Thirty years ago I started asking a question the people around me did not have language for and the institutions I worked inside did not have a category for. The question was not complicated. It was: why does this keep happening regardless of who is involved?

I'm so glad I was able to make this. These topics, affirming and defending our humanity in tech and bringing better psychology into our software engineering communities just... I feel a very profound source of joy within these conversations that I just want to hang on to and linger within.

Cat Hicks@grimalkina.bsky.social · last wk.

SEATTLE friends: Cat-in-real-life alert! I am in Seattle this week and decided to host a small (limited spots) Psychology of Software Teams happy hour this thursday July 30th, 4-6pm. RSVP here for location & to secure a spot: luma.com/lxcmtn68

This is another book that I'm pre-ordering and will be looking forward to reading!

Kim Crayton [She/Her]@kimcrayton1.bsky.social · 2w ago

The Predator's Table publishes August 1, 2026. You can purchase it now through Bookshop.org: bookshop.org/a/126451/979... I chose Bookshop.org and local and independent booksellers as the preferred purchase options for this book deliberately.

I have a new blog post out on honeycomb.io, diving into the insights and lessons of completing a major, multi-quarter Kafka migration project at Honeycomb. www.honeycomb.io/blog/transfo... There are some things that I talk about in this post that I'd like to speak to more of here. 🧵

Transforming How We Run Kafka at Honeycomb

How we pulled off a large-scale Kafka migration project by learning from past mistakes, prioritizing rollback safety, and building shared knowledge.

honeycomb.io

It's launch week for The Psychology of Software Teams and to pour even more jet fuel into your personal launch I have written a full BOOK CLUB GUIDE which can be used by either solo readers or groups :) Free for you to use, share, remix, adapt catharsisinsight.com/book-club-gu...

IT'S POST'S BOOK BIRTHDAY! 🥳 Want a guidebook to the human side of tech? Want to cut through the noise of despair and anger to craft more meaningful work? Want to get sharp metacognitive strategies for this new era? Get all that *and* Launch Squad bragging rights here: www.drcathicks.com#book

Dr. Cat Hicks

Leading the science of software success

drcathicks.com

conputer dipshit@davidcrespo.bsky.social · 3w ago

excited to read @grimalkina.bsky.social's book, out today!

Had some music going through my mind while watching this

amanda moore 🐢@noturtlesoup17.bsky.social · last mo.

Everyone is talking about Trump’s mock up arch at the Great American State Fair, so I filmed it from top to bottom and front to back for everyone who can’t see it in person.

I get asked to read and blurb a lot of books. It's always an honor to be asked -- writing a book is a TON of work -- but I almost never do. If I wouldn't chase you down on the street and urge you to read a book, it feels wrong to blurb it. I would chase you down to read this. My blurb is true.

Dr. Cat Hicks

Leading the science of software success

drcathicks.com

Cat Hicks@grimalkina.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Today's book post is going to be short and joyful, because we've been learning a lot of science but it's time to ride into the weekend with some celebration. I'd like to share some of the early reviews of The Psychology of Software Teams!! 🥹🥹🥹

I've been in a lot of workplaces where the dominant messaging about how we should all act was that competition is what delivers the sharpest knowledge work, and I'd bet a lot of you have heard this too. But the science of group problem-solving tells a different story

This is the way.

da birchman@brch.mn · 2mo ago

Multiracial community building carries so much joy. It’s not that it isn’t complex but when it works - you see places like New York City last night and today - light up. It is truly nourishing for a human. It carries none of the hateful anger of the segregationist right. That joy can move mountains.

hi Irish and UK SRE friends, @honeycomb.io is hiring an SRE in the UK or Ireland! You'll get to work with (IMHO) one of the best SRE teams in the industry, and help level up the rest of industry on o11y and SRE! job-boards.greenhouse.io/honeycomb/jo... job-boards.greenhouse.io/honeycomb/jo...

If your org still hasn’t figured out things like how to patch without production falling over or getting teams to talk to each other, a higher volume of findings will only make those things worse. Before you worry about Mythos, figure out how you’re going to deal with that

Today, at work at @honeycomb.io, our teams achieved something truly momentous, by successfully completing the final migration of a large-scale, multi-month migration project. A project that @lizthegrey.com and I are eager to share more with you about soon. I cannot wait to tell this project's story.

