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Alexis Richardson
@monadic.bsky.social
· Nov 22
Back in February, I teamed up with @bsky.app to make a comic explaining what makes Bluesky so special.
I wanted to share this again, to welcome all the newskies. It's great to have you here 🙂
Welcome to Bluesky! 💙🦋
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I wanted to share this again, to welcome all the newskies. It's great to have you here 🙂
Welcome to Bluesky! 💙🦋
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Would be great if walled garden social media becomes as irrelevant and forgotten as AOL
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2026 is the year of the Kubernetes Desktop
December 30, 2025 at 8:18 PM
2026 is the year of the Kubernetes Desktop
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“If God wanted us to listen to audiobooks she wouldn’t have given us eyes to watch TV” - Gene Belcher
December 30, 2025 at 9:47 PM
“If God wanted us to listen to audiobooks she wouldn’t have given us eyes to watch TV” - Gene Belcher
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Anthropic is donating the Model Context Protocol to the Agentic AI Foundation, a directed fund under the Linux Foundation. #devopsish x.com/anthropicai/st...
December 29, 2025 at 5:29 PM
Anthropic is donating the Model Context Protocol to the Agentic AI Foundation, a directed fund under the Linux Foundation. #devopsish x.com/anthropicai/st...
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Ordinarily I’m against the sort of government agricultural support programmes that buy output from producers at high prices and dump it at a loss on the open market. In this case however
Whisky galore: Donald Trump’s tariffs and cost of living pressures create glut of undrunk Scotch
Concern over rural economies as distilleries left with a surplus that has forced some to pause or scale back production
www.ft.com
December 23, 2025 at 8:13 AM
Ordinarily I’m against the sort of government agricultural support programmes that buy output from producers at high prices and dump it at a loss on the open market. In this case however
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Just completed final watch through of the finished ROGUE TROOPER film…
25 years of pestering @2000ad.bsky.social to let me give it a shot, 3 years of production to make the thing & now… it’s DONE!
Can’t wait for you to see it.
So, so proud of our team.
We’ve made something a bit special.
❤️
25 years of pestering @2000ad.bsky.social to let me give it a shot, 3 years of production to make the thing & now… it’s DONE!
Can’t wait for you to see it.
So, so proud of our team.
We’ve made something a bit special.
❤️
December 20, 2025 at 3:17 AM
Just completed final watch through of the finished ROGUE TROOPER film…
25 years of pestering @2000ad.bsky.social to let me give it a shot, 3 years of production to make the thing & now… it’s DONE!
Can’t wait for you to see it.
So, so proud of our team.
We’ve made something a bit special.
❤️
25 years of pestering @2000ad.bsky.social to let me give it a shot, 3 years of production to make the thing & now… it’s DONE!
Can’t wait for you to see it.
So, so proud of our team.
We’ve made something a bit special.
❤️
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MOTHERFUCKER -- that's amazing. It's like the first time I heard Jake Shimabakuro
Today in “Dudes Rock”:
A dude playing Dire Straits’s “Sultans of Swing” guitar solo on…a recorder.
A dude playing Dire Straits’s “Sultans of Swing” guitar solo on…a recorder.
December 12, 2025 at 12:51 PM
MOTHERFUCKER -- that's amazing. It's like the first time I heard Jake Shimabakuro
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These are all bad images. Anyway, here’s mine.
December 11, 2025 at 7:50 PM
These are all bad images. Anyway, here’s mine.
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New blog post! ✨ I argue that AI will make formal verification go mainstream. martin.kleppmann.com/2025/12/08/a...
Three reasons for this:
1. LLMs are getting increasingly good at writing proofs using proof assistants. This will make formal verification vastly cheaper than it's been to date.
Three reasons for this:
1. LLMs are getting increasingly good at writing proofs using proof assistants. This will make formal verification vastly cheaper than it's been to date.
