Paul Bauer
@bauer.codes
https://bauer.codes
Staff Software Engineer @datadoghq
Made significant contributions to the Datadog timeseries database, now working on the continuous profiler product.
#databases, #lisp, #clojure, #freebsd, #pkm
Staff Software Engineer @datadoghq
Made significant contributions to the Datadog timeseries database, now working on the continuous profiler product.
#databases, #lisp, #clojure, #freebsd, #pkm
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The fusion plant will be powered entirely by dung from Devin Nunes' cow
December 18, 2025 at 11:45 PM
The fusion plant will be powered entirely by dung from Devin Nunes' cow
"I made a list of all the prompts in Microsoft’s ad and I’m checking them twice. Or as many times as I can stomach before hitting the nog."
Microsoft keeps airing big flashy commercials showing people using Copilot on Windows to do all kinds of things... and we keep making @superantonio64.bsky.social test those exact prompts and discovering nothing actually works www.theverge.com/report/84705...
Microsoft’s holiday Copilot ad is wrapped in empty promises
I don’t want Copilot for Christmas.
www.theverge.com
December 18, 2025 at 7:30 PM
"I made a list of all the prompts in Microsoft’s ad and I’m checking them twice. Or as many times as I can stomach before hitting the nog."
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I'll say here what I left unstated in my @monktoberfest.com talk: AWS in particular is in a state of cultural collapse because they have done exactly this -- and their RTO mandate has served to decimate organizational trust.
Another awesome @monktoberfest.com talk by @bcantrill.bsky.social ! It's absolutely worth watching the whole talk, but I think the last bit is great way to wrap up, where Bryan talks about broken institutional and organisational trust using RTO example:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=WF7J...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=WF7J...
Trust as Infrastructure | Bryan Cantrill | Monktoberfest 2025
YouTube video by RedMonk Tech Events
www.youtube.com
December 17, 2025 at 4:50 PM
I'll say here what I left unstated in my @monktoberfest.com talk: AWS in particular is in a state of cultural collapse because they have done exactly this -- and their RTO mandate has served to decimate organizational trust.
"You may [express your misgivings about agentic PRs], but nobody should accept your opinion as fact."
I was told this by a human, but it’s possible an LLM had taken possession of their body.
I was told this by a human, but it’s possible an LLM had taken possession of their body.
December 17, 2025 at 3:24 AM
"You may [express your misgivings about agentic PRs], but nobody should accept your opinion as fact."
I was told this by a human, but it’s possible an LLM had taken possession of their body.
I was told this by a human, but it’s possible an LLM had taken possession of their body.
An alternate reality.
"When users confronted Clinton with their concerns, he brushed them off [and] explained that AIs have emotions and that tech firms were working to create a new form of sentience..."
"When users confronted Clinton with their concerns, he brushed them off [and] explained that AIs have emotions and that tech firms were working to create a new form of sentience..."
This is wild: Jason Clinton is the deputy CISO of Anthropic. Also a mod of a queer gamers Discord. Clinton forced a version of Anthropic's AI on the server, despite the community's wishes, and it's killed the server. AI was reading messages it shouldn't be too
www.404media.co/anthropic-ex...
www.404media.co/anthropic-ex...
Anthropic Exec Forces AI Chatbot on Gay Discord Community, Members Flee
“We’re bringing a new kind of sentience into existence,” Anthropic's Jason Clinton said after launching the bot.
www.404media.co
December 16, 2025 at 3:09 PM
An alternate reality.
"When users confronted Clinton with their concerns, he brushed them off [and] explained that AIs have emotions and that tech firms were working to create a new form of sentience..."
"When users confronted Clinton with their concerns, he brushed them off [and] explained that AIs have emotions and that tech firms were working to create a new form of sentience..."
The Australian under-16 social media ban is fantastic news for IRC and mailing lists, and I'm here for it.
December 13, 2025 at 7:28 PM
The Australian under-16 social media ban is fantastic news for IRC and mailing lists, and I'm here for it.
The best thing about AI is everyone maintaining CLAUDE.md. New codebase and want to know how things work? Skip the outdated README.md, open up CLAUDE.md. Don't even need to launch claude. #lifehacks 😁
AI did what decades of nagging could never - motivate devs to keep their docs up to date.
AI did what decades of nagging could never - motivate devs to keep their docs up to date.
December 12, 2025 at 6:17 AM
The best thing about AI is everyone maintaining CLAUDE.md. New codebase and want to know how things work? Skip the outdated README.md, open up CLAUDE.md. Don't even need to launch claude. #lifehacks 😁
AI did what decades of nagging could never - motivate devs to keep their docs up to date.
AI did what decades of nagging could never - motivate devs to keep their docs up to date.
