Patrick Berry
@patandkat.com
I write email. #systemsthinking #ddd #domaindrivendesign #dx #developerexperience
Big Chico Creek is now chocolate milk.
January 3, 2026 at 8:02 PM
Big Chico Creek is now chocolate milk.
If you use Strava and are frustrated with the limited UI to query your data, and you're comfortable running python, check out github.com/pberry/strav...
GitHub - pberry/strava-stats: A personal Strava activity reporting and archival system.
A personal Strava activity reporting and archival system. - pberry/strava-stats
github.com
January 2, 2026 at 2:44 AM
If you use Strava and are frustrated with the limited UI to query your data, and you're comfortable running python, check out github.com/pberry/strav...
A little context... blog.patandkat.com/2026/01/welc...
January 1, 2026 at 5:03 PM
A little context... blog.patandkat.com/2026/01/welc...
No cheating, reskeet with the most recent photo of your pet.
January 1, 2026 at 4:47 PM
No cheating, reskeet with the most recent photo of your pet.
Literally sprinting to the finish on this, but I've put the final polish on my Ride Home link archive. Love @brianmc.bsky.social for all the work he does on this! All "Wrapped" files now have "AI-powered" categories and you can see all the links in each one. Whew...
pberry.github.io/ridehome/
pberry.github.io/ridehome/
The Ride Home - Link Archive
Daily tech news links from The Ride Home podcast
pberry.github.io
January 1, 2026 at 4:54 AM
Literally sprinting to the finish on this, but I've put the final polish on my Ride Home link archive. Love @brianmc.bsky.social for all the work he does on this! All "Wrapped" files now have "AI-powered" categories and you can see all the links in each one. Whew...
pberry.github.io/ridehome/
pberry.github.io/ridehome/
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This is a *free* 150 page chapbook that explores systems, system design and software architecture.
And it’s … actually *good*??? Well, at least all the parts where I weave in this systems and design community’s insights are good. 😊
And it’s … actually *good*??? Well, at least all the parts where I weave in this systems and design community’s insights are good. 😊
I also continued my self-assigned mission to bring attention to *systems* in system design. Including the various sociotechnical systems we balance (and make trade-offs, and effect consequences) across.
www.ruthmalan.com/systems/2025...
www.ruthmalan.com/systems/2025...
www.ruthmalan.com
December 31, 2025 at 7:32 PM
This is a *free* 150 page chapbook that explores systems, system design and software architecture.
And it’s … actually *good*??? Well, at least all the parts where I weave in this systems and design community’s insights are good. 😊
And it’s … actually *good*??? Well, at least all the parts where I weave in this systems and design community’s insights are good. 😊
Reposted by Patrick Berry
My final newsletter of 2025: We're in The Enshittifinancial Crisis, the fourth stage of enshittification, where companies turn on their shareholders. Unprofitable, unsustainable AI threatens future of venture capital, private equity and the markets themselves.
www.wheresyoured.at/the-enshitti...
www.wheresyoured.at/the-enshitti...
The Enshittifinancial Crisis
Soundtrack: Lynyrd Skynyrd — Free Bird
This piece is over 19,000 words, and took me a great deal of writing and research. If you liked it, please subscribe to my premium newsletter. It’s $70 a year, ...
www.wheresyoured.at
December 29, 2025 at 5:14 PM
My final newsletter of 2025: We're in The Enshittifinancial Crisis, the fourth stage of enshittification, where companies turn on their shareholders. Unprofitable, unsustainable AI threatens future of venture capital, private equity and the markets themselves.
www.wheresyoured.at/the-enshitti...
www.wheresyoured.at/the-enshitti...
Welcome to my post mid-life crisis.
December 30, 2025 at 1:20 AM
Welcome to my post mid-life crisis.
blog.patandkat.com/2025/12/nine... Yeah, missed a year...
Nine Years of Santa and the Elf
Wherein you get all nine years of our Christmas photo tradition.
blog.patandkat.com
December 29, 2025 at 1:07 AM
blog.patandkat.com/2025/12/nine... Yeah, missed a year...
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"rich asshole says something" just shouldn't be news.
Elon Musk warns ‘people will die’ after Mamdani taps Lillian Bonsignore as FDNY commissioner
Elon Musk warns ‘people will die’ after Mamdani taps Lillian Bonsignore as FDNY commissioner
Elon Musk threw cold water on Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani’s pick of Lillian Bonsignore as the city’s FDNY commissioner, warning it would have dire consequences because she lacks firefigh…
buff.ly
December 28, 2025 at 7:05 PM
"rich asshole says something" just shouldn't be news.
