Adam Bernot

I asked my 1-year-old if she wanted to read a book with me. She brought me this book, then walked away.

"We have, as human beings, a storytelling problem. We're a bit too quick to come up with explanations for things we don't have an explanation for." - Malcolm Gladwell, an exceptional storyteller

Your New Year's Resolution has a much greater chance of success if you already started.

"On social media, the combination of certainty and ignorance is common. So, get used to it." -Guy Kawasaki

TIL, Arizona is the 2nd lowest state in charitable giving in the US. This year, I gave time and/or money to several organizations. But maybe I didn't Google "Charitable Donations" enough. [see methodology] wallethub.com/edu/most-and...

A society doesn't become great until old men plant trees that they'll never enjoy the shade of.

Hello #KubeCon NA! Happy to be here.

From American Airlines this morning: "Due to the prolonged government shutdown, the FAA has directed all airlines, including American, to reduce flight schedules at certain airports starting Friday, Nov. 7." Cool. No one travels in November, right? 🙃

The latest releases of @cilium.io and cert-manager are both 1.18.2. I briefly thought I had just installed the wrong version of one of them, but it truly is just a weird coincidence. ...or is it?

@richburroughs.dev What's the status of Kube Cuddle?

The Daniels Running Formula has influenced my philosophy on training more than anything else. Period. His contributions to the sport of running will continue to be felt for a long, long time. www.runnersworld.com/news/a656649...

@filippo.abyssdomain.expert Is the Go Cryptographic Module validated? The Go Blog (go.dev/blog/fips140) says "validated," but it doesn't appear in the NIST list of validated modules (csrc.nist.gov/projects/cry...).

"Getting married and having a mortgage keeps you out of a lot of trouble." - @goinggo.net on @ardanlabs.com Podcast

We're thrilled to have Adam Bernot (@bernot.dev), Software Engineer for Google Cloud, presenting "Autoscaling Workloads Effectively in Kubernetes" at #AllThingsOpen! 2025.allthingsopen.org/sessions/aut...

I don't understand how saying "backslash" in URLs became a mainstream mix-up. The person saying it almost always just means "slash" or "forward slash" if you're being verbose. But I hear people say "backslash" all the time. Just heard it in an ad on a podcast. I'm starting a movement. #JustSaySlash

Who is the GOAT for children's music? I nominate Raffi.

"Each of us as individuals is trying in whatever way we can to make the world suck less for each other...and yet if the market is creating barriers to that, then there's something wrong." -John Green

Excited to announce I'll be speaking at @allthingsopen.bsky.social! Join me in Raleigh this October to talk about Autoscaling Workloads Effectively in Kubernetes!

This is a weird place.

My #KubeCon talk with @bboreham.bsky.social is up! youtu.be/yQQU8vDhj0o

A piece of collateral damage in this new age is lack of understanding of the value of infrastructure. Quality infrastructure takes creativity, it’s fascinating, it’s crucial. We’ve lost the plot, relegating it to being described as a cost center. Infrastructure is muscle, infrastructure is bone.

Hot take: If you're sitting in a large room with rows of mostly empty chairs, don't take the first seat on the aisle. It just means the next person has to climb over you.

Fun session with @kat.lol, @lookitup.baby, @xander.wtf, and Marly Salazar eating progressively hotter wings! #KubeCon

According to @gjtempleton.bsky.social, I'm allowed to claim I'm a member of SIG Autoscaling now. Ask me about Vertical Pod Autoscaling. Let me know up front if you want the response to be timeboxed. #KubeCon #Kubernetes #SIGAutoscaling

Guess who this quote doesn't belong to? quoteinvestigator.com/2019/02/27/t...

My #KubeCon presentation about improving Vertical Pod Autoscaling with @bboreham.bsky.social begins at 17:00 BST. Entrance S10, Room C. Hope to see you there! sched.co/1tx8F

@robcube.bsky.social is presenting using sign language with someone speaking aloud to interpret for the hearing audience, then...back into sign language in the bottom left corner of the frame. Plus captions. About interpreting sign language with AI. Lots of translating in this talk.

Come see me and @bernot.dev on Wednesday at #kubecon This talk is about extending the Vertical Pod Autoscaler to cope with hetrogenous loads. Or find me on the Grafana booth - number S462. sched.co/1tx8F

@excalidraw.com is cool. I started using it recently and ramped up way faster than I did with other similar tools. Kudos to the team there.

"...Secretary of Transportation Sean Duffy ordered his department to review -- and potentially revoke -- all discretionary grants that include funding for bike lanes." azdailysun.com/news/local/f...

I own a Tesla and if anyone set it on fire I would respect their first amendment right to do so

People need to be crystal clear about something: The requirement that the government ANSWER to a court on the legal basis for detaining someone is literally the core liberty right (habeas corpus). If the government says they don’t have to do that bc “national security,” YOU can be disappeared.

I don't understand people who care about terminal choice. I spend a lot of time on the command line. I mostly use iTerm2 and Warp now. I've tried GNOME Terminal, Alacritty, Kitty, Tilix, and others. They're all fine, and 95% interchangeable.

yeah! what is it about them? 🤔

TypeScript team: rewrites compiler in Go. Go community: what do you mean your new compiler takes more than a minute to compile? Unacceptable. Dishonorable even. We are so sorry for this sub par experience. Not how we do things around here. Two days later: WIP 5x speedup. HN: why pick Go anyway?

Deep cuts to the forest service in the wake of devastating wildfires over the past few years. Who does this help? www.azfamily.com/2025/02/18/h...

I'm looking forward to speaking at #KubeCon #CloudNativeCon Europe 2025! kccnceu2025.sched.com/event/1tx8F/...

The Chiefs may not feel great at the end of this, but at least they're not Drake.

Turn his TV Off.

If your "Trump Tax Cut" is missing next year, this is why: "GOP leadership...will cut $315 billion in spending over 10 years, but will add another $325 billion in spending on Trump’s national security and immigration crackdown..." www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...