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Camille Fournier

@skamille.themanagerswrath.com

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she/her. Author, manager, distributed systems engineer, etc etc, my latest book Platform Engineering is available now! https://amzn.to/4eUz5zB

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Camille Fournier @skamille.themanagerswrath.com · Oct 9

The Kindle version of our new book, Platform Engineering: A Guide for Technical, Product, and People Leaders, is now available! amzn.to/4eUz5zB

Platform Engineering

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André Arko @indirect.io · 10h

Ruby Central said some really concerning things today. I don’t think they’re representing the situation accurately. andre.arko.net/2025/10/09/t...

The RubyGems “security incident”

Ruby Central posted an extremely concerning “Incident Response Timeline” today, in which they make a number of exaggerated or purely misleading claims. Here’s my effort to set the record straight. Fir...

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Camille Fournier @skamille.themanagerswrath.com · 30m

what an incredible group of incompetent assholes

Camille Fournier @skamille.themanagerswrath.com · 43m

"Billionaires are dangerous. We should tax them until they aren’t. "

Liberal Currents @liberalcurrents.com · 3h

“The problem with billionaires isn’t that they’re hoarding money that would otherwise pay for a Scandinavian social utopia. It’s that their money has become a source of wildly distorted political power that allows a few men with extremist views to wreak havoc on the rest of us.”

Billionaires Are Hoarding Power, Not Money

Billionaire money has become a source of wildly distorted political power that allows a few men with extremist views to wreak havoc on the rest of us.

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Camille Fournier @skamille.themanagerswrath.com · 49m

really enraging

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Mike Roberts @mikebroberts.com · 1d

The error message on SunOS/Solaris (I think) for failing reading an NFS share was "NFS server [name] not responding", and way back in the day (pre 2000) I came across a place that called their NFS servers after adverbs. E.g. "stubbornly" . Of course some clever person called one "probably" too. Fun.

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Camille Fournier @skamille.themanagerswrath.com · 1d

"have you heard the good word of AFS"
please stop

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Camille Fournier @skamille.themanagerswrath.com · 1d

"let's just make all the researchers use s3"
sure jan

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Camille Fournier @skamille.themanagerswrath.com · 1d

nfs40.online
40 years of NFS, torturing many of us for our entire careers

NFS AT 40 – Sun Microsystems NFS

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Schmidt Ocean Institute @schmidtocean.bsky.social · 1d

In celebration of World Octopus Day, we wanted to revisit one of our favorite cephalopod sightings, the glass octopus — Vitreledonella richardi filmed during a month-long #PhoenixIslandsCoral expedition in 2021.

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Camille Fournier @skamille.themanagerswrath.com · 1d

but it is northern appalachia I think that tracks

Camille Fournier @skamille.themanagerswrath.com · 1d

even at the time we all cringed at the name

Camille Fournier @skamille.themanagerswrath.com · 1d

more like the 2013s

Camille Fournier @skamille.themanagerswrath.com · 1d

lol this company is SO OLD

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Camille Fournier @skamille.themanagerswrath.com · 1d

Lol at the timeline

Camille Fournier @skamille.themanagerswrath.com · 1d

Are you a bot

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Camille Fournier @skamille.themanagerswrath.com · 1d

Why does anyone write engineering career ladders without consulting me I mean really

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Mike "looking for research fellowship" Caulfield @mikecaulfield.bsky.social · 1d

As I said at the time a "consumer" used to be called a reader, a viewer,a listener. We created and reinforced a value hierarchy, and now a bunch of people who could be watching their favorite films are pushing us video of the Teletubbies meeting the Beatles or whatever.

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Camille Fournier @skamille.themanagerswrath.com · 2d

I'm so fucking tired and I was only there for two days

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Henry Farrell @himself.bsky.social · 2d

"It wanted to signal strength. Instead, it’s revealing its weakness. The administration’s need to break the academy is forcing it to make a desperately risky gamble." www.nytimes.com/2025/10/08/o...