Ian Brown :verified:

https://mastodon.hccp.org/@igb

XML apologist.
Erlang enthusiast.
Java Platform @ Netflix.
He/him.

Github: https://github.com/igb
Twitter: https://twitter.com/igb
Bookwyrm: http://books.hccp.org
Location: San Francisco

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igb_at_mastodon.hccp.org@momostr.pink

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Last Notes

2026-04-23 02:33:31 UTC

Current status: living in the future and listening to Hüsker Dü.

2026-03-11 21:14:19 UTC

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The only winning move.
https://s3.amazonaws.com/files.mastodon.hccp.org/media_attachments/files/116/212/601/846/929/098/original/e7f47b57b83b9342.mp4

2026-03-11 20:54:20 UTC

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I guess you could say it is "learning".
¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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2026-03-11 20:24:26 UTC

Current stop-calling-it-"AI" status.
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2026-02-02 02:44:04 UTC

When we reclaim power, I want the federal government to sue all the wealthy donors currently financing Trump’s remodeling projects to compensate US taxpayers for the billions it will take to un-fuckup these landmarks, buildings, parks, and monuments.

2026-01-15 10:10:58 UTC

I am hiring in #Warsaw! Hit me up (or apply) if you are interested. #Java #Netflix
https://explore.jobs.netflix.net/careers?pid=790313611585

2025-12-27 05:02:07 UTC

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Fuck this guy. California deserves a better leader than this pandering presidential aspirant.
https://s3.amazonaws.com/files.mastodon.hccp.org/media_attachments/files/115/789/772/952/380/777/original/d63f90b3f094a6b4.jpeg

2025-12-27 04:51:51 UTC

What is the collective noun for a bunch of selfish pricks?
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/26/technology/california-wealth-tax-page-thiel.html?unlocked_article_code=1._08.t0Zm.Nmg8KFEQz_-J&smid=nytcore-ios-share

2025-12-26 02:09:05 UTC

If you had to pick one…

2025-11-05 02:44:42 UTC

A New (York City) Hope
#Mamdani

2025-10-25 14:53:02 UTC

If billionaires want to fund our government then they can just pay their fair share of taxes.
Needless to say, it is dangerous AF for the wealthy to selectively fund any part of our government, let alone sponsor our armed forces.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/25/us/politics/timothy-mellon-donation-troops.html?unlocked_article_code=1.wE8.O57l.gjYd1RWIkWp5&smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

2025-10-11 00:41:15 UTC

"Benioff made the comments to the Times as he rode his private plane to San Francisco this week."
What an asshole.
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2025-09-19 04:35:58 UTC

You shouldn’t be allowed to get a Computer Science degree without first getting Liberal Arts degree.
https://xoxo.zone/@neilk/115229021180618908

2025-09-16 02:25:28 UTC

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no, but I am going to now!

2025-09-16 02:09:40 UTC

Saw this white-tailed kite on the side of 280 this AM so pulled over to take a rushed photo. #BirdWatching #BirdPhotography
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2025-08-24 05:12:54 UTC

What idiot called it "Intel" instead of "Nationalized Semiconductor"?

2025-08-23 19:26:46 UTC

We had a 14-hour layover in Dubai on the way back from India today, so I hit the, uh, slopes with the 7yo to get a few turns in.
Ski hills in the Middle East have strong Midwest vibes.
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2025-07-10 04:51:34 UTC

So @npub1w6d…wd7x is in #NYC on a business trip this week and saw this photo shoot near Chelsea last night…anyone know who the celebrity/model/subject might be?
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2025-06-11 18:13:32 UTC

OUR DEAL WITH CHINA IS DONE, SUBJECT TO FINAL APPROVAL WITH PRESIDENT XI AND ME. FULL MAGNETS, AND ANY NECESSARY RARE EARTHS, WILL BE SUPPLIED, UP FRONT, BY CHINA. LIKEWISE, WE WILL BUY $3,600 WORTH OF CANDLES. SOMEONE WHO IS GOOD AT THE ECONOMY PLEASE HELP ME BUDGET THIS. MY COUNTRY IS DYING.

2025-06-06 15:39:12 UTC

Nice! Someone hit up the #SFPD’s tactical RV at 16th & Mission. #ACAB
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2025-04-28 17:03:11 UTC

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Good news, everyone, the count is now back to 2 for some reason.

