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Joseph Gruber

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Satellite ground software/mission ops software engineer. Alum of AWS Ground Station, Blue Origin, NASA Goddard. Occasional weather, Python dev, AWS DevOps, Aerospace/Aviation, and the Phillies 🔔. Opinions my own. 📍 Colorado

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Joseph Gruber @josephgruber.com · Nov 8

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Joseph Gruber @josephgruber.com · 1m

Make elderly politicians a thing of the past

Sahil Kapur @sahilkapur.bsky.social · 3m

NEW: DC Del. Eleanor Holmes Norton scammed at home by group claiming to be cleaning crew

They charged her $4,362 for work they didn’t perform. A police report says Norton has "early stages of dementia." Her office pushed back.

www.nbcnews.com/politics/con...

Congressional Del. Eleanor Holmes Norton of D.C. scammed at home by group claiming to be cleaning crew

A police report says Norton has "early stages of dementia." Her office pushed back.

www.nbcnews.com

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Tombmas Spooks @thomasfuchs.at · 3m

Oh so it's not me having a bad brain day then

It's Not Just You - The iOS Keyboard is Broken

YouTube video by Michi NekoMichi

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Joseph Gruber @josephgruber.com · 5m

Worse than Opening Day

Joseph Gruber @josephgruber.com · 6m

I truly don’t understand how baseball cards are a thing in the digital age

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Joseph Gruber @josephgruber.com · 4d

Seeing those ChatGPT commercials on the #ALCS makes me wonder - where the real response? And did an attorney have to verify they were factual and wouldn’t hurt someone? 😂

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Joseph Gruber @josephgruber.com · 14m

First Phillies reference. Drink! 🍻 🔔 #WorldSeries

Joseph Gruber @josephgruber.com · 15m

The blue jay’s got moves? #WorldSeries

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🖤♡Amanda♡🖤 @zephyrsky.bsky.social · 18m

I honestly think this may have been one of the best World Series openings I can remember

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Conor Sen @conorsen.bsky.social · 19m

Nice job with the anthems, MLB.

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Jay @jasonrosewell.bsky.social · 18m

Okay that choir CRUSHED both of those anthems. 🇨🇦🇺🇸 Goosebumps

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Craig Calcaterra @craigcalcaterra.bsky.social · 18m

That was one of the best national anthem(s) in a long damn time. Really well done.

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Joseph Gruber @josephgruber.com · 17m

Heat death of the universe ftw

Joseph Gruber @josephgruber.com · 17m

Let’s go Good Baseball! 😂 #WorldSeries

Joseph Gruber @josephgruber.com · 18m

Sans Philly #GodDamnJoeCarter

Joseph Gruber @josephgruber.com · 20m

*Thats* how you perform the National Anthem. Leave it to Canada to show us. 😂 👏 #WorldSeries

Joseph Gruber @josephgruber.com · 22h

Teams is the worst but until Congress or US regulators pulls an EU and forces the de-bundling of M365 with Teams, orgs that depend on Office apps will go with the “free” option. 😡

Comfortably Numb @numb.comfortab.ly · 23h

ME: Teams can't possibly get any worse.

MICROSOFT: Hold my beer www.windowscentral.com/microsoft/mi...

Microsoft Teams is about to become a lapdog for your boss — automatically snitching on your live location when connected to the office Wi-Fi

The app will now let your boss know when you're in the office or not, based on your connection to the office's Wi-Fi network.

www.windowscentral.com

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Kyle Clark @kylec.bsky.social · 23h

NEW: Colorado AG and gubernatorial candidate Phil Weiser (D) tells 9NEWS he supports Colorado redrawing House maps to create new Dem seats to offset Republican redistricting in red states. Weiser is the most prominent Colo. Democrat to sign on to the effort. #copolitics

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Joseph Gruber @josephgruber.com · 23h

Hey, I’ve been there in June. #JuneGloom

Joseph Gruber @josephgruber.com · 23h

Just as we’re losing the state tax credit (plus the national). Smart move g’vner

Joseph Gruber @josephgruber.com · 1d

God damn Yankees

Joseph Gruber @josephgruber.com · 1d

Did one of the podcasts say this? 😂

Joseph Gruber @josephgruber.com · 1d

I remember when an Anduril recruiter reached out a few months ago and I stated in no uncertain terms that I would never work for a Palmer Luckey run company.

Sky Marchini @sky.skymarchini.net · 1d

Uh x.com/tbpn/status/...

TBPN
@tbpn
"Let's not be politically correct. Let's just admit you're supposed to be having kids when you're 16, 17, 18. And be done by the time you're in your 20s."

@PalmerLuckey
says we should be having kids in our teens 👇
Storyboard panels show multiple frames of a live podcast interview on TBPN with Palmer Luckey as guest, wearing a Hawaiian shirt, seated at a desk with a can of soda, discussing topics; lower thirds identify Palmer Luckey as founder of ModRetro and Anduril; subtitles include statements like Lets not be politically correct and admit youre supposed to be having kids when youre 16 17 18; background displays sponsor logos like Julius, Torso, and others; date shown as 10/24/25.
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Joseph Gruber @josephgruber.com · 1d

Love working with @localstack.cloud. You can emulate a ton of AWS functionality right there on your laptop.

Though I wish data persistence wasn't a "pro" feature.

LocalStack @localstack.cloud · 1d

AWS outages are rare. But when they hit, they hit hard.

Can your app survive? Don’t guess.

Simulate real AWS service failures (like the Oct 2025 outage) using LocalStack and find out before production does.
Read the blog: blog.localstack.cloud/break-it-til...

Simulating AWS Outages Locally with Chaos Engineering

When AWS goes down, will your app stay up? In this tutorial, we’ll use LocalStack’s Chaos API to simulate real-world AWS service outages including DynamoDB throttling, SQS 503 errors, and Lambda…

blog.localstack.cloud

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LocalStack @localstack.cloud · 1d

Simulating AWS Outages Locally with Chaos Engineering

blog.localstack.cloud

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Joseph Gruber @josephgruber.com · 1d

And it comes back after every update. Damn you @vscode.dev