Chris Arcand
@chrisarcand.com
👨💻 Principal Engineer @ IBM / HashiCorp
🛠️ Cloud infra & distributed systems w/ Golang & Ruby
⌨️ Self Appointed zed.dev fan boy
🏒 Cpt of the Dangling Pointers™, Minnesota’s premier shitty beer league hockey team
St. Paul, MN
https://chrisarcand.com
🛠️ Cloud infra & distributed systems w/ Golang & Ruby
⌨️ Self Appointed zed.dev fan boy
🏒 Cpt of the Dangling Pointers™, Minnesota’s premier shitty beer league hockey team
St. Paul, MN
https://chrisarcand.com
> Frankenstein was like a tech bro: "creating something without considering the consequences," he explains.
👨🏻🍳💋
www.npr.org/2025/10/23/n...
👨🏻🍳💋
www.npr.org/2025/10/23/n...
October 23, 2025 at 9:00 PM
> Frankenstein was like a tech bro: "creating something without considering the consequences," he explains.
👨🏻🍳💋
www.npr.org/2025/10/23/n...
👨🏻🍳💋
www.npr.org/2025/10/23/n...
I used to play a whole lot of guitar.
After finishing Dave Grohls memoir I’ve been eyeing my local music shop and today picked up this pretty thing.
I still had some pedals in my basement, including my loop back - and I found several tracks I recorded still on it from *20 years ago*
Surreal.
After finishing Dave Grohls memoir I’ve been eyeing my local music shop and today picked up this pretty thing.
I still had some pedals in my basement, including my loop back - and I found several tracks I recorded still on it from *20 years ago*
Surreal.
October 21, 2025 at 12:08 AM
I used to play a whole lot of guitar.
After finishing Dave Grohls memoir I’ve been eyeing my local music shop and today picked up this pretty thing.
I still had some pedals in my basement, including my loop back - and I found several tracks I recorded still on it from *20 years ago*
Surreal.
After finishing Dave Grohls memoir I’ve been eyeing my local music shop and today picked up this pretty thing.
I still had some pedals in my basement, including my loop back - and I found several tracks I recorded still on it from *20 years ago*
Surreal.
Me on a recruiting platform, apparently.
Extremely proud of that ❌
Extremely proud of that ❌
July 8, 2025 at 12:53 AM
Me on a recruiting platform, apparently.
Extremely proud of that ❌
Extremely proud of that ❌
I love it when Claude tries to placate me by matching tone.
July 4, 2025 at 2:50 AM
I love it when Claude tries to placate me by matching tone.
My new coworker @aspleenic.bsky.social at Open Source North, nice logo.
May 29, 2025 at 5:56 PM
My new coworker @aspleenic.bsky.social at Open Source North, nice logo.
I’m at @opensourcenorth.bsky.social ! Come say hi!
May 29, 2025 at 4:37 PM
I’m at @opensourcenorth.bsky.social ! Come say hi!
From a Salesforce marketing email.
I think I just threw up in my mouth a little.
I think I just threw up in my mouth a little.
April 3, 2025 at 4:54 PM
From a Salesforce marketing email.
I think I just threw up in my mouth a little.
I think I just threw up in my mouth a little.
What?!?!? Never mind, not buying it.
March 31, 2025 at 9:01 PM
What?!?!? Never mind, not buying it.
Oh boy. Swag official now.
March 20, 2025 at 10:48 PM
Oh boy. Swag official now.
Looks like Anthropic released a preview for Claude 3.7 Sonnet to search the web; excellent. The only thing I missed from OpenAI's offering.
March 20, 2025 at 5:42 PM
Looks like Anthropic released a preview for Claude 3.7 Sonnet to search the web; excellent. The only thing I missed from OpenAI's offering.
Man, @zed.dev is such a delightfully good piece of software. I've tried many different editors in the past to wane me off of nvim but nothing's ever stuck. It feels right at home but with all the modern goodies, my daily driver for several months now.
