Friday night is typically when administrations do the things they're proudest of, right?

Bobby Kogan@bbkogan.bsky.social · 5d ago

Russ Vought just sent a rescissions request to Congress, signaling he intends to illegally impound funds. The $810 million highlighted in this “request” (but this is a pretext to just illegally impound the funds) is not the exhaustive list of many billions of dollars he’s impounding this year.

Psst if you're returning an HTTP 5xx error but the error message is about validation findings on the input, you probably want that to be a 4xx error. #HowIsThisStillAThing

The More You Know

Alt: "The More You Know", text speeding through space on a star with a rainbow as a sort of trailing comet-style tail. A clip from 90s-era public service announcements / programming.

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If you are developing and running a cloud-based product in production, in 2026, and you are unable to detect a major loss of functionality and communicate it clearly to consumers, you are unprofessional. Full stop.

An easy decision this week: our team handily voted to keep and pay the OSMF for @simoncropp.bsky.social's Verify .NET. Verify is a snapshot testing tool/ecosystem and it's great. Here's how it went down: #dotnet #oss #osmf

Precisely this—the power attributed to technology makes it incredibly useful for laundering responsibility

Courtney Milan@courtneymilan.com · 2w ago

The AI industry wants you to say "the AI just did that thing on its own!" Like, United Health's AI that's denying a shitload of claims with a 90% error rate? They wanted you to think it's just the AI.

The best recovery from an insane work week: neighborhood Celtic fest! I am eating Shepherd's pie and drinking a Smithwicks in the middle of a beautiful day. Perfect.

Revisited my blog post series from 7 (?!) years ago today, I'm really happy with how well it's held up. Do you run interviews? You might find it useful. seankilleen.com/2019/09/bett...

Just dusted off a process I created and automated 2+ years ago, in about 10 minutes. Will save dozens of hours for the teammate using it. A nice win for a Friday. 🎉

They're not outsourcing the decisions so much as attempting to outsource the accountability. Innocent people will die because of this, and blame will be avoided, unless we ensure it's not.

Ronan Farrow@ronanfarrow.bsky.social · 2w ago

(1/5) Pentagon leadership has said that by the end of this month, Palantir's Maven artificial intelligence system will become a line item with stable, long-term funding in the defense budget (a "program of record"). #News #Palantir #AI

CW: Alcohol I treated myself to a birthday present tonight: a scotch I'd been staring at for a long time but just couldn't justify. :) Balvenie Portwood 21. Absolutely *delightful*. Everything I personally could want in a scotch. An experience. 40, we'll get along just fine I think.

once again, this should be front-page news all over the world, the President of the USA just fabricated an entire story about himself

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 3w ago

Trump on 9/11: "I just thank my people. I was building a big building in New York & I took the whole crew down there right after this happened & they had no hesitation. Everybody went down with me... we thought it was coming down on top of us... two fireman lifted me up and started running with me"

Ringing in a new decade today. A good reminder that we never get it back. Onward!

Thread numbering is a lovely, well-done feature. Thanks @bsky.app!

Almost done ripping out our @bitnami.bsky.social usage after they burned all their OSS goodwill and tried to charge us $60k/year to use 3 helm charts. Will feel good to be rid of them. Another great project torched by enterprise capture.

Another important post you should read from @masnick.com. TLDR: Age verification is bad. Longer TLDR: Avoid having your ID scanned for any reason. www.techdirt.com/2026/09/03/h...

Hackers Had A Live Feed Of Every ID This Verification Company Scanned. For Over A Year.

From the very beginning of this recent obsession with identifying everyone online (yes, they like to call it "age" verification, but it always ends up as identity verification), we've been pointing out that it was a huge privacy nightmare waiting to happen. Or maybe it wasn't waiting. Maybe it was already happening. This week a...

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Will be interesting to see who recovers 1Password's fumble. Looking like BitWarden will do well. Their devops tooling and kubernetes operator seem poised to make transition easier for businesses as well.

incredible work by 1PW leadership fucking up bad enough that a fight over Arch Linux for Racists escaped containment so completely that now Jamelle Bouie's telling 750k very online millennials, almost certainly the demographic most likely to pay for 1PW, to go cancel their 1PW subscription tonight

I was nominated for an award and today is the last day to vote! Help me win and go vote for The Handbasket!

@qwotedmedia.bsky.social · last mo.

Today's Independent Media Awards spotlight: The Handbasket by @marisakabas.bsky.social Kabas is nominated for producing pioneering work in the Reported Newsletter category. Vote before Sep 2 👉 https://bit.ly/4wHkzUj #Journalism #IndependentMediaAwards

Weirdly, in its price hike announcement FAQ to customers, @atlassian.bsky.social doesn't answer "hey, didn't you fire 10% of your staff for AI? Why didn't that prevent a price increase?"

Random thought: JDD - Joneses Driven Development. Where AI leaders make you think everyone is doing it, so you also try to do it, and the AI leaders get your money (a lot of it) Evolve things from your own context. Seek to improve from where you are. Gall's Law is still a thing.

Having laryngitis is not very compatible with being Dad to a 6yo. But I do have one more reason to be glad that he's a great reader!

This latest illness has been bonkers. 2 days of 102 degree fever / chills etc. and now... laryngitis? Weird.

👋 Folks after year long hiatus the community powered database of aka•ms is back!! Bookmark it 👇 https://akams.fyi PS. I made some updates to the site, including a much simpler experience to contribute aka•ms links to the database.

Grateful for my family, and grateful to be grateful for my family.

Phenomenal article from @samwho.dev at @ngrok.com on #kubernetes probes ngrok.com/blog/probes With interactive visualizations! Really nicely done. I learned a ton.

How Kubernetes probes work | ngrok blog

Learn how probes work interactively on simulated Kubernetes clusters running in your browser.

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@samwho.dev your article on kubernetes probes was phenomenal 🏆 thanks!

@jeremydmiller.bsky.social I was at the zoo yesterday for a bit and naturally ended up explaining event sourcing to someone I was with. Thanks! 😆

Our yearly vacation has been a massive success for me personally. Going into it, I was hitting physical burnout and was sick for like a week straight. I've been sleeping better, reset my caffeine intake, and have only spent ~5 min on work stuff; apps have been archived almost the whole time.

Nothing like a bot tagging in @vcsjones.dev on a runtime issue I filed to really bring it home that I am absolutely out of my depth 😅

“food for thought” buddy my thoughts don’t need any food at all. been trying to starve them fuckers for years and they still keep doing the thing