@theaxer.bsky.social
Ex-mathematician turned programmer, now Partner and engineer @ Contiamo, core team member for OpenFaaS, and occasional blogger of tech and beer.
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Always love to see great talent using their platform for unabashed good.
'F*** Off And Let People Be': David Tennant Doubles Down On Support For Trans People
"People are trying to create division... and it's so f***ing unnecessary."
www.huffingtonpost.co.uk
November 29, 2025 at 4:50 AM
Always love to see great talent using their platform for unabashed good.
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every generation loves Rumours. it’s fucking Rumours
November 9, 2025 at 2:55 AM
every generation loves Rumours. it’s fucking Rumours
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Find someone to love you the way the Packers love to play down to an opponent.
November 2, 2025 at 7:00 PM
Find someone to love you the way the Packers love to play down to an opponent.
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1/ A longtime Wired editor just wrote a mush-brained essay about how he totally missed the political rot of Silicon Valley (& still doesn't get it).
But in the late 1990s, a Wired journalist warned of a toxic ideology bubbling up from tech. Paulina Borsook has largely been erased. Let's change that
But in the late 1990s, a Wired journalist warned of a toxic ideology bubbling up from tech. Paulina Borsook has largely been erased. Let's change that
September 24, 2025 at 6:36 PM
1/ A longtime Wired editor just wrote a mush-brained essay about how he totally missed the political rot of Silicon Valley (& still doesn't get it).
But in the late 1990s, a Wired journalist warned of a toxic ideology bubbling up from tech. Paulina Borsook has largely been erased. Let's change that
But in the late 1990s, a Wired journalist warned of a toxic ideology bubbling up from tech. Paulina Borsook has largely been erased. Let's change that
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I think one of the better, more subtle tributes to Robert Redford's life is the string of utterly iconic female co-stars who've come forward to eulogize him; each of them take-no-shit types like Fonda and Streisand, and every one of them without a single bad thing to say. A model for male behavior
September 17, 2025 at 1:55 PM
I think one of the better, more subtle tributes to Robert Redford's life is the string of utterly iconic female co-stars who've come forward to eulogize him; each of them take-no-shit types like Fonda and Streisand, and every one of them without a single bad thing to say. A model for male behavior
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Re-upping this for the afternoon:
Humblebundle to support World Central Kitchen, and get a bunch of my books from @tordotcom.bsky.social including Murderbot and Witch King! #booksky
www.humblebundle.com/books/martha...
www.humblebundle.com/books/martha...
Humble Book Bundle: Martha Wells' Murderbot and More by TOR
Fall in love with Martha Wells’ The Murderbot Diaries series—the engine behind the hit AppleTV adaptation—and help support World Central Kitchen.
www.humblebundle.com
August 24, 2025 at 4:56 PM
Re-upping this for the afternoon:
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I want to reiterate my deeply held belief. One of the biggest mistakes we are making with this tech is anthropomorphizing it and treating it like it is actually "reasoning". It's not doing that. And it cannot be held accountable. It's a machine.
July 20, 2025 at 8:34 PM
I want to reiterate my deeply held belief. One of the biggest mistakes we are making with this tech is anthropomorphizing it and treating it like it is actually "reasoning". It's not doing that. And it cannot be held accountable. It's a machine.
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The uv build backend is now stable, and considered ready for production use.
An alternative to setuptools, hatchling, etc. for pure Python projects, with a focus on good defaults, user-friendly error messages, and performance.
When used with uv, it's 10-35x faster.
An alternative to setuptools, hatchling, etc. for pure Python projects, with a focus on good defaults, user-friendly error messages, and performance.
When used with uv, it's 10-35x faster.
July 3, 2025 at 1:55 AM
The uv build backend is now stable, and considered ready for production use.
An alternative to setuptools, hatchling, etc. for pure Python projects, with a focus on good defaults, user-friendly error messages, and performance.
When used with uv, it's 10-35x faster.
An alternative to setuptools, hatchling, etc. for pure Python projects, with a focus on good defaults, user-friendly error messages, and performance.
When used with uv, it's 10-35x faster.
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I could really use your help looking for Senior++ Technical Writer roles or intermediate++ Developer Relations roles. I'm looking to stay in Germany.
