🛠️ On Day 2 (May 19), we're running four intensive hands-on workshops for cloud practitioners. First two are: 1️⃣ Workshop 1: Building Platforms with Crossplane Led by Riccardo Capraro 2️⃣ Workshop 2: Building Infrastructure Tools with Kubernetes Operators and Go Led by Rabieh Fashwall

Wondering what's new with Crossplane v2.2? Hear from maintainer and release manager Adam Wolfe Gordon on what shipped in v2.2. 👀 blog.crossplane.io/crossplane-v2-2-more-capable-more-reliable-more-observable/ #Crossplane #Kubernetes #PlatformEngineering

Research sleuths are starting to organize, but the field, and the people, remain idiosyncratic — my latest for @cenmag.bsky.social: cen.acs.org/research-int... @mcintold.bsky.social, @reeserichardson.bsky.social, @elisabethbik.bsky.social, @sholtodavid.bsky.social, @eugenie-reich.bsky.social

Scientific sleuths come in from the cold

Research integrity investigators are starting to organize, but the field, and the people, remain idiosyncratic

cen.acs.org

Join us for the @crossplane.io community meeting today at 10am pac / 1800 UTC! We'll show a demo of the function pipeline explorer, start planning the v2.3 milestone, sig-cli is picking up momentum...lots going on, come hang out with us! agenda doc: docs.google.com/document/d/1...

Crossplane Community Meeting Agenda

Crossplane Community Meeting Notes/Agenda This document will capture the agenda and meeting notes and links for the recurring Crossplane community meetings. Please add items you wish to discuss direct...

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A few days ago, I stood in the graveyard of an 1100 year old church, getting damper and damper in the drizzling rain. A woman walked into the graveyard, waved, said hello, and, as we had previously arranged, handed me a paper bag full of human bones. The life of a churchwarden is a strange one...

This completely fake university was recently uncovered by @mcintold.bsky.social - it’s fascinating. #FoSci #ResearchIntegrity

Digital Science@digital-science.com · 8mo ago

⚠️ NEW on the #FoSci Substack: "Rogue Domains: When a University Isn’t a University." Our VP of #ResearchIntegrity & Security, Dr Leslie McIntosh, delves into the latest of her investigations: a university website & emails that mimic a legitimate university. 🔗 Read now: https://ow.ly/lQyW50XHkpr

NEW: INACTION CONTINUES ON DANGEROUS JUNCTIONS 📊The latest data published today, shows a picture of inaction from @mayoroflondon.bsky.social, TfL and local councils, when it comes to making junctions safe for cycling... 🧑‍💻 Email the mayor and demand action: bit.ly/47QcmUF

Haskell Brain Teasers is currently in beta. If you’re planning to read it I’d love you to get the beta and give feedback now! pragprog.com/titles/haske...

Haskell Brain Teasers

Deepen your Haskell knowledge, sharpen your functional programming skills, and just have fun with 20 functional programming puzzles to tie your brain in knots.

pragprog.com

Videos from Cloud Native Day Bergen 2025 are now published www.youtube.com/@CloudNative...

Cloud Native Bergen

Cloud Native Bergen host of Cloud Native Day Bergen and other events. Anything Kubernetes related goes!

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Secrets of Blackfriars Bridge revealed in new restoration project

Blackfriars Bridge: Major Refurbishment To Resume

And we go over the parapets.

londonist.com

"The protocol taught us that technology can be based on human values like ethics and morality. It showed that voluntary compliance works when all parties benefit." On robots.txt. www.heise.de/en/backgroun...

Obituary: Farewell to robots.txt (1994-2025)

The voluntary compliance protocol that civilized the internet has departed, bids Henning Fries farewell.

heise.de

Don't miss the awesome speakers for Cloud Native Day Bergen 2025 go.bsky.app/QWcidxD

Scientific study of trisodium citrate in the recipe for cacio e pepe wins an Ig Nobel prize this year. Science is cool, kids. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Tipsy bats and perfect pasta: Ig Nobels celebrate ‘improbable’ research

The annual awards are a celebration of weird but thought-provoking science.

nature.com

> [Blacksky] guarantees our community a seat at the table, and ensures that we can leave and easily make our own table if we need to. That’s the true promise of decentralized social media. Me for @newpublic.org

🔭🖤🚀 How Blacksky grew to millions of users without spending a dollar

Watching social media evolve into something decentralized, open-source, and scalable

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This is awesome: a "WKRP in Cincinnati" fan created a three-hour Johnny Fever radio block, by using clips from the TV show and dropping in the full songs on his intros and outros, plus commercials and Les Nessman news breaks.

