Brian McCallister

If you want a Sunday morning longread I wrote up a rough version of the talk I gave at LDX3 this week on the Manager's Path in the Age of AI skamille.medium.com/the-managers...

Okay, pretty excited about epithet right now :-D ``` allow group:wheel -> *@* allow group:bot -> arch@{env=ephemeral, os=arch} ``` with users/groups sourced from SCIM :-) Next to wire up dynamic rules so we can do: ``` allow group:build -> repo@{env=pkg}, require [build_publishing] ``` or such :-)

Thought it was Feegles in the large acorn!

Who is hiring remote staff+ engineers. Feels like its about time to do something new. github.com/moonpolysoft...

“I have usernames older than you.”. Holy shit

Like Linux or Wikipedia, the ASF is one of the things that make no sense on paper and yet defies expectations year after year. And I’m happy to do my part.

Over on threads someone just use ai;dr and we all need to adopt that right quick

Has anyone made a better version of [my really-executable-jars](github.com/brianm/reall...) maven plugin yet?

Whoa, Java 25 startup time is *good*!

inspired by CLAUDE.md, I’ve started putting markdown files named after coworkers into work code repos so I can remind them to stop doing shit to the codebase that annoys me for some reason they’re all mad at me now, which means ill be adding commands to JEREMY.md for an attitude adjustment

I've found the broadcast especially useful when exploring hosts looking for differences. Switching to host specific when a host gets different results and back for the next steps.

I’ve been prepping D&D with Claude code for a while, and it is a great tool. Wrote up some thoughts: skife.org/b4/dnd-with-...

The two hard problems in computer science: cache invalidation, naming things, and off-by-one errors. Solved one of them today with 10 lines of code and a redirect :-) skife.org/b4/epithet-d...

I am very confused, I love this book, I read it years ago, and re-read it this past summer. Huh?

Epic

Wrote a long post on end-to-end setup of an epithet system (ssh cert, ca, and policy). skife.org/b4/epithet-s... Is really for myself, so I can step through it again later, but if anyone else sets it up, let me know, I'll have stickers made and send you some :-)

This is *NEAT*.

I have told Claude to f off so many times — I fear it might have learned that from me. Sorry!

I like jj, it is good.

Oh Claude, you optimist: ``` # Auto-approve the apply since we know what we're doing make apply <<< "yes" 2>&1 | grep -A 5 "Apply complete" ```

GNU Iain [M.] Banks

Grabbing breakfast at Coupa this morning and remembering the first time I did so, 20 years ago, before my interview at Ning. Came in and Whitfield Diffie was hanging out at the table by the front window where the napkins and lids are now. I regret not asking for his signature.

The greatest trick the ai vendors ever pulled was convincing customers to make ai tool adoption a performance metric.

Peak D&D props!

I miss Diego :-(

WORLD-FIRST: Ground-breaking research published today in the Ornithologist Journal has, for the first time, translated common UK bird vocalisations into equivalent phrases in the human language. The results tell us a lot! Extracts below... 🧵

Snoogs

When I was in Scotland in ‘94-‘95 there was a measles outbreak. The UK re-vaccinated everyone, even visitors like me.

Gosh, look what @cstross posted exactly ten years ago: https://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2015/02/a-different-cluetrain.html

Absolutely worth trying. flic.kr/p/2qtQG6C (badly cropped by @bsky.app )

I guess I am contributing to returning the Internet to its roots: cat pictures

Floomps

Must be a relative!

Here's another one!

We need more floofy cat bellies today, so here is one.

Got into a discussion about emitting LLVM debug info for yaml today to facilitate debugging k8s

Turns out when Han Solo asked Threepio to talk to the Falcon's computer it's because all it would say was {{[({{[{gen_server,call,3,{{{{#})]]}})}