Colin Bowern
@colinbowern.com
Creating happy deployers as SVP Product at @Octopus.com where we solve for Continuous Delivery at any scale.
Sponsor of Product Aotearoa - the NZ product community 🇳🇿
Expat 🇨🇦. Proud partner of RN/NP/MD wife. He/Him.
Sponsor of Product Aotearoa - the NZ product community 🇳🇿
Expat 🇨🇦. Proud partner of RN/NP/MD wife. He/Him.
Ontario could have been the EV Mecca if the provincial government got its act together.
www.bbc.com/future/artic...
www.bbc.com/future/artic...
'They're just so much further ahead': How China won the world's EV battery race
In 2005, China only had two EV battery manufacturers. Twenty years later, it produces more than three-quarters of the world's lithium-ion cells. How did it happen?
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November 15, 2025 at 6:37 AM
Ontario could have been the EV Mecca if the provincial government got its act together.
www.bbc.com/future/artic...
www.bbc.com/future/artic...
Post a gaming picture that gives you video game anxiety.
November 15, 2025 at 4:33 AM
Post a gaming picture that gives you video game anxiety.
November 15, 2025 at 4:30 AM
The scale of destruction in Gaza by the numbers is mind blowing. 1M people homeless, 85% of business destroyed, 80% of farm land plus more taken by Israel.
Regardless of what side you are on, this is a man made disaster.
castro.fm/episode/Jjk3uw
Regardless of what side you are on, this is a man made disaster.
castro.fm/episode/Jjk3uw
The Intelligence from The Economist: Toil and rubble: who will rebuild Gaza? (23m)
After two years of war, over 80% of the buildings in Gaza have been destroyed. Our correspondent assesses various plans for reconstruction. Do large lay-offs in American firms mean AI is coming for wh...
castro.fm
November 14, 2025 at 8:41 PM
The scale of destruction in Gaza by the numbers is mind blowing. 1M people homeless, 85% of business destroyed, 80% of farm land plus more taken by Israel.
Regardless of what side you are on, this is a man made disaster.
castro.fm/episode/Jjk3uw
Regardless of what side you are on, this is a man made disaster.
castro.fm/episode/Jjk3uw
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In the global electrification race China is marching ahead.
The US and Europe risk falling behind clinging on to yesterday's technologies.
The US and Europe risk falling behind clinging on to yesterday's technologies.
November 14, 2025 at 1:51 PM
In the global electrification race China is marching ahead.
The US and Europe risk falling behind clinging on to yesterday's technologies.
The US and Europe risk falling behind clinging on to yesterday's technologies.
I don’t think he knows this isn’t the flex he wants it to be. Investigate them all. The victims have shared enough to suggest this is a wide field of child abusers.
November 14, 2025 at 5:53 PM
I don’t think he knows this isn’t the flex he wants it to be. Investigate them all. The victims have shared enough to suggest this is a wide field of child abusers.
You’ve got 10,000+ photos on a PC with Windows. How do you plow through them?
I’m looking for a PC equivalent of Clever Cleaner.
www.cleverfiles.com/clever-clean...
I’m looking for a PC equivalent of Clever Cleaner.
www.cleverfiles.com/clever-clean...
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November 14, 2025 at 5:47 PM
You’ve got 10,000+ photos on a PC with Windows. How do you plow through them?
I’m looking for a PC equivalent of Clever Cleaner.
www.cleverfiles.com/clever-clean...
I’m looking for a PC equivalent of Clever Cleaner.
www.cleverfiles.com/clever-clean...
When to look up an album on @deezerdevs.bsky.social and it's no longer available. Streaming sucks.
November 14, 2025 at 9:33 AM
When to look up an album on @deezerdevs.bsky.social and it's no longer available. Streaming sucks.
How is the Microsoft Store on Windows still full of junk these days?
November 14, 2025 at 7:55 AM
How is the Microsoft Store on Windows still full of junk these days?
No, I don’t want to do prompt engineering to get your AI support chat bot to do what i need it to do.
November 13, 2025 at 5:44 PM
No, I don’t want to do prompt engineering to get your AI support chat bot to do what i need it to do.
To all the platform engineers at #KubeCon who told me stories of their daily life, this is for you. Especially for the one PE who said they spent 3 days a week clearing the request backlog from the previous week.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ia8Q...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ia8Q...
Positive Affirmations for Site Reliability Engineers
YouTube video by KRAZAM
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November 13, 2025 at 1:47 AM
To all the platform engineers at #KubeCon who told me stories of their daily life, this is for you. Especially for the one PE who said they spent 3 days a week clearing the request backlog from the previous week.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ia8Q...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ia8Q...
Rideshare providers need an option of “Prefer car doesn’t smell like an ash tray.”
November 12, 2025 at 8:50 PM
Rideshare providers need an option of “Prefer car doesn’t smell like an ash tray.”
That’s new. US Customs and Border Patrol agents on the air bridge to the plane.
November 12, 2025 at 6:01 AM
That’s new. US Customs and Border Patrol agents on the air bridge to the plane.
