Damon Cortesi
@dacort.velocipig.com
Trapped in a Python container. Building Spark on K8s Infra. Founder and CTO expat.
Seattle // In the woods
https://dacort.xyz
Seattle // In the woods
https://dacort.xyz
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Damon Cortesi
@dacort.velocipig.com
· Apr 24
Well, well, well. Let’s see how this goes! Hi folks, Damon here. Follow me for data, analytics, log analysis, and pro tips on splitting wood and tree felling.
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Pretty sure if I put "Grafana and PromQL Wizard" on my resumé I'll get docked points either by AI or humans. 🫠
January 21, 2026 at 7:31 PM
Pretty sure if I put "Grafana and PromQL Wizard" on my resumé I'll get docked points either by AI or humans. 🫠
Reposted by Damon Cortesi
oh noes ... i have been completely sucked into to GasTown / Chimpanzee Coding (@dlorenc won me over).
Read more about it - www.distributedthoughts.org/brownian-rat...
Read more about it - www.distributedthoughts.org/brownian-rat...
The Brownian Ratchet and the Chimpanzee Factory
Two independent projects solving multi-agent orchestration landed on the same primitives. That's not a coincidence—it's an industry figuring out what agent autonomy actually requires.
www.distributedthoughts.org
January 19, 2026 at 10:26 PM
oh noes ... i have been completely sucked into to GasTown / Chimpanzee Coding (@dlorenc won me over).
Read more about it - www.distributedthoughts.org/brownian-rat...
Read more about it - www.distributedthoughts.org/brownian-rat...
Took all of last evening and some of this morning, but managed to get OpenAudio ( speech.fish.audio ) running on an EC2 g5.xl.
It's actually quite impressive.
It's actually quite impressive.
OpenAudio
Targeting SOTA TTS solutions.
speech.fish.audio
January 17, 2026 at 9:40 PM
Took all of last evening and some of this morning, but managed to get OpenAudio ( speech.fish.audio ) running on an EC2 g5.xl.
It's actually quite impressive.
It's actually quite impressive.
I wish I cared as much about fonts as some people. The attention to detail is just amazing and is completely above my head.
Monaspace is a bigger deal than most people realise. It allows interleaving different monospace fonts in the same editor. This adds an entire dimension to textual interface (equivalent and independent to colour).
January 17, 2026 at 7:35 AM
I wish I cared as much about fonts as some people. The attention to detail is just amazing and is completely above my head.
T’is a pretty TUI tho. 😍
I have so much random shit backed up from literal decades ago. 🫠
January 16, 2026 at 6:52 AM
T’is a pretty TUI tho. 😍
I have so much random shit backed up from literal decades ago. 🫠
January 16, 2026 at 6:33 AM
I have so much random shit backed up from literal decades ago. 🫠
I'm just happy to see that www.ultraedit.com is still around - literally have a download 2004 I was just looking at.
UltraEdit Text Editor - Secure, Configurable, Powerful
A text editor with world class code editing capabilities for Windows, Mac, and Linux. Feature rich, numerous integrations and supported languages. Free trial.
www.ultraedit.com
January 16, 2026 at 6:27 AM
I'm just happy to see that www.ultraedit.com is still around - literally have a download 2004 I was just looking at.
Reposted by Damon Cortesi
The latest issue of The Serverless Terminal newsletter is out!! 🗞️🗞️
www.theserverlessterminal.com/p/durable-fu...
www.theserverlessterminal.com/p/durable-fu...
Durable functions debut 🚀☁️ #94
Code over ASLs
www.theserverlessterminal.com
January 15, 2026 at 3:20 PM
The latest issue of The Serverless Terminal newsletter is out!! 🗞️🗞️
www.theserverlessterminal.com/p/durable-fu...
www.theserverlessterminal.com/p/durable-fu...
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New shirt Leonard Williams is wearing reads “if they line up.” He joked he couldn’t put the rest of it on a shirt, a reference to DeMarcus Lawrence saying earlier this season, “They line up, they get (expletive)ed up.”
January 14, 2026 at 9:34 PM
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Wow that brought back memories. I do kinda remember building my first frontpage site but can’t remember the emotions it evoked…
The more I use these agents (that now do write code that is pretty good, but ofc I need to verify and keep them in check), the more I feel we're going to see the "Microsoft Frontpage" moment in tech:
Frontpage DID make every and all web devs redundant from 2007. As we all know.
Frontpage DID make every and all web devs redundant from 2007. As we all know.
January 14, 2026 at 8:51 PM
Wow that brought back memories. I do kinda remember building my first frontpage site but can’t remember the emotions it evoked…
Wow that brought back memories. I do kinda remember building my first frontpage site but can’t remember the emotions it evoked…
The more I use these agents (that now do write code that is pretty good, but ofc I need to verify and keep them in check), the more I feel we're going to see the "Microsoft Frontpage" moment in tech:
Frontpage DID make every and all web devs redundant from 2007. As we all know.
