Maurizio Branca
@zmoog.dev
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I heard someone describe Azure as “the Boomer cloud”
Crude but also accurate
Cannot recall any startup that is not on AWS or GCP
Crude but also accurate
Cannot recall any startup that is not on AWS or GCP
October 14, 2025 at 9:55 PM
I heard someone describe Azure as “the Boomer cloud”
Crude but also accurate
Cannot recall any startup that is not on AWS or GCP
Crude but also accurate
Cannot recall any startup that is not on AWS or GCP
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9000 layoffs today from microsoft.
Still waiting for AI to "make new jobs"
still waiting for the trickle down effect.
still waiting for their 75 billion dollar activision merger to benefit people other than the execs already making millions.
This nonsense is why regulations are always necessary.
Still waiting for AI to "make new jobs"
still waiting for the trickle down effect.
still waiting for their 75 billion dollar activision merger to benefit people other than the execs already making millions.
This nonsense is why regulations are always necessary.
Microsoft is laying off as many as 9,000 employees
Xbox will end or decrease work ‘in certain areas’
www.theverge.com
July 2, 2025 at 6:18 PM
9000 layoffs today from microsoft.
Still waiting for AI to "make new jobs"
still waiting for the trickle down effect.
still waiting for their 75 billion dollar activision merger to benefit people other than the execs already making millions.
This nonsense is why regulations are always necessary.
Still waiting for AI to "make new jobs"
still waiting for the trickle down effect.
still waiting for their 75 billion dollar activision merger to benefit people other than the execs already making millions.
This nonsense is why regulations are always necessary.
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Yet more companies laying off employees not because AI is replacing them, but because they need more money to fund their AI. I can't remember the last time I saw sunk cost fallacy at this scale.
July 2, 2025 at 6:46 PM
Yet more companies laying off employees not because AI is replacing them, but because they need more money to fund their AI. I can't remember the last time I saw sunk cost fallacy at this scale.
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the only way forward for video games is self-published games made by properly-organised studios
corporate ownership will fire all of you in the end.
corporate ownership will fire all of you in the end.
February 18, 2025 at 11:48 PM
the only way forward for video games is self-published games made by properly-organised studios
corporate ownership will fire all of you in the end.
corporate ownership will fire all of you in the end.
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Much serious thought and consideration, from very smart people in Mountain View and Cupertino, went into determining how to respond to a profoundly silly and thoughtless executive order. Yet that response is disturbing.
Golfo del Gringo Loco
Much serious thought and consideration, from very smart people in Mountain View and Cupertino, went into determining how to respond to a profoundly silly and thoughtless executive order. Yet that response is disturbing.
daringfireball.net
February 18, 2025 at 4:56 AM
Much serious thought and consideration, from very smart people in Mountain View and Cupertino, went into determining how to respond to a profoundly silly and thoughtless executive order. Yet that response is disturbing.
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Arco is 30% off now on Steam 💫 if you want to try the game first, you can try our free demo at Steam and if you buy it later you can keep your save ✨
store.steampowered.com/app/2366970/...
store.steampowered.com/app/2366970/...
Save 30% on Arco on Steam
A Mesoamerican fantasy RPG that blends turn-based and real-time combat. Explore the world through three handcrafted stories forged in bloodshed, laced with magic, and united by revenge.
store.steampowered.com
February 16, 2025 at 3:33 PM
Arco is 30% off now on Steam 💫 if you want to try the game first, you can try our free demo at Steam and if you buy it later you can keep your save ✨
store.steampowered.com/app/2366970/...
store.steampowered.com/app/2366970/...
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Do you want to learn how to be a better public speaker? Join @markrussinovich.bsky.social and I in this episode of "Scott and Mark Learn To" www.youtube.com/watch?v=X2jr...
EPISODE 9 - Scott and Mark Learn To... Public Speaking
YouTube video by Scott Hanselman
www.youtube.com
February 14, 2025 at 6:44 PM
Do you want to learn how to be a better public speaker? Join @markrussinovich.bsky.social and I in this episode of "Scott and Mark Learn To" www.youtube.com/watch?v=X2jr...
