thank you, Eugene
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If you’re a NAT Gateway pricing manager who can’t stand working at AWS anymore, the SFO United ground crew is also apparently hiring clowns. Half hour delays due to their jetbridge shenanigans or “gate still occupied” are commonplace.
“He was responsible for Siri” is one of the most devastating personal attacks imaginable.
Genuinely this part of woke pushed +5 to Trump
I don’t think people should start having babies in middle school.
“Do you turn right on red in France?” “I can’t tell you that while you’re driving” of course you can’t you broken piece of shit. (You do not.)
“He was responsible for Siri” is one of the most devastating personal attacks imaginable.
I can report after two months of hell that a bunch of things break subtly when you have an emoji in your Mac’s host name. This lesson is brought to you by my Mac Studio, “us-💩post-1”.
Loving this. Man, your writings have become next level this year.
Can we get “Office The Good Version” in the US, too?
You can. You just may not be allowed back.
I must be podcasting wrong, because I don’t think I’m in any way qualified to be the head of the FBI. #ImposterSyndrome
Try Lenny Platinum. Instead of points, you accumulate knee-breakings. One of those gets you lots of stuff at the store.
Lenny the Loanshark has more attractive rates.
Credit where due, this is an amazing feature that makes a strong case for “technology betters humanity.”
(I say this from Paris, where I cashed in a mountain of points for an anniversary trip with my wife. “What irresponsible thing did you do to get that many points?” “Ran a company on the corporate Amex for six years.”)
The day I first got the “pay over time” option on my statement from Amex, I couldn’t call in to get that removed from my card fast enough. THANK YOU, HELL NO.
Can I chat with you on my “Screaming in the Cloud” podcast about this? It’s my kind of unhinged shitposty performance art.
At this point you’re not really here for the hunting, are you.
"uh, Louise, we really just wanted like... spilled coffee all over himself. Ya know"
If you depended upon a particular Google product for your workflows, you have once again been bamboozled.
Misread as Henry Ford, was very confused about what century it was.
Seriously considering hiring some Etsy witches to help make sense of my AWS bill.
Ed nails it. The markets are reacting like massive defaults / restatements in a year or three are some future idiot’s problem to deal with.
You know it’s a serious AI company because its logo looks like a butthole.
Five year projections for a startup are exercises in wishcasting.
Okay, you had me.
As an EU citizen in the USA, I somehow have much to worry about here.
Cool, so what is Apple doing with the voice data that contravenes EU law?
I have never been!
I am on the fence, and sadly this doesn’t nudge me yet.
Did they just say Google had a tiny peener?
So, “slow, expensive, and shitty?”
Too bad it’ll be used to show ads.
There are too many app icons with the color red. Please eliminate three of them.
Yes, my EA is also attending.
Both of these people suck.
God forbid they partner to let customers watch content from both in the same app.
“I happen to be here with my wife as part of a trip for our 15th wedding anniversary, and believe in letting @mikejulian.com pay for meeting folks out here.” Nothing more formal than that!
It’s in a bit over four hours. See you there.
Amazon now has the same free tier “affirmatively upgrade to get charged” model.
Adventures in linguistic confusion: Us: “It’s our 15th anniversary!” All of France: “HAPPY BIRTHDAY!”
Someone challenged me to list of things that can kill you in/on the ocean. So…I did. List is not comprehensive. Yes there’s a typo in the captions and I am sorry @quinnypig.com that I didnt sing the list
Tomorrow evening at 6pm in Paris: come to The Bowler and let me buy you a drink on @mikejulian.com’s credit card. Special guest: @bethanyq.bsky.social
The police are suing Sting, presumably calling it a “sting operation.”
Same artist.
It is a Barry Flanagan; “Hospitality.”
The alt text really sells it.
The most powerful men in American business unite around a single problem: the president’s dick isn’t going to suck itself.
“We’re Azure customers; how could we tell?”
Extremely. We honeymooned here.
Follow the wine rabbit.
NSA has for years.
The most powerful men in American business unite around a single problem: the president’s dick isn’t going to suck itself.
Remember when record labels bankrupted teenagers for downloading Metallica?
After a train ride that was longer than it had any right to be, hello Bordeaux.
Sure boss. I don’t know what “accountable” means but I’d love to be held.
I can stumble my way through a basic French conversation, and I’m traveling on a German passport. I’m professionally confusing.
The EU citizen passport gates are amazingly fast. From e-gates to “Wie gehts?” in less than a minute.
That was a long flight, but hello Paris.
…they were selling to Iran and North Korea in the first place?
“Ex-IRL” makes it sound like he’s dead.
The certification-industrial complex has been champing at the bit for this.
Artist: Captain Howdy https://b3ta.com/board/11420736 From the 'Internet Art' challenge https://b3ta.com/challenge/internetart/popular/ #InternetArt
“Use AI to make silent movies, which is ironic given that we won’t shut the fuck up about it.”
Truth.
JetBlue chooses vaporware.
I mean… it’s how we provision client access across multiple teams.
That’ll fix it.
It’s the source of truth for some of our provisioning automation.
what the devil
Someone deserves a-raise.
Then perhaps they could bother to define their fucking terms.
I expected to have to go digging on my kid’s math homework, but third grade seems a bit… early.
What the fuck is an “array” in this context?
At this point, as a parent, letting my kids use Roblox just feels outright negligent.
I can upload my own GIFs too, at long last.
I see you somehow haven’t encountered @jcsalterego.bsky.social yet.
I want a Finisher Pack. “Follow these people to see things that make you close BlueSky and say ‘that’s enough internet for today.’ Yes, Jerry is in most of them.”
An interesting fact about the rich is that they do not desire company.
Nvidia, Amazon, Google, and Microsoft all make money by other people chasing AI, so uh… I have some unfortunate truths for the authors regarding self-interest.
Congratulations to Deloitte: it took well over a decade but their website no longer lives at "www2" anymore.
Outlook not so good: www.theregister.com/2025/07/25/m...
I've been very clear that I'm against post-employment noncompetes, but nondisclosure agreements are another story entirely. Crap ethics.
Most definitely not. Look how quickly the big companies took down their DEI pages once the administration was vocally opposed to them. They're always going to be vulnerable to pressure in the countries in which they transact.
I don't know what @scottwiener.bsky.social is even doing if he isn't working all day every day to bring back the 12PM Tuesday alarm test in San Francisco.
It’s a big game of make-believe.
I think Andy Jassy has done a remarkable job with the shit sandwich he was given four years ago.
I love how @apenwarr.ca basically raised a big pile of money to enable me to be a digital trash goblin.
That’s good. I would have spotted it if I didn’t always pronounce it “Chat Gippety.”
They stuffed in a bunch of letters they don’t pronounce.
But seriously, all pricing models suck. I’d bias for the one your customers are least surprised by. You don’t want to innovate here.
I’d get rip-roaring drunk, charge per resource spun up, and work at Hashicorp.
I don’t look five years younger and act 30 years younger because I forget to moisturize, Bob.
Ah, my last day of work for a couple of weeks before I disappear to France. What should we talk about?
I slap all kinds of random insecure stuff up inside my tailnet all William-Nilliam, which while not an ideal security practice, is very realistic for how folks do things nowadays. It’s a transformative technology. tailscale.com/blog/AI-endp...
I like mine quite a bit.