I'm also considering building up a freelance pipeline but realistically full time work makes my visa situation way easier.
Please RT for reach 🙇♀️
I'm also considering building up a freelance pipeline but realistically full time work makes my visa situation way easier.
Please RT for reach 🙇♀️
June 30, 2025 at 6:56 PM
I could really use your help looking for Senior++ Technical Writer roles or intermediate++ Developer Relations roles. I'm looking to stay in Germany.
I'm also considering building up a freelance pipeline but realistically full time work makes my visa situation way easier.
Please RT for reach 🙇♀️
I'm also considering building up a freelance pipeline but realistically full time work makes my visa situation way easier.
Please RT for reach 🙇♀️
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BOOK IT! is Back!
Pizza Hut is launching a new BOOK IT! app this summer to help parents keep their children engaged in reading all summer long.
Young Readers can earn one Free Personal Pizza per month by hitting reading goals this summer!
Pizza Hut is launching a new BOOK IT! app this summer to help parents keep their children engaged in reading all summer long.
Young Readers can earn one Free Personal Pizza per month by hitting reading goals this summer!
May 29, 2025 at 11:22 PM
BOOK IT! is Back!
Pizza Hut is launching a new BOOK IT! app this summer to help parents keep their children engaged in reading all summer long.
Young Readers can earn one Free Personal Pizza per month by hitting reading goals this summer!
Pizza Hut is launching a new BOOK IT! app this summer to help parents keep their children engaged in reading all summer long.
Young Readers can earn one Free Personal Pizza per month by hitting reading goals this summer!
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Hey what happened after December 1999?
BESPOKE: “.. If A.I. is on par with (or bigger than) the Internet Boom, and ChatGPT is similar to Netscape, here’s where we are on the Nasdaq.”
May 2, 2025 at 12:11 AM
Hey what happened after December 1999?
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So much of this could have been avoided if we had only retained the norm that leaders who lied to the public had to face consequences
April 8, 2025 at 1:00 PM
So much of this could have been avoided if we had only retained the norm that leaders who lied to the public had to face consequences
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every time Elon suffers my health replenishes like Link in a fairy fountain
April 2, 2025 at 2:42 AM
every time Elon suffers my health replenishes like Link in a fairy fountain
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May I propose Betteridge’s Second Law of Headlines?
“Any headline containing an asinine ‘order’ from the Trump administration can be answered with ‘Get fucked you orange shitweasel.’ ”
“Any headline containing an asinine ‘order’ from the Trump administration can be answered with ‘Get fucked you orange shitweasel.’ ”
Ha ha ha get fucked you orange shitweasel.
March 29, 2025 at 5:52 PM
May I propose Betteridge’s Second Law of Headlines?
“Any headline containing an asinine ‘order’ from the Trump administration can be answered with ‘Get fucked you orange shitweasel.’ ”
“Any headline containing an asinine ‘order’ from the Trump administration can be answered with ‘Get fucked you orange shitweasel.’ ”
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A kid who is good at the kind of math a calculator helps with, is good at *the only kind of math that dyscalculia affects*
As kids, that is pretty much the only kind of math a kid is ever exposed to
In reality, a person can spend the rest of their life doing math and never doing that kind of math
As kids, that is pretty much the only kind of math a kid is ever exposed to
In reality, a person can spend the rest of their life doing math and never doing that kind of math
March 29, 2025 at 9:49 AM
A kid who is good at the kind of math a calculator helps with, is good at *the only kind of math that dyscalculia affects*
As kids, that is pretty much the only kind of math a kid is ever exposed to
In reality, a person can spend the rest of their life doing math and never doing that kind of math
As kids, that is pretty much the only kind of math a kid is ever exposed to
In reality, a person can spend the rest of their life doing math and never doing that kind of math
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Hi, I'm the guy who used to oversee the federal government's agency IT telecommunications contracts. This is extremely bad. There is absolutely no need for this. Not only is it a huge security exposure, but the simplest explanation for this is that it is meant to be a security exposure.
