andrés ignacio torres

in some ways, the Cloud is just another labyrinth. business as usual for a minotaur.

can't stop thinking of "me when i pull the door handle and it shatters". like, same.

going to the kv store, anyone need anything?

so long, pokémon unite

whoa my bluesky notifications are different now

Maturing as a software engineer doesn’t mean writing fewer Horrors, it means knowing when to write A Horror and how to construct the proper containment zone around it

Oh yeah! Today is the beginning of meeting roulette! BC (where I am) has not changed it's time. Europe / UK has now fallen back as of yesterday. So +8 / +7 from BC. And this coming weekend is North American time change. Where BC will be an hour ahead of PT. My brain hurts already.

well that was... quick

second weekend in a row monitoring the situation

the internet is about watching cybersecurity disasters on your phone slowly get closer and closer until you're the one having the cybersecurity disaster

an outdated system in a salmon farm using PHP was found to have been breached, allowing the attackers to perform remote cod execution

We Didn't Start the Fire parody but it's just an entire song of the CVEs that have been dropped in the last two days

In order to protect your customers from these concerns, we recommend you install the freshest version of PHP. And speaking of fresh, this CVE is brought to you by our sponsor,

2025: build! publish! show the world! the future is limitless! 2027: your triple-natted panini press conspired with the fridge to find a route to your emudhra protected bank api

AI coding's asserted productivity improvements don't show up in the toplevel metrics. Our research team has found that this is because all of the productivity gains have gone to patching prod after the daily batch of CVEs

have we considered not using computers

busy day for PDS operators

Ozone release v0.1.106 is out with the same runtime mitigation github.com/bluesky-soci... if you have watchtower enabled, it will auto update midnight UTC otherwise run `docker compose -f /ozone/compose.yaml --profile daemon up -d --pull always ozone ozone-daemo`

The eMudhra intermediate CA compromise broadly impacts the atproto ecosystem. At this point lots of software has been patched, and we recommend upgrading if you run a distribution of the relay, pds, jetstream, or use the goat CLI. For general information see the site linked below, otherwise read on.

I'm resistant to doing security comms until there are clear actionable steps, and we don't have package updates for all this yet. but just to acknowledge it, this WebPKI CA incident is particularly serious for the open social web and atproto ecosystem, because there are so many hosts+clients.

so many CVEs, huh!

moving from a team of 15 engineers to a team of 4 has felt great, things move forward smoothly and there's more awareness of what everyone's working on which i appreciate

time for my favourite hobby: spending hours reorganizing my Kobo library instead of actually reading the books :P

this is my first week using circleci and it’s had so many incidents already, including today’s one which has been active for 10 hours and still ongoing

open.spotify.com/track/2lOeZ1...

BREAKING NEWS The 2026 #NobelPrize in Literature is awarded to the Canadian author Anne Carson, “for her bold and inventive oeuvre that, in playful dialogue with the classical tradition, has created new forms for contemporary literature.”

mandatory training at new jobs are always an interesting experience, here I am watching a 30min learning about chemical hazards on an occupational health and safety course, as part of my onboarding as a… software engineer!?

day one and feeling great!

no work tomorrow, time to play pokopia

emotions! at the scrum meeting

the day is here

New Gatekeeper update! If you are updating to the new ref PDS version 0.4.5036 you will want to get this update as well, if not and you have 2FA turned on via Gatekeeper may not be able to login with password sessions. If you are a larger PDS operator running gatekeeper may check the PR notes

counting every day 'til next thursday. for no reason at all.

can't believe i experienced this song being performed live two days ago open.spotify.com/track/0WSa1s...

⚠️Heads-up! We will perform updates and maintenance on our PDS and related services tomorrow 9/22 from 7am to 8am (Pacific time)⚠️ Users may experience brief downtime periods during this window. We'll be back up and running as soon as possible! Updates will be posted here. Link for status:

Weekly PDS users chart, unstacked edition: @transrights.northsky.social is growing, crossed 1k active users and catching up to @wsocial.eu; @eurosky.social approaching 9k active users

rogers arena i am in you

slow sunday morning is slow

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