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Modern software tooling is amazing. I can go from zero to working thing that I don't understand at all and have zero chance of debugging in a timely fashion quicker than you can say "thank god I don't have to support this thing".

"Confidential Container Groups," by @matajoh, Stavros Volos, Ken Gordon, @SeanTAllen, Christoph M. Wintersteiger, Sylvan Clebsch, @gigastarks, and Manuel Costa, presents Parma, which powers confidential containers on @Microsoft @Azure container instances. bit.ly/4gz90HW

Meet Murdock: The Wildcard in the Ensemble seantallen.com/posts/meet-mur…

@ZacharyLipez Bless you sir. It was a good welcome back to the city find.

@SeanTAllen I’m here to serve.

@ZacharyLipez I deeply appreciate the kokie's picture

@davidclowery Next to godliness

You should probably buy that. Sell some plasma if necessary.

I guess BIRD really is the word.

@copyconstruct What's a DRI?

Sure, you can put processes in place to build more cohesive things across orgs, but that will lead to a bunch of people whining about “bureaucracy” and how Google moves slowly. There’s no winning here. Ultimately, having individual DRIs act as BDFL’s might be the only solution.

It’s a “people problem”, the oldest problem in the industry, not just a Google problem. The cost of generating code going to zero *incentivizes* teams to unblock themselves ASAP, rather than dealing with the friction of coming up with cohesive, holistic, “cross-team” solutions.

@giltene Damn Gil

Sunset #664 part 3

Sunset #664

@eatonphil Love me some helix.

Used emacs since ~2016 (vim before that) but broken unicode width rendering (which I've mostly just avoided by never using unicode) is finally driving me to ... neovim? Which appears to be the only major terminal editor that can correctly handle unicode rendering / editing?

@giltene Very nice

Agentic Personae: Code and Cognition from Spotlights to Identity seantallen.com/posts/agentic-…

@SeanTAllen welcome back :)

I eventually came back. Let's see if it can be more joyful.

An Ensemble of Claudes: seantallen.com/posts/an-ensem…

Embed You a ponyc for Great Good ponylang.io/blog/2026/04/e…

Teaching Claude to Write Pony seantallen.com/posts/teaching…

Parma for Mortals: seantallen.com/posts/parma-fo…

Last Week in Pony - On The Road Again edition ponylang.io/blog/2026/04/l…

Claude You Some Pony For Great Good: ponylang.io/blog/2026/04/c…

Pony's Postgres Driver Grows Up ponylang.io/blog/2026/04/p…