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Wes Anderson’s next movie is called The Phoenician Scheme, an “espionage comedy-drama thriller” that will be released in US theaters in May 2025. Stars Benicio del Toro, Michael Cera, Riz Ahmed, ScarJo, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Willen Dafoe, etc. [en.wikipedia.org]
February 14, 2025 at 6:36 PM
Wes Anderson’s next movie is called The Phoenician Scheme, an “espionage comedy-drama thriller” that will be released in US theaters in May 2025. Stars Benicio del Toro, Michael Cera, Riz Ahmed, ScarJo, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Willen Dafoe, etc. [en.wikipedia.org]
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Allegra Goodman writes about the “life-saving power” of listing to audiobooks (Austen, Caro, Dumas, Voltaire) with her son. “We spent hundreds of hours together and had a respite from each other too.” I *love* listening to audiobooks w/ my kids. [lithub.com]
Allegra Goodman on the (Almost) Life-Saving Power of Audiobooks
What’s worse than Middle School? Watching your child suffer through it. Those years were excruciating for my son Elijah—even at his small progressive school. Bright, reserved, and contrary, Elijah …
lithub.com
February 14, 2025 at 7:06 PM
Allegra Goodman writes about the “life-saving power” of listing to audiobooks (Austen, Caro, Dumas, Voltaire) with her son. “We spent hundreds of hours together and had a respite from each other too.” I *love* listening to audiobooks w/ my kids. [lithub.com]
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I found a crazy bug in Avowed guys
February 15, 2025 at 4:19 AM
I found a crazy bug in Avowed guys
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History buffs will know that every authoritarian leader eventually converges on some version of: "I *am* the state. I can not break the law, I am the law, the law is instantiated in me."
Our march to authoritarianism so far has been excruciatingly by-the-book. Hitting every beat. No surprises.
Our march to authoritarianism so far has been excruciatingly by-the-book. Hitting every beat. No surprises.
February 15, 2025 at 7:03 PM
History buffs will know that every authoritarian leader eventually converges on some version of: "I *am* the state. I can not break the law, I am the law, the law is instantiated in me."
Our march to authoritarianism so far has been excruciatingly by-the-book. Hitting every beat. No surprises.
Our march to authoritarianism so far has been excruciatingly by-the-book. Hitting every beat. No surprises.
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worth saying again these these unilateral cuts are illegal. neither trump nor musk has the authority to unilaterally slash appropriated funds.
Hearing that the DOGE chaos hurricane is hitting HUD soon, and the plan is to devastate federal housing funding. Let's be clear: this would cause a cascade of catastrophic impacts nationwide, shutting down housing and dumping families into the street.
February 16, 2025 at 2:23 AM
worth saying again these these unilateral cuts are illegal. neither trump nor musk has the authority to unilaterally slash appropriated funds.
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if journalism is supposed to be one of the institutions that safeguards a free society then journalists should be opponents of autocratic takeovers, brian.
Consider the possibility that the Trump White House WANTS this fight. Wants journalists to act like opponents instead of observers. If the entire press pool skipped a Trump photo op in solidarity with The AP, wouldn't the White House welcome Breitbart and One America News to take their places?
And, are you or your colleagues boycotting covering the WH as a protest?
February 15, 2025 at 5:50 PM
if journalism is supposed to be one of the institutions that safeguards a free society then journalists should be opponents of autocratic takeovers, brian.
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🐍🎧 Charlie Marsh: Accelerating Python Tooling With Ruff and uv
How is the Rust programming language being used to speed up Python tools? This week on the show, we speak with @crmarsh.com about his company, Astral, and their tools, uv and Ruff.
https://realpython.com/podcasts/rpp/238/
How is the Rust programming language being used to speed up Python tools? This week on the show, we speak with @crmarsh.com about his company, Astral, and their tools, uv and Ruff.
https://realpython.com/podcasts/rpp/238/
February 10, 2025 at 10:21 PM
🐍🎧 Charlie Marsh: Accelerating Python Tooling With Ruff and uv
How is the Rust programming language being used to speed up Python tools? This week on the show, we speak with @crmarsh.com about his company, Astral, and their tools, uv and Ruff.
https://realpython.com/podcasts/rpp/238/
How is the Rust programming language being used to speed up Python tools? This week on the show, we speak with @crmarsh.com about his company, Astral, and their tools, uv and Ruff.
https://realpython.com/podcasts/rpp/238/
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How to create a Python CLI that's globally available in your system in 5 easy steps.
1. Install uv
2. Init project with `uv init --app --package mycli`
3. Write code
4. Install with `uv tool install . -e`
5. Use `mycli` anywhere in your computer
1. Install uv
2. Init project with `uv init --app --package mycli`
3. Write code
4. Install with `uv tool install . -e`
5. Use `mycli` anywhere in your computer
February 11, 2025 at 11:07 AM
How to create a Python CLI that's globally available in your system in 5 easy steps.
