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Friday musings of operational and strategic value
CCC - Claude geenrated Compiler
https://harshanu.space/en/tech/ccc-vs-gcc/
Wait, saying No is a valid Option?
https://www.newscase.com/palantirs-swiss-exit-highlights-global-data-sovereignty-challenge/
Melania the Amazon
https://www.reddit.com/r/esist/comments/1qqqe05/get_in_were_messing_up_melanias_amazon_search/
Modular Monoliths and other facep
2 views
Friday musings of operational and strategical value
Being the Human in the Loop
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vpYJMr1pJRY
In Search of Resilience
https://www.ufried.com/blog/in_search_of_resilience/
The End is Nigh
https://www.netmeister.org/blog/open-web.html
EBCDIC is incompatible with GDPR
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yoyhwPCq5Fg
2 views
Musings of strategical and operational value
#Whatif you kept diggin downward?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r7B0MzvwDcA
ADRs revisited
https://martinfowler.com/bliki/ArchitectureDecisionRecord.html
Jepsen versus MariaDB
https://jepsen.io/analyses/mariadb-galera-cluster-12.1.2
Welcome to Attack Surface 2.0
https://www.theregister.com/2026/03/24/trivy_compromise_litellm/
First Episode of Star Tre
2 views
Friday musings of operational and strategic value
The Peter Principle explained:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eoRWNoZZ-hI
A Programmer's Loss of Identity
https://ratfactor.com/tech-nope2
The Layer 8 Problem
https://seluce.github.io/Layer8Problem/
All time classics - parsing HTML with RegEx
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/1732348/regex-match-open-tags-except-xhtml-self-contained-tags
📊 Post engagement
2
Avg engagement / post
8.7%
Engagement vs followers
Nov 2022
On Mastodon since
🔥 Top post: Friday musings of operational and strategic value CCC - Claude · 4 likes + reposts
📊 Activity & format
Posting cadence
0.74 / week
A lower-frequency account — each post lands with more weight.
Content mix
Mostly images
Recent: 2 text · 10 image · 0 video.
Follower / following
0.2×
Follows 135 back. A more reciprocal / networked account.
Recent posts
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🔥 Top post
Friday musings of operational and strategic value
CCC - Claude geenrated Compiler
https://harshanu.space/en/tech/ccc-vs-gcc/
Wait, saying No is a valid Option?
https://www.newscase.com/palantirs-swiss-exit-highlights-global-data-sovereignty-challenge/
Melania the Amazon
https:/…
Friday musings of strategical and operational value
Quo vadis, Wikipedia?
https://medium.com/@jakeorlowitz/wikipedia-is-doing-the-capitalist-thing-56a393232943
Find me surprised:
https://techcrunch.com/2026/05/26/duckduckgo-installs-are-up…
Wednesdays musings of strategical and operational value
GitHub is sinking
https://dbushell.com/2026/04/29/github-is-sinking/
Where have all the Juniors gone?
https://www.stvn.sh/writing/programming-still-sucks-fqffhyp
The little Vampire
ht…
uh oh #copyfail
https://copy.fail/
https://cert.europa.eu/publications/security-advisories/2026-005/
https://xint.io/blog/copy-fail-linux-distributions
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=REvmhBO99I4
Thursday musings of strategical and operational value
It was never about code?
https://www.ufried.com/blog/never_been_about_code/
Assumptions that never change?
https://flowchainsensei.wordpress.com/2026/04/10/the-assumptions-that-never-ch…
Friday musings of operational and strategical value
Being the Human in the Loop
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vpYJMr1pJRY
In Search of Resilience
https://www.ufried.com/blog/in_search_of_resilience/
The End is Nigh
https://www.netmeister…
Easter nightmares of strategical and operational value
White House Nightmare
https://blog.thereallo.dev/blog/decompiling-the-white-house-app
Axios Nightmare
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/security/blog/2026/04/01/mitigating-the-axios-npm-…
Musings of strategical and operational value
#Whatif you kept diggin downward?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r7B0MzvwDcA
ADRs revisited
https://martinfowler.com/bliki/ArchitectureDecisionRecord.html
Jepsen versus MariaDB
https://jepsen.i…
Musings of strategical and operational value
Every Layer of Review makes you 10x slower:
https://apenwarr.ca/log/20260316
The First Law of Holes
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Law_of_holes
Modern Software Development
https://www.youtube.com…
Friday musings of operational and strategic value
How to build an x86 CPU emulation in CSS
https://lyra.horse/x86css/
How far back in time can you understand English?
