrangler, speaker at @cncf.io, @gophercon.com, @allthingsopen.bsky.social‬ 📝 blog.bernot.io

"We have, as human beings, a storytelling problem. We're a bit too quick to come up with explanations for things we don't have an explanation for." - Malcolm Gladwell, an exceptional storyteller

From American Airlines this morning: "Due to the prolonged government shutdown, the FAA has directed all airlines, including American, to reduce flight schedules at certain airports starting Friday, Nov. 7." Cool. No one travels in November, right? 🙃

The latest releases of @cilium.io and cert-manager are both 1.18.2. I briefly thought I had just installed the wrong version of one of them, but it truly is just a weird coincidence. ...or is it?

I don't understand how saying "backslash" in URLs became a mainstream mix-up. The person saying it almost always just means "slash" or "forward slash" if you're being verbose. But I hear people say "backslash" all the time. Just heard it in an ad on a podcast. I'm starting a movement. #JustSaySlash

"Each of us as individuals is trying in whatever way we can to make the world suck less for each other...and yet if the market is creating barriers to that, then there's something wrong." -John Green

it will never not bother me that the people building AI tools didn't first focus on making computers do the tedious drudge work that nobody likes doing and instead have spent bazillions of dollars getting computers to do the things that enrich human lives.

A piece of collateral damage in this new age is lack of understanding of the value of infrastructure. Quality infrastructure takes creativity, it’s fascinating, it’s crucial. We’ve lost the plot, relegating it to being described as a cost center. Infrastructure is muscle, infrastructure is bone.

Hot take: If you're sitting in a large room with rows of mostly empty chairs, don't take the first seat on the aisle. It just means the next person has to climb over you.

@robcube.bsky.social is presenting using sign language with someone speaking aloud to interpret for the hearing audience, then...back into sign language in the bottom left corner of the frame. Plus captions. About interpreting sign language with AI. Lots of translating in this talk.

Rob Koch presenting a keynote at KubeCon Europe 2025