See art for free in London - with the help of our ultimate guide

The Best Places To See Art For Free In London

Exhibitions and permanent collection that don't cost a penny to visit.

londonist.com

Crossplane 2.0 was one of the main things in the cloud native space I was really looking forward to this year 🚀 Game-changer features: applications as first-class citizens, namespaced resources, and native support for composing Kubernetes resources. @crossplane.io blog.crossplane.io/announcing-c...

Announcing Crossplane 2.0

After seven years building Crossplane, we're excited to announce Crossplane 2.0. This release extends beyond infrastructure to support applications as first-class citizens, enabling platform teams to ...

blog.crossplane.io

The Crossplane v2 release candidate is available for installation and testing now in your non-production clusters! github.com/crossplane/c... We invite you to try this build and report any issues and questions. Let's work together towards a polished and high quality release for early next week!

New Crossplane function-pythonic looks good: github.com/fortra/funct... def compose(self): vpc = self.resources.vpc('ec2.aws.crossplane.io/v1beta1', 'VPC') vpc.spec.forProvider.region = self.spec.region vpc.spec.forProvider.cidrBlock = self.spec.cidr

GitHub - fortra/function-pythonic: Python based Crossplane Function providing a clean and elegant syntax for writing Crossplane Compositions.

Python based Crossplane Function providing a clean and elegant syntax for writing Crossplane Compositions. - fortra/function-pythonic

github.com

Happy weekend! 🦛💙 Here’s a wonderful c. 4,000 year-old ancient Egyptian glossy blue hippo decorated with a little bird perched on the stem of a lotus flower. Egyptian Museum Cairo 📷 by me #Archaeology

new blogpost about protobuf perf (work related!) mcyoung.xyz/2025/07/16/h...

Parsing Protobuf Like Never Before · mcyoung

mcyoung.xyz

We announced the new native Go FIPS 140-3 mode today! FIPS 140, like it or not, is often a requirement, and I was increasingly sad about large deployments replacing the Go crypto packages with non-memory safe cgo bindings. Go is now one of the easiest and most secure ways to build under FIPS 140.

The FIPS 140-3 Go Cryptographic Module

Go now has a built-in, native FIPS 140-3 compliant mode.

go.dev

As we test Kubernetes clusters beyond the supported 5,000+ nodes limit at LinkedIn, we're finding out 'List API' calls are a bottleneck in cluster reliability. So I'm publishing a deep dive about why this is a problem and what you can do about them. ahmet.im/blog/kuberne...

I am once again pitching my romantic comedy: - two academics start dating - discover they are each other's terrible reviewer - hijinks ensue Working title: Love is Double-Blind

v2 APIs have been merged into Crossplane's main branch github.com/crossplane/c...! Read more about v2 here: github.com/crossplane/c...

Merge Crossplane v2 changes into `main` by negz · Pull Request #6489 · crossplane/crossplane

Description of your changes This merges all commits from https://github.com/crossplane/crossplane/tree/v2 into main. I created the source negz/v2-merge branch by checking out v2 and rebasing it on...

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The Crossplane v1.20.0 release is now available to install into your control planes! 🎉 A huge thank you goes out to our release MVPs Carl Lunde and Tobi - thank you for your efforts! 🙇 Read all about this awesome new release in the release notes below: github.com/crossplane/c...

Standing room only at the @crossplane.io v2 session #kubecon

What's new in Crossplane v2? docs.crossplane.io/v2.0-preview... Stop by our booth 6A at #kubecon.

Crossplane Docs · v2.0-preview · What

Crossplane v2 makes Crossplane more useful, more intuitive, and less opinionated. Crossplane v2 makes three major changes: Composite resources are now namespaced Managed resources are now namespaced …

docs.crossplane.io

Crossplane project@crossplane.io · last yr.

We've learned a lot of lessons over the 6 years of Crossplane along with our amazing community of adopters. The most important lessons are ready for you to take for a test spin in this Crossplane v2 preview release! Try it out today and let us know what you think! 🤩 github.com/crossplane/c...

Lots of great talks at Cloud Native Day Oslo today: cloud-native-day-oslo-2025.sessionize.com/schedule I'm giving a talk at 13:45 about @crossplane.io and Platform Engineering. Please say hi if you see me around, I'm happy to answer any questions.

Cloud Native Day Oslo 2025

Schedule

cloud-native-day-oslo-2025.sessionize.com

Cloud Native Day Oslo, Norway@oslo.cloudnativeday.no · last yr.

Ready for the big day 🚀

The Crossplane v2 proposal has been out for a couple of weeks github.com/crossplane/c.... We'll discuss the proposal again at today's community meeting at 1pm US/eastern: docs.google.com/document/d/1... -

Proposal: Crossplane v2 by negz · Pull Request #6255 · crossplane/crossplane

Description of your changes This PR adds the first draft of a proposal for Crossplane v2. The PR proposes a new version of Crossplane that’s simpler and better suited to managing applications, not...

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