Eamon

Open source, kubernetes, cloud native. Dad to Shiba Inus. Husband to @crcovill. Time waster and Netflix binger. He/him.

[Eamon @eamonb]

@ibuildthecloud @ ibuildthethinganddeleteitbecauseihateit

[Eamon @eamonb]

@kenwheeler I swear that dude wants it to have mutton chops before he’ll hit. Come on

[Eamon @eamonb]

@MixcloudSupport Let your engineers know that their error messages are sharing too much information to the frontend. In the browser console I get "Can't connect to MySQL server on mysql-primary.db.svc.cluster.local", and that address tells me you're running mixcloud on Kubernetes lol

[Eamon @eamonb]

@ibuildthecloud I find stuff on gh all the time.

[Eamon @eamonb]

@DivesOfWI It’s sump pump. You can also compare with engines which have wet/dry sump oil systems, the sump part being the oil pan. Low lying collection area

[Eamon @eamonb]

Sad to report that despite his name, the Red Sox pitcher Coulombe can’t be CHARGEd with the loss.

[Eamon @eamonb]

@kenwheeler Ex-smoker. Every single day of my life, every moment, what would make it 100x better is a fresh Marlboro Light.

[Eamon @eamonb]

@AlHendiify This tweet is a message.... and part of a system of tweets..... pay attention to it!

(...nothing valued is here)

[Eamon @eamonb]

I JUST WANT TO DO A SIMPLE GOOGLE SEARCH STOP ASKING ME TO SIGN IN

FUCK

[Eamon @eamonb]

@F0ODHub ez. pour the yumyum sauce onto the fried rice (thank me later). mix all that shit together and destroy.

[Eamon @eamonb]

@StephenM Nazi ass cunt

[Eamon @eamonb]

@StephenM > steals the actual birthright of every American.

Someone else getting citizenship doesn’t hurt me at all you fucking piece of shit.

[Eamon @eamonb]

There is no reason that the manual for a printer should require me to download an exe or dmg @CanonUSA . Just post the damn PDF like everyone else.

[Eamon @eamonb]

@ibuildthecloud The language service errors are even worse. I don’t need a full diff of two complex types and all their fields in my IDE popover. Just tell me what fields are missing!

[Gandalv @Microinteracti1]

This video should unsettle anyone who takes the United States seriously as a nation.

Because it exposes something dangerous: the trivialization of the world's most consequential office. It shows how carelessly the power, credibility, and accumulated moral authority of a superpower can be squandered for a few seconds of viral attention.

In any other major democracy, this behavior from a head of state would trigger a constitutional crisis. Paris would burn. Berlin would convene emergency sessions. In the Nordic countries, resignation would follow within hours. Across functioning democracies, the public, institutions, and political class would recognize this for what it is: an assault on the dignity of the state itself. Leaders are not free to perform as entertainers without consequence. National honor is not personal property, it's held in trust.

But the United States is not just another country with a provocateur in charge. It is the linchpin of global order. It maintains formal alliances and security guarantees with forty to fifty nations. It underwrites the financial architecture, trade systems, and diplomatic frameworks that billions of people depend on daily. When the American president speaks—or posts—it doesn't land as satire, meme, or personal whim. It reads as a signal about what the country is becoming.

American power has never relied solely on carrier strike groups or economic output. It has rested on something more fragile and more valuable: trust. The belief that beneath domestic turbulence lies institutional seriousness, predictability, and a baseline commitment to dignity. That belief is now disintegrating in real time.

Millions of American companies operate globally. They negotiate multibillion-dollar contracts in environments where reputation is currency. Boardrooms in Frankfurt, Singapore, and Dubai aren't debating whether a post was clever—they're asking whether the United States remains a reliable partner. Whether agreements signed today will be honored tomorrow. Whether American leadership has devolved from institutional to purely theatrical.

Consider tourism, which sustains millions of American jobs—airlines, hotels, restaurants, museums, entire regional economies. Soft power isn't an abstraction. It materializes in flight bookings, conference locations, study-abroad programs, and decades of accumulated goodwill. A quiet, decentralized boycott doesn't require government action—only a collective sense that a nation no longer respects itself.

Now picture this image being studied by foreign ministers, central bank governors, defense strategists, and sovereign wealth fund managers. Picture them asking a coldly rational question: How do we write binding thirty-year agreements with a country whose public face will be this, relentlessly, for years to come? How do we plan for the long term when the tone is impulsive, mocking, and unbound by the gravity of office?

This is where the real calculus begins. Trillions in foreign capital depend on confidence that America is stable, credible, and rule-governed. That confidence is now being traded for what, exactly? Applause from an online mob? A dopamine rush from manufactured outrage? Content designed to dominate the news cycle rather than serve the national interest?

Every serious nation eventually confronts this choice: burn long-term credibility for short-term spectacle, or safeguard the reputation previous generations bled to build. The United States spent eighty years constructing an image of reliability, restraint, and leadership under pressure. That image wasn't born from perfection—it came from a visible commitment to standards that transcended impulse.

This isn't a partisan issue. Europeans who value democratic norms recognize something ominously familiar here. Americans—Democrat and Republican alike—who believe in responsibility and restraint should see it too. Power attracts scrutiny. Leadership demands discipline. A superpower cannot behave like a reality TV contestant without paying a price.

The presidency is not a personal broadcast channel. It's a symbol carried on behalf of 330 million people and countless international partners who never voted but whose lives are shaped by American decisions anyway. Every post either reinforces or erodes the idea that America can be counted on when it matters most.

So the question is no longer whether this is offensive. The question is whether this is who America chooses to be: a nation that trades a century of hard-won reputation for viral moments. A country that replaces statecraft with content creation. A republic governed like a season of reality television.

History offers a harsh lesson here. Great powers don't fall because enemies mock them. They collapse when they begin mocking themselves—publicly, proudly, and without grasping the cost until it's far too late.

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[Eamon @eamonb]

@liz_churchill10 There must be a whistling sound when you run without earbuds

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@ibuildthecloud Familiarity with a framework is an accelerant of its own.

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Disappointed to discover the head shot booth at the conference is for pictures

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@LewisCapaldi every interview I’ve seen you give, makes me want to be your friend. Thats so glazing I know but you’re such a kind genuine nice funny person. Keep on being you