Avleen Vig
@avleen.com
November 3, 2025 at 7:21 PM
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Just watched the entire Fox interview with Mamdani and holy SHIT he killed it. This level of message discipline, framing the pitch to fit the priors & biases of the target audience, outflanking them on key narratives like mom-and-pop businesses — it is absolutely unbelievable to see this brilliance.
October 16, 2025 at 5:31 AM
Just watched the entire Fox interview with Mamdani and holy SHIT he killed it. This level of message discipline, framing the pitch to fit the priors & biases of the target audience, outflanking them on key narratives like mom-and-pop businesses — it is absolutely unbelievable to see this brilliance.
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This is art.
October 3, 2025 at 11:35 PM
This is art.
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Amazon have removed the guns from their Bond posters, giving the tantalising impression that Sean Connery and Pierce Brosnan think you’re a wanker.
October 3, 2025 at 11:26 AM
Amazon have removed the guns from their Bond posters, giving the tantalising impression that Sean Connery and Pierce Brosnan think you’re a wanker.
Dear @americanair.bsky.social
You've changed your upcoming DFW-LAX from terminal D, to C, to D, to A while my friend is trying to get home.
...you could do a REALLY funny thing right now by changing it back to terminal D.
cc @dbsmasher.com
You've changed your upcoming DFW-LAX from terminal D, to C, to D, to A while my friend is trying to get home.
...you could do a REALLY funny thing right now by changing it back to terminal D.
cc @dbsmasher.com
September 19, 2025 at 7:07 PM
Dear @americanair.bsky.social
You've changed your upcoming DFW-LAX from terminal D, to C, to D, to A while my friend is trying to get home.
...you could do a REALLY funny thing right now by changing it back to terminal D.
cc @dbsmasher.com
You've changed your upcoming DFW-LAX from terminal D, to C, to D, to A while my friend is trying to get home.
...you could do a REALLY funny thing right now by changing it back to terminal D.
cc @dbsmasher.com
Hands up if you're actually trying to build small, discrete, cellularized services because you understand that "globally scalable multi region" backed by an overly complex data management strategy IS ONE OF THE WORST THINGS YOU CAN DO.
Stop building big distributed systems when you can avoid them.
Stop building big distributed systems when you can avoid them.
August 15, 2025 at 1:50 PM
Hands up if you're actually trying to build small, discrete, cellularized services because you understand that "globally scalable multi region" backed by an overly complex data management strategy IS ONE OF THE WORST THINGS YOU CAN DO.
Stop building big distributed systems when you can avoid them.
Stop building big distributed systems when you can avoid them.
"There is also the enduring suspicion that some workers slack off at home."
If you're so incompetent that you don't know how to measure the performance of your employees, just say so.
Their location makes no difference to that.
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne....
If you're so incompetent that you don't know how to measure the performance of your employees, just say so.
Their location makes no difference to that.
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne....
Workers like Jason question ‘broad brush’ return to office mandates as WFH tussle heads to Fair Work showdown
Employers’ edicts are increasingly conflicting with flexible work arrangements which many employees argue can boost productivity and morale
www.theguardian.com
July 28, 2025 at 8:23 AM
"There is also the enduring suspicion that some workers slack off at home."
If you're so incompetent that you don't know how to measure the performance of your employees, just say so.
Their location makes no difference to that.
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne....
If you're so incompetent that you don't know how to measure the performance of your employees, just say so.
Their location makes no difference to that.
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne....
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An (almost) catastrophic OpenZFS bug and the humans that made it (and Rust is here too) despairlabs.com/blog/posts/2...
An (almost) catastrophic OpenZFS bug and the humans that made it (and Rust is here too)
A couple of weeks ago I fixed a nasty bug in this function in OpenZFS:
despairlabs.com
July 11, 2025 at 1:43 AM
An (almost) catastrophic OpenZFS bug and the humans that made it (and Rust is here too) despairlabs.com/blog/posts/2...
People who hate JIRA are like people who hate coffee or brussel sprouts.
After the first time someone prepares it well for you with high quality ingredients/setup you'll never want to do without it.