2025-04-28 16:54:51 UTC

There seems to be no obvious way to get #Slack to tell me what three things I need to look at in the ocean of channels with unread messages and keyword alerts.
This fucking app seems designed to generate anxiety.
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2025-04-01 03:46:19 UTC

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I don’t know either of you IRL but it was really fun to see folks I follow on Mastodon show up in such a super interesting article. It has me stoked to dig in to Forth!
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2025-04-01 03:29:04 UTC

TIL https://collapseos.org #CollapseOS

2025-04-01 02:01:09 UTC

Where is the Democrat's version of Project 2025 wherein they detail how they are gonna repair all the damage done by Trump, Musk, Sacks, et al?
I'd have a lot more confidence in the opposition if they could signal that they had their shit together.

2025-03-18 23:32:43 UTC

Hey there #fediverse, I’m looking to hire a senior engineer to work with some awesome folks on #Netflix’s build tools & test infrastructure. If you are interested please apply online! (see link in Toot)
My DMs are open if you have any questions about the role or if you want to let me know that you applied.
#Java #JVM #Gradle
https://explore.jobs.netflix.net/careers/job/790301668836?utm_source=LinkedIn&domain=netflix.com

2025-03-18 03:04:14 UTC

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Existential Sort:
O(0)
Don’t actually sort anything and just wait until nobody cares what the order of those things are anymore.

2025-03-18 00:54:12 UTC

Read the room, dickhead.
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2025-02-27 03:43:31 UTC

Protect trans kids.
Protect trans parents.
Protect trans friends.
Protect trans colleagues.
Protect trans people.

2025-02-05 05:22:10 UTC

trying to find my google docs like
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2025-02-01 02:10:29 UTC

I understand that the billionaires think they don’t need the federal government, but who do they think is going to protect them from the rest of us once the federal government is gone?
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/31/us/politics/federal-workers-opm.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

2025-01-24 06:29:51 UTC

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2025-01-24 04:38:06 UTC

Thanks ChatGPT!!!
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2025-01-06 05:32:23 UTC

The antidote to capitalism is de-capitalism.
https://s3.amazonaws.com/files.mastodon.hccp.org/media_attachments/files/113/779/771/948/450/411/original/5d97ad0edabbd170.mp4

2024-12-27 06:13:51 UTC

Hey I donated to #Wikipedia, because I like non-misinformation and the internet.
Remember folks: billionaires are bad for everyone!
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2024-12-25 05:33:08 UTC

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Anyway, try to be more kind.
And try to stick up for folks who are having a rough time. I wish I had tonight.
Anyway, #HappyHolidays to you and yours.

2024-12-25 05:30:17 UTC

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None of us said anything when the cops kicked the guy out, and the church staff came over and apologized for the disruption.
Sitting through that homily it felt like we’d all failed a test.
Like we all got an F in Christmas 101.
Afterwards I chatted with the woman who had given the guy the program. The guy, we agreed, had just wanted to be somewhere warm and welcoming with his dog. And on the one night when it should be the easiest to find that he (and his awesome dog) got kicked to the curb.

2024-12-25 05:24:01 UTC

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The dude seemed to be out of it, but was taking cues from folks on when to stand and when to sit and when to sing and was definitely getting into the music.
Everything was fine until 20 minutes in when 4 cops showed up and told him he wasn’t welcome and he took his dog and followed them out. It was a pretty packed service so soon after he left some folks came and took his place next to me.
The homily was pretty standard stuff about welcoming everyone & giving everyone a seat at the table.

2024-12-25 05:17:31 UTC

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Anyway, this year there was a guy at the end of our pew having a difficult time. I ended up sitting next to him, as he was definitely in a bad state. He was shouting a bunch and getting into it with the church staff.
The service started and the woman in front of me turned around and offered him a program. The guy seemed stoked by that small act of kindness and calmed down, though was still a bit tweaked out. He had cool little dog with him, and the dog ended up falling asleep on my foot.
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2024-12-25 05:08:53 UTC

So look, I’m not really a believer, and my wife is into a totally different pantheon of deities, but we go to church on Christmas Eve every year with my folks and our kids and it is kind of a nice tradition.

2024-12-23 17:52:19 UTC

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maybe, but at least there is a standard that still works with most of the consumer and enterprise calander-ware out there.

2024-12-23 17:47:49 UTC

Spent the morning setting up #Apache #WebDAV and fucking around with .ics files like it is 2004 and I’m @npub1uqc…q3au.

2024-12-18 02:08:03 UTC

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nice! I was a speakeasy customer back in the day…in fact I discovered the Magnetic Fields while on hold with Speakeasy support one evening. Was a great ISP until the Megapath Global Tetrahedron takeovers.

