Marsh Gardiner

Clearly there cannot be "one way to do product management." I, myself, organize PM into six fundamental flavors, as shown in this diagram (note the labels along the legs of the triangle). Full post: sociotechnical.org/archive/six-... [1/9] #productmanagement

Leaking the rotation key at the root of all the identities created by a single PDS seems bad, but at least Bluesky isn't still using the same two keys across all of their PDS instances, right?

cookie conjugations: - i personalize - you track - he/she surveils

If you haven't started with talking to leaders, creating structure for them to tell you about their work in a way where you are helping them understand what you want to know and care about, what the hell do you hope to get from side stepping them and creating AI jira panopticon?

If you run your app with Podman, you can easily require all of its network traffic to go through an IO where you can control and review it. agent.io/posts/sandbox/

I think a driving force in ableism is fear. People haven't dealt with their own fear about losing ability and wow can we tell, those of us who've been through stuff. I am a fairly hopeful person about humanity in general but our capacity for rageful dehumanization wrt ableism really gets me down.

Last year I replaced grpc-go and connect-go with a thin layer of code that I use to write gRPC clients and servers on the Go standard library. Details are here: agent.io/posts/sidecar

@margin.at I'm somewhat averse to browser extensions with broad access permissions (certainly until I have first-hand experience with a service). Any chance there's a bookmarklet to be able to trigger margin.at on demand on a given page?

"The Agentic Authorization OAuth 2.1 Extension is an IETF draft created in May 2025. It’s now in its version 01 and provides a solution where AI agents can identify their users and, in turn, use their identification to obtain OAuth access tokens." apichangelog.substack.com/p/four-agent...

I think the reason AI propagandists are so flustered by the fact that no real writer wants to use their idiotic tools is that they themselves don't enjoy writing. They see it as a boring arduous chore to be avoided, while real writers actually enjoy writing and actually care about the quality of it.

I've written a followup to my #atmosphereconf talk that discusses what software I think should be open source and why. tl;dr we've neglected workers' rights for too long. bsky.app/profile/agen...

The hack is that instead of maintaining a list of people who can generate keys, I just made it so that anyone who is followed by my project account can generate keys. If @agent.io follows you, you're in the beta!

Saw an old interview with Frank Herbert who said “I don’t think that the old saw about power corrupting and absolute power corrupting absolutely is accurate. I think power attracts the corruptible” and, yeah, that.

Just pay your taxes or GTFO, no need to subvert democracy. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Building a PDS the Hard Way agent.io/posts/buildi...

I've been talking to prospective hires about what developer relations means for me and how to measure it, and when you explain something more than 3 times you should turn it into a blog post, so here you go: seldo.com/posts/develo...

GenAI tooling is weird. It’s “just” an intervention. Because it’s a tool. Any tool introduction is an intervention. Which means they work the same way any intervention work: 1. Understand the preconditions and culture norms required for success 2. Set people up for success 3. Respond to feedback

Thanks @ruthmalan.bsky.social , @yvonnezlam.bsky.social , and @johncutle.fish for the systems thinking discussion / group therapy today! What a great way to kick off the new year. 💖

The aep-2026 edition has shipped! 🚀 This release establishes long-term stability as a critical foundation. The new versioning mechanism and release cycle supports our tooling ecosystem, which now includes a Terraform Provider, CLI, MCP Server, and more. Read more: aep.dev/blog/aep-202...

In some ways, ICs (at least in tech and at big companies) have some leadership advantages because managers don't see them as direct competition. Good managers and ICs know this and take advantage of it by having ICs lead complicated cross-org initiatives

My second favorite word is penultimate.

"Adversarial poems"--a claim, The science, a non-rigorous shame. But the idea was the virus, And now it's inside us, A vector-embed in our brains.

Happy 10th birthday to the OpenAPI Initiative! Being a part of the creation was one of the highlights of my career...and introduced me to some really cool folx (hi, @earth2marsh.com!).

The fact that we frequently prefer interactions and experiences that feel cognitively easy is also a reliable illusion. We experience this in our learning all the time. This is also why I'm skeptical of any idea that developer experience should only be about making things FEEL easy

Co-signed

The idea of vichyssoise is a leeky abstraction.

Honestly, I don't understand why they ever took it out of the curriculum.

The idea that any one site or platform has to have everyone on it in order to succeed has to die. That’s just not how human communities work. Never has been.

How about putting customers first? Replace 'AI' with 'customer' in all these bold "AI first statements – now that would be genuinely radical.

Folks, why aren’t we using LLMs for generating schedule estimates for development work??? We all loathe making those estimates, and we can just blame the LLM if the actual development time deviates from the estimate. “The LLM must have hallucinated a bad estimate”.

Mark Messier is the Patrick Stewart of hockey. Discuss.

A neologism for your consideration… Crapitalism (n.): the perverse incentives of capitalism that lead to enshittification.

Why did we call them "restaurant closings" when "defeateries" was right there?

“Muni serves more rides on lines that run on (or cross) Market in two days than Waymo does citywide in a month. At 10 times the price of a bus fare with 5% of the capacity, Waymo vehicles have no hope of making up for the transit service they replace and delay” www.sfchronicle.com/opinion/open...

Are you trying to improve flow, make better tradeoffs, push for more strategic alignment, or clarify what's supported and what isn't? cutlefish.substack.com/p/tbm-351-th...

The bipartisan belief that America would be a better place if *other people* worked in a factory. www.ft.com/content/8459...

Announcing a Terraform provider for the AEP project! 🚀 Most companies staff engineers just to maintain their Terraform provider. However, just by making AEP-compliant APIs you get providers for minimal effort beyond writing the API. Read @rambleraptor.bsky.social's post: aep.dev/blog/terrafo...

APIs connect systems. Bluesky connects people. We're here for both. 👋

Fear & concern are coded feminine, so they get translated into anger, which feels more tough. Hurt & disappointment are coded feminine, so they get translated into outrage & aggrievement. The simple human need for love & affirmation is coded feminine, so it gets translated into demands & control.