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Will Norris
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Engineering at @tailscale.com. Previously open source at Twitter and Google. Dad to two. Husband to one. Friend to all.

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heh, cool. Apparently today is the 25th anniversary of earning my Eagle Scout rank. I still believe in the program for my two boys, even if I'm deeply disappointed in how BSA has handled a lot of things in recent years.
August 15, 2025 at 9:23 PM
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When we throw up our hands and say none of it matters, we're doing the fascists’ work for them. They don't need to hide their corruption if they can convince us it's pointless to look. They don't need to silence truth-tellers if we've already decided truth is meaningless.
It matters. I care.
It matters. I care.0:00/295.5529711× Listen to me read this post here (not an AI-generated voice!), subscribe to the feed in your podcast app, or download the recording for later. “Who cares? It d...
www.citationneeded.news
June 11, 2025 at 8:03 PM
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Brian Wilson has died. The UK and BBC made this tribute a few years ago youtu.be/XqLTe8h0-jo?...
God Only Knows - BBC Music
YouTube video by BBC Music
youtu.be
June 11, 2025 at 10:51 PM
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it's almost seven minutes long, but every American should watch this. as the historian Rick Perlstein said on Twitter:

"Watch Sen. Murphy show how every administration official should be grilled, every time. Like you're creating a record for future criminal trials."
www.youtube.com/watch?v=EwZW...
Murphy To Secretary Of Homeland Security Kristi Noem: Your Department Is Out Of Control
YouTube video by Senator Chris Murphy
www.youtube.com
May 9, 2025 at 3:55 PM
This is absolutely the right take. AGPL and SSPL were written with wildly different (and in many ways, completely contradictory) motivations.
“They set out to craft a license that followed in the AGPL’s footsteps by not applying reciprocal provisions to software hosted in a network fashion, but dramatically expanding the scope of these protections beyond the boundaries of the protected software itself and into adjacent software.”

Nah.
some thoughts on what Redis, the AGPL, the SSPL and CNCF v Synadia all mean for open source
redmonk.com/sogrady/2025...
May 7, 2025 at 12:55 AM
I've been a very happy Fastmail customer for years, but come on... International Email Day? You can't just go make up holidays for a blog post...

Oh, it's actually a thing? Ray Tomlinson's birthday. He would have been 84. Well thanks Ray for all the messages.

nationaltoday.com/national-ema...
April 23, 2025 at 4:58 PM
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If you’re changing the definition of human rights, it means you plan on violating people’s human rights.
April 18, 2025 at 3:36 PM
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A functioning democracy needs consistent principles—and the courage to stand up for them, even when it’s hard and requires sacrifice!

BARACK OBAMA:
“It’s up to all of us to fix this!”

#standup
April 5, 2025 at 8:30 AM
Took my boys to their first protest today. Gotta teach that it's important at a time like this to make your voice heard. #HandsOff
April 5, 2025 at 10:29 PM
Such an amazingly clear explanation of how it seems we got here. Well, just the most recent tariff calculation that is. How we got *waves hands* HERE is a whole other, very sad story.
April 3, 2025 at 7:17 PM
Forgot to share here... Happy 10th Birthday (yesterday) to @caddy.bsky.social. Thanks @mholt.bsky.social for publishing it as open source and leading this project for the last decade!

caddy.community/t/thanks-for...
Thanks for 10 years of Caddy! 🥳
Ten years ago today, on 2015-01-13, @matt published an early prototype of a little web server he’d been thinking about and working on: Early prototype; initial commit · caddyserver/caddy@4497a16 · Git...
caddy.community
January 14, 2025 at 4:20 PM
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I've been a Linux nerd for over 20 years.

Still, TIL

🤯
September 22, 2024 at 10:16 AM
Hey Lego, I will serious pay extra if you would pack the box with extra material so my kids can't shake the package and ruin their Christmas surprise. Legos make such a distinct sound!
December 14, 2024 at 6:18 PM
My brother is part of a non-profit that has a 3yr presidential rotation.

Year 1 you observe as the "next president", Year 2 your serve as president and make the decisions, Year 3 you advise as the "last president".

Does this model have a name?
May 26, 2023 at 10:32 PM
The true Bluesky OG
May 12, 2023 at 1:52 AM
hello, again.
April 25, 2023 at 2:21 AM