Cail Young
@cail.bsky.social
Still trying to collect all the blue pages.
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I only went and bloody did it. Made a little spot to write about it, too: hetconned.substack.com
“Hetconning (n.) — the deliberate retroactive straight-washing of history to frame queerness as a modern intrusion. A pretext for justifying attacks as a “return” to a world that never existed”
“Hetconning (n.) — the deliberate retroactive straight-washing of history to frame queerness as a modern intrusion. A pretext for justifying attacks as a “return” to a world that never existed”
December 15, 2025 at 3:48 AM
I only went and bloody did it. Made a little spot to write about it, too: hetconned.substack.com
“Hetconning (n.) — the deliberate retroactive straight-washing of history to frame queerness as a modern intrusion. A pretext for justifying attacks as a “return” to a world that never existed”
“Hetconning (n.) — the deliberate retroactive straight-washing of history to frame queerness as a modern intrusion. A pretext for justifying attacks as a “return” to a world that never existed”
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December 13, 2025 at 4:59 AM
Oh, like this old documentary about the show business!
December 11, 2025 at 10:25 AM
Oh, like this old documentary about the show business!
Adding this to the Slideshow Karaoke list
December 10, 2025 at 6:45 AM
Adding this to the Slideshow Karaoke list
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#BREAKING: The Commonwealth Ombudsman has published their investigation into the Targeted Compliance Framework & Mutual Obligations system
Their findings on the Department's administration of many parts of the system are incredibly damning 👇
Their findings on the Department's administration of many parts of the system are incredibly damning 👇
December 8, 2025 at 10:44 PM
#BREAKING: The Commonwealth Ombudsman has published their investigation into the Targeted Compliance Framework & Mutual Obligations system
Their findings on the Department's administration of many parts of the system are incredibly damning 👇
Their findings on the Department's administration of many parts of the system are incredibly damning 👇
Post your fave @boontavista.com title, I’ll go first
December 6, 2025 at 11:24 PM
Post your fave @boontavista.com title, I’ll go first
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Does anyone want a survivorship bias shortbread
November 29, 2025 at 4:50 AM
Does anyone want a survivorship bias shortbread
I am slowly realising that my software career has mostly been about moderating the level of “pissed” in my epistemology.
So hard to not get angry when confronted with folks just assuming things will work perfectly. Or that “users will never do that”.
Where does this blinkered optimism come from?
So hard to not get angry when confronted with folks just assuming things will work perfectly. Or that “users will never do that”.
Where does this blinkered optimism come from?
November 28, 2025 at 10:20 PM
I am slowly realising that my software career has mostly been about moderating the level of “pissed” in my epistemology.
So hard to not get angry when confronted with folks just assuming things will work perfectly. Or that “users will never do that”.
Where does this blinkered optimism come from?
So hard to not get angry when confronted with folks just assuming things will work perfectly. Or that “users will never do that”.
Where does this blinkered optimism come from?
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I finally got around to writing up my thoughts about the recent Cloudflare outage.
surfingcomplexity.blog/2025/11/26/b...
surfingcomplexity.blog/2025/11/26/b...
Brief thoughts on the recent Cloudflare outage
I was at QCon SF during the recent Cloudflare outage (I was hosting the Stories Behind the Incidents track), so I hadn’t had a real chance to sit down and do a proper read-through of their pu…
surfingcomplexity.blog
November 27, 2025 at 5:43 AM
I finally got around to writing up my thoughts about the recent Cloudflare outage.
surfingcomplexity.blog/2025/11/26/b...
surfingcomplexity.blog/2025/11/26/b...
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we have automated endless september with chatgpt and now we are in endless hacktober
November 24, 2025 at 9:07 PM
we have automated endless september with chatgpt and now we are in endless hacktober
November 21, 2025 at 9:08 AM
Nice night for it. (Heavily adjusted photo, absolutely invisible to my eyes)
November 12, 2025 at 11:42 AM
Nice night for it. (Heavily adjusted photo, absolutely invisible to my eyes)
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🎶 I also will decry AI and all its many tentacles
The harms I list that fawners miss I read out like a canticle
It steals our data and our art but claims the theft’s defensible
Investment in the slop machine remains, for me, nonsensical 🎶
The harms I list that fawners miss I read out like a canticle
It steals our data and our art but claims the theft’s defensible
Investment in the slop machine remains, for me, nonsensical 🎶
October 31, 2025 at 4:00 PM
🎶 I also will decry AI and all its many tentacles
The harms I list that fawners miss I read out like a canticle
It steals our data and our art but claims the theft’s defensible
Investment in the slop machine remains, for me, nonsensical 🎶
The harms I list that fawners miss I read out like a canticle
It steals our data and our art but claims the theft’s defensible
Investment in the slop machine remains, for me, nonsensical 🎶
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🎶 I am the very model of a privacy professional
I’ve information terrifying - physical and digital
I know invasive algos and I cite the harms historical
And reassert that those they hurt are not just metaphorical 🎶
I’ve information terrifying - physical and digital
I know invasive algos and I cite the harms historical
And reassert that those they hurt are not just metaphorical 🎶
October 31, 2025 at 3:56 PM
🎶 I am the very model of a privacy professional
