David Aronchick

An unknown device found by a recycling plant near Seattle had me thinking about provenance again - this time in the real world! www.distributedthoughts.org/2026-10-26-t...

Update on negotiations with a 17 y/o

Do all dinosaurs taste like chicken? Discuss

1) wash your hands for 15 seconds 2) stay 6 feet apart 3) stay inside unless you’re a critical worker 4) &tc &tc &tc Feels like March 2020 but for cybersecurity

This is, without question, the fastest/best productivity unlock i've found in the past... three months? Instant on, instant use, instant go to. If you do ANY kind agent -> human comment -> agent loop, highly highly highly recommend. github.com/kitlangton/s...

is there any greater betral than leaving your phone/device/computer plugged in all night, only to discover something in the chain failed and you wake up with no power?

the fact that an intermediate CA in India that sells only into the Indian market, when compromised, can generate TLS certs for literally any website on the internet, that feels like a major trust boundary problem

Well shit. Vibe coding is called off for the week (or more)

Thanks everyone for the very full room! Here's the slides as promised :) exso.cloud/2026-10-data...

Going on in 30!

Just over here realizing some shit

Look it’s @expanso.io at the @nvidiabot.bsky.social and Red Hat hackathon before All Things Digital

yo, i'm gonna try something. i will give you an architecture that cuts your Splunk, Datadog, or SIEM bill by 20% in a month without losing a byte, or I'll give you $100. That simple. Yes I'm serious. DMs open.

Red Flags! (🚩)! And Quantum Computing! But it's not as bad as you think. I think it's a model for all future tech - hybridizing stuff that is known and trusted and works with the new stuff. Until new becomes "old" (a synonym for trusted). Read on! www.distributedthoughts.org/2026-10-22-t...

Ah yes, the yearly ritual of getting a replacement credit card in the mail, updating my 1Password with the new CCV and expiration date, and then throwing it in a drawer never to see it again.

this ACTUALLY is what the internet was made for. (every frame is a link back to the bad apple yt video) www.reddit.com/r/badapple/s...

Australopithecus 3 million years ago:

new word of the day - Disfluencies (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speech_...) man, i fucking love learning (thanks @simonwillison.net )

can we still string up for public flogging the person who invented led headlights that aren't properly aligned? just for fun?

It is ALWAYS time to read Falsehoods Programmers Believe about Time. (infiniteundo.com/post/2532699...) My contribution to the discussion covers a bunch of folks who forgot (or never read) the excellent list: www.distributedthoughts.org/2026-10-08-t...

YO. Come stump me!

When @ironyuppie.com mentioned the new Agentic Resource Discovery for service discovery, my reaction was 'I just kind of worked out how MCP and A2A fit together, why do we need *another* protocol?' and then when I started looking into it, that isn't even all the proposed open agent protocols!

When I get an email for renewal on some of my old domains, I realize I can be kind of ephemeral sometimes that can lead to decisions that I later question. This is not one of those times.

It's @ExpansoIO Pipeline Office Hours #00004! This Thursday, 9 AM PT. - Locally filter a noisy stream - Pull the network plug, lose zero records - Push a config change, and find what broke. Or bring your own and hardest one wins a $100 gift card :) twitch.tv/expansoio

This is an EXCELLENT overview of watermarking and how it's not REALLY possible to avoid. Philosophical question: IFF the AI generated text is undifferentiable from human generated text... does it matter? www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cmi-...

$2.60 - that's what your DNA (or mine anyway) went for in the 23andme fire sale. Perhaps this is a time to say (again) that we should figure out ways to allow corporations to do valuable work WITHOUT having raw, permanently stored data? Some thoughts -> www.distributedthoughts.org/2026-10-05-e...

somehow, the Prince R&R hall of fame performance came across my feed earlier - i would like to be as good at ANYTHING in the world as he is at playing guitar. just face melting. youtu.be/6SFNW5F8K9Y?...

I LOVE the analogy of "the shortest stave in the barrel" for how we're all dealing with component prices for machine learning hardware. Doesn't matter how high the tallest one is if you've got one that is half as high... www.distributedthoughts.org/2026-10-08-t...

JFC. When I want information on something, especially from an agent, if it FUCKING POINTS ME TO THE HELP PAGE just know i am silently screaming.

LOL. I frequently take a particular type of picture.

BITCH DO NOT PLAY WITH ME. www.youtube.com/watch?v=1RoT...

Shocking the amount of apps/websites that are now usable because I can hand them to computer use to get what I need done.

Oh no I have found an absolutely amazing grilled shwarma wrap place 20 min from my house and now that’s all I can think about for every meal

Why do you come here, When you know it makes things hard for me, Why do you know oh why do you come

I just went through the partner program for a site where each page - a single query as near as I could tell - took 10+ seconds to open. My god man this makes you look so bad.

Horseshoe theory - Leftists arguing about safe spaces = rightists in home owners associations

it's insane and hilarious that codex uses perl to talk to sql server

My god this the most American suburb coded thing I’ve ever seen www.tiktok.com/t/ZTyjtxWkK/

Going live right now!

🚨 Pipeline Office Hours #00003: @expanso.io × @typesafeai.bsky.social Jev. Live today at 9 a.m. PT. 🚨 Every log gets fingerprinted; routine records go to the archive; interesting ones go to Jev. Watch me pull the model mid-run. 😈 IT'S JEV-TASTIC. twitch.tv/expansoio

I love my daughter

YO. Pipeline Hours #00003! It's JEV-TASTIC (from @typesafeai.bsky.social ). Tomorrow at 9am PT, a model in the hot path on every line. @expanso.io handles the routine lines, and only what doesn't fit goes to the model: 5 different examples! Come join at exso.cloud/office-hours...

confirmed muse.ai is anti worker (i added a tip)

lol, email based 2fa/proof of humanity is dead dead dead

This is a wild breakdown of how the number one Uber Eats delivery service in the world operates - amazing youtu.be/CXhM3E1WhQc?...

Nature is so fucking rad From www.reddit.com/r/whatisit/s...

I know it's great to hate on AI, but being able to say, "This table needs locking down, or "my Mac is running badly," or "VS Code keeps giving me this error." is incredible. These would have taken me potentially days to understand and debug. AI just does it for me, with full audit log.

I am very proud of my very stupid phrase: "Mullet-based Log Processing: Determinism in the front, AI in the back." I will not be taking questions at this time.