Damon Cortesi
@dacort.velocipig.com
Trapped in a Python container. Building Spark on K8s Infra. Founder and CTO expat.
Seattle // In the woods
https://dacort.xyz
Seattle // In the woods
https://dacort.xyz
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Damon Cortesi
@dacort.velocipig.com
· Apr 24
Well, well, well. Let’s see how this goes! Hi folks, Damon here. Follow me for data, analytics, log analysis, and pro tips on splitting wood and tree felling.
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I wonder when the first "60 minutes" with an AI agent will be?
February 13, 2026 at 11:45 PM
I wonder when the first "60 minutes" with an AI agent will be?
Localstack, MinIO, what's next?
Open source is changing, y'all. Welcome to AI source.
Open source is changing, y'all. Welcome to AI source.
February 13, 2026 at 11:44 PM
Localstack, MinIO, what's next?
Open source is changing, y'all. Welcome to AI source.
Open source is changing, y'all. Welcome to AI source.
Related, installing github.com/qwibitai/nan... this weekend.
February 13, 2026 at 11:30 PM
Related, installing github.com/qwibitai/nan... this weekend.
> I am no longer needed for the actual technical work of my job. I describe what I want built, in plain English, and it just... appears.
`#truth`
shumer.dev/something-bi...
`#truth`
shumer.dev/something-bi...
Something Big Is Happening
A personal note for non-tech friends and family on what AI is starting to change.
shumer.dev
February 13, 2026 at 9:26 PM
> I am no longer needed for the actual technical work of my job. I describe what I want built, in plain English, and it just... appears.
`#truth`
shumer.dev/something-bi...
`#truth`
shumer.dev/something-bi...
Yes, I did just sing “Brandy you’re a fine girl” into a half-eaten cucumber. So what. 🥒 🎤
February 11, 2026 at 2:15 AM
Yes, I did just sing “Brandy you’re a fine girl” into a half-eaten cucumber. So what. 🥒 🎤
Cortesi's Corollary: The ability to understand metrics is inversely proportional to how hard it is to generate them.
AI is not an excuse for you to fail to apply any sort of rigor to the results that it generates. 🧃
February 10, 2026 at 11:40 PM
Cortesi's Corollary: The ability to understand metrics is inversely proportional to how hard it is to generate them.
AI is not an excuse for you to fail to apply any sort of rigor to the results that it generates. 🧃
February 10, 2026 at 11:37 PM
AI is not an excuse for you to fail to apply any sort of rigor to the results that it generates. 🧃
Age verification? I signed up for Twitter in 2006.
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Age verification? I fell asleep about 20 minutes before Neil Armstrong stepped onto the surface of the moon.
Age verification? My first TV was in a giant console cabinet and had a dial to change the channels
February 10, 2026 at 10:00 PM
Age verification? I signed up for Twitter in 2006.
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Age verification? Here’s my ICQ number.
Age verification? I had to tune my TV to channel 3 to play video games.
Age verification? I fell asleep about 20 minutes before Neil Armstrong stepped onto the surface of the moon.
February 10, 2026 at 9:59 PM
Age verification? Here’s my ICQ number.
I’ll miss Heroku, it was so amazing. All my stuff is on Fly now and just crossed the free threshold finally after … years? Think I still have one or two random apps chugging away on Heroku. 🫡
February 7, 2026 at 12:46 AM
I’ll miss Heroku, it was so amazing. All my stuff is on Fly now and just crossed the free threshold finally after … years? Think I still have one or two random apps chugging away on Heroku. 🫡
Want a random feel-good movie with a little sprinkling of #seahawks gear?
Overboard ( not the one with Kurt Russell ).
www.imdb.com/title/tt1563...
Overboard ( not the one with Kurt Russell ).
www.imdb.com/title/tt1563...
Overboard (2018) ⭐ 6.0 | Comedy, Romance
1h 52m | PG-13
www.imdb.com
February 6, 2026 at 11:31 PM
Want a random feel-good movie with a little sprinkling of #seahawks gear?
Overboard ( not the one with Kurt Russell ).
www.imdb.com/title/tt1563...
Overboard ( not the one with Kurt Russell ).
www.imdb.com/title/tt1563...
My Home Assistant has a plugin that ties into the waste collection website so the reminder icons update if it changes. 😂
February 6, 2026 at 2:41 AM
My Home Assistant has a plugin that ties into the waste collection website so the reminder icons update if it changes. 😂
Been a long time since I drained a macbook to <5% battery, but good to know everything still just stops working once you hit that threshold. 🫠
February 5, 2026 at 8:09 AM
Been a long time since I drained a macbook to <5% battery, but good to know everything still just stops working once you hit that threshold. 🫠
Not sure whether to be blown away in delight or terror at Claude's approach to extracting Python methods from multiple files into one.