I’ve information terrifying - physical and digital
I know invasive algos and I cite the harms historical
And reassert that those they hurt are not just metaphorical 🎶
I’ve information terrifying - physical and digital
I know invasive algos and I cite the harms historical
And reassert that those they hurt are not just metaphorical 🎶
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Apropos of nothing: now would be a real cool time for the CNCF to realize that North America includes both Mexico and Canada and decide that KubeCon NA can be somewhere other than the US
Just a thought
Just a thought
October 30, 2025 at 12:20 AM
Apropos of nothing: now would be a real cool time for the CNCF to realize that North America includes both Mexico and Canada and decide that KubeCon NA can be somewhere other than the US
Just a thought
Just a thought
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if you’re a programmer who has shared instructions online and you haven’t run the copy by a NORMAL PERSON first, i hope you stub your freakish little hobbit toe
October 29, 2025 at 8:10 AM
if you’re a programmer who has shared instructions online and you haven’t run the copy by a NORMAL PERSON first, i hope you stub your freakish little hobbit toe
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Instead of trying to green cars so much why don't we just invest in trains. city trains. under ground trains. above ground trains. trains between cities. trains between countries. TRAINS
THE PEOPLE CRAVE TRAINS
THE PEOPLE CRAVE TRAINS
October 28, 2025 at 6:50 PM
Instead of trying to green cars so much why don't we just invest in trains. city trains. under ground trains. above ground trains. trains between cities. trains between countries. TRAINS
THE PEOPLE CRAVE TRAINS
THE PEOPLE CRAVE TRAINS
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thundergolfer.com/blog/aws-us-... I think is a much better outage summary than the one that AWS published. I understand the time pressure AWS was under to get something out, but I found the initial report to be quite baroque and hard to comprehend.
More Than DNS: The 14 hour AWS us-east-1 outage
A thorough review of a major cloud outage.
thundergolfer.com
October 28, 2025 at 11:24 AM
thundergolfer.com/blog/aws-us-... I think is a much better outage summary than the one that AWS published. I understand the time pressure AWS was under to get something out, but I found the initial report to be quite baroque and hard to comprehend.
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📣THREAD: It’s surprising to me that so many people were surprised to learn that Signal runs partly on AWS (something we can do because we use encryption to make sure no one but you–not AWS, not Signal, not anyone–can access your comms).
It’s also concerning. 1/
It’s also concerning. 1/
PSA: we're aware that Signal is down for some people. This appears to be related to a major AWS outage. Stand by.
October 27, 2025 at 10:38 AM
📣THREAD: It’s surprising to me that so many people were surprised to learn that Signal runs partly on AWS (something we can do because we use encryption to make sure no one but you–not AWS, not Signal, not anyone–can access your comms).
It’s also concerning. 1/
It’s also concerning. 1/
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New blog post on the recent AWS incident: surfingcomplexity.blog/2025/10/25/q...
Quick thoughts on the recent AWS outage
AWS recently posted a public write-up of the us-east-1 incident that hit them this past Monday. Here are a couple of quick thoughts on it. Reliability → Automation → Complexity → New failure modes …
surfingcomplexity.blog
October 26, 2025 at 3:57 AM
New blog post on the recent AWS incident: surfingcomplexity.blog/2025/10/25/q...
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Hey can y'all do me a favor? If you run across any post-incident write-ups from companies affected by the AWS outage, could you send those to me?Feel free to leave a link in the comments, or you can drop them here:
www.thevoid.community/submit-incid...
Thanks!
www.thevoid.community/submit-incid...
Thanks!
Submit an Incident Report
The VOID is a community-contributed collection of software-related incident reports.
www.thevoid.community
October 24, 2025 at 10:50 PM
Hey can y'all do me a favor? If you run across any post-incident write-ups from companies affected by the AWS outage, could you send those to me?Feel free to leave a link in the comments, or you can drop them here:
www.thevoid.community/submit-incid...
Thanks!
www.thevoid.community/submit-incid...
Thanks!
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EVERYBODY GO READ THE AWS INCIDENT WRITE-UP! aws.amazon.com/message/1019...
Summary of the Amazon DynamoDB Service Disruption in Northern Virginia (US-EAST-1) Region
aws.amazon.com
October 23, 2025 at 3:47 AM
EVERYBODY GO READ THE AWS INCIDENT WRITE-UP! aws.amazon.com/message/1019...
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The number of people who didn’t know what us-east-1 was on Sunday and are suddenly experts in running multi-region distributed systems at scale today is truly remarkable.
October 22, 2025 at 5:59 AM
The number of people who didn’t know what us-east-1 was on Sunday and are suddenly experts in running multi-region distributed systems at scale today is truly remarkable.
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@martindotnet.bsky.social put out a banger of a post on LinkedIn. now is the time for hugops, not saying "skill issue, I would have simply designed better" or trying to sell your architecture cleanup/design/consulting skills.
Don't be the tacky ambulance-chaser.
Don't be the tacky ambulance-chaser.
October 20, 2025 at 3:54 PM
@martindotnet.bsky.social put out a banger of a post on LinkedIn. now is the time for hugops, not saying "skill issue, I would have simply designed better" or trying to sell your architecture cleanup/design/consulting skills.
Don't be the tacky ambulance-chaser.
Don't be the tacky ambulance-chaser.
Jewel heist from a museum, you say?
October 20, 2025 at 8:48 AM
Jewel heist from a museum, you say?