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@dbsmasher.com
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All sorts of SRE things. Breaker of all things. Source of the #botrosd hashtag. Professional finder of problems.

Author of High Performance MySQL 4th edition
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This is an Apple. It tastes like a pear.
Picture of an apple sliced. It’s pink on the inside.
November 13, 2025 at 2:15 AM
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A picture of a very bright moon over the Nile near Aswan
September 28, 2025 at 11:09 PM
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#botrosd an entire airport apparently.
September 19, 2025 at 8:29 PM
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Certain things about me have not changed a bit. #botrosd
A picture of my hand holding my kindle paper white stuck in a blank white screen
September 13, 2025 at 2:22 AM
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Presented without commentary
August 7, 2025 at 2:28 AM
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Post a picture of when your pet was little
June 24, 2025 at 7:15 AM
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I’m so sorry. Here is a pic of my goober dog.
Bernedoodle being petted
June 18, 2025 at 11:59 PM
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Well. That’s rude.
Partial screenshot telling me to tackle that to do list.
June 16, 2025 at 10:15 PM
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Happy birthday Jeff here is a picture of my goober Beau.
May 22, 2025 at 12:43 AM
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It’s like nature is healing just a little bit.
March 18, 2025 at 4:10 AM
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If you see this post, post a picture from your device with no explanation
January 30, 2025 at 7:39 PM
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January 27, 2025 at 4:03 AM
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A total goober
Picture of a tricolor bernedoodle
January 18, 2025 at 3:05 AM
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Quote from Sapiens: If this chapter had been written in 1945 or 1962, it would probably have been much more glum. Since it was written in 2014, it takes a relatively buoyant approach to modern history. To satisfy both optimists and pessimists, we may conclude by saying that we are on the threshold of both heaven and hell, moving nervously between the gateway of the one and the anteroom of the other. History has still not decided where we will end up, and a string of coincidences might yet send us rolling in either direction.
December 29, 2024 at 8:10 PM
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THis never gets old
November 14, 2024 at 11:46 PM
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Companies I am begging you to think about this when you let HR insist on 'equal' interview loops. ##platformengineering
we’ve seen a team interview a great systems engineer with 10 years of experience on planet-scale systems, then propose to hire them at a non-senior level “since they can’t solve coding problems like a senior engineer does.”
October 10, 2024 at 5:27 AM
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A picture of my bernedoodle getting scritches
September 24, 2024 at 12:36 AM
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Bluesky now has over 10 million users, and I was #99,478!

Clearly I barely made it to this party
A virtual certificate with text "Celebrating 10M users on Bluesky, #99,478, dbsmasher.bsky.social ‪@dbsmasher.bsky.social‬, joined on May 30, 2023"
September 19, 2024 at 3:53 AM
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Nah. Just pass out
May 29, 2024 at 3:08 PM