Before AI: chop wood, carry water. After AI: chop wood, carry water.

I always swore that I would never buy a minivan, but I gave in and bought an Urban Arrow Family this weekend. I've wanted a front-loader for a decade - they always seemed prohibitively expensive, but came across this one for 50% off and had to do it. 24 miles so far with both kids, we LOVE it.

Changed my handle from @me.nzen.ski to @menzen.ski - the @me subdomain was fun for a while, but I think it makes more sense to use my actual website as my handle here.

Very happy that #KansasCity took away a traffic lane on Gregory Blvd between Troost and the Paseo and added a wide sidewalk where there hadn't been one at all before. Yay for traffic calming and yay for all the new walking and scootering routes it opens up for me and my kidns.

The most important skillset you can bring to platform engineering work is neither "dev" nor "ops". It is "talking to your users".

I have one! menzen.ski (and I’m actually working on a new post right now, I promise!)

dan@danabra.mov · last yr.

who up there writing their blog? i want to see yalls blogs! criteria: - you wrote at least a post in 2025 - it doesn't force a paywall so we can actually read it

If you see this, post your getaway vehicle

Michel Bestaat@michelbestaat.thereforeiam.eu · last yr.

If you see this, post your getaway vehicle

I HAD VISIONS I WAS IN THEM 🎶 I WAS LOOKING INTO THE MIRROR 🎶

Aditya Mukerjee 🦦 🏳️‍🌈@chimeracoder.bsky.social · last yr.

I WANT SOMETHING ELSE 🎶 TO GET ME THROUGH THIS 🎶

Parenting is one big, years-long, lesson in letting go. That thing you think is important is actually not important, and you learn this over and over and over again for years.

Zuck: the average American has three friends

Paz Pardo@pazsays.bsky.social · last yr.

Zuck: The average American has three friends

Tired of reading productivity advice from single people with no kids.

I know everyone says "change tech jobs every two years" but let me tell you, getting to do the end-of-life for things that you built eight years ago is incredibly satisfying work. If you change jobs often you miss out on a lot of learning opportunities that only come with time.

New blog post menzen.ski/posts/2025/0... This one is for the Content Club organized by @bryanross.me in the CNCF Slack. Our February 2025 theme is "Team Topologies in the Real World". (Bryan and @stevefenton.co.uk have also written posts for this, I've linked theirs at the end of mine here).

Reverse Conway Manoeuvres In The Dark

I was led to believe by R.E.M. that I would feel a lot better about this.

omg omg omg omg

Charlie Marsh@crmarsh.com · 2y ago

We’re building a new static type checker for Python, from scratch, in Rust. From a technical perspective, it’s probably our most ambitious project yet. We’re about 800 PRs deep!

The intersection of Kustomize and Helm is an amazingly frustrating place to do work. Each of these tools, on their own, is fine, but I'm not having any fun at all when they're used together.

TIL that while I can exclude my kids' music choices from my Spotify profile, they still get included in my last.fm scrobbles 😫

All I'm asking for is rich metadata applied consistently to every resource in every piece of software I interact with, ever, the ability to query those resources by that metadata easily, and the ability to add my own metadata. Is that so much to ask?

indentation issues in helm values.yaml files are going to be the death of me

I don’t know what a Zoom Room is and at this point I’m too afraid to ask.

I really want a Dvorak typewriter

Post a picture of yourself from a different era (me in fall 2010 after a 120 mile fixed gear ride)

Marino Wijay@virtualized6ix.bsky.social · 2y ago

Post a picture of yourself from a different era

T-Pain’s “War Pigs”

Eric Michael Garcia@ericmgarcia.bsky.social · 2y ago

Forget the “white musicians cover Black musicians and making them more popular.” What are your favorite examples of Black musicians covering songs originally by white musicians? For me: -Tina Turner “Whole Lotta Love” -Sharon Jones “Midnight Rider” -Hendrix “All Along the Watchtower”

When you receive one of your favorite books in the mail to your home address, but you don't remember ordering it (and can't find any order in your email), and you don't think any of the people who know it's a favorite of yours have your home address... hmm.

where does the new york times even find these people

And the LAUNCHPAD 😍😍😍

Matt Menzenski@menzen.ski · 2y ago

@dagster.io really is just awesome. Especially loving all the metadata/visibility it provides above and beyond actually running jobs and materializing assets.

@dagster.io really is just awesome. Especially loving all the metadata/visibility it provides above and beyond actually running jobs and materializing assets.

New blog post menzen.ski/posts/2024/1...

FWIW @matthewskelton.bsky.social is an imposter, please do not follow or engage. I've reported this account for impersonation. (Matthew Skelton's real account is @matthewskelton.com )