February 3, 2026 at 4:27 AM
Not sure whether to be blown away in delight or terror at Claude's approach to extracting Python methods from multiple files into one.
If you write code in a remote environment, how're you ever gonna know you're writing good code if your laptop fans don't spin up??
January 27, 2026 at 11:46 PM
If you write code in a remote environment, how're you ever gonna know you're writing good code if your laptop fans don't spin up??
I've missed lines like this:
"He’s [JSN] not the biggest, fastest, strongest, or meanest— but neither are owls. That doesn’t stop them from being the quietest, most resplendent, most perfect killing machines in the sky."
"He’s [JSN] not the biggest, fastest, strongest, or meanest— but neither are owls. That doesn’t stop them from being the quietest, most resplendent, most perfect killing machines in the sky."
"Mike Macdonald spoke this shit into existence, and it doesn’t happen unless everyone in that first meeting room believed him. We are watching brilliance evolve into greatness, and it feels like this is just the beginning."
A lil Cigar Thoughts for y'all:
www.fieldgulls.com/seattle-seah...
A lil Cigar Thoughts for y'all:
www.fieldgulls.com/seattle-seah...
Cigar Thoughts, NFC Championship: The Seahawks are in the Super Bowl!
Cigar Thoughts is back, and it’s for a glorious NFC Championship victory by the Seahawks over the Rams.
www.fieldgulls.com
January 26, 2026 at 7:14 PM
I've missed lines like this:
"He’s [JSN] not the biggest, fastest, strongest, or meanest— but neither are owls. That doesn’t stop them from being the quietest, most resplendent, most perfect killing machines in the sky."
"He’s [JSN] not the biggest, fastest, strongest, or meanest— but neither are owls. That doesn’t stop them from being the quietest, most resplendent, most perfect killing machines in the sky."
Reposted by Damon Cortesi
Little timeline happiness to counter a bit of the US terrible. I hope this Jennifer Buchanan/Seattle Times photo makes it to the Williams's wall. So much joy. 😍 #Seahawks
January 26, 2026 at 5:17 PM
Little timeline happiness to counter a bit of the US terrible. I hope this Jennifer Buchanan/Seattle Times photo makes it to the Williams's wall. So much joy. 😍 #Seahawks
Reposted by Damon Cortesi
"Mike Macdonald spoke this shit into existence, and it doesn’t happen unless everyone in that first meeting room believed him. We are watching brilliance evolve into greatness, and it feels like this is just the beginning."
A lil Cigar Thoughts for y'all:
www.fieldgulls.com/seattle-seah...
A lil Cigar Thoughts for y'all:
www.fieldgulls.com/seattle-seah...
Cigar Thoughts, NFC Championship: The Seahawks are in the Super Bowl!
Cigar Thoughts is back, and it’s for a glorious NFC Championship victory by the Seahawks over the Rams.
www.fieldgulls.com
January 26, 2026 at 5:51 AM
"Mike Macdonald spoke this shit into existence, and it doesn’t happen unless everyone in that first meeting room believed him. We are watching brilliance evolve into greatness, and it feels like this is just the beginning."
A lil Cigar Thoughts for y'all:
www.fieldgulls.com/seattle-seah...
A lil Cigar Thoughts for y'all:
www.fieldgulls.com/seattle-seah...
Similar to what I was trying to do with my "runbox-cloud" thing. github.com/dacort/runbo... just better. 😂
GitHub - dacort/runbox-cloud: Cloud execution platform - run executables on AWS and DigitalOcean instances
Cloud execution platform - run executables on AWS and DigitalOcean instances - dacort/runbox-cloud
github.com
January 23, 2026 at 4:33 PM
Similar to what I was trying to do with my "runbox-cloud" thing. github.com/dacort/runbo... just better. 😂
Seeing more of these ephemeral environments pop up. sprites.dev
Between this and @exe.dev pretty awesome to see.
Between this and @exe.dev pretty awesome to see.
Sprites - Stateful sandboxes
sprites.dev
January 23, 2026 at 4:28 PM
Seeing more of these ephemeral environments pop up. sprites.dev
Between this and @exe.dev pretty awesome to see.
Between this and @exe.dev pretty awesome to see.
I’m happy to see that every task management approach I’ve never been able to figure is now available for me to never figure out in Claude Code as well.
January 23, 2026 at 4:27 AM
I’m happy to see that every task management approach I’ve never been able to figure is now available for me to never figure out in Claude Code as well.
Feels like the Internet keeps breaking today. 🫠
January 22, 2026 at 7:59 PM
Feels like the Internet keeps breaking today. 🫠