"The math on build vs buy has changed!" Definitely in some fashion yes, but the problem wasn't just the building - it was maintaining what you built. Everything has a tax, and I'd rather not tax my engineers with things that aren't meaningful for our business or our developer experience.

an observation from obscure twitter account "thebes"

Apparently all you have to do is criticize ICE for tech companies to start giving your info to DHS. Very cool and good.

Reddit, Meta, and Google Voluntarily Gave DHS Info of Anti-ICE Users, Report Says

DHS is expanding its use of administrative subpoenas, which don't come from judges.

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Looking at complex code you spent weeks working on over a year ago and trying to remember where you left off

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I think the hardest part in really adopting this is designing with dynamic flow control in mind. The advice is correct, but I think many of us just haven't seen it done well enough to really get how to propagate it into our systems effectively.

Jeff Hodges@jmhodges.bsky.social · 7mo ago

Feature flags are the instant rollback, incident ending super trick that still aren't used enough

It seems the crypto community has found a new way to extract money from people. They are creating tokens for popular open source projects and inviting maintainers to get in on the scheme. Here is the email I got earlier today.

I think I just made a really cool chart but I don't wanna be that guy posting in work slack about my cool chart at 8:30 am in my first month on Xmas morning. That's kind of a year 2 move imo.

Jerome Powell just straight up said the U.S. government is publishing fake jobs numbers. Things will really go off the rails when Trump replaces him next year.

Hashicorp, an IBM Company

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Play Shape Zed on SoundCloud and discover followers on SoundCloud | Stream tracks, albums, playlists on desktop and mobile.

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Stories leaking about how unqualified people in the Trump admin think Kash Patel and Pete Hegseth are seem silly in context. This is exactly what you get putting podcasters and Fox News hosts in serious life or death situations

Damning report labels FBI ‘rudderless ship’ under Kash Patel — with him and Dan Bongino more concerned with building ‘personal résumés’

FBI Director Kash Patel is facing withering criticism days after the White House denied media reports that the president is about to fire him.

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It begins

All DOGE accomplished was purging critical government staff, handing private data to outsiders, and sentencing thousands in developing countries to death by gutting USAID. I don’t say this lightly: if there were any justice in this world, the people responsible for this devastation would be in jail

DOGE 'doesn't exist' with eight months left on its charter

U.S. President Donald Trump's Department of Government Efficiency has disbanded with eight months left to its mandate.

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I say it over and over again: when you have that much money, you want to live where you want to live and you are simply not going to relocate because of marginal tax rates Alan Dershowitz will never leave Martha’s Vineyard and they won’t even sell him a pierogi

Institute for Policy Studies@ips-dc.org · 10mo ago

NEW: The first two years of Massachusetts' millionaire tax has raised $3 billion more than expected. And rather than driving the rich away, IPS researchers found that the number of millionaires has *increased.* Tax the rich. Greg Ryan in @bloomberg.com:

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While US venture capitalists were buying monkey jpegs, and DOGE coins, and figuring out how to get Black women fired, and tweeting about white birthrates, and trying to mandate which bathroom trans kids should use, China was making progress on climate change and taking the lead in a real industry.

The Economist@economist.com · 10mo ago

China has made cheap, clean energy available in huge quantities. The world should take the win econ.st/4oqFszB Photo: Eyevine

Final call! 📣 Join us with @kelseyhightower.com tomorrow, Tuesday, Nov 4, at 17:00 UTC to explore the future of configuration with our Configuration Control Plane, and turn configuration from a source of risk into a source of reliability! Register here: luma.com/ysloofz3

CUE Labs launch event with Kelsey Hightower · Zoom · Luma

Configuration chaos is a multi-billion-dollar blind spot. But imagine a world where configuration isn't a source of fear, but a source of reliability. A world…

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I've asked the team behind Cue to come prepared to discuss the limits of configuration management when dealing with different configuration systems, for example, using Terraform, Kubernetes, and GitHub Actions to manage a single project, something that occurs more often than you would think.

CUE@cuelang.org · 10mo ago

Final call! 📣 Join us with @kelseyhightower.com tomorrow, Tuesday, Nov 4, at 17:00 UTC to explore the future of configuration with our Configuration Control Plane, and turn configuration from a source of risk into a source of reliability! Register here: luma.com/ysloofz3

“Once my colleague pulled out his camera, the agent put away the gun," Huynh told the Sun-Times Tuesday night. "[But] if they can do this in broad daylight to an elected official, and point a gun at someone, imagine what’s happening behind closed doors.”

ICE agents point gun at state Rep. Hoan Huynh in Albany Park

Hoan Huynh was alerting the community on the Northwest Side to the presence of federal agents when they blocked his vehicle on a residential street and an agent pointed a gun at him and others in the ...

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Violet Miller@vimiller.bsky.social · 11mo ago

State rep. Hoan Huynh shared video of agents surrounding his vehicle/stopping him + staffers shortly after he said one agent pointed a gun inside his vehicle at him while another threatened to break a window. They were following feds in Albany Park after four people were reportedly taken. Story tk.

Nothing feels worse than a botched handshake.

Corporate training videos be like: "Ugh, guys, remember when I did some insider trading? Well it turns out that's a crime!! *Sigh* now I might have to go to prison and I'm gonna miss my besties wedding that weekend! This really wasn't worth it, guys ://///"

More free ideas for @googlesheets.bsky.social: Split pane sheets where I can have two tabs open at once in the same sheet. Yes, I can have multiple browsers open. No, that isn't what I want. I want split pane tabs.

Researchers pointed a satellite dish at the sky for 3 years and monitored what unencrypted data it picked up. The results were shocking: They obtained thousands of T-Mobile users' phone calls and texts, military and law enforcement secrets, much more: www.wired.com/story/satell... 🧵👇

Satellites Are Leaking the World’s Secrets: Calls, Texts, Military and Corporate Data

With just $800 in basic equipment, researchers found a stunning variety of data—including thousands of T-Mobile users’ calls and texts and even US military communications—sent by satellites unencrypte...

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Besides linking Tylenol in pregnant women to autism, RFK Jr. now says circumcision is part of the reason why kids are autistic. "Children who are circumcised early have double the rate of autism, and it's highly likely because they're given Tylenol. None of this is positive..."

If I don't reply to your unsolicited emails to buy your product, why do you think calling me on the phone is the move?

"It's the weirdest job market in my 15 years in tech" -- from a Big Tech recruiter. But why is the job market so weird? Talking to 30+ hiring managers and recruiters, it doesn't seem like AI. It seems more like.. interest rates. My longer analysis: newsletter.pragmaticengineer.com/p/state-of-t...

This morning, the Trump Administration’s Department of War gave me an ultimatum: call up your troops, or we will. It is absolutely outrageous and un-American to demand a Governor send military troops within our own borders and against our will.

DHH is what techno-fascism looks like in the little leagues: A now-wealthy immigrant whose life's story embodies the promise of open societies now writes as though openness is cultural suicide. Same for Musk & Thiel. An open and accepting society made them who they are. They'd be nothing otherwise.

NEW: A prolific English-speaking hacking and extortion group has published a data leak site claiming the theft of 1 billion records from companies who store their customer data in Salesforce databases. The hackers claim to have stolen data Qantas, Stellantis, FedEx, Hulu, and others.

Hacking group claims theft of 1 billion records from Salesforce customer databases | TechCrunch

The hacking group claims to have stolen about a billion records from companies, including FedEx, Qantas, and TransUnion, who store their customer and company data in Salesforce.

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