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Bridget Kromhout
@bridgetkromhout.bsky.social
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Cloud native open source at Azure. She/her. Likes snow, bicycles, and @joelaha.bsky.social.
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Flexible, secure, compliant, reliable: enabling AI development in complex scenarios with Kubernetes & AKS.

At the #KubeCon Azure pre-day @lachie.bsky.social talks with Mehrdad Abdolghafari (Principal Cloud Engineer, Royal Bank of Canada) & Robert Nishihara (co-founder of Anyscale, creator of Ray).
Mehrdad Abdolghafari, Robert Nishihara, Lachie Evenson
November 10, 2025 at 5:36 PM
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Headlamp is an open source project which is part of upstream #Kubernetes. At the #KubeCon Azure pre-day, Jorge Palma talks about AKS Desktop, our new managed experience built on Headlamp.
Jorge discussing Headlamp Jorge discussing AKS desktop.
November 10, 2025 at 2:31 PM
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Kubernetes and open source software power Microsoft products and services; we contribute upstream and use open source in production ourselves. @lachie.bsky.social & Jorge Palma at the #KubeCon Azure pre-day.
Lachie and Jorge talking about Azure and open source.
November 10, 2025 at 2:23 PM
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“Pause, acknowledge, and engage.”

@dims.dev @karenaangell.bsky.social Emily Fox & Ricardo Rocha at #KubeCon Maintainer Summit.

Technical discussions come with differences of opinion, which is why we must follow our operating and technical leadership principles. github.com/cncf/toc/blo...
Dims, Karena, Emily, and Ricardo on stage at Maintainer Summit.
November 9, 2025 at 9:11 PM
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At the Kubernetes AI Conformance discussion at #KubeCon Maintainer Summit, @ritazh.bsky.social talks about the value of collaborating across open source communities. github.com/kubernetes-s...
Rita, Janet, and Federico on stage.
November 9, 2025 at 8:25 PM
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Ask the experts: Kubernetes Steering Committee at #KubeCon. Lots of good discussion about supporting contributors with @kat.lol @ritazh.bsky.social @soltysh.bsky.social.
Kat, Rita, Maciej on stage
November 9, 2025 at 4:37 PM
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Tag yourself; I'm "tonight's flight into Atlanta for #KubeCon is currently delayed 3.5 hours and who knows if I should even go to the airport lolsob". www.flightaware.com/miserymap/
MiseryMap of the US from FlightAware showing all the flight delays. Atlanta is the worst right now by far. (One guess as to where I am trying to fly.)
November 8, 2025 at 10:39 PM
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Minneapolis now has Prince library cards, so obviously @joelaha.bsky.social and I got ours!
Bridget and Joe holding up Prince library cards in the downtown Minneapolis library.
November 8, 2025 at 3:47 PM
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🗳️Voted with @joelaha.bsky.social! Let’s get this done, Minneapolis. #DontRankFrey
Bridget and Joe with “I voted” stickers.
November 4, 2025 at 7:35 PM
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Seeing The Goonies at Orchestra Hall the weekend before Halloween, and the conductor asked the musicians in costume to stand up. Delightful!
An orchestra with some musicians in costume as Waldo, Dorothy Gale, a hot dog, and more. The screen says “The Goonies in concert”.
October 26, 2025 at 1:13 AM
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October, West River Parkway, Minneapolis
West River Parkway, with blue sky, the UMN bridge, changing leaves, and a pedestrian sign.
October 19, 2025 at 8:13 PM
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Pollinators at our community garden: such fluffy giant bees!
September 30, 2025 at 1:04 AM
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Partly cloudy with a chance of rapture.
View from a plane of lakes, roads, trees, blue sky and scattered clouds.
September 23, 2025 at 4:01 PM
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Butterfly and bees.
September 21, 2025 at 4:50 PM
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Yesterday, @joelaha.bsky.social & I walked the High Line. Great re-use of rail infrastructure! www.thehighline.org
Joe and Bridget on the High Line above Manhattan. Native plants growing near hundred-year-old buildings. Flowers in the foreground and tall buildings behind them. LIRR trains at the end of the High Line /Hudson Yards; NYC skyscrapers behind.
September 16, 2025 at 5:24 PM
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Fun time at the Jet Lag All Stars live show with @joelaha.bsky.social. (We all go to NYC for @nebula.tv premieres, right?😹)
Bridget and Joe outside the Tag Eur*It venue. Joe and Bridget at the Jet Lag all stars premiere. Before the episode, Ben and Adam chat with the crowd. Sam, Toby, Brian, Ben, Michelle, Adam on stage during the live taping of the Layover podcast.
September 16, 2025 at 12:08 AM
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Central Park with family (actual humans, not the pictured geese) and then the delightful littlemorenyc.com for refreshment after a day of walking.
Geese and other birds on the shore, while people boat in Central Park under a blue sky with cotton candy wisps of cloud. Water and reflection in Central Park. Artful wall of herbs at Little More. Delicious cocktail and mocktail at Little More, with the menu open to their inventive drinks.
September 14, 2025 at 11:22 PM
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Empire State.
Joe and Bridget atop the Empire State Building, with sunset over Lower Manhattan. Sunset over Lower Manhattan with clouds rolling in. The stone and metal historical wall art in the lobby, being very Art Deco. Empire State Building lit up with active streets around it.
September 14, 2025 at 1:51 AM
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Pollinator joy, as rain looms. 🐝🌸🌦️
September 12, 2025 at 9:57 PM
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On the road again (Wisconsin edition).
A nearly-empty highway with trees alongside. Blue sky behind slightly grey clouds. Blue sky, fluffy white cloud, green roadside.
September 6, 2025 at 6:13 PM
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Today @joelaha.bsky.social and I got our new-formula Covid & flu shots (CVS downtown Minneapolis!), lifted weights with our personal trainer, and got even more veggies out of our garden.