Elon Musk’s Starlink Expands Across White House Complex
Trump administration officials said the company donated the internet service, saying the gift had been vetted by the lawyer overseeing ethics issues in the White House Counsel’s Office.
www.nytimes.com
March 18, 2025 at 2:53 AM
Hi, I'm the guy who used to oversee the federal government's agency IT telecommunications contracts. This is extremely bad. There is absolutely no need for this. Not only is it a huge security exposure, but the simplest explanation for this is that it is meant to be a security exposure.
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Really enjoying this classic Sesame Street segment, two minutes of freestyle jazz riffing on saxophone factory footage
March 13, 2025 at 8:55 PM
Really enjoying this classic Sesame Street segment, two minutes of freestyle jazz riffing on saxophone factory footage
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This comment by Anders Hejlsberg on the choice of languages for TypeScript is worth reading. Spead that type of thinking! (And recognize the massive shift that Microsoft made)
March 12, 2025 at 9:40 AM
This comment by Anders Hejlsberg on the choice of languages for TypeScript is worth reading. Spead that type of thinking! (And recognize the massive shift that Microsoft made)
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Columbia called the cops on students— *like trump wanted*— & this is how Trump responds.
One should never comply with evil, but if even your complicity with evil will not save you— & it will not— then why comply?
Do not comply; not in advance, not at all. Fight for the right thing, no matter what.
One should never comply with evil, but if even your complicity with evil will not save you— & it will not— then why comply?
Do not comply; not in advance, not at all. Fight for the right thing, no matter what.
Trump administration cuts $400 million in federal funding to Columbia
<i>This is a developing story. Check back for updates.</i>
www.columbiaspectator.com
March 8, 2025 at 5:13 AM
Columbia called the cops on students— *like trump wanted*— & this is how Trump responds.
One should never comply with evil, but if even your complicity with evil will not save you— & it will not— then why comply?
Do not comply; not in advance, not at all. Fight for the right thing, no matter what.
One should never comply with evil, but if even your complicity with evil will not save you— & it will not— then why comply?
Do not comply; not in advance, not at all. Fight for the right thing, no matter what.
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Katie Leonard (one of our eng managers) recently wrote a 🔥killer🔥 piece on the current obsession with cutting middle management in the name of "efficiency".
"Efficiency is not the same as effectiveness. An org running at 100% capacity is brittle, not agile."
www.linkedin.com/pulse/cuttin...
"Efficiency is not the same as effectiveness. An org running at 100% capacity is brittle, not agile."
www.linkedin.com/pulse/cuttin...
Cutting Middle Management Is Costing Your Capacity for Change
Over the last year, the tech industry has seen a wave of layoffs targeting middle management. Executives at companies like Meta, Shopify, and Amazon have framed this as a push toward efficiency.
www.linkedin.com
March 6, 2025 at 6:23 AM
Katie Leonard (one of our eng managers) recently wrote a 🔥killer🔥 piece on the current obsession with cutting middle management in the name of "efficiency".
"Efficiency is not the same as effectiveness. An org running at 100% capacity is brittle, not agile."
www.linkedin.com/pulse/cuttin...
"Efficiency is not the same as effectiveness. An org running at 100% capacity is brittle, not agile."
www.linkedin.com/pulse/cuttin...
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this would be a way better casting for Odysseus than Matt Damon, who has Massachusetts-specific iPhone face, otherwise known as Dunkin' Donuts face
March 4, 2025 at 7:39 PM
this would be a way better casting for Odysseus than Matt Damon, who has Massachusetts-specific iPhone face, otherwise known as Dunkin' Donuts face
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"Let's figure out why men become Nazis" isn't a particularly rewarding game, in my opinion. Yes, everyone has reasons for what they do, but the answer to "why does a white man embrace a political system in which white men alone hold power" is fairly self-evident.
February 21, 2025 at 4:16 PM
"Let's figure out why men become Nazis" isn't a particularly rewarding game, in my opinion. Yes, everyone has reasons for what they do, but the answer to "why does a white man embrace a political system in which white men alone hold power" is fairly self-evident.
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This is the popular view, but real scholars of cosmic power know that Lemmy died just 2 weeks prior.
February 16, 2025 at 10:10 AM
This is the popular view, but real scholars of cosmic power know that Lemmy died just 2 weeks prior.