Prediction: AI will make formal verification go mainstream — Martin Kleppmann’s blog
martin.kleppmann.com
December 8, 2025 at 10:48 PM
New blog post! ✨ I argue that AI will make formal verification go mainstream. martin.kleppmann.com/2025/12/08/a...
Three reasons for this:
1. LLMs are getting increasingly good at writing proofs using proof assistants. This will make formal verification vastly cheaper than it's been to date.
Three reasons for this:
1. LLMs are getting increasingly good at writing proofs using proof assistants. This will make formal verification vastly cheaper than it's been to date.
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AWS's S3 object storage is at a different level of scale. It serves ~150M RPS (!!) and offers 11 nines of durability (!!!) [if you store 100M objects, you can statistically expect to lose one every 1,000 years]
I'll talk with the team building it. What would you like to know?
I'll talk with the team building it. What would you like to know?
December 8, 2025 at 8:33 AM
AWS's S3 object storage is at a different level of scale. It serves ~150M RPS (!!) and offers 11 nines of durability (!!!) [if you store 100M objects, you can statistically expect to lose one every 1,000 years]
I'll talk with the team building it. What would you like to know?
I'll talk with the team building it. What would you like to know?
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Damn.
Tom was, all round, a scholar and a gent. My dad envied his quietly perfect artist’s wardrobe and treasured his friendship. As did I.
Travel well. I hope the wine’s okay.
Tom was, all round, a scholar and a gent. My dad envied his quietly perfect artist’s wardrobe and treasured his friendship. As did I.
Travel well. I hope the wine’s okay.
Tom Stoppard, playwright of dazzling wit and playful erudition, dies aged 88
A theatrical sensation since the 1960s, whose dramas included Arcadia, The Real Thing and Leopoldstadt, Stoppard also had huge success as a screenwriter
www.theguardian.com
November 29, 2025 at 5:40 PM
Damn.
Tom was, all round, a scholar and a gent. My dad envied his quietly perfect artist’s wardrobe and treasured his friendship. As did I.
Travel well. I hope the wine’s okay.
Tom was, all round, a scholar and a gent. My dad envied his quietly perfect artist’s wardrobe and treasured his friendship. As did I.
Travel well. I hope the wine’s okay.
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At the risk of starting the flame war to end all flame wars...
Modern LLMs (GPT-5.1, Claude 4.5, Gemini 3) produce excellent code and can be a significant productivity boost to software engineers who take the time to learn how to effectively apply them - especially if used with coding agent tools
Modern LLMs (GPT-5.1, Claude 4.5, Gemini 3) produce excellent code and can be a significant productivity boost to software engineers who take the time to learn how to effectively apply them - especially if used with coding agent tools
November 27, 2025 at 7:55 PM
At the risk of starting the flame war to end all flame wars...
Modern LLMs (GPT-5.1, Claude 4.5, Gemini 3) produce excellent code and can be a significant productivity boost to software engineers who take the time to learn how to effectively apply them - especially if used with coding agent tools
Modern LLMs (GPT-5.1, Claude 4.5, Gemini 3) produce excellent code and can be a significant productivity boost to software engineers who take the time to learn how to effectively apply them - especially if used with coding agent tools
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cc @monadic.bsky.social My brain is vividly recalling one Pat Kerpan standing on a stage circa 2009 saying "And remember - it's *always* a distributed state problem!"(for anything)
Followup to yesterday's post: I'm starting to think as agents and LLM APIs of being a state synchronization problem and that we might look into what the local first folks are doing. Dumped my thoughts here: lucumr.pocoo.org/2025/11/22/l...
LLM APIs are a Synchronization Problem
Maybe the LLM message APIs should be rethought as a synchronization problem.
lucumr.pocoo.org
November 26, 2025 at 11:52 AM
cc @monadic.bsky.social My brain is vividly recalling one Pat Kerpan standing on a stage circa 2009 saying "And remember - it's *always* a distributed state problem!"(for anything)
Too little too late. The truth is that to be right in tech, you often have to be willing to be badly wrong first. And for a long time. Hard for governments to admit to this.
www.gov.uk/government/n...