I'm looking forward to when the AI Bros start sharing their CLAUDE dot mds in artifact repositories - maven and npm and lock files for your prompt dependency hell? 😈
December 12, 2025 at 4:18 AM
I'm looking forward to when the AI Bros start sharing their CLAUDE dot mds in artifact repositories - maven and npm and lock files for your prompt dependency hell? 😈
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It's rare that I get to reflect back on my entire tech career and my philosophy towards work and life, but this interview captures it perfectly. One of the few recordings of myself I've watched end to end. www.youtube.com/watch?v=HdUb...
AI, DevOps, and Kubernetes: Kelsey Hightower on What’s Next
YouTube video by JetBrains
www.youtube.com
December 11, 2025 at 7:22 PM
It's rare that I get to reflect back on my entire tech career and my philosophy towards work and life, but this interview captures it perfectly. One of the few recordings of myself I've watched end to end. www.youtube.com/watch?v=HdUb...
"we can still gerrymander if Mike Pence has the courage"
Indiana gerrymandering absolutely clobbered
December 11, 2025 at 10:33 PM
"we can still gerrymander if Mike Pence has the courage"
Thoughtful and balanced guidance on #LLM usage, and a delightful human-generated quote:
> [...] we do not want to become as gavage geese, being force-fed unnecessary complexity in hopes that an LLM will somehow spare us from asphyxiation. @bcantrill.bsky.social
rfd.shared.oxide.computer/rfd/0576
> [...] we do not want to become as gavage geese, being force-fed unnecessary complexity in hopes that an LLM will somehow spare us from asphyxiation. @bcantrill.bsky.social
rfd.shared.oxide.computer/rfd/0576
576 - Using LLMs at Oxide / RFD / Oxide
rfd.shared.oxide.computer
December 11, 2025 at 7:44 PM
Thoughtful and balanced guidance on #LLM usage, and a delightful human-generated quote:
> [...] we do not want to become as gavage geese, being force-fed unnecessary complexity in hopes that an LLM will somehow spare us from asphyxiation. @bcantrill.bsky.social
rfd.shared.oxide.computer/rfd/0576
> [...] we do not want to become as gavage geese, being force-fed unnecessary complexity in hopes that an LLM will somehow spare us from asphyxiation. @bcantrill.bsky.social
rfd.shared.oxide.computer/rfd/0576
At least they didn't get an actually good actor to narrate.
SCOOP: Academy Award-nominee Liam Neeson narrated a recent anti-vaccine documentary that glorifies RFK Jr.’s rise to power.
In the film, Neeson—a UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador—calls the COVID-19 vaccines “dangerous experiments.”
www.importantcontext.news/p/liam-neeso...
In the film, Neeson—a UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador—calls the COVID-19 vaccines “dangerous experiments.”
www.importantcontext.news/p/liam-neeso...
Liam Neeson Narrates Anti-Vax, Pro-RFK Documentary
The Taken actor can be heard calling mRNA COVID vaccines “dangerous experiments.”
www.importantcontext.news
December 11, 2025 at 6:44 PM
At least they didn't get an actually good actor to narrate.
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“I have a very particular set of skills. . . skills that do not include epidemiology.”
December 11, 2025 at 6:20 PM
“I have a very particular set of skills. . . skills that do not include epidemiology.”
"sans serif typeface is shockingly woke" - a headline I'd expect from @theonion.com, but here we are.
Everything about this story is deeply funny. Do they think this is going to win points with morons or are they actually this self-serious about serifs?
Everything about this story is deeply funny. Do they think this is going to win points with morons or are they actually this self-serious about serifs?
Calibri is too woke for the State Department
Calibri is too woke for the State Department
Out with the old, in with the Times New Roman (again.)
buff.ly
December 10, 2025 at 8:18 PM
"sans serif typeface is shockingly woke" - a headline I'd expect from @theonion.com, but here we are.
Everything about this story is deeply funny. Do they think this is going to win points with morons or are they actually this self-serious about serifs?
Everything about this story is deeply funny. Do they think this is going to win points with morons or are they actually this self-serious about serifs?
These are the iconic photos of 2025 with rot and corruption at the heart of the US tech industry on full display. DOGE, the failure to curb Meta and Google monopolies, and FCC bullying that followed were all premised by tech titans kissing the ring.
December 10, 2025 at 12:45 AM
These are the iconic photos of 2025 with rot and corruption at the heart of the US tech industry on full display. DOGE, the failure to curb Meta and Google monopolies, and FCC bullying that followed were all premised by tech titans kissing the ring.
Reposted by Paul Bauer
The good news about this is Jimmy Fallon did the same thing with NFTs and all that bullshit fell apart a couple months later so maybe a Jimmy Fallon appearance is a bad omen
Jimmy Fallon: "And do you use ChatGPT when raising your baby?"
