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Witt Allen
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Automation, monitoring/o11y, DevOps, tinkering, hiking, lifting, climbing, reading, information architecture. Sinner saved by grace.

https://wittallen.net
Mastodon: https://tty0.social/@witt
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"Americans have been dragged, tackled, beaten, tased and shot by immigration agents. They’ve had their necks kneeled on. They’ve been held outside in the rain while in their underwear."

If you read anything today, make it this.

www.propublica.org/article/immi...
More Than 170 U.S. Citizens Have Been Held by Immigration Agents. They’ve Been Kicked, Dragged and Detained for Days.
The government does not track how often immigration agents grab citizens. So ProPublica did. Our tally — almost certainly incomplete — includes people who were held for days without a lawyer. And near...
www.propublica.org
October 17, 2025 at 1:42 PM
Ahhh, the first runny nose of the season 🤧
October 28, 2025 at 3:25 PM
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Apparently the White House posted this at some point last night and has since removed it.

You should take the time to read; it is deeply alarming. All the 🚩🚩🚩.

A few things that jumped off the screen at me...

archive.ph/hpbUn
September 26, 2025 at 3:22 PM
Micro-blogging?

More like micro-flogging.
September 4, 2025 at 7:11 PM
I bought a new game yesterday, Sprawl!

Probably won't be able to play it for 8-10 months, but I bought it.
July 30, 2025 at 12:54 PM
Hundreds of dollars were spent on designing and refining the Webdings font.

And I just find that hilarious.
June 27, 2025 at 2:52 PM
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Lifelong Chrisitan here 👋🏼

The older I’ve gotten, the more I’ve realized just how much of a cheap prop Israel and the Bible are to dispensationalists and superseccionists.

A 🧵
Tucker Carlson and Ted Cruz on Israel and theology.
June 18, 2025 at 7:21 PM
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While in the LOTR movies Denethor just randomly went crazy, that's not the whole story.

Denethor became a doomer. He spent all night scrolling through bad news on his magic device, because the Dark Lord only let him see bad news and not good, until he lost all hope and it broke him.
May 24, 2025 at 8:03 PM
@nicolefv.bsky.social Watching the #MSBuild Agentic DevOps panel and I just wanted to say thank you for cutting straight through the bullshit. There need to be more voices like yours in tech.
May 28, 2025 at 6:14 PM
"Very cool." I rolled my eyes, but I still chuckled. Bonus points for proper use of the word "literally". #msbuild #livestream
May 19, 2025 at 5:57 PM
If I ever obtain ownership in a gym, I'm laser-aligning all the racks.
May 12, 2025 at 11:20 PM
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An update from Memphis:

* xAI is building a 2nd site that is going to use a jaw-dropping amount of power, triggering federal oversight by an agency being harmed by DOGE

* Local leaders and press aren't doing nearly enough to address concerns

512pixels.net/2025/05/new-...
Second xAI Datacenter Could Take Enough Energy to Power 40% of Memphis; Government Agency Charged with Studying Impact Targeted by DOGE - 512 Pixels
After linking to that New Yorker article about xAI using gas turbines to help power its first supercomputer here in Memphis, I opened my RSS client to see this article by Samuel Hardiman, who writes: ...
512pixels.net
May 6, 2025 at 3:49 PM
For those skeptical, like me, The Residence (Netflix) is totally all it's cracked up to be. Great acting, casting, characters, direction, and writing. Very clever and humorous.
April 10, 2025 at 4:05 PM
@snowdrama.bsky.social Hey, I came across a thread you made on the Zola forum. Just wanted to say that you sharing how you were doing things helped me a LOT. I was finally able to use the URL format I wanted. Thanks!
March 19, 2025 at 3:39 AM
I love my Field Notes. @ismh86.net turned me on to them over a decade ago and carrying one with me everywhere I go has significantly improved my life.

If you're like me and get uneasy with dog-eared notebooks, I can recommend the Bellroy cover.
#analog
February 7, 2025 at 5:32 PM
What I really want to know is: who is actually sitting down on those ice cold, tile benches in the shower?
February 2, 2025 at 9:45 PM
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Ticketmaster requiring me to download an app to get my tickets is one of the most evil things out there, and should 1000% be illegal.
December 17, 2024 at 7:37 PM
"Consequences, Mr. Wick."
"Consequences..."
December 12, 2024 at 10:01 PM
Who knew baking credentials into your codebase would have consequences?

Who knew!?

_Everyone in the past 10 years who's been interested in building reliable software_
December 12, 2024 at 10:00 PM
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There are no good email apps.
December 12, 2024 at 7:27 PM
I'm not an academic, nor do I desire to, but I'm all for getting the same/similar outcomes with less effort - or maybe even the same effort as long as it's standardized.
December 7, 2024 at 8:03 PM
Practically, my "research" has been just that: consumption of every media format and mental preoccupation with the Thing, but I'm starting to think the research path in academia - or anything more disciplined than what I do - may be more efficient, if not more effective, than my approach.
December 7, 2024 at 8:01 PM
It would probably do me well to start differentiating between obsessively reading information about a particular subject or product versus actual research.
December 7, 2024 at 7:56 PM