Rob Newton

SRE & Cloud engineer building and

[Rob Newton @strakedev]

Spent the day tightening Strake’s website.

The product is simpler now: Strake is a deploy gate for teams without a full SRE bench.

It runs in GitHub Actions and posts a GO / HOLD / CRITICAL verdict in the PR using context from incidents, deploy history, dependencies, and runbooks.

Try it on one repo:
https://t.co/ZKneKzE384

[Daniel Wortel-London @dlondonwortel]

Pessimism of the intellect, optimism of the will

[Rob Newton @strakedev]

@FreddyLA7 The moment I’ve been waiting for

[Rob Newton @strakedev]

My wife being 6 months pregnant while we’re on vacation is hilarious. She woke me up craving chicken biscuits from McDonald’s, so now I’m obviously on the way to get McDonald’s for her and coffee for me.

[Rob Newton @strakedev]

@meggmcnulty Wild that the verification you'd assume you only need when running on machines you don't trust turns out to be mandatory on the machines you do.

[Rob Newton @strakedev]

We built personal computers so we wouldn't depend on the mainframe. Then we rented all the compute back. Anyway, good talk.

[Rob Newton @strakedev]

"What if we become too reliant on AI" is the wrong worry. We're reliant on like four companies' datacenters. The robot was never the problem.

[Max Blade @_MaxBlade]

You have one job today.

Max out Claude Fable 5 usage. ( Mythos )

All the complex problems that opus 4.8 and gpt 5.5 couldn’t really nail, are one shotted.

Don’t just build.

Ask it to help you setup marketing loops. Ask it to help improve your life. This model is magic. Don’t hold back.

[Rob Newton @strakedev]

Memory at scale seems... like an interesting task to dig into.

[Rob Newton @strakedev]

@growing_daniel I should go to sleep

[Rob Newton @strakedev]

@TheGeorgePu I haven't used it yet, what makes you pay 200 a month for it vs another AI max plan?

[Rob Newton @strakedev]

oh... it uses an actual shit ton of tokens lmao

[Rob Newton @strakedev]

@NicoleLatva @westmagco I need one

[Rob Newton @strakedev]

@harrrmy Exercise really solves a lot of issues actually.

[Rob Newton @strakedev]

@FreddyLA7 Ella fellas! Let’s gooo

[Rob Newton @strakedev]

The family vacation. We do this one every year and it never gets old.

[Rob Newton @strakedev]

@tbpn @vkhosla @eastdakota @RamaswmySridhar @btaylor @FarzaTV @trentsimonian @markiewagner Following everyone linked. Great guest list, can’t wait

[Rob Newton @strakedev]

It is time.

[Rob Newton @strakedev]

@RuhanPonnada “From the Dyson, off the backboard”

[Rob Newton @strakedev]

Omg I love vacation!

[Rob Newton @strakedev]

@FreddyLA7 An extra large drink, beaver nuggets, sandwiches with ingredient lists that go on forever. Welcome to America buddy.