Alex Wise

Time traveling back to 2014 to tell everyone AWS IAM isn’t poorly-designed, just early.

My good friend David is looking for a role using OpenStack. I promise you won’t find who loves learning and teaching and has operational chops and thinks OpenStack is a blessing to work on like him. If you know of anyone doing anything OpenStack-flavored please share!

There are no models you can trust without mitigating the lethal trifecta. Also all coding harnesses are literally RCEs, that’s their literal job. You just have to design your systems around it.

I have some small business owner friends using ai to build specialized software for their company flows and I need to kick the tires but this looks like it might be a great fit.

Ok well I’m back on bluesky and posting from my own vlpds instance. If you don’t see any activity from me between the 8th and today it’s because I was kidnapped and replaced by a double.

oh shit they got pulsar too?!

this must be what it feels like to live in gotham and friends are texting you shit like the joker just made money poisonous and the penguin has had an army in the sewer for over 6 years now

A lot of good jokes today, but I think this is my fave.

Wayne from the top rope again "I signed this plaintext with all of your private keys and sent it to the root program teams" is an absolute power move

To me it's like those late 19th century people who would go to a cinema and just watch video of trains going by and be astonished. I'm them now. I'm watching a machine do stuff with my cursor because I instructed it to with a phone. I walk in the woods and it updates me. Astonishing.

Basically everything in my day job hits different after reading Matthew Green’s comments that we might lose public key cryptography soon.

I ran into this delivering my class on how ai agents work. A lot of interested students wanted a short list of commands that would get them an agent that could sort their email, do their banking, manage appts that they didn’t need to modify or tune. I opted not to teach that.

wild to post this while we're living through the sequel.

What I love most about LLMs is how the question "Are you comfortable committing this code?" can mean two very different things to them and you never know moment to moment which text elemental you're gonna get.

This is a great post about how we ran massive bloom filters at scale for Bluesky's AppView, check it out!

Hold on to your shorts! Fifteen dots make up THIS little member in a system first published by a Frenchman named Louis in 1829.

"$organization accepting LLM-generated PR descriptions silently lowers expectations" actually just statistical error. average committer produces 0 decent PR descriptions per year. Systems Georg, who lives in emacs and cares deeply about the sociotechnical whole, is an outlier adn should not have bee

This is the case for why I think we wont get a glut of consumer RAM any time soon.

every millisecond you spend trying to “automate” the remediation of a service that’s exceeded its design criteria is wasted energy that could have been spent improving the system

Any sufficiently bureaucratic government process is indistinguishable from a fraud ring scam funnel.

happy coming out day, i wanted to share a zine i made a while back about being trans. for anyone out there who may need to hear it, i support you and see you for who you are. if you're cis & straight, the best thing you can do is stand up for your queer friends. treat them just like anyone else.

evergreen

Can’t believe people are skipping out on small, often enjoyable tasks like solving captchas.

If you're not a company that can live on the bleeding edge of operational excellence, I have no idea how you will keep up with the pace of change that is working its way through the industry. lwn.net/Articles/109...

It would be negligence for a trillion-dollar company to not think about this, no? This is part of what comms and biz continuity orgs do at large multinationals!

I got a year and a half out of my pdf chunking pipeline, and those are pre-singularity numbers!

In a world of oligarchs, algorithms and AI disinfo, the best defense is the same one as it's always been: people who care coming together. If you're a journalist or passionate about your state and local politics, volunteer as a @graze.social feed watcher here: midterms.graze.social#join

Imagine how mad everyone would be if they did this with Paint.net

Fediforum is cool

Do you want to try @jaz.sh new pds? @poasters.club / poasters.club is running a vlpds instance you can join, DM me for an invite code. It won't cost you money

What if researchers owned their accounts, their data and their networks? We think they should, and we are building it. @atproto.science Tomorrow we will show it at the CIDS assembly at TU Dresden, with Philipp @lorenzspreen.eurosky.social @tudresden.bsky.social 14:15–15:00. Come ask us anything

From Guy Coleman’s opensourceag newsletter. There is an enormous amount of exploration and creation happening under the surface in every field. There is so much software that people want to see created and shared with the world, for the benefit of the world.

Heck yeah way to go @pyxorium.com

Token pricing is like minutes on AOL or cell phone minutes.

one thing I learned from my little PDS project is that AT Proto is actually pretty neat. good job nerds!

I just took "Where We're At", the annual survey of people building on the AT Protocol! ☁️ Take the survey here: where-were.at/2026

ITS BCF EVERYBODY TIME TO DO DAMAGE TO THAT WISHLIST

I've been lately seeing reddit posts where you have people interacting speaking in different languages without even bothering to translate. I guess on the fly translation in browser has just gotten that good? It's kinda neat to imagine the Internet knitted together across languages.

I'm a masochist who has notifications on for k8s-conformance pipelines and it's been interesting over the last few years watching most of the releases being triggered by poor human sods on a friday afternoon to more and more bots that can shepherd stuff through.

OK screw Diplomacy I really do want to see a group of AIs play PARANOIA and navigate contradictory rulesets and policies and play them against the system to their advantage. Is anybody working on this yet?