Duncan Mackenzie

Tuesday in October’s Product Edition: Temporal Proxy. Every new app needs to protect sensitive data. It shouldn’t need a new encryption library. Temporal Proxy centralizes payload encryption with your keys, before data reaches Temporal Cloud. Meet Temporal Proxy: https://pulse.ly/ppqsyksu6w

Brazil, if you pull this off I am buying you a beer. One beer. One single beer. I'm not made of money, Brazil.

if you didn’t want three thousand calories of pasta there were worlds available to you in which you did not order three thousand calories of pasta

Any politician who’s willing to throw away one group’s rights is willing to throw away everyone’s rights. It’s that simple. Every single consultant, pundit and candidate who’s shown a willingness to abandon trans rights needs to be shunned from the party forever

Me at my performance review

Do I know anyone in south west London who can do a very small spot of spot welding? One of the legs fell off our lovely round metal teapot and solder won’t stick to the surface

Bill Clinton: "I think Congress made a mistake not protesting turning the Rose Garden into what looks like the entrance to Liberace's bathroom"

“He’s got the White House looking like Saddam Hussein opened up a Cheesecake Factory” — Obama

“How much time do you think this defense secretary spends looking in the mirror in the morning? These are not serious people” — Obama’s audience in Ohio is hanging on every word as he skewers Trump and Hegseth

Former presidents are just roasting the hell out of the White House redo today and it’s going to drive Trump absolutely insane

The fact that the president's doctors are giving him the dementia test over and over again -- tracking his decline, most likely -- and that the president keeps bragging about having to take that test should be a five-alarm fire.

Speaker submissions are officially open for Replay 2027! Replay, our annual conference, is coming back to San Francisco May 17-19, 2027. We'd love to invite you to share hard-earned wisdom from putting the next generation of software into production. Submit a session: https://pulse.ly/5vphlmjjyu

There sure is a lot of upsetting news on the timeline this morning, so I'm posting this pic of my friend's dog, Sky, when she was a puppy, playing in the creek one morning. #dogs #pets #playful #photography #petphotography #Sky

It was almost 20 years ago that I wrote a op-ed to the local paper that changed the world. I hate that it's necessary to share it again.

President @barackobama.bsky.social showed me something in myself I might never have seen without him. I’m humbled to have his support in this fight. The Affordable Care Act will have laid the groundwork for guaranteed healthcare and I'm honored to pick up his baton and finally pass Medicare for All.

Well, this is fun: Temporal just placed number 1 (!) on the GeekWire 200. 🎉 See the list: https://pulse.ly/9fwu8e1asm

Temporal’s Rust SDK is now GA. Write Workflows and Activities in Rust and run Workers on Tokio. Temporal records Workflow progress so execution can continue after a Worker stops. Quickstart: https://pulse.ly/vq4uhgiapf

My god, #flipper was something hard to define

Waiting for Flipper to play tonight at the Showbox, crazy rock history en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flipper...

Before calling someone a “dirtbag,” the Senator should have had his facts straight. An apology is in order. Glad one of us knew the difference between the Atlanta Hawks and the Iowa Hawkeyes!

Going to MongoDB.local NYC tomorrow? Catch our CTO, Maxim Fateev, after the opening keynote on a panel discussion with OpenRouter and Cognition on what it takes to run AI agents reliably in production.

In a private discussion today this came up: “We need the January 6th Commission hearings, for DOGE.” One could do a lot with NIH and NSF alone. There are clinical trials that ended, patients that died, young people leaving the US… and bad stuff that happened inside the agencies.

we want contributions! what will you do with them? deafening silence... yeah, it's not an unfamiliar pattern

It never really led to significant contributions, but it was the core driver behind the architecture when we built the new system. It's definitely a major change to abandon that approach.

Introducing the prerelease of Amazon Bedrock AgentCore runtime as a compute provider for Temporal Serverless Workers. See how it works and explore the reference architecture: https://pulse.ly/de8m8onk4a

Took a bit of inspiration from npmx and added a chart to developer-signals.dev showing total upvotes over time This one's for the Temporal API. I love how you can see little surges in developer interest, first in December and again this month.

Hitting both #BirdOfTheDay themes #Raptors and #Corvids

Bonus for whoever wrote this chyron

Poppy Jean Crawford at the Casbah in San Diego tonight!

It is Terry Fox Day, the run/walk in his name to raise money for cancer research. I learn it is now in 30 countries. That gallant 18 year old who did his own run in 1980, before his cancer stopped him, started something global. He tops most polls I’ve ever seen here for most-admired Canadian.

It’s a fucking power plug.

Last night in San Diego Regular 6.99

CBO analysis: The Iran war has cost the U.S. $38 billion as of August 1. That’s >$246 million per day, on average. CBO says the war has raised inflation and global energy prices, citing reduced traffic in the Strait of Hormuz, and says it’ll raise interest rates on treasuries.

Build from your first experiment through production with no base monthly fee. All the details: https://temporal.io/blog/paygo-developer-support

We did it again. Temporal just raised a $550M Series E round at a $12.55B valuation. Learn more about how we got here: http://temporal.io/blog/temporal-raises-usd550m-series-e-at-usd12-55b-valuation-ai

30 incarcerated men presented a $4,267 donation to a northwest Kansas school district to pay down the district's unsettled lunch debt The donation was to be "utilized to help local children fuel their day and stay focused and energized this school year"

I have thoughts about the U.S.-Canada trade war. A lot of thoughts. So I wrote them down.a newsletter.platypuseconomics.com/p/a-deal-wit...

@reignfc.com hey folks, who was that amazing anthem singer (guitarist) tonight?

Interesting side of Hitler I was unaware of "Arguably Adolf Hitler’s greatest passion and pastime outside of his quest for world domination was his obsession with architecture and urban design." Here he is with a model of the 330-foot high triumphal arch he wanted. hitler-pics.com/2023/05/06/h...

Pollution levels in London after 10 years of advancing sustainable transport.

My heart goes out to the millions of people struggling to remember how to write "Thanks! Sounds great!" in an email.

my employer has asked me to stop telling PMs "suffice it to say, it is out of my hands and into god's" when asked for project status updates

As someone who has built file and cloud storage for 20 years at Microsoft and elsewhere: Not one new datacenter is needed for decades in order to meet the current needs of people’s iPhone camera pics Check his bank account & tax filings, btw. No one takes bribes like Louisiana politicians

WWC26 – Jobs come and go but rosé is forever, by Veronika Sprinkel www.jancisrobinson.com/articles/wwc...

a reminder that I’m still looking for full-time developer relations roles and I’m open to full-time software engineering roles

This is why I’m pessimistic about lib/left foreign policy in the near term tbh. The first thing on every foreign leader’s mind in 2029 is going to be “how do I know the USA won’t kick me in the balls and run off with my wallet in 4 years?” and we don’t have a good answer.