Serge Sountsov

Software dev is all the 2nd 80% now

Linux turns 35 today. Here's your cake. Enjoy.

Every anti-ai reply is like “You want sober, nuanced discussion of THE HITLER MACHINE and you’re calling *me* unserious?!”

First episode of Ted Lasso Season 4 was excellent. I am cautiously optimistic that it will be great.

Seattle #photography

I went to the Munch show in Ueno in 2018, and this was one of the advertisements in the station :)

The act of observing the plumbing changes it

The end of an era. What a wild 14 years it was.

This is incredible

This is what future celebrities were supposed to be, not politics streamers

One of the huge perks of working at a software company is, when there's something about the product that bothers you personally, you can get your hands dirty and find out why it's basically impossible to get fixed

Interested in working in .NET Tooling? My team is hiring for a few roles. This is a great to impact the .NET ecosystem, work with devs all across Microsoft and help drive the .NET platform forward. jobs.careers.microsoft.com/global/en/jo... jobs.careers.microsoft.com/global/en/jo...

📣THREAD: It’s surprising to me that so many people were surprised to learn that Signal runs partly on AWS (something we can do because we use encryption to make sure no one but you–not AWS, not Signal, not anyone–can access your comms). It’s also concerning. 1/

The systems that are very reliable scare me the most, because I worry that if something ever goes wrong with them, nobody will have experience with how to fix them.

CUT MY LIST IN TWO PIECES THAT’S HOW YOU START QUICKSORT

I never believed it was butter

Honey, I’ve been ignoring previous instructions for years now

COMPUTER SCIENTISTS: "k" means one thousand and twenty-four STORAGE MANUFACTURERS: "k" means one thousand DISPLAY MANUFACTURERS [thinking hard]: "K" means nine hundred and sixty

Mr. Bond, I have strategically deployed several unlicensed instances of Oracle Database 19c to the infrastructure of every Five Eyes member state. In exactly one hour I shall be notifying Oracle's legal department of these events. I suggest you sit back and relax, Mr. Bond. Enjoy the show.

Husband: Want popcorn? Me: yes! Are you making some? Husband: We don’t have any. I’m just doing customer discovery for now.

Justice-involved hornets, please

Tired: default to paste with formatting Wired: default to paste without formatting Inspired: default to paste without formatting, but preserving hyperlinks

Exactly

Posted this at the old place, but thought folks on @bsky.app might like to know I finally met my "mother".

This article hits very close to home. www.baldurbjarnason.com/2022/theory-...

With BlueSky finally opening up federation, I think it's time to write up something that explains the whole thing, BlueSky, atproto, the works, in one easy to find place. Just the high level bits, hopefully something that any developer can understand: steveklabnik.com/writing/how-...