Austin Spires
@austinspires.com
Internetting professionally and hobbially
Supporting developers at Fastly
Supporting developers at Fastly
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"Like Amazon Prime, but with human beings."
December 24, 2025 at 5:50 PM
"Like Amazon Prime, but with human beings."
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Some of you have forgotten that only three years ago you were perfectly capable of writing a text, writing an email, telling a bedtime story to a child, and it should worry you that powerful companies have convinced us we can’t do things we’ve been doing since the dawn of time.
December 23, 2025 at 8:24 PM
Some of you have forgotten that only three years ago you were perfectly capable of writing a text, writing an email, telling a bedtime story to a child, and it should worry you that powerful companies have convinced us we can’t do things we’ve been doing since the dawn of time.
The most annoying aspect of using generative AI tools for anything interesting is constantly telling a computer, a device devoted to going fast, to "slow down and do it again."
December 22, 2025 at 6:04 PM
The most annoying aspect of using generative AI tools for anything interesting is constantly telling a computer, a device devoted to going fast, to "slow down and do it again."
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I guess this has probably already gone viral somewhere but I am simply dying at this picture of a bear that looks like it hired a photographer to do a glamour shoot
September 10, 2025 at 4:42 PM
I guess this has probably already gone viral somewhere but I am simply dying at this picture of a bear that looks like it hired a photographer to do a glamour shoot
Any other OU folks remember when Boren was in the seat and went nuclear on a racist frat? The admin used to have backbone.
From an alum who's written my alumni association contacts several angry emails about the state of current events and my continued involvement:
It's "University of Oklahoma"
Not "Oklahoma U"
It's "University of Oklahoma"
Not "Oklahoma U"
December 14, 2025 at 1:22 AM
Any other OU folks remember when Boren was in the seat and went nuclear on a racist frat? The admin used to have backbone.
From an alum who's written my alumni association contacts several angry emails about the state of current events and my continued involvement:
It's "University of Oklahoma"
Not "Oklahoma U"
It's "University of Oklahoma"
Not "Oklahoma U"
December 14, 2025 at 1:17 AM
From an alum who's written my alumni association contacts several angry emails about the state of current events and my continued involvement:
It's "University of Oklahoma"
Not "Oklahoma U"
It's "University of Oklahoma"
Not "Oklahoma U"
As someone who loves driving, and drives long distances across time zones multiple times a year: strong support.
My least popular (and most correct) view is that cars should be automatically limited to the local speed limit. Put the pedal to the floor and you still can't go over 25mph in a residential area.
(15 in Manhattan btw)
(15 in Manhattan btw)
There is no possible justification for limiting e-bikes to 15mph but not cars.
December 14, 2025 at 12:58 AM
As someone who loves driving, and drives long distances across time zones multiple times a year: strong support.
I love Deltron 3030 so much. This short making-of doc dropping is a gift youtu.be/pZVhRI8mYoY?...
MAKING DELTRON 3030
YouTube video by OfficialDELTRON
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December 14, 2025 at 12:04 AM
I love Deltron 3030 so much. This short making-of doc dropping is a gift youtu.be/pZVhRI8mYoY?...
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“we’re a data-driven company except for when the data would require me to do something I don’t think is fun”
"Many engineers propose solutions they want to build, not solutions that benefit the product," - @jason.energy
This kind of product thinking is critical for leveling up as an engineer. Thank you for joining us this week, Jason!
overcommitted.dev/ep-37-being-...
This kind of product thinking is critical for leveling up as an engineer. Thank you for joining us this week, Jason!
overcommitted.dev/ep-37-being-...
December 11, 2025 at 10:41 PM
“we’re a data-driven company except for when the data would require me to do something I don’t think is fun”
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This chart made our whole team cheer. 👏
Turn on shielding → watch your origin traffic flatten into a smooth, optimized dream. That’s exactly what happened for the @rustfoundation.org when they enabled shielding on Fastly Compute.
The before/after? VERY satisfying. #FastForward
Turn on shielding → watch your origin traffic flatten into a smooth, optimized dream. That’s exactly what happened for the @rustfoundation.org when they enabled shielding on Fastly Compute.
The before/after? VERY satisfying. #FastForward
December 10, 2025 at 5:39 PM
This chart made our whole team cheer. 👏
Turn on shielding → watch your origin traffic flatten into a smooth, optimized dream. That’s exactly what happened for the @rustfoundation.org when they enabled shielding on Fastly Compute.