Some really great engineers building this thing
Some really great engineers building this thing
February 24, 2025 at 1:12 AM
Man, @zed.dev is such a delightfully good piece of software. I've tried many different editors in the past to wane me off of nvim but nothing's ever stuck. It feels right at home but with all the modern goodies, my daily driver for several months now.
Some really great engineers building this thing
Some really great engineers building this thing
What even is this world we live in.
February 20, 2025 at 2:46 PM
What even is this world we live in.
*squints* yeah, yeah it is. Literally that same guy, doing all the expected dumb shit
February 10, 2025 at 8:16 PM
*squints* yeah, yeah it is. Literally that same guy, doing all the expected dumb shit
Another successful year at the US Pond Hockey Championships in Minneapolis for the Dangling Pointers - undefeated in our pool, and many a Coors and pizza slice shared amongst friends and family. 🏒 w/ @jphenow.com
January 27, 2025 at 9:17 PM
Another successful year at the US Pond Hockey Championships in Minneapolis for the Dangling Pointers - undefeated in our pool, and many a Coors and pizza slice shared amongst friends and family. 🏒 w/ @jphenow.com
A great day for making ice on the rink!
January 20, 2025 at 9:38 PM
A great day for making ice on the rink!
Played for 5 hours(!) out in the single digit temps today. 🫨 The Dangling Pointers return to the US Pond Hockey Championships in a few weeks!
January 4, 2025 at 2:08 AM
Played for 5 hours(!) out in the single digit temps today. 🫨 The Dangling Pointers return to the US Pond Hockey Championships in a few weeks!
New and improved Zamboni design this year. Braided tubing, tethering to support turns, and an easier “off ice” lift. Runs on the same fuel though (pictured)
#odr #pondhockeyszn
#odr #pondhockeyszn
January 2, 2025 at 9:42 PM
New and improved Zamboni design this year. Braided tubing, tethering to support turns, and an easier “off ice” lift. Runs on the same fuel though (pictured)
#odr #pondhockeyszn
#odr #pondhockeyszn
I’m fortunate to be taking several weeks of time off right now, and extremely happy to be thinking about homemade ice rink brackets and new Zamboni components instead of cloud services.
The rink is soup right now but it’ll cool off soon! #odr
The rink is soup right now but it’ll cool off soon! #odr
December 16, 2024 at 9:58 PM
I’m fortunate to be taking several weeks of time off right now, and extremely happy to be thinking about homemade ice rink brackets and new Zamboni components instead of cloud services.
The rink is soup right now but it’ll cool off soon! #odr
The rink is soup right now but it’ll cool off soon! #odr
Lovely day for a pond-wide skate with no snow! Gonna need to zam the rink a fair amount with lillies pokin' through, after getting some boards and lights set up. #odr
December 10, 2024 at 10:28 PM
Lovely day for a pond-wide skate with no snow! Gonna need to zam the rink a fair amount with lillies pokin' through, after getting some boards and lights set up. #odr
I’m guessing outdoor rink Bluesky is an _exceedingly_ small community at this point, but…
#odr season begins! Sorta. It’s still water in the insulated shoreline and only 2” thick in open water. Nonetheless, all measured and shoveled down to the black ice to hopefully solidify this weekend.
#odr season begins! Sorta. It’s still water in the insulated shoreline and only 2” thick in open water. Nonetheless, all measured and shoveled down to the black ice to hopefully solidify this weekend.
November 28, 2024 at 10:09 PM
I’m guessing outdoor rink Bluesky is an _exceedingly_ small community at this point, but…
#odr season begins! Sorta. It’s still water in the insulated shoreline and only 2” thick in open water. Nonetheless, all measured and shoveled down to the black ice to hopefully solidify this weekend.
#odr season begins! Sorta. It’s still water in the insulated shoreline and only 2” thick in open water. Nonetheless, all measured and shoveled down to the black ice to hopefully solidify this weekend.
Got to catch lunch in NE Minneapolis today with one of my favorite people during his visit in the Twin Cities this week! @davidcel.is #rubyfriends
November 26, 2024 at 9:03 PM
Got to catch lunch in NE Minneapolis today with one of my favorite people during his visit in the Twin Cities this week! @davidcel.is #rubyfriends