But getting that correct is arcane knowledge from the farthest places known to only a select few.
After the first time someone prepares it well for you with high quality ingredients/setup you'll never want to do without it.
But getting that correct is arcane knowledge from the farthest places known to only a select few.
July 11, 2025 at 8:06 PM
People who hate JIRA are like people who hate coffee or brussel sprouts.
After the first time someone prepares it well for you with high quality ingredients/setup you'll never want to do without it.
But getting that correct is arcane knowledge from the farthest places known to only a select few.
After the first time someone prepares it well for you with high quality ingredients/setup you'll never want to do without it.
But getting that correct is arcane knowledge from the farthest places known to only a select few.
Me: sweet! Made a list of all the things I have to do this week! That's Monday done, right?
Brain: you still have to do the actual work, dumbass.
Me: 😒 stupid brain.
Brain: ...I heard that.
Brain: you still have to do the actual work, dumbass.
Me: 😒 stupid brain.
Brain: ...I heard that.
July 7, 2025 at 1:25 PM
Me: sweet! Made a list of all the things I have to do this week! That's Monday done, right?
Brain: you still have to do the actual work, dumbass.
Me: 😒 stupid brain.
Brain: ...I heard that.
Brain: you still have to do the actual work, dumbass.
Me: 😒 stupid brain.
Brain: ...I heard that.
Fellow nerds! I love playing D&D but I've struggled to be a good DM. Memorizing exact details has been a struggle for me. I needed an assistant.. so I made one.
It listens on a discord channel, transcribes the chat, and uses Claude as your personal DM assistant:
github.com/avleen/dnd_d...
It listens on a discord channel, transcribes the chat, and uses Claude as your personal DM assistant:
github.com/avleen/dnd_d...
GitHub - avleen/dnd_dm_assistant_go
Contribute to avleen/dnd_dm_assistant_go development by creating an account on GitHub.
github.com
July 6, 2025 at 10:06 PM
Fellow nerds! I love playing D&D but I've struggled to be a good DM. Memorizing exact details has been a struggle for me. I needed an assistant.. so I made one.
It listens on a discord channel, transcribes the chat, and uses Claude as your personal DM assistant:
github.com/avleen/dnd_d...
It listens on a discord channel, transcribes the chat, and uses Claude as your personal DM assistant:
github.com/avleen/dnd_d...
I bet Congressman Gill would eat a New York slice with a fork and knife.
As a Brown man who grew up with a family who all eat like this, I can't tell you how deeply this hurts and genuinely cuts. The racism is unbelievable. I eat like this and am proud to do so but it doesn't stop how painful the shock is that someone views you this way.
June 30, 2025 at 10:44 PM
I bet Congressman Gill would eat a New York slice with a fork and knife.
Last week Xe Iaso wrote a fantastic post on the problem AI is going to create for the next gen of engineers.
History shows us that we have more reasons to be hopeful than we did in the past.
The future can be bright if each of us chooses it to be.
blog.silverwraith.com/2025/06/the-...
History shows us that we have more reasons to be hopeful than we did in the past.
The future can be bright if each of us chooses it to be.
blog.silverwraith.com/2025/06/the-...
The Tools We Choose: Learning from History’s Information Revolutions
A response to concerns about AI tools and the preservation of craft, because writing blog posts about the future of a world with AI is very fashionable today. The recent critique of AI tools and th…
blog.silverwraith.com
June 25, 2025 at 12:54 PM
Last week Xe Iaso wrote a fantastic post on the problem AI is going to create for the next gen of engineers.
History shows us that we have more reasons to be hopeful than we did in the past.
The future can be bright if each of us chooses it to be.
blog.silverwraith.com/2025/06/the-...
History shows us that we have more reasons to be hopeful than we did in the past.
The future can be bright if each of us chooses it to be.
blog.silverwraith.com/2025/06/the-...
