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@crystalwilliams.bsky.social
Native Texan in Berkeley. Incident Manager/SRE. Mama. Likes walks, good food, live music, open source, and security.
The fact that the 90s is to our kids what the 50s was to me and my spouse is a continuous assault on the brain.
November 27, 2025 at 2:59 AM
The fact that the 90s is to our kids what the 50s was to me and my spouse is a continuous assault on the brain.
Me: “I have a plan to get up, get ready, make breakfast, do chores, leave house by 7:15” Second Child: “I constructed a Rube Goldberg machine to make it impossible to open my dresser drawers”
November 5, 2025 at 4:30 PM
Me: “I have a plan to get up, get ready, make breakfast, do chores, leave house by 7:15” Second Child: “I constructed a Rube Goldberg machine to make it impossible to open my dresser drawers”
It’s 9:15 and my children are only mildly purple now. Happy K-Pop Demon Huntersween to all the other moms taking down a dragon braid on a sugar high kid right now.
November 1, 2025 at 4:15 AM
It’s 9:15 and my children are only mildly purple now. Happy K-Pop Demon Huntersween to all the other moms taking down a dragon braid on a sugar high kid right now.
Was that marker a washable marker? “Ugh, mom, ALL markers are washable”. Halloween 2025 may be full of lessons.
October 30, 2025 at 11:53 PM
Was that marker a washable marker? “Ugh, mom, ALL markers are washable”. Halloween 2025 may be full of lessons.
The Internet is haunted today and I’m going home.
October 21, 2025 at 2:04 AM
The Internet is haunted today and I’m going home.
The colors of the sky, hills, and plants in the Bay Area in October is positively unreal and every year I lament that I can’t take the whole month off to wander SF and hike in Big Sur.
October 11, 2025 at 7:05 PM
The colors of the sky, hills, and plants in the Bay Area in October is positively unreal and every year I lament that I can’t take the whole month off to wander SF and hike in Big Sur.
Well that was a good jolt
September 22, 2025 at 9:57 AM
Well that was a good jolt
Good lord we made four different kinds of beans from four different cuisines today.
September 8, 2025 at 3:20 AM
Good lord we made four different kinds of beans from four different cuisines today.
If the redistricting mess isn’t the best argument for the popular vote, I don’t know what is.
August 30, 2025 at 1:22 AM
If the redistricting mess isn’t the best argument for the popular vote, I don’t know what is.
In addition to being a GenX fest, the gender ratio at this show is somewhere between tech conference and Rush concert.
August 29, 2025 at 3:17 AM
In addition to being a GenX fest, the gender ratio at this show is somewhere between tech conference and Rush concert.
My poor husband sent me a lovely FT article on James Sanborn on.ft.com/45Eu37h and is now unwittingly roped into watching Elonka Dunin’s Defcon12 talk on it (I was at this one and was fascinated) before breakfast.
m.youtube.com/watch?v=Rj3p...
m.youtube.com/watch?v=Rj3p...
Jim Sanborn has a secret
The sculptor of the CIA’s ‘Kryptos’ has spent decades guarding its last secret code. What happens when he’s gone?
on.ft.com
August 17, 2025 at 3:53 PM
My poor husband sent me a lovely FT article on James Sanborn on.ft.com/45Eu37h and is now unwittingly roped into watching Elonka Dunin’s Defcon12 talk on it (I was at this one and was fascinated) before breakfast.
m.youtube.com/watch?v=Rj3p...
m.youtube.com/watch?v=Rj3p...
A good rule of thumb is to never have too many direct reports that you can’t have a cookie for each performance review you finish.
July 10, 2025 at 10:01 PM
A good rule of thumb is to never have too many direct reports that you can’t have a cookie for each performance review you finish.
Through some process of cultural education, we are currently showing the kids 70s Soul Train.
July 6, 2025 at 3:03 AM
Through some process of cultural education, we are currently showing the kids 70s Soul Train.
Happy Nextdoor “was that gunshots??!?” Season to all who celebrate.
June 26, 2025 at 4:44 AM
Happy Nextdoor “was that gunshots??!?” Season to all who celebrate.
Signs of a completely neuro typical household. It’s the time of Saturday when we compare and merge our lists.
June 21, 2025 at 6:21 PM
Signs of a completely neuro typical household. It’s the time of Saturday when we compare and merge our lists.
Y’all realize we could have gotten rid of artificial dyes and still kept vaccines, right? That was totally an option.
June 17, 2025 at 10:17 PM
Y’all realize we could have gotten rid of artificial dyes and still kept vaccines, right? That was totally an option.
How much of modern IT leadership is advanced acronym disambiguation?
June 17, 2025 at 9:06 PM
How much of modern IT leadership is advanced acronym disambiguation?
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Having a sibling is important because it teaches you to truly, deeply, personally annoy another human being.
June 8, 2025 at 6:06 PM
Having a sibling is important because it teaches you to truly, deeply, personally annoy another human being.
This is amazing for a very specific subset.
May 25, 2025 at 2:41 AM
This is amazing for a very specific subset.
The 10yr old dropped a book on their foot and we gave them unlimited swearing privileges for 15 seconds. Quality parenting.
May 25, 2025 at 2:34 AM
The 10yr old dropped a book on their foot and we gave them unlimited swearing privileges for 15 seconds. Quality parenting.
It’s been a lazy productive Sunday and husband had the momentum to re-org the records. Just found he has one Modern Jazz Quarter album in triplicate. I was with him when he bought the third and was genuinely excited to find it. Gotta admire the consistency.
April 21, 2025 at 4:51 AM
It’s been a lazy productive Sunday and husband had the momentum to re-org the records. Just found he has one Modern Jazz Quarter album in triplicate. I was with him when he bought the third and was genuinely excited to find it. Gotta admire the consistency.
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I see that I'm in for another week of explaining that end-to-end encryption will not fix stupid.
April 21, 2025 at 12:32 AM
I see that I'm in for another week of explaining that end-to-end encryption will not fix stupid.
I was unprepared for the number of raffle tickets I would need to sell for kids activities during the fall of democracy.
April 16, 2025 at 4:45 AM
I was unprepared for the number of raffle tickets I would need to sell for kids activities during the fall of democracy.
For the next few months, I am reveling in being baseball/softball mom. The views from the fields these Berkeley/Albany kids have are insane. Also I hit two line drives off my 10 yr old in practice.
March 30, 2025 at 2:43 AM
For the next few months, I am reveling in being baseball/softball mom. The views from the fields these Berkeley/Albany kids have are insane. Also I hit two line drives off my 10 yr old in practice.