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Joseph Gruber
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Satellite ground software/mission ops software engineer. Alum of AWS Ground Station, Blue Origin, NASA Goddard. Occasional weather, Python dev, AWS DevOps, Aerospace/Aviation, and the Phillies 🔔. Opinions my own. 📍 Colorado
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Joseph Gruber @josephgruber.com · Nov 8
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Joseph Gruber @josephgruber.com · 9h
I would bet it’s NIMBYers (and our court system)
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Joseph Gruber @josephgruber.com · 14h
Going “viral” for stupid shit. 😂
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Joseph Gruber @josephgruber.com · 15h
That’s called burying the lead
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Joseph Gruber @josephgruber.com · 17h
Neat. Sounds like it's still an active part of the infrastructure. :)
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Joseph Gruber @josephgruber.com · 17h
I have a bridge to sell the temporary administrator...
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Joseph Gruber @josephgruber.com · 17h
We were talking about this in PySprings recently. Do you know if they still use the lava lamps (or wave machines) for randomness? Or is it just now a cool story?
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Joseph Gruber @josephgruber.com · 17h
I mean, I would have at least floated it up to the passing lane 😜
flightradar24.com Flightradar24 @flightradar24.com · 18h
Cessna 172 N4928E made a successful emergency landing on I-15 northeast of Las Vegas a short time ago.

www.flightradar24.com/data/aircraf...
Flight path of N4928E circling to land on I-15 near Las Vegas. Photo of the Cessna 172 on the I-15 highway with two police cars behind it with their emergency lights activated.
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Joseph Gruber @josephgruber.com · 19h
All I see is AI slop
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Joseph Gruber @josephgruber.com · 19h
I dare anyone at @awscloud.bsky.social to put in the post-mortem what uses of AI helped solve yesterday's outage. I'll double my AWS spend if you do.
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Joseph Gruber @josephgruber.com · 19h
Also, left unsaid, AI won't be able to solve your outages and problems for you. That takes a human brain and human skillset.
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Dave Lee @davelee.me · 19h
WELL HOW ABOUT THAT

"A millionaire levy in Massachusetts has generated $3 billion more in revenue than expected without forcing significant high-profile departures from the state."

www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Millionaire Tax That Inspired Mamdani Fuels $5.7 Billion Haul in Massachusetts
A millionaire levy in Massachusetts that New York City mayoral frontrunner Zohran Mamdani holds up as a model for taxing the rich has generated $3 billion more in revenue than expected without forcing...
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Joseph Gruber @josephgruber.com · 19h
Reading this, I started to wonder who at the @theregister.com was emulating @quinnypig.com's voice. Turns out he can't be imitated. 😉 #AWS www.theregister.com/2025/10/20/a...
Today is when Amazon brain drain finally caught up with AWS
column: When your best engineers log off for good, don’t be surprised when the cloud forgets how DNS works
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HurkaDoesSports @hurkadoessports.bsky.social · 1d
I'd root for the heat death of the universe before I root for the Dodgers.
85mf.bsky.social Mike @85mf.bsky.social · 1d
I know there’s *that* but I can root for the Blue Jays in the World Series because they traded us Roy Halladay for basically JA Happ
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Joseph Gruber @josephgruber.com · 1d
I can still hate the Blue Jays because of 93 *and* hate Dodgers. Just rooting for a black hole to open up.
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Joseph Gruber @josephgruber.com · 1d
Civil War freaks
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Joseph Gruber @josephgruber.com · 1d
a man in a blue shirt is standing in front of a green brick wall
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Joseph Gruber @josephgruber.com · 1d
We sure this wasn’t a Phillies batter?
mikepetriello.bsky.social Mike Petriello @mikepetriello.bsky.social · 1d
A series-ending strikeout.
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Joseph Gruber @josephgruber.com · 1d
Oh god, we’re going to have to listen to FOX bringing up the Phillies all next week aren’t we? 😔
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Joseph Gruber @josephgruber.com · 1d
No baseball until Friday. MLB is so weird when it comes to scheduling games.
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Ars Technica @arstechnica.com · 1d
The mystery object that struck a plane in flight? It was probably a weather balloon
WindBorne says its balloons are compliant with all applicable airspace regulations.
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Joseph Gruber @josephgruber.com · 1d
Seattle, yeah, I know how you feel. Signed, a 93 Phillies fan
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Joseph Gruber @josephgruber.com · 1d
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Joseph Gruber @josephgruber.com · 1d
Put Scherzer in you chickens
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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 1d
Holy shit.

Game 7 between the Jays and the Mariners just ran an pro-free trade ad, targeted to American workers, decrying tariffs.

The twist being that, if you don't catch it beforehand, Ronald Reagan is revealed as the speaker in the closing seconds.

What PAC is this? The Province of Ontario.
Ronald Reagan narrates a new anti-tariff ad from Canada
The new commercial is part of a $75 million ad campaign by Ontario aimed at Republican voters.
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Joseph Gruber @josephgruber.com · 1d
Montreal: <blink>
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