https://www.deadlanguagesociety.com/p/how-far-back-in-time-understand-e…
Friday musings of operational and strategic value
The Peter Principle explained:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eoRWNoZZ-hI
A Programmer's Loss of Identity
https://ratfactor.com/tech-nope2
The Layer 8 Problem
https://seluce.github.io/Lay…
Thursday musings of operational and strategic value
Job losses are real, the AI Excuse is fake:
https://pivot-to-ai.com/2026/01/29/the-job-losses-are-real-but-the-ai-excuse-is-fake/
Open Source is one Person
https://opensourcesecurity.io/…
Wednesdays musings of strategical and operational value
GitHub is sinking
https://dbushell.com/2026/04/29/github-is-sinking/
Where have all the Juniors gone?
https://www.stvn.sh/writing/programming-still-sucks-fqffhyp
The little Vampire
ht…
uh oh #copyfail
https://copy.fail/
https://cert.europa.eu/publications/security-advisories/2026-005/
https://xint.io/blog/copy-fail-linux-distributions
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=REvmhBO99I4
Thursday musings of strategical and operational value
It was never about code?
https://www.ufried.com/blog/never_been_about_code/
Assumptions that never change?
https://flowchainsensei.wordpress.com/2026/04/10/the-assumptions-that-never-ch…
Friday musings of operational and strategical value
Being the Human in the Loop
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vpYJMr1pJRY
In Search of Resilience
https://www.ufried.com/blog/in_search_of_resilience/
The End is Nigh
https://www.netmeister…
Easter nightmares of strategical and operational value
White House Nightmare
https://blog.thereallo.dev/blog/decompiling-the-white-house-app
Axios Nightmare
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/security/blog/2026/04/01/mitigating-the-axios-npm-…
Musings of strategical and operational value
#Whatif you kept diggin downward?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r7B0MzvwDcA
ADRs revisited
https://martinfowler.com/bliki/ArchitectureDecisionRecord.html
Jepsen versus MariaDB
https://jepsen.i…
Musings of strategical and operational value
Every Layer of Review makes you 10x slower:
https://apenwarr.ca/log/20260316
The First Law of Holes
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Law_of_holes
Modern Software Development
https://www.youtube.com…
Friday musings of operational and strategic value
How to build an x86 CPU emulation in CSS
https://lyra.horse/x86css/
How far back in time can you understand English?
https://www.deadlanguagesociety.com/p/how-far-back-in-time-understand-e…
Friday musings of operational and strategic value
The Peter Principle explained:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eoRWNoZZ-hI
A Programmer's Loss of Identity
https://ratfactor.com/tech-nope2
The Layer 8 Problem
https://seluce.github.io/Lay…
Thursday musings of operational and strategic value
Job losses are real, the AI Excuse is fake:
https://pivot-to-ai.com/2026/01/29/the-job-losses-are-real-but-the-ai-excuse-is-fake/
Open Source is one Person
https://opensourcesecurity.io/…
🐘 Community & instance
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mastodonapp.uk
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On Mastodon since
Nov 2022
Joined in the Twitter-exodus wave of late 2022 — part of the migration that made Mastodon a real destination.
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🗓️Joined Mastodon in 2022 — 3 years ago.
👁️Averages 2 views per post.
📤Posts about 0.7× per week.
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Credibility score
97%
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Fake-follower risk
Medium
Data confidence
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- Strong engagement (~8.7% of followers engage each post) — an active, real audience.
- Established account (3+ years old).
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