2024-12-18 00:25:43 UTC

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my first computer job was also as a "Webmaster"…ok, well, technically it was "Assistant Webmaster"…but I clawed my way up the corporate ladder* until I became a full-fledged "Webmaster".
*ok, well, technically the Webmaster quit to go join a startup so I got promoted.

2024-12-12 01:37:35 UTC

How do I tell if I have "Apple Intelligence" yet?

2024-12-06 19:23:28 UTC

America’s biggest immigration problem seems to be white guys from South Africa coming into our country in order to infiltrate our government, dismantle our civic institutions, take away our freedoms, and burn down our social networks.

2024-11-28 23:54:20 UTC

Tom Brady is a *terrible* commentator. It is like non-stop background cringe that makes watching a game he is calling nearly impossible. #NFL

2024-11-25 01:20:34 UTC

Billionaires like Marc Andreessen and Ben Horowitz want to fund experiments like #Synapse using the money from their limited partners. They aren’t at risk. There’s no downside for them. When it all goes south though, it is regular people who lose their life savings.
This is a fucked up and sad story.
We are going to see more and more of this kind of stuff now that "the handcuffs are off".
https://www.cnbc.com/2024/11/22/synapse-bankruptcy-thousands-of-americans-see-their-savings-vanish.html

2024-11-14 22:18:03 UTC

This fool is going to get people killed.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/11/14/world/middleeast/elon-musk-iran-trump.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

2024-11-09 17:33:13 UTC

Someone made an Apple Music playlist of all the songs mentioned in Michael Azerrad's awesome book on the 80s/90s punk/indie scene "Our Band Could Be Your Life".
https://music.apple.com/us/playlist/our-band-could-be-your-life/pl.u-AkAm81pUl5WGa

2024-11-07 04:57:40 UTC

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🤔

2024-11-07 01:58:01 UTC

I like #NPR and will be sad if it goes away.

2024-11-06 18:51:35 UTC

So, like, is it *our* turn to storm the Capitol or what?

2024-11-05 19:56:00 UTC

I pulled over on 280 and got out to snap a picture of this shy kestrel on the side of the road. #BirdWatching #BirdPhotography
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2024-10-31 04:45:10 UTC

My story’s infinite.
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2024-10-27 04:34:50 UTC

Here’s the thing:
Billionaires are very easy to embarrass online and they care way more about avoiding humiliation than losing money.

2024-10-20 23:01:23 UTC

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the original Thexder was one of my all time faves as a kid.

2024-10-06 03:47:24 UTC

X (formerly Twitter) is just a pro-Trump platform that channels attention and money to #Trump.
Don’t be a part of that.

2024-09-29 22:16:21 UTC

Always Be Ship of Theseus-ing

2024-09-21 01:33:32 UTC

Wait, does #LinkedIn not have an "introduce these two people" button?

2024-09-15 15:38:45 UTC

I am currently seeking funding for my #crypto #web3 startup. We make a Layer 2 #blockchain that is actually just a Postgres instance. We are faster than any other layer 2 blockchain solutions because we do not persist or rollup any transactions to an underlying blockchain. That is because in our solution, there is no underlying blockchain. Just a Postgres instance where we store all the data.
Anyway, my DMs are open for any VCs or other investors wanting to get in on the ground floor. #wagmi

2024-09-15 00:14:23 UTC

Things were a lot better back when we were all using XML & SOAP.
Just saying.

2024-09-11 01:32:33 UTC

Trump: "Human sacrifice! Dogs and cats *eating* together! Mass hysteria!” #PresidentialDebate

2024-09-06 03:34:11 UTC

What the fuck is this opportunistic self-serving douchebag talking about?
https://www.gov.ca.gov/2024/09/05/governor-newsom-seeks-to-harness-the-power-of-genai-to-address-homelessness-other-challenges/

2024-08-29 02:15:48 UTC

Cloud commuting.
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2024-08-09 05:04:12 UTC

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systemd really fucks with the usability & simplicity of Linux. Seems like a miss that will tee up the next OS in a few years or decades.

2024-08-05 21:21:50 UTC

Welp, got called out in @npub1rch…hag5’s opening talk at #JVMLS for a Tweet in which I expressed my, uh, "skepticism" about the (then) new Java release cadence. 😅
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2024-08-02 22:17:07 UTC

Tired: "code generation"
Wired: "software-defined software"