...we're friends now, right?

Just encountered what I think could only be defined as "Racoon diplomacy"?

Enter trash enclosure. Racoon slowly moves away from me. I exit to be polite. Racoon looks at me from under the enclosure. I give him some more space. He saunters away. I throw out the trash and leave. He slowly walks back.

Congratulations!

Bug fixes *and* performance improvements? In this economy?

Happy birthday! 🎉🎂

This is excellent

I meant to say the other day -- found your article on context as RAM to be super helpful! As was the suggestion for the CLI tool to truncate the output, which I hadn't heard about. Thanks!

They're more expensive than Azure for us when I run the numbers, which is wild. I may end up just moving us anyway and managing the one-time customer pain just to be rid of them.

Yep, that tracks. I inherited these systems in my current role and I have more horror stories with Rackspace than everything else combined in the past 3 years. I'm fascinated on an academic level about how this could be so bad.

Hey! FYI, your handle is invalid right now. Thought you'd want to know 👍

If it wasn't for the fact that these older servers are beholden to IP white-listing due to constraints from years ago, I would have moved these to Azure out of spite about 20 times by now.

Yet another reminder today that Friends Don't Let Friends Use Rackspace ™️

Just staggeringly incompetent.

The Live at Java Joe's album is still excellent.

And I have a favorite moon song too! Virginia Moon by Foo Fighters.

Tell the cringe haters to shove it :)

I Decompiled the White House's New App The official White House Android app has a cookie/paywall bypass injector, tracks your GPS every 4.5 minutes, and loads JavaScript from some guy's GitHub Pages.

The official White House Android app has a cookie/paywall bypass injector, tracks your GPS every 4.5 minutes, and loads JavaScript from some guy's GitHub Pages.

Happened to be in Charlottesville today for part of a family trip and I was very encouraged to see it!

It did!

Trump’s Signature Is Set to Be Added to America’s Currency

Let us consider the Emperor Commodus, who attired himself as Hercules, claimed to be a god, attempted to rename Rome after himself and raped every girl and boy whose crossed his way. His reign was described by Gibbon as marking the onset of the moral and spiritual collapse of the Roman Empire.

The amount of "not my week" in this week is too darn high.

A photo of a list of Microsoft MVP names, each separated by a center-aligned dot, affectionately called the "MVP wall". In the center of the photo is the name "Sean Killeen"

Big thanks to Leslie Welch for snapping a pic of my name on the wall! #mvpsummit

Perhaps one year the MVP Summit will not be held during my wife's birthday week. 😆

Have fun, all! Hoping to catch some virtual sessions, and wishing I could meet so many of you in person. #mvpsummit #mvpbuzz

"did you know the USPS is losing money" no I didn't know and I still don't care do you know how much money your president has lost you since January

Been seeing this talked about all over the place; I feel it too, even though my usage isn't as advanced yet. I'm trying to combat it by reminding myself that my tools are an extension of me, and that I am not my output. It doesn't have to always be maxed.

Correct!

My point?

It took me longer to write this thread than it did for us to make the decision and implement the sponsorship.

Support the tools that you use. If they switch to a monetary license, just respect it. It doesn't have to be hard. If it feels impossible, look inward to your org and fix it. 6/6

Easy breezy. Sponsor the project, select our org from the dropdown as the sponsor. I'm a GitHub admin, so I can make the change. It's linked to our corporate card. Boom, done. 5/x

...fun because my leadership actually *gets* it! I inform them of the trade-off, it's immediately apparent, and it's not a problem at all. This is an "FYI", not a "I need to jump through hoops".

But how do we implement? 4/x

"Do we want to replace it / build it ourselves?" Noope. The tool is good, fee is reasonable, and research/time to replace quickly eclipses the cost.

I let leadership know. This is where it gets fun. 3/x

We saw the change come up via the release notes. Knew we couldn't upgrade without being accidentally non-compliant.

Had a discussion about it. "Our fee would be $25/mo. Do we get that value out of the tool?". Resounding yes; it really helps aspects of our testing. 2/x

So @gregsdennis.bsky.social moved his projects from open licensing to the Open Source Maintenance Fee (OSMF) license.

Wanted to take a quick journey through how our team thought through this in our org. 1/x 🧵

#oss #dotnet #sustainability

@katmabu.bsky.social rooting for you from VA! You've inspired a ton of people, me included. Thanks for showing folks how it can be done, with mutual aid and care for one another and not compromising on humanity. You're the future.