Thomas Eckert
@thomaseckert.dev
I have a super cute corgi, live in Canada, I like to paint, and I work on making sure Redpanda's cloud stays up. I'm writing at fieldtheories.blog.
Whether it's Kai Trump spending $230 on a smoothie and some bottled water at an Erewhon in Santa Monica or Kat Abughazaleh spending 12 bucks on fried shrimp at a Culver's in Chicago, young women on both sides of the aisle are making extravagant purchases.
Gambling has been added as a feature into so many apps that GitHub is getting on board. I get to gamble at whether or not my PR actually includes the changes I made.
Someone actually did a study a while back that showed the most effective way to get women out of TERF groups wasn’t people trying to change their minds, it was them getting literally any benign hobby, like learning other languages or taking up needlework
Patrick Wyman@patrickwyman.bsky.social · 3mo agoYou know who isn't getting radicalized? Guys who do ships in a bottle. Embrace model-building and avoid the pitfalls of right-wing extremism
Join the dev team for a first look at Season 2, coming June 2. Marathon’s Open Play Week is June 2 – June 9 on Steam, PlayStation 5, and Xbox Series X|S. youtu.be/k2UFxzejNNg
Season 2 Developer Insights | Marathon
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I'm available for consulting from June. Dev work, DevRel, Dev Education, Content Creation, and helping teams make sensible decisions about automation without betraying their users. 17 years exp, Vienna-based, remote across Europe and beyond. Boosts massively appreciated 💜
So basically what I'm taking from this was that they didn't even half-ass their autopsy????? Like, this is maximally a sixteenth of an ass.
Greg Sargent@gregsargent.bsky.social · 3mo agoNEWS --> The Democratic National Committee just posted the long-suppressed autopsy into the 2024 loss: democrats.org/wp-content/u...
Dawkins spending his entire career berating basically pretty normal people for being so stupid as to believe in God and then immediately giving himself Roko's Basilisk Derangement Syndrome after talking to the AI catgirl waifus is just the funniest shit.
The Guardian@theguardian.com · 4mo agoRichard Dawkins concludes AI is conscious, even if it doesn’t know it
All right folks — livestream with JetBrains is on for MONDAY the 27th! 10:00 PDT/17:00 UTC
Faster Rust Testing at Scale: cargo-nextest in Practice
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🔦 #rustconf 2026 Speaker Spotlight: "Listening to the Radio with Rust" presented by @thomaseckert.dev (Sr Software Engineer at Redpanda Data) ➡️ Find this session on our schedule: rustconf2026.sched.com/event/2KHtP 🎟️ Book your spot before pricing goes up! bit.ly/4cit15x
"down detector" is a website where your friends can let you know if they're interested in your plan for the evening or not
I would like it if my phone would stop correcting my coworker’s name to Sony… one day I’m going to miss it and be embarrassed.
There are now 10 toilets in Space International Space Station: 4 Crew Dragon Docked at ISS: 1 Soyuz Docked at ISS: 1 Tiangong Space Station: 2 Shenzhou Docked at TSS: 1 Artemis II on way around Moon: 1 This will be the first time a toilet has left low earth orbit!
The Glebe BIA has taken down their 2025 RETAIL MARKET & GAP ANALYSIS report that pro-Bank-Street-Bus-Lanes delegates were using to counter the BIA's own talking points, presumably for that exact reason. Dead link: intheglebe.ca/wp-content/u... Backed up copy: filebin.net/y3xt647u5dip...
FYI: I am going to stop summarizing Supreme Court decisions on here as they come down. One comment has been plucked out of context of all my reporting, misread, and used as the basis of a mean-spirited pile-on. I am not going to subject myself to this. If this was your goal, then congratulations.
I have a show of my watercolors at Happy Goat Coffee in Ottawa on Main St. in April. I got everything back from the framers over the weekend. Super psyched to put everything up!
We are so back 🙌
Bryan Cantrill@bcantrill.bsky.social · 5mo agoOxide and Friends is back, at a special time! @ahl.bsky.social and I will be joined by Oxide engineers Andrew Stone and Finch Foner to talk about how we build a quorum of trust in the distributed system that is the Oxide rack. Join us today at 2p Pacific/5p Eastern! discord.gg/QrcKGTTPrF?e...
The submission review page is getting some polish! I haven't decided between "star" reviews and "yes/no/maybe". Any preferences out there?
“Made an agent of your mom and we’re taking our relationship to the next level. You can call me dad.”
Steph Lundberg@smlundberg.bsky.social · 5mo agoY’all, you can’t be doing shit like this. (Identity removed to protect the soon-to-be-defendant, probably.)
If I were Secretary of Transportation, I would spend every waking moment recruiting air-traffic controllers, increasing their pay and benefits, getting them in-house massage therapists, forcing airlines to stop increasing flight traffic. Sean Duffy, however:
Soumya Rangarajan, MD, MPP@soumya-goblue.bsky.social · 5mo agoThis is the second fatal crash of a US airplane in 14 months. Duffy needs to be fired.
if you called these people stupid over the last 10 years you would get lectured about how they’re little babies with zero agency that we need to bow down to to win over because wokeness hurt their feelings