Frontpage DID make every and all web devs redundant from 2007. As we all know.
January 14, 2026 at 8:51 PM
Wow that brought back memories. I do kinda remember building my first frontpage site but can’t remember the emotions it evoked…
Lumberjack dating site…it’s called OnlyFirs.
January 14, 2026 at 6:45 AM
Lumberjack dating site…it’s called OnlyFirs.
I had never heard of "I cook, you measure" till this day but I'm glad it filled me in on AJ Barners #seahawks celebration while cooking ... buffalo ramen? youtu.be/vd1YmhoR4aY?...
Seahawks Best Of Edition I I Cook, You Measure
YouTube video by I Cook You Measure
youtu.be
January 13, 2026 at 6:17 AM
I had never heard of "I cook, you measure" till this day but I'm glad it filled me in on AJ Barners #seahawks celebration while cooking ... buffalo ramen? youtu.be/vd1YmhoR4aY?...
Finally messing around with the bsky firehose and feeds. I miss the twitter chatter during #seahawks games so put together a feed that tracks users based on their engagement with a few other seed users and the obvious hashtags.
hawks.fly.dev
hawks.fly.dev
Go Hawks! - Bluesky Feed
hawks.fly.dev
January 10, 2026 at 9:37 PM
Finally messing around with the bsky firehose and feeds. I miss the twitter chatter during #seahawks games so put together a feed that tracks users based on their engagement with a few other seed users and the obvious hashtags.
hawks.fly.dev
hawks.fly.dev
"Microsoft has turned financial reporting into an impressionist painting." 🧑🍳💋
"AWS's competitive moat ... was the operational expertise that let them run those services at a scale nobody else could match." :nodding:
"AWS's competitive moat ... was the operational expertise that let them run those services at a scale nobody else could match." :nodding:
I mostly agree with @quinnypig.com on this
I can't stop laughing about "Moron Cloud" 💀 and a little sad he didn't address Azure's capacity problems. A big reason why I believe they can't/won't grow.
www.lastweekinaws.com/blog/aws-in-...
I can't stop laughing about "Moron Cloud" 💀 and a little sad he didn't address Azure's capacity problems. A big reason why I believe they can't/won't grow.
www.lastweekinaws.com/blog/aws-in-...
AWS in 2026: The Year of Proving They Still Know How to Operate
AWS in 2026: The Year of Proving They Still Know How to Operate
www.lastweekinaws.com
January 9, 2026 at 10:08 PM
"Microsoft has turned financial reporting into an impressionist painting." 🧑🍳💋
"AWS's competitive moat ... was the operational expertise that let them run those services at a scale nobody else could match." :nodding:
"AWS's competitive moat ... was the operational expertise that let them run those services at a scale nobody else could match." :nodding:
I don't always hop on zoom calls, but when I do...
January 9, 2026 at 6:49 PM
I don't always hop on zoom calls, but when I do...
Really hating everything lately so here’s some non-AI generated slop that might make you smile.
January 8, 2026 at 3:29 PM
Really hating everything lately so here’s some non-AI generated slop that might make you smile.
Hey Claude, make a bsky feed generator.
Hey Claude, port it to Go.
Hey Claude, deploy it again.
... ridiculous this all works.
Hey Claude, port it to Go.
Hey Claude, deploy it again.
... ridiculous this all works.
January 8, 2026 at 7:13 AM
Hey Claude, make a bsky feed generator.
Hey Claude, port it to Go.
Hey Claude, deploy it again.
... ridiculous this all works.
Hey Claude, port it to Go.
Hey Claude, deploy it again.
... ridiculous this all works.
The problem with letting Claude rip right before I go to bed is that it just finishes __SO FAST__ and then I have to stay up and kick off another round until I hit my cap. 🫠
January 7, 2026 at 6:36 AM
The problem with letting Claude rip right before I go to bed is that it just finishes __SO FAST__ and then I have to stay up and kick off another round until I hit my cap. 🫠
I gotta say, the "next edit suggestions" feature in @vscode.dev are truly amazing and on point. 🤯
code.visualstudio.com/docs/copilot...
code.visualstudio.com/docs/copilot...
Inline suggestions from GitHub Copilot in VS Code
Enhance your coding with AI-powered inline suggestions from GitHub Copilot in Visual Studio Code.
code.visualstudio.com
January 6, 2026 at 10:49 PM
I gotta say, the "next edit suggestions" feature in @vscode.dev are truly amazing and on point. 🤯
code.visualstudio.com/docs/copilot...
code.visualstudio.com/docs/copilot...