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Darren Shepherd

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Darren Shepherd

@ibuildthecloud

Agents building Agents. I'm not serious. Co-Founder @Obots_ai Formerly @Rancher_Labs. k3s Creator. Member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints

Phoenix, AZ

Joined July 2013

Darren Shepherd
@ibuildthecloud
Jun 10, 2024
It's amazing between Google, Microsoft, and Apple how many AI features are coming to consumer devices. Features users didn't ask for, are afraid of, don't understand, and are unproven. Is there another example of some trend that was so aggressively pushed on consumers?
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Darren Shepherd
@ibuildthecloud
Feb 25, 2023
This is my best guess on how mastodon works. You create an account in someone’s random server and that gives you an address that identifies you. You then update your Twitter name with that address and keep using Twitter. Did I miss anything?
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Darren Shepherd
@ibuildthecloud
May 8, 2025
This book destroyed a generation of programmers. I was one of them. Took a very long time to unlearn this crap.
Lac Tran An
@LacTranAn
May 6, 2025
I used to think Design Patterns weren't worth learning. Personally, I've seen people use a complicated design pattern to solve a simple problem. But Uncle Bob says Design Patterns is a masterpiece. I'm a simple person, so I'll give it a read. Are you with me?
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Darren Shepherd
@ibuildthecloud
Nov 8, 2025
Sad to see a generation of Linux users not understanding a pre-systemd world. Shell scripts are what made UNIX. Please, return to them. It was a more user friendly world.
tyler
@leothrix
Nov 7, 2025
Even assuming Omarchy had zero bloat, gluing together a system with POSIX shell scripts is like building a house with tools that will randomly break if you hold them at the wrong angle or disappear in your hand if it's Tuesday
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Darren Shepherd
@ibuildthecloud
Jun 5, 2025
Yes if err := something(); err != nil { return err }
Can Vardar
@icanvardar
Jun 4, 2025
do we, as a society, not have better error handling than this?
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Darren Shepherd
@ibuildthecloud
Aug 19, 2020
It's official. k3s is a CNCF sandbox project.
Sandbox Projects
From cncf.io
Darren Shepherd
@ibuildthecloud
Oct 26, 2025
It's probably just my feed, but I see a lot of talk about getting married and having kids. Looking back at my life, career vs kids. There is no competition, family is the best. I was raised to basically get married young and have kids. Growing up (in CA) that was not generally
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Darren Shepherd
@ibuildthecloud
May 6, 2025
Have I ever mentioned I hate the builder pattern.
htmx.org / CEO of Bad Flags (same thing)
@htmx_org
May 6, 2025
just crazy that the other languagebros make fun of us javabros
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Darren Shepherd
@ibuildthecloud
Feb 11, 2022
Today is my last day at SUSE/Rancher. I started working on Rancher about 8 years ago. It’s been an incredible experience with an amazing group of people. Thank you to everyone who supported Rancher over the years and especially the people in the community that tolerated me.
Darren Shepherd
@ibuildthecloud
Sep 21, 2020
I dream for a world in which developer do not need to know Kubernetes nor want to learn Kubernetes.
Darren Shepherd
@ibuildthecloud
May 16, 2025
When Docker was just starting and Kubernetes was barely a thing. My most underrated talk I ever gave was basically telling people to avoid orchestration at all costs. It was a warning to just keep it simple.
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Darren Shepherd
@ibuildthecloud
Oct 21, 2019
Microservices are a way to ensure your application has the same level of complexity as your organization.
Darren Shepherd
@ibuildthecloud
Feb 27, 2023
If you were like, man I miss the good old days of compiling code and then copying it over FTP to a remote server to run as CGI, then you should totally try lambda. It's like that, but way worse.
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Darren Shepherd
@ibuildthecloud
Mar 21, 2024
k8s is such a big, complicated thing and you focus so much time on it that you kind of forget what the original goal was. What we're trying to do again?
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