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Hey @mistwire.com, we're awful and it's all our fault! Wait, that can't be right. ( #LLM to the rescue... ) Much better! Emotions can run high in tech; come to "Griping as a Service" on @vbrownbag.com to make them your coding superpower. 8:30-9:30PM US Eastern, in just 2 DAYS! (Wed. 10/14/26)

A screenshot of a slide from an upcoming presentation.  The title reads "Example:  blameless postmortem for a wasted internship."  The left pane includes an excerpt from an imaginary intern's diary, blaming Chris and Katie for all of their failures to get to do anything useful on a sysadmin rotation.  The right pane includes a cleaned-up paragraph that the intern could use to describe how their rotation went, in a way that is polite, yet actionable.  At bottom are a headshot of Katie Kodes, the speaker, and a logo for vBrownBag, the webinar series on which she will be presenting this talk.

Luckily, Linus Torvalds and I aren't speaking at @cncf.io's Minneapolis #OSSummit in the same timeslot, so you can catch us BOTH -- lucky you! 😉 "Tiny Repos, Big Impact: Level Up Through Open-Source Teaching" 🎓 on Tuesday afternoon Bookmark at sched.co/2LSqs to make sure you don't miss it! ⏰

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Say @naomikritzer.bsky.social, I found your upcoming novella in library audiobook format but couldn't find the rest to be read to me. Not into ebooks. Got any favorite brick and mortar stores I should check out to look into your books on paper?

Say @sahanjournal.bsky.social, story idea: Non-Euro-centric immigrant variants on the recent "Minnesota civic-mindedness" narrative. For example, I think I once heard a "wasta"-like cultural specificity partially blamed for Feeding Our Future. But have similar values organized huge protest turnout?