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Make it fucking stop is my motto for fucking everything www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
Hero: Kara Swisher
The one person in the sordid Nuzzi-Lizza-RFK Jr. mess who did the right thing.
www.motherjones.com
December 22, 2025 at 8:16 PM
Make it fucking stop is my motto for fucking everything www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
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Premium: How The AI Bubble bursts in 2026 - The largest funder of AI data centers is pulling out, OpenAI and Anthropic need more money than ever during a massive VC liquidity crisis - and NVIDIA's debt-powered customer base is quietly shrinking.
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Premium - How The AI Bubble Bursts In 2026
Hello and welcome to the final premium edition of Where's Your Ed At for the year. Since kicking off premium, we've had some incredible bangers that I recommend you revisit (or subscribe and read in t...
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December 22, 2025 at 5:38 PM
Premium: How The AI Bubble bursts in 2026 - The largest funder of AI data centers is pulling out, OpenAI and Anthropic need more money than ever during a massive VC liquidity crisis - and NVIDIA's debt-powered customer base is quietly shrinking.
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@brianmc.bsky.social did some more cleanup, you have Wrapped all the way back to 2018 now :) pberry.github.io/ridehome/
Would you find it valuable to have an "Ask RideHome" site where you can answer questions like "I'm sure we've talked about this before..."?
Would you find it valuable to have an "Ask RideHome" site where you can answer questions like "I'm sure we've talked about this before..."?
ridehome
Wherein we harvest links from a podcast RSS feed, using Python.
pberry.github.io
December 20, 2025 at 10:38 PM
@brianmc.bsky.social did some more cleanup, you have Wrapped all the way back to 2018 now :) pberry.github.io/ridehome/
Would you find it valuable to have an "Ask RideHome" site where you can answer questions like "I'm sure we've talked about this before..."?
Would you find it valuable to have an "Ask RideHome" site where you can answer questions like "I'm sure we've talked about this before..."?
@brianmc.bsky.social worked up a 2025 Wrapped for RideHome pberry.github.io/ridehome/202...
🎧 The Ride Home - 2025 Wrapped
Wherein we harvest links from a podcast RSS feed, using Python.
pberry.github.io
December 12, 2025 at 5:21 PM
@brianmc.bsky.social worked up a 2025 Wrapped for RideHome pberry.github.io/ridehome/202...
Currently reading: Empire of AI by Karen Hao 📚
December 7, 2025 at 8:54 PM
Currently reading: Empire of AI by Karen Hao 📚
Day 4 of Advent(ure) in System Seeing.
I did a little research on where my water comes from and Chico doesn’t use hardly any surface water (reservoirs) and rely almost totally on underground aquifers. We have close to 80 pumps,... https://pberry.micro.blog/2025/12/04/day-of-adventure-in-system.html
I did a little research on where my water comes from and Chico doesn’t use hardly any surface water (reservoirs) and rely almost totally on underground aquifers. We have close to 80 pumps,... https://pberry.micro.blog/2025/12/04/day-of-adventure-in-system.html
December 4, 2025 at 7:32 PM
Day 4 of Advent(ure) in System Seeing.
I did a little research on where my water comes from and Chico doesn’t use hardly any surface water (reservoirs) and rely almost totally on underground aquifers. We have close to 80 pumps,... https://pberry.micro.blog/2025/12/04/day-of-adventure-in-system.html
I did a little research on where my water comes from and Chico doesn’t use hardly any surface water (reservoirs) and rely almost totally on underground aquifers. We have close to 80 pumps,... https://pberry.micro.blog/2025/12/04/day-of-adventure-in-system.html
Advent(ure) in System Seeing Day 3. I’ve got a head cold so thinking and focusing are not really at full strength today. But this is what I could do with the brain power that I have today.
December 3, 2025 at 5:27 PM
Advent(ure) in System Seeing Day 3. I’ve got a head cold so thinking and focusing are not really at full strength today. But this is what I could do with the brain power that I have today.
It’s Day 2! It’s hard not to try and zoom out to infinity when thinking about the context that surrounds something as “simple” as a bicycle. There are some many bubbles that have to exist more than once. Retail stores so much context ... https://pberry.micro.blog/2025/12/02/its-day-its-hard-not.html
December 2, 2025 at 11:22 PM
It’s Day 2! It’s hard not to try and zoom out to infinity when thinking about the context that surrounds something as “simple” as a bicycle. There are some many bubbles that have to exist more than once. Retail stores so much context ... https://pberry.micro.blog/2025/12/02/its-day-its-hard-not.html
