Andrew Imeson

[nixCraft 🐧 @nixcraft]

Microservices, because one big problem wasn’t enough, you needed a hundred small ones talking to each other over unreliable networks 😏

[Andrew Imeson @andrewimeson]

@SteaknShake Close the stores on Sunday like Chick-fil-A and you'll be an even more appealing franchise, and have happier employees

[Andrew Imeson @andrewimeson]

@thisisfoster @HwsEleutheroi please do a dividing line on this shocking stance

[AC @saveusculture]

Satan has already taken over every major U.S. city. The bars are full, porn is rampant, the streets are full of crackheads, everyone is vulgar, even the children, and the churches are full every Sunday with pride flags out front and purple haired women preaching a false Christ.

[Samaritan's Purse @SamaritansPurse]

Samaritan's Purse is grateful for the opportunity to gift cars to these families in partnership with Hendrick Motors. We pray these cars will bless these families for years to come and that they will remind them of how much Jesus loves them!

[Andrew Imeson @andrewimeson]

@dhh Your handling of that was a rare piece of encouragement in a dark time of ideological conquest in companies of every size.

[Andrew Imeson @andrewimeson]

@reprise_99 You can also use emojis in WiFi SSIDs. A thermostat is finally what made me remove mine.

[Andrew Imeson @andrewimeson]

Remember all the cool web games built in Flash that disappeared with its demise?

[Dan Greenheck @dangreenheck]

Three.js Water Pro is making Subnautica in the browser a real possibility.

Rewrote the lighting model so light reflecting off the ocean floor is now refracted and attenuated based on real-world physics.

Still can't believe what a difference it makes🤯

[DHH @dhh]

In 2023, we spent $3,934,099 on AWS + other hosting. In 2026, our hosting + support bill is down to ~$1m/year due to the cloud exit. Even including all the hardware buying, we will already have saved ~$4m by the end of this year. And going forward, it's ~$3m/yr in savings 🤑

[Jeremy Carl @realJeremyCarl]

"Our civilization was not built overnight. It's not gonna be saved overnight."

🎯🎯🎯🎯

So good from the VP.

NEVER BLACKPILL.

WORK HARDER FOR WHAT YOU BELIEVE.

[Marcus House @MarcusHouse]

Yes... In case anyone was wondering, Microsoft still sucks in space.

[DHH @dhh]

Microservices is the software industry’s most successful confidence scam. It convinces small teams that they are “thinking big” while systematically destroying their ability to move at all. It flatters ambition by weaponizing insecurity: if you’re not running a constellation of services, are you even a real company? Never mind that this architecture was invented to cope with organizational dysfunction at planetary scale. Now it’s being prescribed to teams that still share a Slack channel and a lunch table.

Small teams run on shared context. That is their superpower. Everyone can reason end-to-end. Everyone can change anything. Microservices vaporize that advantage on contact. They replace shared understanding with distributed ignorance. No one owns the whole anymore. Everyone owns a shard. The system becomes something that merely happens to the team, rather than something the team actively understands. This isn’t sophistication. It’s abdication.

Then comes the operational farce. Each service demands its own pipeline, secrets, alerts, metrics, dashboards, permissions, backups, and rituals of appeasement. You don’t “deploy” anymore—you synchronize a fleet. One bug now requires a multi-service autopsy. A feature release becomes a coordination exercise across artificial borders you invented for no reason. You didn’t simplify your system. You shattered it and called the debris “architecture.”

Microservices also lock incompetence in amber. You are forced to define APIs before you understand your own business. Guesses become contracts. Bad ideas become permanent dependencies. Every early mistake metastasizes through the network. In a monolith, wrong thinking is corrected with a refactor. In microservices, wrong thinking becomes infrastructure. You don’t just regret it—you host it, version it, and monitor it.

The claim that monoliths don’t scale is one of the dumbest lies in modern engineering folklore. What doesn’t scale is chaos. What doesn’t scale is process cosplay. What doesn’t scale is pretending you’re Netflix while shipping a glorified CRUD app. Monoliths scale just fine when teams have discipline, tests, and restraint. But restraint isn’t fashionable, and boring doesn’t make conference talks.

Microservices for small teams is not a technical mistake—it is a philosophical failure. It announces, loudly, that the team does not trust itself to understand its own system. It replaces accountability with protocol and momentum with middleware. You don’t get “future proofing.” You get permanent drag. And by the time you finally earn the scale that might justify this circus, your speed, your clarity, and your product instincts will already be gone.

[Auron MacIntyre @AuronMacintyre]

My first question for @elonmusk ‘s centrist party is: How would you deal with Microsoft laying off tons of American workers and then immediately applying for H1Bs to replace them?

[Steak 'n Shake @SteaknShake]

Now serving Tallow Fries in Texas, Oklahoma and Florida. All other locations by the end of next week!

[Colin Samul @ColinSamul]

Two errors that are commonly made.

1. Equating a political victory with spiritual revival, or as being evidence that such as a revival is at hand. This was the general milieu of the Moral Majority.

2. Writing off all political victories as being meaningless because it hasn’t arisen spontaneously from mass regeneration. This often flies under the banner that “politics can’t fix anything, only the gospel can solve our problems.”

[Daniel Cid @danielcid]

To all WordPress and Linux users out there.

Image how would react if Ubuntu (for example) blocked your servers from receiving updates and installing new packages because you never contributed back or donated to Ubuntu. If they found the IP ranges for all your servers and got it blocked.

That's what WordPress (well, someone that manages wordpress[.]org) is doing against WPEngine.

Clearly, you can't rely on them anymore for your sites, for updates or for your security.

We need more mirrors of the WordPress code / plugins / themes so people that are blocked can access and keep their sites updated and secure. Decentralize.

[Billboard Chris 🌎 @BillboardChris]

If a child can consent to a sex change, the next thing for queer theorists is children consenting to sex.

They’re already pushing for it.

All of queer theory needs to be torched.

[Andrew Imeson @andrewimeson]

.@Honeywell_Home / @Resideo WiFi 7-day programmable thermostat doesn't support connecting to SSIDs with emojis in them.

I finally found a device that doesn't work with my "Andrew 🥓" WiFi network

[Andrew Imeson @andrewimeson]

@Imeson I used to have Juniper and HPE’s memorized.