Tim Burks (inactive)

Your friendly neighborhood did:web:babu.dev is back!

An excellent expansion of "There are two ways to pass the Turing Test"

I've become a big fan of Podman (a Red Hat project), but use it on Ubuntu and can't remember when I last ran a Red Hat distribution. www.howtogeek.com/red-hat-linu...

Here's why I am getting into did:web for self-hosting: four instances of my PDS, each serving on a different domain and hosting a family of did:web accounts with no off-server dependencies.

I wrote a PDS for self-hosting. Since my host needs a name, it seems natural to use a did:web for my identity, and did:web:babu.dev is a lot more legible than a did:plc. So I'm going to try using this for a while.

Couldn't work anywhere that calls it "golang"

A Bay Area Gathering Space?!?

Despite Bluesky's open architecture, we find significant power asymmetries. The platform retains privileged access to granular user interaction data, and only a handful of creators hold the technical expertise to build powerful algorithms without relying on third-party tools.

I hate that to be happy Ohio State lost we have to endure fucking Texas winning

I would never root for Texas unless they were playing the one team I hated moTHE STARS AT NIGHT ARE BIG AND BRIGHT

Michigan fans are dying of laughter now

It's 9/11, the date of the second most commemorated public event in my lifetime

Guys but it's the fictional machine god that needs to be regulated and that we should worry about. prospect.org/2026/09/09/a...

Debate me at #kexp www.kexp.org/read/2026/9/...

I thought the most annoying AI evangelism was "use AI or die" but it's actually "it's fine if you don't want to use AI on your little coding hobby buddy, just know you won't be coding with us enterprise big dogs".

I'm increasingly convinced that this is a debate between two kinds of people: people who have made beanie babies a part of their daily lives and understand how impactful this is and people who haven't tried beanie babies since the 90s and these groups will forever be talking past each other

This is a #kexp video that I will be replaying often

Of the two ways to pass the Turing Test, Jensen found one www.businessinsider.com/nvidia-jense...

Michigan fans have gotten off easy for way too long simply because the only more annoying fanbase happens to be their biggest rival

Biggest bailout Michigan has seen since General Motors

We're all Western Michigan now

people were worried that kyle whittingnham might be too old to relate to today’s youth after really working with some older rosters in the past, but here he is at michigan and after one half the scoreboard says “6-7”

MS MR did a really nice cover of this youtu.be/nMyRZaK9dp0?...

Here's my #gRPConf talk about how to write gRPC applications that increase your happiness.

This is the way!

#grpConf is on! These are the crazy people who decided to let me speak

I am singlehandedly responsible for Sabotage being number 101.

On Thursday I'll be at gRPConf. They're gonna let me talk about Sidecar and IO! events.linuxfoundation.org/grpconf/prog...

I'm a No on reactionary anti growth initiatives, especially ones that are pro-cars mandarin-orange-7p38.squarespace.com

AI presentations at hackathons: "Look at this beautiful gumball that I made by putting a coin in the candy machine... It's a tool, you should learn how to use it... Sometimes it makes red ones."

I got this from @daviddark.bsky.social, but it was created fifty years ago by Sister Corita Kent might-could.com/essays/10-ru...

Optimist:The cup is half full. Pessimist: The cup is half empty. Child: Try to realize the truth. Pessimist: What truth? Child: There is no cup. Optimist: There is no cup? Child: It is not the cup that empties, it is only yourself.