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All sorts of SRE things. Breaker of all things. Source of the #botrosd hashtag. Professional finder of problems.
Author of High Performance MySQL 4th edition
Author of High Performance MySQL 4th edition
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Blogged: The Code has _always_ been the easy part - laughingmeme.org/2026/02/09/c...
Code has always been the easy part
When I joined Etsy the team was two years into a rewrite chasing a more elegant architecture (actually two distinct incompatible elegant architectures), and hadn’t shipped a customer facing feature in...
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February 11, 2026 at 12:31 AM
Blogged: The Code has _always_ been the easy part - laughingmeme.org/2026/02/09/c...
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Goddamnit.
God fucking damnit.
God fucking damnit.
NEW: The FDA just shot down Moderna's new flu shot. From me:
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
FDA declines to review Moderna application for new flu vaccine
Moderna requests meeting to discuss refusal as decision could have implications for all new and updated vaccines
www.theguardian.com
February 11, 2026 at 1:28 AM
Goddamnit.
God fucking damnit.
God fucking damnit.
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They're building concentration camps with my tax money Chuck. They're torturing children. They're murdering innocent people on the street. What are you doing.
Our DHS reform demands are exceedingly reasonable.
We're asking ICE to do nothing more than follow the standards that the vast majority of law enforcement agencies already follow.
Republicans, the ball is in your court. The clock is ticking.
We're asking ICE to do nothing more than follow the standards that the vast majority of law enforcement agencies already follow.
Republicans, the ball is in your court. The clock is ticking.
February 10, 2026 at 3:45 AM
They're building concentration camps with my tax money Chuck. They're torturing children. They're murdering innocent people on the street. What are you doing.
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Can’t believe someone was singing in Spanish in Santa Clara, California, where San Francisco’s football team plays. Going to have to talk to my old high school and college friends from San Rafael, San Anselmo, Tiburon, Corte Madera, Novato, Sausalito, Alameda, El Cerrito, and Santa Rosa about this.
February 9, 2026 at 3:14 AM
Can’t believe someone was singing in Spanish in Santa Clara, California, where San Francisco’s football team plays. Going to have to talk to my old high school and college friends from San Rafael, San Anselmo, Tiburon, Corte Madera, Novato, Sausalito, Alameda, El Cerrito, and Santa Rosa about this.
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like the symbolism was so clear
our ancestors slaved away in cane fields. he opened the show with cane fields and puerto ricans working the fields. even without understanding spanish surely folks can connect the dots.
our ancestors slaved away in cane fields. he opened the show with cane fields and puerto ricans working the fields. even without understanding spanish surely folks can connect the dots.
English speakers like "that was less political than I thought" lol they had ricky martin singing "dont do us like you did hawaii"
February 9, 2026 at 8:20 AM
like the symbolism was so clear
our ancestors slaved away in cane fields. he opened the show with cane fields and puerto ricans working the fields. even without understanding spanish surely folks can connect the dots.
our ancestors slaved away in cane fields. he opened the show with cane fields and puerto ricans working the fields. even without understanding spanish surely folks can connect the dots.
Super Bowl ads giving me work Sunday scaries wasn’t on my bingo card
February 9, 2026 at 2:34 AM
Super Bowl ads giving me work Sunday scaries wasn’t on my bingo card
So velveeta voldermolt did watch the halftime show 😏
February 9, 2026 at 2:17 AM
So velveeta voldermolt did watch the halftime show 😏
Oh that Jurassic park ad is terrible.
February 9, 2026 at 2:13 AM
Oh that Jurassic park ad is terrible.
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Benito is a threat b/c he makes art so alluring and enjoyable you want to understand everything about it and then you end up learning about sugar and slavery and colonialism and the Taínos and Hawaii and then you probably have some thoughts of your own, and that's why art is powerful and dangerous
February 9, 2026 at 1:38 AM
Benito is a threat b/c he makes art so alluring and enjoyable you want to understand everything about it and then you end up learning about sugar and slavery and colonialism and the Taínos and Hawaii and then you probably have some thoughts of your own, and that's why art is powerful and dangerous
Seems like no but that was the symbol. Won’t delete my post for honesty. Sorry folks.
THAT WAS BABYLIAM????😭😭😭
February 9, 2026 at 1:52 AM
Seems like no but that was the symbol. Won’t delete my post for honesty. Sorry folks.
THAT WAS BABYLIAM????😭😭😭
February 9, 2026 at 1:44 AM
THAT WAS BABYLIAM????😭😭😭
Weak sauce Green Day. Weak sauce.
