Stefano Borrelli
@stefanoborrelli.bsky.social
Principal Solutions Architect at upbound.io
St. Louis, USA | London, UK | Monteforte Irpino, Italia
St. Louis, USA | London, UK | Monteforte Irpino, Italia
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GitHub - stevendborrelli/bluesky-tech-starter-packs: A list of tech-related Bluesky starter packs
A list of tech-related Bluesky starter packs. Contribute to stevendborrelli/bluesky-tech-starter-packs development by creating an account on GitHub.
github.com
If you are new to Bluesky and looking for folks to follow, I have a list of over 100 tech-related starter packs in a git repo.
Please open a pull request if you have any updates.
github.com/stevendborre...
Please open a pull request if you have any updates.
github.com/stevendborre...
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Haskell Brain Teasers is currently in beta. If you’re planning to read it I’d love you to get the beta and give feedback now!
pragprog.com/titles/haske...
pragprog.com/titles/haske...
Haskell Brain Teasers
Deepen your Haskell knowledge, sharpen your functional programming skills, and just have fun with 20 functional programming puzzles to tie your brain in knots.
pragprog.com
November 12, 2025 at 3:34 PM
Haskell Brain Teasers is currently in beta. If you’re planning to read it I’d love you to get the beta and give feedback now!
pragprog.com/titles/haske...
pragprog.com/titles/haske...
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Videos from Cloud Native Day Bergen 2025 are now published www.youtube.com/@CloudNative...
Cloud Native Bergen
Cloud Native Bergen host of Cloud Native Day Bergen and other events. Anything Kubernetes related goes!
www.youtube.com
October 31, 2025 at 7:51 AM
Videos from Cloud Native Day Bergen 2025 are now published www.youtube.com/@CloudNative...
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Secrets of Blackfriars Bridge revealed in new restoration project
Blackfriars Bridge: Major Refurbishment To Resume
And we go over the parapets.
londonist.com
October 24, 2025 at 10:36 AM
Secrets of Blackfriars Bridge revealed in new restoration project
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"The protocol taught us that technology can be based on human values like ethics and morality. It showed that voluntary compliance works when all parties benefit."
On robots.txt.
www.heise.de/en/backgroun...
On robots.txt.
www.heise.de/en/backgroun...
Obituary: Farewell to robots.txt (1994-2025)
The voluntary compliance protocol that civilized the internet has departed, bids Henning Fries farewell.
www.heise.de
October 16, 2025 at 8:16 PM
"The protocol taught us that technology can be based on human values like ethics and morality. It showed that voluntary compliance works when all parties benefit."
On robots.txt.
www.heise.de/en/backgroun...
On robots.txt.
www.heise.de/en/backgroun...
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Don't miss the awesome speakers for Cloud Native Day Bergen 2025 go.bsky.app/QWcidxD
September 24, 2025 at 9:12 AM
Don't miss the awesome speakers for Cloud Native Day Bergen 2025 go.bsky.app/QWcidxD
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Scientific study of trisodium citrate in the recipe for cacio e pepe wins an Ig Nobel prize this year. Science is cool, kids.
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Tipsy bats and perfect pasta: Ig Nobels celebrate ‘improbable’ research
The annual awards are a celebration of weird but thought-provoking science.
www.nature.com
September 19, 2025 at 6:56 PM
Scientific study of trisodium citrate in the recipe for cacio e pepe wins an Ig Nobel prize this year. Science is cool, kids.
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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> [Blacksky] guarantees our community a seat at the table, and ensures that we can leave and easily make our own table if we need to. That’s the true promise of decentralized social media.
Me for @newpublic.org
Me for @newpublic.org
🔭🖤🚀 How Blacksky grew to millions of users without spending a dollar
Watching social media evolve into something decentralized, open-source, and scalable
newpublic.substack.com
August 24, 2025 at 2:21 PM
> [Blacksky] guarantees our community a seat at the table, and ensures that we can leave and easily make our own table if we need to. That’s the true promise of decentralized social media.
