Joe Thompson
kensey.bsky.social
Joe Thompson
@kensey.bsky.social
That guy in that place who does that thing.
"...it's impossible to find a photo of a datacenter that looks this shitty without IBM Softlayer logos all over it." -- @quinnypig.com on using an LLM-generated datacenter pic on one of his #kubecon presentation slides
November 11, 2025 at 7:42 PM
Went to the #kubecon session with the Kusari co-founder talking about the balance between open source and actually making money selling to the enterprise.
November 11, 2025 at 6:54 PM
It's 40 degrees here in Atlanta. Georgians are wandering the city in distress, searching for kettles of fresh hot boiled peanuts or barbecue smokers to warm themselves.
November 10, 2025 at 5:47 PM
My annual "so you've decided to attend #KubeCon" thread:
November 9, 2025 at 5:20 PM
"Invented YAML in 2001... apologies..." -- @ingydotnet.bsky.social self-intros at @rejekts.io
November 8, 2025 at 10:39 PM
What's up with those little handheld mics that look like a shaving brush, that I'm suddenly seeing lots of podcasters use?
November 8, 2025 at 2:32 PM
Things are already starting to stack up at Dulles. We're third in line (I think) for this runway, waiting on a park-and-ride pad for airliners.
November 7, 2025 at 8:46 PM
"Now arriving at the B Gates. Please watch your step as you agxit." IYKYK #kubecon #iad
November 7, 2025 at 8:38 PM
LinkedIn really is turning into a cesspool. Just saw a post by somebody asking why one tool is so much more popular than another one in a particular cloud, arguing that the second tool is purpose-built for that cloud so should naturally work better and be more popular there.
November 7, 2025 at 3:31 AM
6,7bytes.
skibidibytes
November 3, 2025 at 12:14 PM
My recollection is that it was a major hard drive maker (WD? Seagate? Memory fails there) who started advertising drive sizes in short megabytes, to make their drives seem slightly larger than the competition. (This was after it became common to advertise unformatted vs. formatted capacity.)
Forever mad about GB vs GiB and the fact that I'm supposed to occasionally say gibibyte with a straight face and expect the audience not to think I'm stuttering
November 3, 2025 at 12:13 PM
Just a quick thread on quality of work with some airy assertions backed up by nothing at all substantive but that I'm pretty sure are correct:
November 1, 2025 at 1:28 PM
Come and listen to a story 'bout a man named Oz,
Great mighty king, barely knew what hardship was,
Then one day he was old with achin' bones,
And down he went into a dark place alone.

Dead, that is.
Entombed.
Mummified.
Well.........
This is a story
All about how
King Oz got stripped
Stone legs
Sand frown

Antique sculpted pedestal
Words did appear
Of said wreck
To look upon works
Oh ye
And despair
October 31, 2025 at 6:29 PM
Gotta say, I was disappointed to see CNCF has chosen to take KubeCon back to SLC in 2026 because the venue in LA is not available. It was *just in* SLC last year, and some of our longest-tenured and most-contributing Kubernetes community members didn't attend because they didn't feel safe doing so.
October 31, 2025 at 3:41 PM
I supposed I should have realized long before now that like my own native Chesapeake Bay, San Francisco Bay is a flooded estuary. (In the former case, the Susquehanna River, and in the latter, the Sacramento, San Joaquin and Napa.)
October 30, 2025 at 11:42 PM
Oh yeah, I forgot about the _House_ episode where Hugh Laurie clearly just wanted to hang out playing piano with Dave Matthews.
October 28, 2025 at 4:38 AM
Who robbed the Louvre? Right answers only.
October 27, 2025 at 3:51 AM
"You may choose one person to tell you the Aristocrats joke."
October 26, 2025 at 1:19 AM
The only character to successfully resist the pull of the Ring in the books is Sam, and it's basically stated that it's in part because unlike the other characters who aspire to grandiose heights of power, Sam "knows his place" (as a good mid-20th-century English laborer should).
"So if I get this ring, I'm in charge?" "Absolutely not, you have to run and hide" "Will using the ring help me hide" "Yes! Except not from the people who will kill you to get the ring, to them it reveals your precise location" honestly it's like the AI version of an artifact. It's magic Claude
October 25, 2025 at 12:48 AM
Reposted by Joe Thompson
Helm 4 Beta 1 is out!

This is your chance to test it, break it, and help shape the path to GA. 🧭

Try it now and share your feedback 👉 github.com/helm/helm/re...

#helm4 #Kubernetes #CloudNative
Release v4.0.0-beta.1 · helm/helm
Helm v4.0.0-beta.1 is a pre-release for the next major version of Helm. This is a pre-release meant for testing. The beta testing phase is meant to test Helm v4. API breaking changes are no longer ...
github.com
October 13, 2025 at 9:45 PM
Unsolicited Glick pic
October 11, 2025 at 2:16 PM
What's that thing about knowing you're on the right side by who counts you as an enemy?
October 5, 2025 at 1:35 AM
lol. lmao.
Are you paying us? Where?
October 4, 2025 at 12:03 PM
Just got my ticket! If you'll be in Atlanta on November 8, don't wait -- get yours!
📣PSA: Registration for #Rejekts2025 Atlanta is now open!🎉

Keep in mind this time Rejekts is a one-day event that will be held on Nov 8. As with previous events, registration is free😊

To register👉🏽 pretix.eu/rejekts/reje...
Cloud Native Rejekts NA 2025
Sat, Nov. 8th, 2025
pretix.eu
October 3, 2025 at 4:37 PM