David Tippett
@taidesu.bsky.social
Open Source enthusiast and builder of search systems. Currently building search at GitHub. Former DA for open-source OpenSearch @AWS. Opinions are my own.
Don't give in this Halloween, fix the root cause. It will take longer but you'll thank you later.
Lol I am sending this to all those who're pressuring me to "just ship the fix" rather than fixing the root of the issue.
Lol I am sending this to all those who're pressuring me to "just ship the fix" rather than fixing the root of the issue.
October 31, 2025 at 2:58 PM
Don't give in this Halloween, fix the root cause. It will take longer but you'll thank you later.
Lol I am sending this to all those who're pressuring me to "just ship the fix" rather than fixing the root of the issue.
Lol I am sending this to all those who're pressuring me to "just ship the fix" rather than fixing the root of the issue.
I heard recently that LV is using Meilisearch... I hope they can get their money back because this is not it 😆
October 23, 2025 at 8:49 PM
I heard recently that LV is using Meilisearch... I hope they can get their money back because this is not it 😆
Somewhere in OpenAI someone got paged because I managed to slow GPT 5 to like 1.5 tokens/s
October 15, 2025 at 3:32 PM
Somewhere in OpenAI someone got paged because I managed to slow GPT 5 to like 1.5 tokens/s
October 14, 2025 at 3:37 PM
I guess you could say I Dynatrace’d my way over to the RiOT demos.
Always fun seeing what unique ways vendors engage conference viewers.
#dynatrace4developers
Always fun seeing what unique ways vendors engage conference viewers.
#dynatrace4developers
October 14, 2025 at 2:17 PM
I guess you could say I Dynatrace’d my way over to the RiOT demos.
Always fun seeing what unique ways vendors engage conference viewers.
#dynatrace4developers
Always fun seeing what unique ways vendors engage conference viewers.
#dynatrace4developers
Hehehehehe
I’ve been waiting for 3 years to spin up this cluster. I’m going to be experimenting with a new way to approach search engineering. I want it to me mostly available.
The problem is the Amazon Linux 2023 container depends on security features only available on the CM5’s -_-
I’ve been waiting for 3 years to spin up this cluster. I’m going to be experimenting with a new way to approach search engineering. I want it to me mostly available.
The problem is the Amazon Linux 2023 container depends on security features only available on the CM5’s -_-
October 9, 2025 at 2:58 PM
Hehehehehe
I’ve been waiting for 3 years to spin up this cluster. I’m going to be experimenting with a new way to approach search engineering. I want it to me mostly available.
The problem is the Amazon Linux 2023 container depends on security features only available on the CM5’s -_-
I’ve been waiting for 3 years to spin up this cluster. I’m going to be experimenting with a new way to approach search engineering. I want it to me mostly available.
The problem is the Amazon Linux 2023 container depends on security features only available on the CM5’s -_-
I have not been able to remove myself from these emails because I cannot login to create a support ticket. When I respond to the support ticket above, I get the following:
September 11, 2025 at 7:15 PM
I have not been able to remove myself from these emails because I cannot login to create a support ticket. When I respond to the support ticket above, I get the following:
So funny story I used IBM about 10 years ago. I created an account and after I was done with the experiment, I closed it.
I have been receiving emails for the last 10 years about infrastructure changes happening at IBM. I cannot login anymore because my account doesn’t exist.
I have been receiving emails for the last 10 years about infrastructure changes happening at IBM. I cannot login anymore because my account doesn’t exist.
September 11, 2025 at 7:15 PM
So funny story I used IBM about 10 years ago. I created an account and after I was done with the experiment, I closed it.
I have been receiving emails for the last 10 years about infrastructure changes happening at IBM. I cannot login anymore because my account doesn’t exist.
I have been receiving emails for the last 10 years about infrastructure changes happening at IBM. I cannot login anymore because my account doesn’t exist.
This is what I was trying to make though. Good night to all my search engineers in Europe/India. (I know it's still early but I had to catch them when they're online.
September 8, 2025 at 1:46 PM
This is what I was trying to make though. Good night to all my search engineers in Europe/India. (I know it's still early but I had to catch them when they're online.