(For mysterious cat reasons, Nimoy is unimpressed with everything we did today!)
Tiny black cat looks incredibly disappointed with four giant zucchini, lots of tomatoes, and plenty of green beans. Pen for scale.
September 6, 2025 at 12:57 AM
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Butterflies enjoying a Minnesota garden at summer's end.
September 1, 2025 at 11:24 PM
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Pumpkins, fish, Ferris wheel, and more crop art at the Minnesota State Fair.
Enormous award-winning pumpkins (with much smaller pumpkins and humans for scale). Joe pointing out his foe, the walleye, on a "Fishes of Minnesota" outdoor poster at the State Fair. Bridget and Joe in front of a Ferris wheel on a sunny State-Fair street. "Crop Quiz, Hot Shot" seed art movie poster, crediting "Beanu Reeves, Sandra Burdock, Dennis Popcorn, and Chaff Daniels".
September 1, 2025 at 11:17 PM
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Went to the Minnesota State Fair with @joelaha.bsky.social. Such butter sculpture. Much crop art. Visited @wiredferret.bsky.social's prize-winning jacket and hat!
Bridget and Joe wear sunglasses and smile for a selfie outside a building with a large sign that says "Horticulture". It has giant novelty-size silverware sculptures around the door, with a fork holding broccoli on the left and a spoon holding a cherry on the right. The "Princess Kay" butter sculptures at the Minnesota State Fair, which are a refrigerated case with ten individual 90lb or 40kg blocks of butter. Some have been sculpted into women's faces; a photo sits on a still-uncarved butter block, showing what that one will look like. A sign on today's partially-carved block says they are on their lunch break. Crop art (created from seeds and plant matter) depicting a stamp with the Minnesota state bird (common loon) and state flower (showy lady slipper). A very cool reflective motorcycle jacket with jaunty cap, credited to Heidi Waterhouse. Both the jacket and cap have won ribbons.
September 1, 2025 at 11:17 PM
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Ripley would like to lend a (giant) paw, if you could use one.
A large gray cat lies on a blue fabric surface. She gazes steadily at you, and offers a paw with very large toe beans. She is here to help.
August 27, 2025 at 9:57 PM