Dan Ciruli

I worked on a few fairly prominent efforts in open source (Istio, OpenAPI), but I think of all of them, it’s gRPC that I think has the coolest story. Pull up a chair and set for a spell (any inaccuracies in what follows are 100% my fault for having a bad memory!).

¡Listo para El Clásico!

My buddy Dean from Chevelle threw out the first pitch at a Cubs game.

Current status: walking from Nutanix HQ to SJC on my way to Atlanta for a fun day of meetings and marketing.

"That one missing sock in the laundry" is probably the lowest form of trope in comedy: so cliche as to be unusable. But I just did three loads of laundry and have FIFTEEN unmatched socks! This is a tragedy worthy of comedy. Every parent understands.

RIP

Hey @thock.in not sure if you're still involved in design for Kubecon logos, but this (exactly as old as I am!) might inspire something...

Hi protocol friends! I've been cooking up a Very Large PDS (vlpds) implementation capable of scaling up to billions of accounts and down to just one. It uses Object Storage as its only state, supports HA operation, live scaling up and down, is feature-complete with the reference PDS, and is FOSS.

It's often difficult for me to contemplate the differences between the world I grew up in and the world my children will grow up in and feel any optimism at all. Somehow, today, @doctorow.pluralistic.net made me optimistic.

Here's a thing that I didn't expect to happen.

Happy International Podcast Day! youtube.com/shorts/r90Ey...

Last weekend we saw local legend, (friend and neighbor) three time Grammy winner Fantastic Negrito at Davies Symphony Hall, performing with the Sam Francisco Symphony Orchestra. Ran into the legendary Boots Riley (rapper turned prolific director) in the lobby afterward. I love Oakland!

BREAKING NEWS: “Do geese see God” is a palindrome

Another great aspect!

USB-C is the best technology in so long. I bring ONE type of adaptor on business trips now (to charge my computer, my phone, my tablet, my earbuds, my watch, my headphones). I'm sitting in a meeting right now using my Mac and am borrowing the cord from a ThinkPad user. Standards win.

Incomprehensible in this day and age to get an error message like this when trying to open a PowerPoint deck in SharePoint.

Gen-X keeping it real.

Personally, I think that Roger Waters knew that "we don't need no education" is a double negative and, in fact, the song was actually telling everyone to stay in school.

In the last year or two, I showed my kids Wargames and Terminator. I think 2001: A Space Odyssey might be next.

As a guy who worked in API infrastructure, I figured I would already know everything there is to know about API Gateways...but Ashwini Vasanth taught me a ton about the difference. youtu.be/JED5IZlaR7Y

The weirdest part is when you have houseguests because you do it multiple times EVERY DAY.

The most absolutely massive flex from the state fair exhibit. This quilt is made of 40 years of prize ribbons from various categories at the New Mexico State Fair won by Carol St. Clair Johnson. She also won a prize for this quilt.

Some say "Good fences make good neighbors." I say "Good neighbors make good fences!"

They will, it just takes some time

It was a long talk with @kelseyhightower.com that got me to move from Mastodon and to delete my (then dormant) X account. He convinced me that AT and Bluesky were the right combination of technology and stewardship. My opinion: ANYONE posting on X is supporting Musk (by donating content).

Thor's Helmet - NGC 2359 - From Rolf Wahl Olsen - https://flic.kr/p/dMQknj

TIL how my 83 year old mother-in-law shares playlists with relatives (or rather, how they give them to her). Screenshots of Spotify 😂

Is there any way that other NYC orgs can put some of the unlucky 2965 techies to work? Asking for a friend* *me i'm asking for me. and also some other friends.

Hoy y todos los días queremos dar las gracias a los campesinos que trabajan arguamente que están allá afuera soportando calor extremo, humo y mucho más, trabajando largas jornadas para poner alimentos en nuestras mesas en el Día de Agradecimiento al Campesino.

I HIGHLY recommend Not Like Other Girls by @ghoulpus.bsky.social ! Delicious prose, reminiscent of LeGuin in its ability to make you ponder the role of gender in society. Absolutely loved it (and wanted more)!

Working with Sanjay on one of my first projects at Google will remain one of the highlights of my career. I wish him the best of luck.

Yes! @ghoulpus.bsky.social story day snuck up on me!

Watching Terminator 2 with my 14-year-old son in the age of AI is really putting it in perspective. What's striking (and seems so unrealistic at this moment) is how willing Miles Dyson was to come around to the danger of the tools he was creating.

Quote of the year from @doctorow.pluralistic.net (on the price of printer ink): "At $10,000 a gallon, it would be cheaper to print your grocery list with the semen of a Kentucky Derby winning stallion." This Trevor Noah interview of Cory is gold. youtu.be/CK8M5sKWRkc

I hadn't noticed that our video team (finally!) posted the video of the interview I did with @kelseyhightower.com at our .NEXT conference. I can't tell you how much I love hearing him put *perspective* into the evolution of technology (yes, including AI). FUNDAMENTALS! youtu.be/i5DYUHKqzy4

Wow. MCPs being stateless really does reinforce the parallels with web APIs. This feels just like 2013! The innovation (and the capabilities and business it opens up) is so exciting.

I loved sitting down with Ashwini! youtube.com/shorts/uX-gw...

It's the latest episode of I/o You An Explanation! In this one, Ashwini Vasanth teaches me all about AI Gateways (and, for an old API guy, talks me through why API gateways weren't enough). And we reminisce about life before mobile phone navigation!) youtu.be/JED5IZlaR7Y