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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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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
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I feel like we have the opportunity to turn David Lynch's quote into this moment's "Keep Calm and Carry On" and it's a far better rallying cry too.
November 7, 2025 at 1:15 PM
I feel like we have the opportunity to turn David Lynch's quote into this moment's "Keep Calm and Carry On" and it's a far better rallying cry too.
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Have you ordered your copy of "The Casebook of Stamford Hawksmoor" by @bryan-talbot.bsky.social yet? Out tomorrow - here's the downthetubes review: downthetubes.net/in-review-th...
In Review: The Casebook of Stamford Hawksmoor by Bryan Talbot
Gadzooks! Bryan Talbot’s latest graphic novel is, sir, another triumph!
downthetubes.net
November 5, 2025 at 11:27 AM
Have you ordered your copy of "The Casebook of Stamford Hawksmoor" by @bryan-talbot.bsky.social yet? Out tomorrow - here's the downthetubes review: downthetubes.net/in-review-th...
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Bucks, almost uniquely, favours mayonnaise with chips.* And rightly so.
* No, it really won't be salad cream.
* No, it really won't be salad cream.
November 6, 2025 at 6:25 PM
Bucks, almost uniquely, favours mayonnaise with chips.* And rightly so.
* No, it really won't be salad cream.
* No, it really won't be salad cream.
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My favorite comment on the FT story
November 6, 2025 at 7:49 PM
My favorite comment on the FT story
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😮
Norway finds out that its electric busses - produced by a Chinese firm - can be remotely controlled from China!
The good news of this is that the Norwegians realised this because they did a cybersecurity test. We need to think about, and test, stuff like this more.
www.focus.de/panorama/wel...
Norway finds out that its electric busses - produced by a Chinese firm - can be remotely controlled from China!
The good news of this is that the Norwegians realised this because they did a cybersecurity test. We need to think about, and test, stuff like this more.
www.focus.de/panorama/wel...
Norweger stellen fest, dass China 850 ihrer Elektrobusse fernsteuern und sogar stoppen kann
Etwa 850 in Norwegen eingesetzte Elektrobusse können aus China vollständig kontrolliert werden. Das hat ein geheimer Test der öffentlichen Verkehrsbetriebe ergeben.
www.focus.de
November 6, 2025 at 10:43 AM
😮
Norway finds out that its electric busses - produced by a Chinese firm - can be remotely controlled from China!
The good news of this is that the Norwegians realised this because they did a cybersecurity test. We need to think about, and test, stuff like this more.
www.focus.de/panorama/wel...
Norway finds out that its electric busses - produced by a Chinese firm - can be remotely controlled from China!
The good news of this is that the Norwegians realised this because they did a cybersecurity test. We need to think about, and test, stuff like this more.
www.focus.de/panorama/wel...
simulation hypothesis test
When I was a kid I thought the world would literally end if I divided by 0, to the point where I was deathly afraid of writing "undefined" on my math homework
November 6, 2025 at 11:31 AM
simulation hypothesis test
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So what is a #Supermoon? Well, the Moon is typically ~¼ million miles away (30 Earths in a row), but thanks to its elliptical orbit, that distance changes. Tonight the Full Moon is 2-Earths closer than normal (221,823 miles away), making it appear ~15% brighter than usual hence #Supermoon! 🔭🧪
If you've got clear skies, go outside and wave at our neighbour who is looking particularly stunning tonight. And if you have them, root out the binoculars to get a closer look at the grey maria: ~3.5 billion years ago these were seas of molten lava 🤓 #supermoon 🔭🧪
November 5, 2025 at 4:04 PM
So what is a #Supermoon? Well, the Moon is typically ~¼ million miles away (30 Earths in a row), but thanks to its elliptical orbit, that distance changes. Tonight the Full Moon is 2-Earths closer than normal (221,823 miles away), making it appear ~15% brighter than usual hence #Supermoon! 🔭🧪
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“We’re the hard men of Gondor, son, and we haven’t had any dinner.”
October 29, 2025 at 8:13 PM
“We’re the hard men of Gondor, son, and we haven’t had any dinner.”
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We've published a new installment of our "Road to GA" blog series. This time it's about the huge modularization effort the Spring Boot team has done and which is coming in Spring Boot 4: spring.io/blog/2025/10...
#java #spring #springboot
#java #spring #springboot
Modularizing Spring Boot
Level up your Java code and explore what Spring can do for you.
spring.io
October 28, 2025 at 3:47 PM
We've published a new installment of our "Road to GA" blog series. This time it's about the huge modularization effort the Spring Boot team has done and which is coming in Spring Boot 4: spring.io/blog/2025/10...
#java #spring #springboot
#java #spring #springboot
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“Reform is fascist. We must stop Nigel Farage.”