The before/after? VERY satisfying. #FastForward
Turn on shielding → watch your origin traffic flatten into a smooth, optimized dream. That’s exactly what happened for the @rustfoundation.org when they enabled shielding on Fastly Compute.
The before/after? VERY satisfying. #FastForward
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I remember when SSL certificates cost more than hosting your website. And good luck remembering to renew it before the old one expired.
10 years ago @letsencrypt.bsky.social changed all that. letsencrypt.org/2025/12/09/1...
10 years ago @letsencrypt.bsky.social changed all that. letsencrypt.org/2025/12/09/1...
10 Years of Let's Encrypt Certificates
On September 14, 2015, our first publicly-trusted certificate went live. We were proud that we had issued a certificate that a significant majority of clients could accept, and had done it using autom...
letsencrypt.org
December 10, 2025 at 2:52 PM
I remember when SSL certificates cost more than hosting your website. And good luck remembering to renew it before the old one expired.
10 years ago @letsencrypt.bsky.social changed all that. letsencrypt.org/2025/12/09/1...
10 years ago @letsencrypt.bsky.social changed all that. letsencrypt.org/2025/12/09/1...
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Consider the following before adopting a Manticore for your family
December 3, 2025 at 8:20 PM
Consider the following before adopting a Manticore for your family
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wake up babe
new devastating rejoinder just dropped
new devastating rejoinder just dropped
i think you're just being disagreeable in exactly the way that you seem to relish and i'm glad that's fun for you.
December 3, 2025 at 5:23 AM
wake up babe
new devastating rejoinder just dropped
new devastating rejoinder just dropped
Apple's priority notifications settings are a massive mistake. Any time a spammer puts any kind of date language in a text or voicemail, it triggers.
December 2, 2025 at 4:27 PM
Apple's priority notifications settings are a massive mistake. Any time a spammer puts any kind of date language in a text or voicemail, it triggers.
Watching Verstappen over the last few years has been an absolute "we're living in history" gift
Max Verstappen absolutely loved saying "another one" about McLaren's latest fumble 😂
December 1, 2025 at 12:33 AM
Watching Verstappen over the last few years has been an absolute "we're living in history" gift
Hot take: anyone who claims to have a strong opinion on pineapple on pizza these days, either pro or anti, is faking it and extremely insufferable
November 29, 2025 at 10:17 PM
Hot take: anyone who claims to have a strong opinion on pineapple on pizza these days, either pro or anti, is faking it and extremely insufferable
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Introduce yourself with four spaceships
November 28, 2025 at 4:11 AM
Introduce yourself with four spaceships
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Conservatives after I enjoy anything in life.
November 26, 2025 at 7:44 PM
Conservatives after I enjoy anything in life.
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that cloudflare outage would have been a lot more painful if companies didn’t have a multi-vendor solution for content delivery: ”several major customers shifted tens of petabytes of traffic over to Fastly due to another provider's outage”
Outages, Attacks, and a Need for Resilience | Fastly
Cloud outages are a stark reminder of our digital economy's fragility. Learn how Fastly mitigated a major traffic failover and concurrent DDoS attacks with zero disruption.
www.fastly.com
November 21, 2025 at 3:34 AM
that cloudflare outage would have been a lot more painful if companies didn’t have a multi-vendor solution for content delivery: ”several major customers shifted tens of petabytes of traffic over to Fastly due to another provider's outage”
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Fish have committed credit card fraud
November 19, 2025 at 9:49 PM
Fish have committed credit card fraud
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i can’t talk about sports gambling anymore without sounding like a crank but i do believe legalized sports gambling is like 15-20% responsible for our current dystopia
The Athletic polled hundreds of players from across the NBA, NFL, MLB and NHL about their opinions surrounding how sports betting impacts players — the responses were haunting.
November 15, 2025 at 3:26 AM
i can’t talk about sports gambling anymore without sounding like a crank but i do believe legalized sports gambling is like 15-20% responsible for our current dystopia
Atlanta continues to be colder than Denver 😐
November 14, 2025 at 11:26 AM
Atlanta continues to be colder than Denver 😐
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Pop music has mostly abandoned the art of covering other people’s music, says the critic Wesley Morris. But what makes a song a cover? The singer Cecile McLorin Salvant joins Wesley to talk about the art of singing music originally performed by someone else. nyti.ms/4pfa9rP
November 13, 2025 at 7:34 PM
Pop music has mostly abandoned the art of covering other people’s music, says the critic Wesley Morris. But what makes a song a cover? The singer Cecile McLorin Salvant joins Wesley to talk about the art of singing music originally performed by someone else. nyti.ms/4pfa9rP