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Bill Clinton’s just chilling in his living room, watching ICE kidnappings on tv, when the sex pest election trouble alarm goes off in his kitchen. “Not cuomo,” he says to himself. “Not another member of the brotherhood”
June 22, 2025 at 4:00 PM
Bill Clinton’s just chilling in his living room, watching ICE kidnappings on tv, when the sex pest election trouble alarm goes off in his kitchen. “Not cuomo,” he says to himself. “Not another member of the brotherhood”
June 19, 2025 at 12:53 PM
I asked my friends if it was bedtime yet. @dbsmasher.com kindly informed my that it wasn't even 8pm in my time zone.
So now we have: isitbedtimeyet.foo
You can see what other time zones look like with: isitbedtimeyet.foo/tz/Asia/Seoul
30 minutes with some JS, Claude and Cloudflare workers.
So now we have: isitbedtimeyet.foo
You can see what other time zones look like with: isitbedtimeyet.foo/tz/Asia/Seoul
30 minutes with some JS, Claude and Cloudflare workers.
Is It Bedtime Yet?
isitbedtimeyet.foo
June 16, 2025 at 7:50 PM
I asked my friends if it was bedtime yet. @dbsmasher.com kindly informed my that it wasn't even 8pm in my time zone.
So now we have: isitbedtimeyet.foo
You can see what other time zones look like with: isitbedtimeyet.foo/tz/Asia/Seoul
30 minutes with some JS, Claude and Cloudflare workers.
So now we have: isitbedtimeyet.foo
You can see what other time zones look like with: isitbedtimeyet.foo/tz/Asia/Seoul
30 minutes with some JS, Claude and Cloudflare workers.
A mini incident report has been published for yesterday's Google cloud outage:
status.cloud.google.com/incidents/ow...
Summary:
status.cloud.google.com/incidents/ow...
Summary:
June 13, 2025 at 10:40 AM
A mini incident report has been published for yesterday's Google cloud outage:
status.cloud.google.com/incidents/ow...
Summary:
status.cloud.google.com/incidents/ow...
Summary:
All the hugs to my friends at Google Cloud today.
June 12, 2025 at 7:05 PM
All the hugs to my friends at Google Cloud today.
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Remember kids, women are too emotional to lead.
June 5, 2025 at 11:29 PM
Remember kids, women are too emotional to lead.
In today's Strands you can spell MONORAIL two ways, and neither of them are a correct answer.
June 1, 2025 at 9:45 AM
In today's Strands you can spell MONORAIL two ways, and neither of them are a correct answer.
Me: Empty gmail trash
Gmail: All messages deleted!
Me: Refresh
Gmail: 1400 emails in trash!
Who hurt you, Gmail? And why are you like this?
Gmail: All messages deleted!
Me: Refresh
Gmail: 1400 emails in trash!
Who hurt you, Gmail? And why are you like this?
May 23, 2025 at 5:31 PM
Me: Empty gmail trash
Gmail: All messages deleted!
Me: Refresh
Gmail: 1400 emails in trash!
Who hurt you, Gmail? And why are you like this?
Gmail: All messages deleted!
Me: Refresh
Gmail: 1400 emails in trash!
Who hurt you, Gmail? And why are you like this?
This week while on vacation, @raejinmoon.bsky.social asked for a Spotify playlist with every BTS song, including solos.
I didn't have my laptop with me, just a tablet.
GitHub codespaces + Claude churned out 900 lines of good code, tests and documentation for a Spotify Playlist Generator. 1/n
I didn't have my laptop with me, just a tablet.
GitHub codespaces + Claude churned out 900 lines of good code, tests and documentation for a Spotify Playlist Generator. 1/n
GitHub - avleen/spotify_playlist_generator: A generator for spotify playlists
A generator for spotify playlists. Contribute to avleen/spotify_playlist_generator development by creating an account on GitHub.
github.com
March 22, 2025 at 8:50 PM
This week while on vacation, @raejinmoon.bsky.social asked for a Spotify playlist with every BTS song, including solos.
I didn't have my laptop with me, just a tablet.
GitHub codespaces + Claude churned out 900 lines of good code, tests and documentation for a Spotify Playlist Generator. 1/n
I didn't have my laptop with me, just a tablet.
GitHub codespaces + Claude churned out 900 lines of good code, tests and documentation for a Spotify Playlist Generator. 1/n