Michael Heseltine is on a mission to stop Reform UK. Superb interview by @alicettimes.bsky.social, with ”share token”.
www.thetimes.com/article/9048...
Michael Heseltine is on a mission to stop Reform UK. Superb interview by @alicettimes.bsky.social, with ”share token”.
www.thetimes.com/article/9048...
Michael Heseltine: Reform is fascist. We must stop Nigel Farage
At 92, Tory grandee Michael Heseltine is making a comeback. He criticises Nigel Farage and Reform, whose policies remind him of Oswald Mosley and Enoch Powell
www.thetimes.com
October 28, 2025 at 8:31 PM
“Reform is fascist. We must stop Nigel Farage.”
Michael Heseltine is on a mission to stop Reform UK. Superb interview by @alicettimes.bsky.social, with ”share token”.
www.thetimes.com/article/9048...
Michael Heseltine is on a mission to stop Reform UK. Superb interview by @alicettimes.bsky.social, with ”share token”.
www.thetimes.com/article/9048...
Klaxon!
The past couple of weeks I've written about Configuration as Data.
This week I'm unveiling ConfigHub:
medium.com/@bgrant0607/...
If you're going to KubeCon and/or FluxCon in Atlanta, come see ConfigHub in action at our sessions. Links in a followup.
#Kubernetes #GitOps #InfrastructureAsCode
This week I'm unveiling ConfigHub:
medium.com/@bgrant0607/...
If you're going to KubeCon and/or FluxCon in Atlanta, come see ConfigHub in action at our sessions. Links in a followup.
#Kubernetes #GitOps #InfrastructureAsCode
Introducing ConfigHub
Why ConfigHub manages configuration as data.
medium.com
October 28, 2025 at 6:00 PM
Klaxon!
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I can’t stand the flag stuff. But I really love this country. For all our sins, and we should talk about all of them, England and Britain have a culture, a compassion and a humour I’m really proud to be part of. This article touches on a lot of it but you could go way further.
Yay. Priceless. The right column at the right time. And a gleefully English two fingers to the haters.
October 25, 2025 at 8:24 PM
I can’t stand the flag stuff. But I really love this country. For all our sins, and we should talk about all of them, England and Britain have a culture, a compassion and a humour I’m really proud to be part of. This article touches on a lot of it but you could go way further.
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BREAKING NEWS: Two men start a podcast. Alex Hudson and I have set up Crashed, where we'll tackle everything there is to know in the world of tech, weekly. This week: OpenAI Atlas and Last of the Summer Wine, and how they're connected. Listen in: t.co/7vAuAP9j4s
https://open.spotify.com/show/1zO7Ll6SY7W3qBrjhMCQXb
t.co
October 24, 2025 at 8:26 AM
BREAKING NEWS: Two men start a podcast. Alex Hudson and I have set up Crashed, where we'll tackle everything there is to know in the world of tech, weekly. This week: OpenAI Atlas and Last of the Summer Wine, and how they're connected. Listen in: t.co/7vAuAP9j4s
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just added the MEGA TERMINAL CHEAT SHEET from "The Secret Rules of the Terminal" to our list of posters at wizardzines.com#posters
October 20, 2025 at 3:22 PM
just added the MEGA TERMINAL CHEAT SHEET from "The Secret Rules of the Terminal" to our list of posters at wizardzines.com#posters
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This remains the funniest way to hear about an internet outage, though.
October 20, 2025 at 8:41 AM
This remains the funniest way to hear about an internet outage, though.
What could possibly cause such a systemic outage
October 20, 2025 at 9:12 AM
What could possibly cause such a systemic outage
Which comes first?
* agi
* reliable cloud
* agi
* reliable cloud
October 20, 2025 at 9:05 AM
Which comes first?
* agi
* reliable cloud
* agi
* reliable cloud
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1. You should never have any single points of failure across your online services
2. Cloud hosting means you are running your critical services on someone else’s computer
3. You can shadow run critical services with realtime incremental data copying for peanuts.
2. Cloud hosting means you are running your critical services on someone else’s computer
3. You can shadow run critical services with realtime incremental data copying for peanuts.
October 20, 2025 at 8:48 AM
1. You should never have any single points of failure across your online services
2. Cloud hosting means you are running your critical services on someone else’s computer
3. You can shadow run critical services with realtime incremental data copying for peanuts.
2. Cloud hosting means you are running your critical services on someone else’s computer
3. You can shadow run critical services with realtime incremental data copying for peanuts.
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Today’s Canadian painting is “Algonquin Sunset” painted by David Lidbetter.
October 18, 2025 at 11:46 AM
Today’s Canadian painting is “Algonquin Sunset” painted by David Lidbetter.