Me for @newpublic.org
Me for @newpublic.org
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This is awesome: a "WKRP in Cincinnati" fan created a three-hour Johnny Fever radio block, by using clips from the TV show and dropping in the full songs on his intros and outros, plus commercials and Les Nessman news breaks.
WKRP: Johnny Fever
www.awphooey.com
August 14, 2025 at 11:02 PM
This is awesome: a "WKRP in Cincinnati" fan created a three-hour Johnny Fever radio block, by using clips from the TV show and dropping in the full songs on his intros and outros, plus commercials and Les Nessman news breaks.
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See art for free in London - with the help of our ultimate guide
The Best Places To See Art For Free In London
Exhibitions and permanent collection that don't cost a penny to visit.
londonist.com
August 14, 2025 at 4:24 PM
See art for free in London - with the help of our ultimate guide
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Crossplane 2.0 was one of the main things in the cloud native space I was really looking forward to this year 🚀 Game-changer features: applications as first-class citizens, namespaced resources, and native support for composing Kubernetes resources. @crossplane.io blog.crossplane.io/announcing-c...
Announcing Crossplane 2.0
After seven years building Crossplane, we're excited to announce Crossplane 2.0. This release extends beyond infrastructure to support applications as first-class citizens, enabling platform teams to ...
blog.crossplane.io
August 14, 2025 at 4:26 PM
Crossplane 2.0 was one of the main things in the cloud native space I was really looking forward to this year 🚀 Game-changer features: applications as first-class citizens, namespaced resources, and native support for composing Kubernetes resources. @crossplane.io blog.crossplane.io/announcing-c...
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The Crossplane v2 release candidate is available for installation and testing now in your non-production clusters!
github.com/crossplane/c...
We invite you to try this build and report any issues and questions. Let's work together towards a polished and high quality release for early next week!
github.com/crossplane/c...
We invite you to try this build and report any issues and questions. Let's work together towards a polished and high quality release for early next week!
August 5, 2025 at 10:59 PM
The Crossplane v2 release candidate is available for installation and testing now in your non-production clusters!
github.com/crossplane/c...
We invite you to try this build and report any issues and questions. Let's work together towards a polished and high quality release for early next week!
github.com/crossplane/c...
We invite you to try this build and report any issues and questions. Let's work together towards a polished and high quality release for early next week!
New Crossplane function-pythonic looks good: github.com/fortra/funct...
def compose(self):
vpc = self.resources.vpc('ec2.aws.crossplane.io/v1beta1', 'VPC')
vpc.spec.forProvider.region = self.spec.region
vpc.spec.forProvider.cidrBlock = self.spec.cidr
def compose(self):
vpc = self.resources.vpc('ec2.aws.crossplane.io/v1beta1', 'VPC')
vpc.spec.forProvider.region = self.spec.region
vpc.spec.forProvider.cidrBlock = self.spec.cidr
GitHub - fortra/function-pythonic: Python based Crossplane Function providing a clean and elegant syntax for writing Crossplane Compositions.
Python based Crossplane Function providing a clean and elegant syntax for writing Crossplane Compositions. - fortra/function-pythonic
github.com
August 5, 2025 at 8:31 AM
New Crossplane function-pythonic looks good: github.com/fortra/funct...
def compose(self):
vpc = self.resources.vpc('ec2.aws.crossplane.io/v1beta1', 'VPC')
vpc.spec.forProvider.region = self.spec.region
vpc.spec.forProvider.cidrBlock = self.spec.cidr
def compose(self):
vpc = self.resources.vpc('ec2.aws.crossplane.io/v1beta1', 'VPC')
vpc.spec.forProvider.region = self.spec.region
vpc.spec.forProvider.cidrBlock = self.spec.cidr
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Happy weekend! 🦛💙
Here’s a wonderful c. 4,000 year-old ancient Egyptian glossy blue hippo decorated with a little bird perched on the stem of a lotus flower.
