Camille Fournier

The Kindle version of our new book, Platform Engineering: A Guide for Technical, Product, and People Leaders, is now available! amzn.to/4eUz5zB

TIL: someone has ported English to Rust github.com/Aaryan-Kapoo...

Days like today I think, do I follow too many Brazilians here? But I suppose it's good for remember words like "ganhar" and "votar" and "conseguir"

i see what you do for others, etc

President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva came from behind to win Brazil’s runoff election, halting a right-wing wave sweeping Latin America and defying predictions that the 80-year-old political veteran had finally reached the end of his extraordinary career. bloom.bg/4BsvV24 📷: Maira Erlich/Bloomberg

You can tell what kinda month this is, I'm watching Midnight Diner again

your yearly PSA: want to do something positive wrt the ecosystem while saving yourself a bunch of time and effort? skip the bagging and just rake leaves into a pile wherever convenient (bonus points if you do it under a tree). www.nps.gov/articles/000...

Finally made it to Powell’s! So cool to see The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2026 out in the wild! (I swear I’m smiling)

I would also like to note that I called NYC a “heathen city” and since that description passed TNY’s checking department it’s now settled fact

Another thought-provoking piece by @biblioracle.bsky.social www.insidehighered.com/opinion/colu... "Anyone who says that a large language model is their “thought partner” must know that all the thoughts in that partnership are their own."

Remarkable image: "Only visible to the unaided eye as a small, faint, fuzzy patch. Digitally tracked and stacked frames were combined ... Multiple exposures ... reveal the spiral galaxy in tantalizing detail ... Spans nearly 6 full moons." science.nasa.gov/image-articl...

How to make sure 75% of the people who clicked leave after the first sentence.

basically every debate about "government efficiency" is sidestepping the fact that half of the debate actually just wants the government to do less, period a car without an engine is technically very fuel efficient

France is looking ungovernable. And it’s going to get worse - as.ft.com/r/10c61c6b-9...

Good morning all. Might I interest you in a long comment on my Substack left by someone named James that in my view accurately and astutely summarizes the evolution of politics surrounding the American education system over the past 20 years? buildcognitiveresonance.substack.com/p/selling-a-...

The neil.fun about spending Elon's money needs to have a whole section for political donations

My deep dive on the "A.I.-driven" Alpha School, revealing their internal learning and enrollment data for the first time, just as the network expands into public education. There is a big gap between the marketing and reality. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/23/u...

They're rebooting sex and the city

There is good in this world, Mr. Frodo.

“A lot of what we call ‘management’ is in fact a risk management function.” @skamille.themanagerswrath.com, in her talk on the manager’s path in the age of AI. Obviously that’s what managers do; I’d just never seen it put so simply, or noticed how much it covers. buff.ly/JUyF2Az

i don't think we can come to a reasonable compromise with this

treason

me explaining the latest cert compromise

Man that Vivek ad What the fuck How is it possible that can they keep finding lower they can go

Maybe, just maybe, the way to think productively about the intersection and AI is to spend much more time thinking about humans and much less about AI. That's what I tried to do in More Than Words through the lens of writing and teaching writing. www.amazon.com/More-Than-Wo...

This is insane www.wsj.com/world/ukrain...

If you think Lynch’s work is anything even remotely like Fielder’s I’m going to need that in essay form

This is nauseating

Would

"All my life I wanted to look like Elizabeth Taylor. Now Elizabeth Taylor looks like me." -Divine #BOTD

Apparently nobody but me and @mcfunley.com is talking about the soundtrack for You Can See Everything so if you haven't seen it yet please take a moment to note and appreciate what is a very, very good soundtrack

If you're backyard is close to water, consider building a frog sauna to help treat chytrid!

I've had The Gin Blossoms "hey jealousy" stuck in my head for a week and I'm slowly going mad

Let's just pay appropriate corporate taxes instead

These only holds if you 1) think US public services should divert precious human capital to satisfy your agents 2) that this infra already exists or can be built swiftly 3) that somehow removing these frictions are a good thing at breakneck pace. The cited paper doesn't even say this.

Phew that movie really captures narcissist founder shark eyes

Ok, damn. This guy is legit.

In the backrooms, fleeing from a grotesque caricature of myself, but it’s easy because my Heelys are real and his are all lumpy and weird