Mel Robbins just posted a sponsored prompt for Microsoft Copilot telling her 10 million followers to hand their financial documents over to an LLM and let it sort out their money problems. Before we talk about why that is dangerous, we need to talk about the word she used to describe the tool.

u do not need to spread the fascists' own words to talk about them, u do not need to use what is, essentially, fascist propaganda as a springboard for your take, they are using you to spread it further than they otherwise could.

If all goes according to plan, in a few hours, a crew of astronauts will begin a journey that will take them on a loop around the moon. Here's a video that NASA put together to help people visualize the journey through space, first orbiting the earth before looping around the moon and flying home 🔭

I wrote a blog post for Honeycomb and shared a little bit about my journey from observability champion to Honeycomb customer to Bee. Beyond the specifics of the journey, something I want to highlight is why this shit matters so much to me. 🧵 www.honeycomb.io/blog/from-cu...

From Customer to Bee: An Observability Champion's Journey

How Josh Parsons championed observability at Amperity, ran a winning tooling evaluation, and ultimately joined Honeycomb.

honeycomb.io

I wholly understand that what I'm going to say here is absolutely not new or novel, but rather something to reinforce and re-emphasize. This is one example of the continuous occupational hazards our trans/NB/gender nonconforming colleagues continue to face every single fucking day for existing.

Liz Fong-Jones (方禮真)@lizthegrey.com · 4mo ago

The things people will apparently send unsolicited under their real name and employer in 2026: armchair phrenology and transphobia that comes straight from Kiwi Farms. It's super creepy/weird and he should just touch grass. (based on timing, guessing he's a 4chan member rather than a KF poster)

The intersection of humans and technology is the point -- we create technology in service of human needs and we should not forget that.

I was one of the engineers involved throughout the entirety of this incident, and I really appreciate what this report conveys. Most particularly, how the analysis highlights key, intertwining sociotechnical effects that impact incidents like this. 1/

Fred Hebert@ferd.ca · 5mo ago

Back in December, we had a large outage at work. The internal investigation took a while and the internal report was roughly 40 pages long. For the public, we managed to try and condense it to a much shorter format that we think can still offer useful insights to other organizations:

I’m raising rent relief funds for Minneapolis immigrant families affected by ICE. Donations are down, but ICE is very much still here and there’s still so much need. Can you help? V: @Ian-Coldwater CA: $iancoldwater PP: @coldwater We keep us housed 💛 Please share and help if you can! Thank you!

molly conger@socialistdogmom.bsky.social · 6mo ago

i think one of the roadblocks people feel like they’re running into when deciding to donate to mutual aid funds is figuring out what’s trustworthy. i find it helps to outsource that vetting - i trust ian completely, and ian knows & trusts their community in minneapolis.

Please don’t forget about us and our neighbors! standwithminnesota.com

Stand With Minnesota

Stand With Minnesota is a hub for supporting, learning, and taking action to support Minnesotans impacted by ICE and federal enforcement.

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ashley fairbanks@ziibiing.com · 6mo ago

it’s weird, to run this website and have a very distinct marker for how much people care about what’s happening in Minnesota it feels especially not great to look at as eviction notices start to get served for families are still locked down hiding from ICE, who are still roving the streets

I couldn't quite put my finger on exactly why others' descriptions of moltbook felt both weird and also strangely familiar to me. And then it dawned on me, The Talos Principle: Road to Gehenna explored some of these same ideas.

My company surprised me today in the most joyful and special way by letting me and other incident responders break a Kafka-themed bee-shaped piñata with a makeshift cardboard stick. The care and whimsy and thoughtfulness of my co-workers brings me so much joy and incredibly moving.

People already working hard to prove how perfect Alex Pretti was. To show he didn't "deserve" to be killed. But it's a trap folks. You're only feeding into a dynamic where people who are considered lesser get no protection. You don't have to be an Alex Pretti to deserve to live.

The lyrics running through my head today: Now you're punching and you're kicking and you're shouting at me I'm relying on your common decency So far it hasn't surfaced, but I'm sure it exists It just takes a while to travel from your head to your fists - Depeche Mode, People Are People

With video of another street execution from ICE going around, a reminder that while video documentation of atrocities is important, you have no ethical obligation to watch videos of people dying. Traumatizing yourself isn’t advocacy. You do not have to watch the video to be outspoken against this