Kai
@kaiho.bsky.social
balding man yells at clouds by day, loves cats and loud riffs by night. ✶✶✶✶ Chicago by way of lots of the world. Software by way of academia, beer and accidents. And by software I mean devops shizz but plz let's not make skeeting about work a thing.
"git is a time travel machine that allows us to explore parallel universes. Oh and it stores source code" @mdwayne-real.bsky.social
#bsideschicago
#bsideschicago
November 1, 2025 at 6:40 PM
"git is a time travel machine that allows us to explore parallel universes. Oh and it stores source code" @mdwayne-real.bsky.social
#bsideschicago
#bsideschicago
Oh wonderful. Instagram and I presume meta more widely will force personalization of ads in a unilateral move. No more opting out. It's just there from when the new terms and conditions take effect.
October 22, 2025 at 8:05 PM
Oh wonderful. Instagram and I presume meta more widely will force personalization of ads in a unilateral move. No more opting out. It's just there from when the new terms and conditions take effect.
Whoah boy the AWS outage from last night has a long tail. Todoist kicked me off my session on my laptop, and when I tried to log back in, I got a plain "Perhaps you're a developer who didn't get things right?" in the window.
October 20, 2025 at 5:49 PM
Whoah boy the AWS outage from last night has a long tail. Todoist kicked me off my session on my laptop, and when I tried to log back in, I got a plain "Perhaps you're a developer who didn't get things right?" in the window.
I'm not in a pub but the Beer Temple is good regardless.
October 13, 2025 at 8:35 PM
I'm not in a pub but the Beer Temple is good regardless.
Anyway, Bell's 40th Anniversary Expo good.
Go cubs etc etc
Go cubs etc etc
October 9, 2025 at 3:31 AM
Anyway, Bell's 40th Anniversary Expo good.
Go cubs etc etc
Go cubs etc etc
Uh the unnecessary metal umlaut seems to have escaped containment. The fuck is "Pröst"?
October 9, 2025 at 3:30 AM
Uh the unnecessary metal umlaut seems to have escaped containment. The fuck is "Pröst"?
Ugh why am I about to land in this utter dreamscape-looking city, looks garbage, can't imagine anything good happens in here, in this city of broad shoulders on the lake
October 3, 2025 at 11:16 PM
Ugh why am I about to land in this utter dreamscape-looking city, looks garbage, can't imagine anything good happens in here, in this city of broad shoulders on the lake
When the #monktoberfest talk videos get posted, watch this @rstephens.me talk immediately. "The company does not love you back"
October 3, 2025 at 3:41 PM
When the #monktoberfest talk videos get posted, watch this @rstephens.me talk immediately. "The company does not love you back"
Let's do cognition and (artificial) intelligence talks #monktoberfest style: "Developing Your Neurobullshit Detector"
October 3, 2025 at 2:47 PM
Let's do cognition and (artificial) intelligence talks #monktoberfest style: "Developing Your Neurobullshit Detector"
Sorry, impossible rn, impaired
October 3, 2025 at 5:57 AM
Sorry, impossible rn, impaired
Where to start improving your organizational resilience, however defined? Start with the Slack message you dread seeing, and try to fix it so it's less likely to occur
#monktoberfest
#monktoberfest
October 2, 2025 at 8:12 PM
Where to start improving your organizational resilience, however defined? Start with the Slack message you dread seeing, and try to fix it so it's less likely to occur
#monktoberfest
#monktoberfest
Oh shit, John "maddog" Hall doing a talk at #monktoberfest – not something I expected for this afternoon but here we f-ing go on "Sovereignty".
October 2, 2025 at 7:34 PM
Oh shit, John "maddog" Hall doing a talk at #monktoberfest – not something I expected for this afternoon but here we f-ing go on "Sovereignty".
October 2, 2025 at 3:28 PM
If you don't reduce things to numbers, you're "a bad manager". But if you measure engineers by metrics/numbers, you fail because metrics will be played to be met, it's a quirk of engineers #monktoberfest
October 2, 2025 at 3:26 PM
If you don't reduce things to numbers, you're "a bad manager". But if you measure engineers by metrics/numbers, you fail because metrics will be played to be met, it's a quirk of engineers #monktoberfest
This is going to be the kind of presentation that every tech person needs to internalize. @gabyberk.bsky.social is doing the lord's work. Soft skills aren't "soft".
#monktoberfest
#monktoberfest
October 2, 2025 at 2:45 PM
This is going to be the kind of presentation that every tech person needs to internalize. @gabyberk.bsky.social is doing the lord's work. Soft skills aren't "soft".
#monktoberfest
#monktoberfest
You know a restaurant will be legit when there's a Google review like this
September 26, 2025 at 9:20 PM
You know a restaurant will be legit when there's a Google review like this
Is this the world's most prominent Liverpool fan?
September 17, 2025 at 6:45 PM
Is this the world's most prominent Liverpool fan?
*howls in European disbelief*
September 16, 2025 at 9:32 PM
*howls in European disbelief*
Bal-Sagoth made this thing some 30 years earlier
September 5, 2025 at 3:01 PM
Bal-Sagoth made this thing some 30 years earlier
Oh my god this bar rules.
I have been here for all of 3 minutes and I can say that with significant confidence.
Silver Stamp, thank you for existing.
I have been here for all of 3 minutes and I can say that with significant confidence.
Silver Stamp, thank you for existing.
August 9, 2025 at 3:18 AM
Oh my god this bar rules.
I have been here for all of 3 minutes and I can say that with significant confidence.
Silver Stamp, thank you for existing.
I have been here for all of 3 minutes and I can say that with significant confidence.
Silver Stamp, thank you for existing.
Mixing Britain and North America for Ozzy. Drinking a Canadian IPA in a pub styled after an English one. RIP.
July 22, 2025 at 11:06 PM
Mixing Britain and North America for Ozzy. Drinking a Canadian IPA in a pub styled after an English one. RIP.