I wish I didn’t need to have a whole bunch of airline apps. Could they all just get together and decide on some standards?
November 12, 2025 at 4:35 AM
I wish I didn’t need to have a whole bunch of airline apps. Could they all just get together and decide on some standards?
China is showing real leadership in climate change by investing in an economic growth lever. Meanwhile, elsewhere...
China’s CO2 emissions have now been flat or falling for 18 months, starting in March 2024.
This trend continued in the third quarter of 2025, when emissions were unchanged year-on-year.
If this trend starts to move into sustained carbon emissions reduction it would be hugely significant.
This trend continued in the third quarter of 2025, when emissions were unchanged year-on-year.
If this trend starts to move into sustained carbon emissions reduction it would be hugely significant.
November 11, 2025 at 9:27 PM
China is showing real leadership in climate change by investing in an economic growth lever. Meanwhile, elsewhere...
Reposted by Colin Bowern
Reposted by Colin Bowern
This Reverend destroys the Christian Nationalism propaganda coming out with his understanding of teachings from The Bible.
November 11, 2025 at 3:47 AM
This Reverend destroys the Christian Nationalism propaganda coming out with his understanding of teachings from The Bible.
Great job, Canada. I know we get Some envy of the US at times, but this shouldn’t be one for an entirely preventable disease.
Maybe more on public health and less on defense. With US insurance premiums about to 3-5x, another strategy is to just be healthier than the competition.
Maybe more on public health and less on defense. With US insurance premiums about to 3-5x, another strategy is to just be healthier than the competition.
November 11, 2025 at 7:40 AM
Great job, Canada. I know we get Some envy of the US at times, but this shouldn’t be one for an entirely preventable disease.
Maybe more on public health and less on defense. With US insurance premiums about to 3-5x, another strategy is to just be healthier than the competition.
Maybe more on public health and less on defense. With US insurance premiums about to 3-5x, another strategy is to just be healthier than the competition.
Are America’s leaders devoid of any morales to allow this to happen?
Or do we interpret this as the do-nothing-after-Sandy-Hook means hurting random people including kids is fair game in the society’s eyes?
Or do we interpret this as the do-nothing-after-Sandy-Hook means hurting random people including kids is fair game in the society’s eyes?
You cannot make this stuff up. #ICE indiscriminately spraying pepper spray into cars while driving by should be immediate felony assault.
In this instance, tack on felony child endangerment + whatever else puts them away forever. They maced a 1-year-old baby FFS.
In this instance, tack on felony child endangerment + whatever else puts them away forever. They maced a 1-year-old baby FFS.
From the ICE_Raids community on Reddit: ICE pours a large canister of pepper spray directly into family car, hitting 1-year-old baby. "They were simply shopping at Sam's Club," said Matt, who filmed t...
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November 11, 2025 at 7:29 AM
Are America’s leaders devoid of any morales to allow this to happen?
Or do we interpret this as the do-nothing-after-Sandy-Hook means hurting random people including kids is fair game in the society’s eyes?
Or do we interpret this as the do-nothing-after-Sandy-Hook means hurting random people including kids is fair game in the society’s eyes?
Are you a platform engineer at #ArgoCon? Stop by ballroom 2-3 to see our latest @octopus.com capabilities for templates and policies that work across Argo CD, Kubernetes, and more!
November 10, 2025 at 5:03 PM
Are you a platform engineer at #ArgoCon? Stop by ballroom 2-3 to see our latest @octopus.com capabilities for templates and policies that work across Argo CD, Kubernetes, and more!
Next up: Epstein pardoned in exchange for healthcare funding.
November 10, 2025 at 6:57 AM
Next up: Epstein pardoned in exchange for healthcare funding.
Welp, CBS Sunday was a favourite memory of mine. It looks like production has jumped the shark. Enlisting barstool sports guy as the authoritative voice on society is not it. There are probably many other better choices if you want to examine the topic critically.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=g43C...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=g43C...
Dave Portnoy says there's been a "definitive shift" toward antisemitism
YouTube video by CBS Sunday Morning
www.youtube.com
November 10, 2025 at 6:46 AM
Welp, CBS Sunday was a favourite memory of mine. It looks like production has jumped the shark. Enlisting barstool sports guy as the authoritative voice on society is not it. There are probably many other better choices if you want to examine the topic critically.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=g43C...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=g43C...
I hope the folks voting in the Us remember that the sacrifice should count for something. If that’s not the case it’s time for new political leaders.
My family has been without half our income for 40 days. It has been.. very hard.
We are willing to feel that pain so people can have health care next year, or to undo these illegal recissions.
We are not willing to have been put through this for NOTHING.
We are willing to feel that pain so people can have health care next year, or to undo these illegal recissions.
We are not willing to have been put through this for NOTHING.
November 10, 2025 at 2:00 AM
I hope the folks voting in the Us remember that the sacrifice should count for something. If that’s not the case it’s time for new political leaders.
November 9, 2025 at 7:51 PM
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This connection isn’t articulated often enough.
November 9, 2025 at 3:22 PM
This connection isn’t articulated often enough.