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Amy
@ahailes.bsky.social
I do tech, data, and politics stuff. Donut is my snek sidekick.
Read this as becoming tired of unicorns, which seemed surprising
November 10, 2025 at 4:39 PM
The nice way of saying "pull requests welcome" :P
October 30, 2025 at 6:31 PM
PSA: downdetector is a good indicator of "is there a problem", it is not a good indicator of where or what that problem is
October 29, 2025 at 5:52 PM
We were *extremely* lucky that the docker image we'd already built with the updated version of wrapt hadn't gone out quite yet
October 23, 2025 at 6:38 PM
(found this by searching "datadog" to see if anyone ran into problems) we also got that email and very luckily dodged that bullet. I've replied to them *strongly* suggesting they should mention it on their status page, not doing so feels extremely negligent
October 23, 2025 at 5:26 PM
another fact: termites are eusocial cockroaches
October 16, 2025 at 1:54 PM
and some dolphins!
October 4, 2025 at 10:45 PM
I was so worried about it, thanks for the follow up!
September 29, 2025 at 9:19 PM
Have you read An Immense World by Ed Yong? He gets into a lot of animal sensory experience stuff!
September 29, 2025 at 6:00 PM
New fact! Most non-human mammals have whiskers! (I don't have numbers, but I do wish humans had whiskers)
September 29, 2025 at 2:16 PM
I'm perfectly happy to have spiders vibing on my ceiling or in corners. But the bed is OFF LIMITS
September 29, 2025 at 2:15 PM
I'm 37 and I spent my early 30s reading WW2 history books, can I still be in the club?
September 24, 2025 at 11:50 PM
yesterday I learned that succulents aren't a type of plant taxonomically speaking, it's more a descriptor of any plant with succulent characteristics (I don't have a list of those, ask Wikipedia)
September 24, 2025 at 11:37 PM