1. Install uv
2. Init project with `uv init --app --package mycli`
3. Write code
4. Install with `uv tool install . -e`
5. Use `mycli` anywhere in your computer
1. Install uv
2. Init project with `uv init --app --package mycli`
3. Write code
4. Install with `uv tool install . -e`
5. Use `mycli` anywhere in your computer
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uv is one year old today. Hard to believe its only been a year. The growth, adoption, and impact surpassed my wildest expectations.
Happy birthday, uv! 🥳
Happy birthday, uv! 🥳
February 16, 2025 at 2:18 AM
uv is one year old today. Hard to believe its only been a year. The growth, adoption, and impact surpassed my wildest expectations.
Happy birthday, uv! 🥳
Happy birthday, uv! 🥳
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Someone did have a sign that said he cheats at Diablo lol
February 4, 2025 at 10:54 PM
Someone did have a sign that said he cheats at Diablo lol
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Check out @drcaberry.bsky.social on the podcast this week! www.hanselminutes.com/982/teaching...
Teaching the next-gen engineer with Dr Carlotta Berry
www.hanselminutes.com
February 5, 2025 at 5:53 AM
Check out @drcaberry.bsky.social on the podcast this week! www.hanselminutes.com/982/teaching...
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This is a great research! It proves a basic security principle: security teams should invest their time and effort in common - and often easily solvable - well-known issues: public S3 buckets, MFA enforcement, dependencies monitors, etc. 0-days are cool, but probably not your major concern.
8 Million Requests Later, We Made The SolarWinds Supply Chain Attack Look Amateur
Surprise surprise, we've done it again. We've demonstrated an ability to compromise significantly sensitive networks, including governments, militaries, space agencies, cyber security companies, suppl...
labs.watchtowr.com
February 5, 2025 at 3:00 PM
This is a great research! It proves a basic security principle: security teams should invest their time and effort in common - and often easily solvable - well-known issues: public S3 buckets, MFA enforcement, dependencies monitors, etc. 0-days are cool, but probably not your major concern.
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To help people understand what's going on we've brought in our corporate translator cat.
“We realized there is a lot of money in making weapons and spying on people. Fuck the pledge. I love money” — Demis Hassabis, CEO of Google DeepMind
“We realized there is a lot of money in making weapons and spying on people. Fuck the pledge. I love money” — Demis Hassabis, CEO of Google DeepMind
February 5, 2025 at 3:35 PM
To help people understand what's going on we've brought in our corporate translator cat.
“We realized there is a lot of money in making weapons and spying on people. Fuck the pledge. I love money” — Demis Hassabis, CEO of Google DeepMind
“We realized there is a lot of money in making weapons and spying on people. Fuck the pledge. I love money” — Demis Hassabis, CEO of Google DeepMind
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Tiny TIL: I just figured out how to run pytest with a different Python version against my pyproject.toml/setup.py projects using uv run
uv run --python 3.12 --with '.[test]' pytest
til.simonwillison.net/pytest/pytes...
uv run --python 3.12 --with '.[test]' pytest
til.simonwillison.net/pytest/pytes...
Running pytest against a specific Python version with uv run
While working on this issue I figured out a neat pattern for running the tests for my project locally against a specific Python version using uv run :
til.simonwillison.net
February 4, 2025 at 10:59 PM
Tiny TIL: I just figured out how to run pytest with a different Python version against my pyproject.toml/setup.py projects using uv run
uv run --python 3.12 --with '.[test]' pytest
til.simonwillison.net/pytest/pytes...
uv run --python 3.12 --with '.[test]' pytest
til.simonwillison.net/pytest/pytes...
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Since the sourcing of this fantastic 1979 IBM training slide is buried in various Twitter threads (and linking to Twitter sucks now because logged out users can't navigate conversations) I put together some notes on its origin: simonwillison.net/2025/Feb/3/a...
February 3, 2025 at 1:39 PM
Since the sourcing of this fantastic 1979 IBM training slide is buried in various Twitter threads (and linking to Twitter sucks now because logged out users can't navigate conversations) I put together some notes on its origin: simonwillison.net/2025/Feb/3/a...
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🧵 [1/2] If you are an Arduino customer and use their online service, you should probably know that it could be compromised - but I am waiting for official updates. Arduino sent an e-mail today communicating they are rotating *all* the IoT devices' credentials, for all customers.
February 3, 2025 at 4:46 PM
🧵 [1/2] If you are an Arduino customer and use their online service, you should probably know that it could be compromised - but I am waiting for official updates. Arduino sent an e-mail today communicating they are rotating *all* the IoT devices' credentials, for all customers.