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Leon Adato
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Itinerant wandering IT storyteller & DevOps ferret. #Monitoring, #Observability & automation fanboi. Author @ adatosystems.com. Host of TechnicallyReligious.com podcast. He/him. No #manels. Ask me about my grandkids.
New Post! Call For Papers Listings for 1/9
A collection of upcoming CFPs (call for papers) from across the internet and around the world.
bit.ly/4aNjjHZ
January 9, 2026 at 5:01 PM
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I teach bystander intervention for a living and have taught de-escalation to law enforcement.

Trust me when I say that bottle girls, gas station clerks, strippers, front desk employees at hotels and airports, baristas, etc. have better de-escalation skills than any cop I've ever seen.
January 8, 2026 at 8:44 PM
In a discussion, I said,

"(vibe) coding something for yourself, and sharing it with the world, is 100% valid and wonderful and fine. It's certainly as valid as the WordPress plugin I slammed together with spite, tears, and a complete lack of discipline."

And I meant what I said.
January 8, 2026 at 9:11 PM
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scrolled past this pic today among our stream inspection imagery in Seven Hills. what looks like a bar is actually a local sanitary sewer spanning one of the streams we monitor and manage.
January 8, 2026 at 5:48 PM
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"ok so three stream inspectors walk into a bar..."
January 8, 2026 at 5:42 PM
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Rollin' into 2026 like...
January 7, 2026 at 3:41 PM
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Ha, ha!
Give me to drink mandragora.
January 7, 2026 at 5:32 PM
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when do you use yellow alert instead of red alert
January 6, 2026 at 8:58 PM
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Smoth’red in errors, feeble, shallow, weak
January 5, 2026 at 8:42 PM
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Gonna tell my kids the gnostics believed silver surfer, not hulk informed Dr Strange of the coming of Thanos
January 6, 2026 at 8:43 PM
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really fantastic job opportunity for folks with editorial experience (relatedly, if y’all are ever in the market for a labor reporter, PLEASE lmk @19thnews.org!) 19thnews.org/19th-news-ed...
We're hiring an Editor
The 19th is hiring an editor to work closely with the editorial director to assign, shape, edit and publish stories to fulfill The 19th’s mission of serving women and LGBTQ+ people with timely, high-q...
19thnews.org
January 6, 2026 at 12:50 AM
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seems to me the main reason bluesky has a lot of desperately unhappy people freaking out about politics and world affairs on it instead of being like twitter was in the middle of the last decade is that you are using and discussing it in 2025 instead of in the middle of the last decade
September 24, 2025 at 6:40 PM
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A hacker known as Martha Root broke in and deleted three white supremacists websites at the end of a talk during the annual hacker conference Chaos Communication Congress in Germany.
Hacktivist deletes white supremacist websites live on stage during hacker conference | TechCrunch
A hacker known as Martha Root broke in and deleted three white supremacists websites at the end of a talk during the annual hacker conference Chaos Communication Congress in Germany.
techcrunch.com
January 5, 2026 at 6:58 PM
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I definitely don’t know where Timothy could be
January 5, 2026 at 10:24 PM
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The first two hours this morning
January 5, 2026 at 11:21 AM
New Post! Zmanim-WP: Getting Started
Getting Started with Getting Started If you’ve been following this blog, you’ll know that I’ve been working on my Zmanim-WP plugin for WordPress for a while now. If you haven’t, you can check out everything written so far using this link.
bit.ly/4aLdeMi
January 5, 2026 at 3:01 PM
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Despite our record of excellence managing browns for the last 54 years, our reliability working in the trenches, and decades of experience building systems from the ground up, no, we are not in the running for Cleveland's next head coach.

Thank you.
January 5, 2026 at 2:28 PM
New year, new shirt, new role. Excited to be part of the herd at #Cribl!
January 5, 2026 at 2:47 PM
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Surprise!
January 5, 2026 at 1:30 AM
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This is the best citation of my work yet
www.theguardian.com/business/202...
January 4, 2026 at 10:22 PM
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Here are the Top 5 Dogs of the week!
January 2, 2026 at 3:35 PM
New Post! Job listings for week ending 1/2/2026
Job postings that came across my desk, slack, email, discord, etc this week.
bit.ly/3NrZmfW
January 2, 2026 at 5:02 PM
New Post! Call For Papers Listings for 1/2/2026
A collection of upcoming CFPs (call for papers) from across the internet and around the world.
bit.ly/4snEvdW
January 2, 2026 at 5:01 PM
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Well, and I be serv’d such another trick, I’ll have my brains ta’en out and butter’d, and give them to a dog for a new-year’s gift.
January 1, 2026 at 4:43 PM
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I realized that I don't often just share an opinion here, opting instead to respond all the time.

Let's change that.

Opinion:
Becoming a US citizen should be EASY (or at least much easier) and should not depend AT ALL on how someone came here in the first place.
January 1, 2026 at 9:36 PM