Egyptian Museum Cairo 📷 by me
#Archaeology
Here’s a wonderful c. 4,000 year-old ancient Egyptian glossy blue hippo decorated with a little bird perched on the stem of a lotus flower.
Egyptian Museum Cairo 📷 by me
#Archaeology
July 19, 2025 at 11:03 AM
Happy weekend! 🦛💙
Here’s a wonderful c. 4,000 year-old ancient Egyptian glossy blue hippo decorated with a little bird perched on the stem of a lotus flower.
Egyptian Museum Cairo 📷 by me
#Archaeology
Here’s a wonderful c. 4,000 year-old ancient Egyptian glossy blue hippo decorated with a little bird perched on the stem of a lotus flower.
Egyptian Museum Cairo 📷 by me
#Archaeology
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new blogpost about protobuf perf (work related!)
mcyoung.xyz/2025/07/16/h...
mcyoung.xyz/2025/07/16/h...
Parsing Protobuf Like Never Before · mcyoung
mcyoung.xyz
July 16, 2025 at 6:59 PM
new blogpost about protobuf perf (work related!)
mcyoung.xyz/2025/07/16/h...
mcyoung.xyz/2025/07/16/h...
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We announced the new native Go FIPS 140-3 mode today!
FIPS 140, like it or not, is often a requirement, and I was increasingly sad about large deployments replacing the Go crypto packages with non-memory safe cgo bindings.
Go is now one of the easiest and most secure ways to build under FIPS 140.
FIPS 140, like it or not, is often a requirement, and I was increasingly sad about large deployments replacing the Go crypto packages with non-memory safe cgo bindings.
Go is now one of the easiest and most secure ways to build under FIPS 140.
The FIPS 140-3 Go Cryptographic Module
Go now has a built-in, native FIPS 140-3 compliant mode.
go.dev
July 15, 2025 at 9:40 PM
We announced the new native Go FIPS 140-3 mode today!
FIPS 140, like it or not, is often a requirement, and I was increasingly sad about large deployments replacing the Go crypto packages with non-memory safe cgo bindings.
Go is now one of the easiest and most secure ways to build under FIPS 140.
FIPS 140, like it or not, is often a requirement, and I was increasingly sad about large deployments replacing the Go crypto packages with non-memory safe cgo bindings.
Go is now one of the easiest and most secure ways to build under FIPS 140.
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As we test Kubernetes clusters beyond the supported 5,000+ nodes limit at LinkedIn, we're finding out 'List API' calls are a bottleneck in cluster reliability. So I'm publishing a deep dive about why this is a problem and what you can do about them. ahmet.im/blog/kuberne...
July 9, 2025 at 8:38 PM
As we test Kubernetes clusters beyond the supported 5,000+ nodes limit at LinkedIn, we're finding out 'List API' calls are a bottleneck in cluster reliability. So I'm publishing a deep dive about why this is a problem and what you can do about them. ahmet.im/blog/kuberne...
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I am once again pitching my romantic comedy:
- two academics start dating
- discover they are each other's terrible reviewer
- hijinks ensue
Working title: Love is Double-Blind
- two academics start dating
- discover they are each other's terrible reviewer
- hijinks ensue
Working title: Love is Double-Blind
June 18, 2025 at 10:55 AM
I am once again pitching my romantic comedy:
- two academics start dating
- discover they are each other's terrible reviewer
- hijinks ensue
Working title: Love is Double-Blind
- two academics start dating
- discover they are each other's terrible reviewer
- hijinks ensue
Working title: Love is Double-Blind
v2 APIs have been merged into Crossplane's main branch github.com/crossplane/c...!
Read more about v2 here: github.com/crossplane/c...
Read more about v2 here: github.com/crossplane/c...
Merge Crossplane v2 changes into `main` by negz · Pull Request #6489 · crossplane/crossplane
Description of your changes
This merges all commits from https://github.com/crossplane/crossplane/tree/v2 into main. I created the source negz/v2-merge branch by checking out v2 and rebasing it on...
github.com
May 29, 2025 at 4:00 PM
v2 APIs have been merged into Crossplane's main branch github.com/crossplane/c...!
