Steve Pember

They tell you that we have a spending problem, that we must suffer some pain to get our economy on track, and that we need to raise the retirement age, cut Medicaid, and cut food assistance to address our deficit. Those are lies. 🧵

@GergelyOrosz Step 2: charge bots for crawling and scraping with tollbit

After several delays, @DOGE has finally posted its purported savings. Why did it take so long to create a simple webpage with a 1000-row table? Who knows! Let's dig in. Headline number: $55B saved. They list the savings per nixed contract. This should be easy to verify then. 🧵

The Office of Government Efficiency is off to a great start with split leadership: two people to do the work of one person. Yeah, this seems REALLY efficient.

"They're eating the cats, they're eating the dogs" proved a more effective message than "Let me help you buy your first house."

TollBit is proud to announce our $24M in Series A funding to revolutionize how AI companies and publishers work together. We do this by making it easy to manage the entire lifecycle of AI data licensing and support innovative business models to protect the health of the entire content ecosystem. Backed by @lightspeedvp and @S32_VC as well as @JeffDean, @mbronstein, and prior investors, we’re setting a new standard for the future of AI and media.

Boeing just cut healthcare coverage for its 33,000 striking workers. Healthcare being tied to employment is simply another means for control. It needs to end.

If you don’t have the stamina to run for President, you don’t have the stamina to be President

I better go superviral for this...

@testthesoftware I'm ... Tempted. Is it good?

idk what’s worse, that crowdstrike has kernel access to basically every system in the world or that airlines run on windows server

I haven't had a chance yet to post about it, but thanks again to @spring_io for having me. It's such a great ... event... and I was honored to be a part of it!

🍃 Creating Future-Proof Spring Applications with Event Sourcing by @svpember @ Spring I/O 2024 ▶️ Video: youtu.be/xr6Gq3Cn4UQ 🔗 Slides: docs.google.com/presentation/d… 🛠️ Repo: github.com/spember/spring… #springio24

@salaboy You as well!

@svpember It was great to meet you @svpember !

It was amazing running into you all! An absolute delight!

@rieckpil @maciejwalkowiak @nele_lea @alina_yurenko @vitalethomas @salaboy I know and I feel terrible, but hopefully we all had great nights?! Tomorrow we can absolutely tie one off, 3 sheets, etc 😁

@maciejwalkowiak @nele_lea @alina_yurenko @vitalethomas @salaboy @svpember No drinks together at IKibina 🥲

I had great time with these wonderful people @nele_lea @alina_yurenko @vitalethomas @salaboy @svpember

At a talk on High Performance Java : " logging is slow. Don't use it. In fact, all logs can be replaced with metrics and counters" 🔥 love it . #springio

@ilopmar Completely understandable! I'll try, haha. Hope to see you in the future!

@svpember I know 😢. This year, with all the uncertainty regarding the acquisition and the layoffs I didn't submit anything because, TBH, I didn't know if I was going to continue working here or not. Maybe next year. Have fun and enjoy the conference!

Google Photos reminds me today that this day last year I was at @spring_io and it was great.

When the code you've written runs perfectly on the first try, it's not a miracle. It means the Universe is playing a prank on you and the real bug is hiding somewhere, plotting its grand entrance.