February 8, 2026 at 11:06 PM
Weak sauce Green Day. Weak sauce.
Wrf the night manager????
February 8, 2026 at 1:41 AM
Wrf the night manager????
My oldest said this morning Bad Bunny shoulda be on the muppet show and I think we need to manifest that level of joy.
February 7, 2026 at 10:10 PM
My oldest said this morning Bad Bunny shoulda be on the muppet show and I think we need to manifest that level of joy.
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I'm sorry the guy changing the rules on the fly is named what
I stand with County Executive Calvin Ball as he signs emergency legislation today prohibiting privately owned buildings from being used as ICE detention centers.
Howard County chose dignity, accountability, and its people. Tune into our event now:
bit.ly/4a2VtHw
Howard County chose dignity, accountability, and its people. Tune into our event now:
bit.ly/4a2VtHw
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February 7, 2026 at 2:34 PM
I'm sorry the guy changing the rules on the fly is named what
I WOULD like to show this to every Copt here in the US who voted for trump three times to “show the gays”
Metry and her husband of 4 years go to DHS to get their I-130 in motion. "Good news" a DHS employee told them, the form to start her naturalization was approved.
DHS employee asks the husband to follow him through a secure door. When it locks behind him, ICE detains his wife to deport her.
DHS employee asks the husband to follow him through a secure door. When it locks behind him, ICE detains his wife to deport her.
EXCLUSIVE: Terez Metry was 13 when her family fled to Tennessee from Egypt in 2011. Then, they left her behind. She only recently discovered she had an order of removal from 2011. But she was following the legal path to citizenship. On Monday, at a routine DHS meeting, Metry was detained.
February 7, 2026 at 1:10 PM
I WOULD like to show this to every Copt here in the US who voted for trump three times to “show the gays”
2011 was when Christian families in Egypt were being hounded by Muslim brotherhood thugs for their girls to be kidnapped and given as brides.
Metry and her husband of 4 years go to DHS to get their I-130 in motion. "Good news" a DHS employee told them, the form to start her naturalization was approved.
DHS employee asks the husband to follow him through a secure door. When it locks behind him, ICE detains his wife to deport her.
DHS employee asks the husband to follow him through a secure door. When it locks behind him, ICE detains his wife to deport her.
EXCLUSIVE: Terez Metry was 13 when her family fled to Tennessee from Egypt in 2011. Then, they left her behind. She only recently discovered she had an order of removal from 2011. But she was following the legal path to citizenship. On Monday, at a routine DHS meeting, Metry was detained.
February 7, 2026 at 1:09 PM
2011 was when Christian families in Egypt were being hounded by Muslim brotherhood thugs for their girls to be kidnapped and given as brides.
The for profit mass media are tired of MN but non profits like pro publica are still doing the hard reporting.
www.tiktok.com/t/ZThPkcJtQ/
www.tiktok.com/t/ZThPkcJtQ/
On Saturday, Jan. 24, federal agents shot and killed Alex Pretti. Pretti was the third person shot by federal agents in the Minneapolis area that month. Our photojournalists Cengiz Yar and Peter DiCam...
TikTok video by ProPublica
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February 6, 2026 at 2:05 AM
The for profit mass media are tired of MN but non profits like pro publica are still doing the hard reporting.
www.tiktok.com/t/ZThPkcJtQ/
www.tiktok.com/t/ZThPkcJtQ/
Go watch that new muppets show episode. We could all use the smile.
February 5, 2026 at 3:41 AM
Go watch that new muppets show episode. We could all use the smile.
Reminder that Minnesota is still under seige.
No none of this has tamped down since Alex Pretti even if news outlets have started to look away.
No none of this has tamped down since Alex Pretti even if news outlets have started to look away.
February 3, 2026 at 11:55 PM
Reminder that Minnesota is still under seige.
No none of this has tamped down since Alex Pretti even if news outlets have started to look away.
No none of this has tamped down since Alex Pretti even if news outlets have started to look away.
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5. The administration continues to treat state sovereignty as fungible. As strange as it feels for organizers, a states rights orientation feels like the more progressive position. They are figuring that whiplash out.
February 3, 2026 at 1:58 PM
5. The administration continues to treat state sovereignty as fungible. As strange as it feels for organizers, a states rights orientation feels like the more progressive position. They are figuring that whiplash out.
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It's remarkable how the resistance to ICE is led by queer women and moms.
February 3, 2026 at 5:09 AM
It's remarkable how the resistance to ICE is led by queer women and moms.