This is not an industrial strategy.
And making this announcement just as AI bubble is about to burst is pure Starmer.
This is not an industrial strategy.
And making this announcement just as AI bubble is about to burst is pure Starmer.
AI to power national renewal as government announces billions of additional investment and new plans to boost UK businesses, jobs and innovation
A major package of new reforms and investment will put AI at heart of government’s mission to drive growth, create jobs and spread prosperity across the country.
www.gov.uk
November 26, 2025 at 7:21 AM
Too little too late. The truth is that to be right in tech, you often have to be willing to be badly wrong first. And for a long time. Hard for governments to admit to this.
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Any configuration template becomes more complex than learning the untemplated config file
helm charts went from "dark magic" to "oh that's a terrible way to do templating" reaaaaaal fast for me
November 20, 2025 at 9:17 PM
Any configuration template becomes more complex than learning the untemplated config file
Post-mortem now published by Cloudflare.
Configuration is mentioned 19 times.
lnkd.in/e-HTsxgE
** welcome to config hell **
Configuration is mentioned 19 times.
lnkd.in/e-HTsxgE
** welcome to config hell **
LinkedIn
This link will take you to a page that’s not on LinkedIn
lnkd.in
November 19, 2025 at 2:20 PM
Post-mortem now published by Cloudflare.
Configuration is mentioned 19 times.
lnkd.in/e-HTsxgE
** welcome to config hell **
Configuration is mentioned 19 times.
lnkd.in/e-HTsxgE
** welcome to config hell **
for me the NUMBER ONE ask from GitOps customers is here
If you've ever had to "break glass" and change the state in the cluster directly rather than through git, you probably had to update the values or templates in git by hand afterwards. What if you could do that automatically?
medium.com/@bgrant0607/...
#Kubernetes #GitOps
medium.com/@bgrant0607/...
#Kubernetes #GitOps
What is Bidirectional GitOps?
An explanation of bidirectional GitOps and why and when it can be useful.
medium.com
November 17, 2025 at 5:38 PM
for me the NUMBER ONE ask from GitOps customers is here
Back from kubecon
London is comfortingly wet with rain
London is comfortingly wet with rain
November 14, 2025 at 6:59 AM
Back from kubecon
London is comfortingly wet with rain
London is comfortingly wet with rain
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I (along with many others) was there!
November 11, 2025 at 2:47 AM
I (along with many others) was there!
Artem Lajko wrote a wonderful post about ConfigHub
Find out why and how to get started
itnext.io/confighub-wh...
Find out why and how to get started
itnext.io/confighub-wh...
ConfigHub: Why Your Internal Developer Platform Needs It
See why GitOps often feels like a sprawl of configs, discover how to manage Configuration as Data for your Kubernetes platform, and learn…
itnext.io
November 10, 2025 at 6:42 PM
Artem Lajko wrote a wonderful post about ConfigHub
Find out why and how to get started
itnext.io/confighub-wh...
Find out why and how to get started
itnext.io/confighub-wh...
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From an article in today's Financial Times. Such an obvious statement of fact. It's hard to understand why direct public investment in social rent housing - so successful for decades - is now unthinkable.
November 10, 2025 at 7:43 AM
From an article in today's Financial Times. Such an obvious statement of fact. It's hard to understand why direct public investment in social rent housing - so successful for decades - is now unthinkable.
Well my kubecon flight landed early and the airport was a breeze
November 9, 2025 at 8:08 PM
Well my kubecon flight landed early and the airport was a breeze
Mars colony may be easier than fire and forget home printing
Tech people think we want AI, robots, and a colony on Mars but what I actually want is a home printer that simply works.
November 8, 2025 at 3:44 PM
Mars colony may be easier than fire and forget home printing