Sam Altman: "I cannot imagine figuring out how to raise a newborn without ChatGPT."
Sam Altman: "I cannot imagine figuring out how to raise a newborn without ChatGPT."
December 9, 2025 at 7:05 PM
The good news about this is Jimmy Fallon did the same thing with NFTs and all that bullshit fell apart a couple months later so maybe a Jimmy Fallon appearance is a bad omen
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🧪 How do you test #rustlang code that runs on top of #FoundationDB?
✍️ I wrote about designing simulation workloads: the patterns that find real bugs, the rules you can't break, and the pitfalls
pierrezemb.fr/posts/writin...
✍️ I wrote about designing simulation workloads: the patterns that find real bugs, the rules you can't break, and the pitfalls
pierrezemb.fr/posts/writin...
Designing Rust FDB Workloads That Actually Find Bugs
Patterns and principles for writing Rust simulation workloads that catch bugs before production does.
pierrezemb.fr
December 9, 2025 at 8:00 AM
🧪 How do you test #rustlang code that runs on top of #FoundationDB?
✍️ I wrote about designing simulation workloads: the patterns that find real bugs, the rules you can't break, and the pitfalls
pierrezemb.fr/posts/writin...
✍️ I wrote about designing simulation workloads: the patterns that find real bugs, the rules you can't break, and the pitfalls
pierrezemb.fr/posts/writin...
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Two weeks ago I said that there were likely millions of uninstalled Blackwell GPUs sitting in warehouses as there is neither the data center capacity nor the power to turn them on. Michael Burry is looking into it and it looks like he’s got evidence I’m right.
www.wheresyoured.at/the-haters-g...
www.wheresyoured.at/the-haters-g...
December 7, 2025 at 8:57 PM
Two weeks ago I said that there were likely millions of uninstalled Blackwell GPUs sitting in warehouses as there is neither the data center capacity nor the power to turn them on. Michael Burry is looking into it and it looks like he’s got evidence I’m right.
www.wheresyoured.at/the-haters-g...
www.wheresyoured.at/the-haters-g...
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Big @tinanguyen.bsky.social scoop - the Trump MAGA / tech coalition continues to fracture as the hard right pushes back against David Sacks and his attempt to preempt state AI laws. Caught in the middle: Vance. www.theverge.com/ai-artificia...
The far right is mobilizing against Trump AI czar David Sacks
A controversial executive order dictating America’s AI policy has MAGA scrambling against the White House and its Special Advisor on AI and Crypto.
www.theverge.com
December 5, 2025 at 1:28 PM
Big @tinanguyen.bsky.social scoop - the Trump MAGA / tech coalition continues to fracture as the hard right pushes back against David Sacks and his attempt to preempt state AI laws. Caught in the middle: Vance. www.theverge.com/ai-artificia...
This was never about being tough on crime and murdering (supposed) drug traffickers, but destroying evidence.
December 4, 2025 at 6:12 PM
This was never about being tough on crime and murdering (supposed) drug traffickers, but destroying evidence.
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Palantir is just the tip of the amoral tech industry iceberg.
,,Karp, [used to say] he respected “nothing” about Trump and that a deportation drive made “no sense,” [now] has repeatedly praised Trump’s ongoing crackdown on immigrants"
archive.is/2025.12.03-1...
,,Karp, [used to say] he respected “nothing” about Trump and that a deportation drive made “no sense,” [now] has repeatedly praised Trump’s ongoing crackdown on immigrants"
archive.is/2025.12.03-1...
archive.is
December 4, 2025 at 2:26 AM
Palantir is just the tip of the amoral tech industry iceberg.
,,Karp, [used to say] he respected “nothing” about Trump and that a deportation drive made “no sense,” [now] has repeatedly praised Trump’s ongoing crackdown on immigrants"
archive.is/2025.12.03-1...
,,Karp, [used to say] he respected “nothing” about Trump and that a deportation drive made “no sense,” [now] has repeatedly praised Trump’s ongoing crackdown on immigrants"
archive.is/2025.12.03-1...
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this fall I worked with the core Git folks on writing an official data model for Git and it just got merged! I learned a few new things from writing it. github.com/git/git/blob...
git/Documentation/gitdatamodel.adoc at master · git/git
Git Source Code Mirror - This is a publish-only repository but pull requests can be turned into patches to the mailing list via GitGitGadget (https://gitgitgadget.github.io/). Please follow Documen...
github.com
December 2, 2025 at 5:01 PM
this fall I worked with the core Git folks on writing an official data model for Git and it just got merged! I learned a few new things from writing it. github.com/git/git/blob...
