mid programmer | cloud-native @microsoft | uses vim | containers & wasm nerd | lego dad | minimalist wannabe
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Josh Duffney retweeted
When it repeats, and there is a brief pause and you think they picked up only to hear it loop again
Josh Duffney retweeted
WELCOME TO THE ROOM: Satya Nadella's Lesson in Executive Accountability
Most people treat a senior promotion as a destination; in reality, it is an invitation to a higher level of pressure where excuses are considered a form of professional failure. In "The Room," the distance between a "theory of success" and "actual success" is measured by one thing: Intellectual Honesty.
If you are waiting for more resources, more time, or more favorable conditions to win, you aren't leading—you’re whining. True leadership is the act of "manufacturing success" within the constraints of reality. It requires the scientific rigor to align your resources to your theory, the telemetry to admit when that theory is failing, and the courage to pivot before the runway disappears.
The Bottom Line: You are either a generator of clarity or a creator of confusion. If your "dots don't connect" from your current headcount to the final result, you are just managing decline. Stop talking, get the telemetry, and operationalize the win. Anything else is just noise.
jsnover.com/blog/2026/02/01/…
Josh Duffney retweeted
Tired of trading performance for safety? Or portability for speed?
WebAssembly challenges that tradeoff. Server-Side WebAssembly by @danologue shows how to use it in real systems.
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Just started my first non-tech project in 15 years.
I've always wanted a stick shift truck and now I have one. All I have to do is rebulid the motor. Never done that before but I think I can do it.
If not, I'll fail spectacularly while having a lot of fun!
Excited to share this quick guide I whipped up: "Getting Started with the Container Secure Supply Chain" 🎥 It's all about locking down your containers from build to deploy—perfect for devs dipping into secure supply chains.
youtube.com/watch?v=k45kper3…
Josh Duffney retweeted
Rust is fast & efficient. But how do you bring an existing codebase up to that level?
Today 3:45 PT at #RustConf: @danologue (author of Server-Side WebAssembly) & Ludvig Liljenberg share how they re-engineered Microsoft’s Hyperlight in Rust.
→ Register: hubs.la/Q03GvrLD0
→ Book 45% off (code: RustConf25): hubs.la/Q03GvxH_0
The coolest part of the project was watching the AI agent load and configure the MCP tools needed to complete its task!
Introducing Wassette: a runtime for secure, sandboxed WebAssembly Component tool execution via the Model Context Protocol (MCP). Easily register reusable WASM tools inside AI agents like VS Code. Start using it to safely extend your agent’s capabilities! opensource.microsoft.com/blo…
Relearning how to type is an extremely painful process.
It's still unclear if I'll surpass my previous record of 160 wpm and if I'll ever remaster vim
but my wrists feel much better.
After hearing this a lot: "no debugger = no Zed"—we’re excited to share that Zed's Debugger has finally launched! 🎉
zed.dev/debugger
Josh Duffney retweeted
👏🎉We’re excited to announce that Ratify has officially joined the Notary Project as a subproject after the vote passed in the community! This marks a significant step forward in our shared mission to deliver secure and trusted software supply chain
notaryproject.dev/blog/2025/…
Josh Duffney retweeted
A MCP server to install and containerize other MCP servers. All you need to provide is a link to any public GitHub repo, check it out and let me know your thoughts 👀!
github.com/semcp/mcp-sinstal…
Josh Duffney retweeted
If only sleep was that easy
ALT A pop up from Skyrim, saying "Rest how long?", with a slider saying 6 hours, until 4:30am on the 19th of last seed
In about 3 hour I was able to get a Kubernetes operator working with agent mode in vscode. 🤯 I only left my editor twice to reference previous projects. Zero google / bing searches. And I wrote by hand maybe 20% of the code.
Part of me is sad I didn't write all of it, but another part is ecstatic about how quickly the idea came to life.
It's going to be an interesting next several years. Super curious what the industry will look like when the dust settles.