Read more about v2 here: github.com/crossplane/c...
Read more about v2 here: github.com/crossplane/c...
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The Crossplane v1.20.0 release is now available to install into your control planes! 🎉
A huge thank you goes out to our release MVPs Carl Lunde and Tobi - thank you for your efforts! 🙇
Read all about this awesome new release in the release notes below:
github.com/crossplane/c...
A huge thank you goes out to our release MVPs Carl Lunde and Tobi - thank you for your efforts! 🙇
Read all about this awesome new release in the release notes below:
github.com/crossplane/c...
LinkedIn
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lnkd.in
May 21, 2025 at 1:16 PM
The Crossplane v1.20.0 release is now available to install into your control planes! 🎉
A huge thank you goes out to our release MVPs Carl Lunde and Tobi - thank you for your efforts! 🙇
Read all about this awesome new release in the release notes below:
github.com/crossplane/c...
A huge thank you goes out to our release MVPs Carl Lunde and Tobi - thank you for your efforts! 🙇
Read all about this awesome new release in the release notes below:
github.com/crossplane/c...
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Standing room only at the @crossplane.io v2 session #kubecon
April 4, 2025 at 10:23 AM
Standing room only at the @crossplane.io v2 session #kubecon
April 1, 2025 at 9:57 AM
Lots of great talks at Cloud Native Day Oslo today: cloud-native-day-oslo-2025.sessionize.com/schedule
I'm giving a talk at 13:45 about @crossplane.io and Platform Engineering. Please say hi if you see me around, I'm happy to answer any questions.
I'm giving a talk at 13:45 about @crossplane.io and Platform Engineering. Please say hi if you see me around, I'm happy to answer any questions.
March 13, 2025 at 8:21 AM
Lots of great talks at Cloud Native Day Oslo today: cloud-native-day-oslo-2025.sessionize.com/schedule
I'm giving a talk at 13:45 about @crossplane.io and Platform Engineering. Please say hi if you see me around, I'm happy to answer any questions.
I'm giving a talk at 13:45 about @crossplane.io and Platform Engineering. Please say hi if you see me around, I'm happy to answer any questions.
The Crossplane v2 proposal has been out for a couple of weeks github.com/crossplane/c....
We'll discuss the proposal again at today's community meeting at 1pm US/eastern: docs.google.com/document/d/1...
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We'll discuss the proposal again at today's community meeting at 1pm US/eastern: docs.google.com/document/d/1...
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Proposal: Crossplane v2 by negz · Pull Request #6255 · crossplane/crossplane
Description of your changes
This PR adds the first draft of a proposal for Crossplane v2.
The PR proposes a new version of Crossplane that’s simpler and better suited to managing applications, not...
github.com
February 6, 2025 at 5:19 PM
The Crossplane v2 proposal has been out for a couple of weeks github.com/crossplane/c....
We'll discuss the proposal again at today's community meeting at 1pm US/eastern: docs.google.com/document/d/1...
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We'll discuss the proposal again at today's community meeting at 1pm US/eastern: docs.google.com/document/d/1...
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My big project: The Death Generator.
It's a tool for making fake video game screenshots, just fill in new text and it'll give you a (generally) pixel-accurate image back, the correct fonts and everything.
deathgenerator.com
It's a tool for making fake video game screenshots, just fill in new text and it'll give you a (generally) pixel-accurate image back, the correct fonts and everything.
deathgenerator.com
December 8, 2024 at 7:17 AM
My big project: The Death Generator.
It's a tool for making fake video game screenshots, just fill in new text and it'll give you a (generally) pixel-accurate image back, the correct fonts and everything.
deathgenerator.com
It's a tool for making fake video game screenshots, just fill in new text and it'll give you a (generally) pixel-accurate image back, the correct fonts and everything.
deathgenerator.com
In time the sun sets on all empires.
December 1, 2024 at 2:50 PM
In time the sun sets on all empires.