Ruh rogh, ChatGPT is leaking 💧
September 8, 2025 at 1:42 PM
Ruh rogh, ChatGPT is leaking 💧
I totally forgot you can set backgrounds in iTerm until recently. I cant wait till the next time I have to share my terminal session with execs 😆
September 5, 2025 at 4:32 PM
I totally forgot you can set backgrounds in iTerm until recently. I cant wait till the next time I have to share my terminal session with execs 😆
So I’ve put off developing more for github.com/downtime-ind... until I could get it hosted and things inventoried.
Today I pulled out the Circuit and began naming containers so I can finally use it. 🔥 everything’s getting programming language names.
Today I pulled out the Circuit and began naming containers so I can finally use it. 🔥 everything’s getting programming language names.
August 8, 2025 at 1:54 AM
So I’ve put off developing more for github.com/downtime-ind... until I could get it hosted and things inventoried.
Today I pulled out the Circuit and began naming containers so I can finally use it. 🔥 everything’s getting programming language names.
Today I pulled out the Circuit and began naming containers so I can finally use it. 🔥 everything’s getting programming language names.
This is totally not alarming coming from critical infrastructure… VA just dispatched an amber alert and their site is down so no one can read the details.
June 16, 2025 at 6:57 PM
This is totally not alarming coming from critical infrastructure… VA just dispatched an amber alert and their site is down so no one can read the details.
This is the type of stuff that’s made me leave Twitter. Never used to happen at the scale and frequency it happens now.
June 11, 2025 at 3:43 PM
This is the type of stuff that’s made me leave Twitter. Never used to happen at the scale and frequency it happens now.
2 broken suitcases
6 flight delays
1 overnight stay
2 more flight delays
We are finally on our way home. They literally called, “boarding all passengers except the Tippett’s” over the intercom because our tickets were the last to get rebooked 🫠
So glad to be going home 😭
Not pictured - 2 kids 😝
6 flight delays
1 overnight stay
2 more flight delays
We are finally on our way home. They literally called, “boarding all passengers except the Tippett’s” over the intercom because our tickets were the last to get rebooked 🫠
So glad to be going home 😭
Not pictured - 2 kids 😝
June 4, 2025 at 4:02 PM
2 broken suitcases
6 flight delays
1 overnight stay
2 more flight delays
We are finally on our way home. They literally called, “boarding all passengers except the Tippett’s” over the intercom because our tickets were the last to get rebooked 🫠
So glad to be going home 😭
Not pictured - 2 kids 😝
6 flight delays
1 overnight stay
2 more flight delays
We are finally on our way home. They literally called, “boarding all passengers except the Tippett’s” over the intercom because our tickets were the last to get rebooked 🫠
So glad to be going home 😭
Not pictured - 2 kids 😝
My new favorite 3d print… a one handed tool to let me hold multimeter leads.
May 14, 2025 at 2:36 PM
My new favorite 3d print… a one handed tool to let me hold multimeter leads.
Me resuscitating our canary so my PR wouldn't miss its second attempt at release yesterday.
May 2, 2025 at 11:31 AM
Me resuscitating our canary so my PR wouldn't miss its second attempt at release yesterday.
A yes. The aggressive misspelling of limerick... Very dangerous. AI moderation is probably not going to be great.
April 29, 2025 at 3:03 PM
A yes. The aggressive misspelling of limerick... Very dangerous. AI moderation is probably not going to be great.
I've done something horribly wrong. This was supposed to load a 2gb LM... not 78....
April 29, 2025 at 12:25 PM
I've done something horribly wrong. This was supposed to load a 2gb LM... not 78....
Got all my stickers together for #Haystack2025. Catch you all in the morning
April 22, 2025 at 11:26 PM
Got all my stickers together for #Haystack2025. Catch you all in the morning
ChatGPT made me as an Octocat-esque toy and I'm all in. Someone take my money.
April 18, 2025 at 1:05 PM
ChatGPT made me as an Octocat-esque toy and I'm all in. Someone take my money.
I need a way to do a poll… I’m torn, poser gamer or wannabe villain?
April 9, 2025 at 3:37 PM
I need a way to do a poll… I’m torn, poser gamer or wannabe villain?
We still have a while before we need to worry about AI taking our jobs…
March 26, 2025 at 5:19 PM
We still have a while before we need to worry about AI taking our jobs…
I’ve about had it with Elasticsearch today…
March 21, 2025 at 4:06 PM
I’ve about had it with Elasticsearch today…