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@danstarner.com

I’m on social media because God decided natural life wasn’t enough dopamine for me. Decent with distributed systems, currently at Heroku, prev at Bloomberg.

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as a former Salesforce employee my heart breaks for my international colleagues. They didn’t deserve that. No one does

14.02.2026 15:53 👍 265 🔁 32 💬 17 📌 1

Poll taxes are illegal, but that won't stop them from trying. Requiring an ID to vote is a suppression tactic, which is why they are working hard to put them in place.

I hope they don't succeed, but I'm preparing in case they do.

14.02.2026 17:32 👍 138 🔁 28 💬 4 📌 0
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Kingdom Come Deliverance was fantastic, and with my wife being out of town for the next week+, I expect to have no social life as I immediately dive into KCD2 which is supposedly a full magnitude better.

14.02.2026 22:59 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

as for the decline of heroku, it's not just "people started using docker" it's also things like "crypto miners killed the free tier"

and things like "i have an app which is a microservice for another app" needed enterprise features, like vpc

it's very much how it goes for enterprise software

07.02.2026 00:15 👍 20 🔁 2 💬 2 📌 0

Well, since TikTok is now owned by the bad people and is borderline unusable in the US, I guess I’m moving my short-term dopamine hits back over to here

07.02.2026 04:07 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I hope Dems begin to see that moderate or progressive, AIPAC is not our friend.

They endorse January 6th insurrectionists. Yet if you so much as suggest the US uphold its own Leahy laws, no matter your record, they will work against you.

06.02.2026 14:52 👍 16594 🔁 3013 💬 289 📌 173

Gahhh, Heroku was such an incredible product, ahead of its time. Serverless & containers wouldn’t be what they are today without it.

It’s a shame that it was never internally prioritized for what it provided, and this horribly worded PR statement is how it all starts to end.

07.02.2026 04:04 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Bring in new leader, have them promise the moon, need to build from scratch, they leave after 9 months claiming victory, rinse and repeat next year. In my time there I think there were 3 (?) attempts at a vNext that completely failed while the core product languished.

This seems better tbh

06.02.2026 19:48 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Heroku is transitioning to a sustaining engineering model focused on stability, security, reliability, and support. Heroku remains an actively supported, production-ready platform, with an emphasis on maintaining quality and operational excellence rather than introducing new features. We know changes like this can raise questions, and we want to be clear about what this means for customers.

There is no change for customers using Heroku today. Customers who pay via credit card in the Heroku dashboard—both existing and new—can continue to use Heroku with no changes to pricing, billing, service, or day-to-day usage. Core platform functionality, including applications, pipelines, teams, and add-ons, is unaffected, and customers can continue to rely on Heroku for their production, business-critical workloads.

Enterprise Account contracts will no longer be offered to new customers. Existing Enterprise subscriptions and support contracts will continue to be fully honored and may renew as usual.

Why this change

We’re focusing our product and engineering investments on areas where we can deliver the greatest long-term customer value, including helping organizations build and deploy enterprise-grade AI in a secure and trusted way.

Heroku is transitioning to a sustaining engineering model focused on stability, security, reliability, and support. Heroku remains an actively supported, production-ready platform, with an emphasis on maintaining quality and operational excellence rather than introducing new features. We know changes like this can raise questions, and we want to be clear about what this means for customers. There is no change for customers using Heroku today. Customers who pay via credit card in the Heroku dashboard—both existing and new—can continue to use Heroku with no changes to pricing, billing, service, or day-to-day usage. Core platform functionality, including applications, pipelines, teams, and add-ons, is unaffected, and customers can continue to rely on Heroku for their production, business-critical workloads. Enterprise Account contracts will no longer be offered to new customers. Existing Enterprise subscriptions and support contracts will continue to be fully honored and may renew as usual. Why this change We’re focusing our product and engineering investments on areas where we can deliver the greatest long-term customer value, including helping organizations build and deploy enterprise-grade AI in a secure and trusted way.

Heroku is a dead product, and it looks like Salesforce is winding it down. I expected that this was the case after the recent layoffs. I'm a little surprised about how public they're being about it. xcancel.com/heroku/statu...

06.02.2026 19:45 👍 11 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0

The Rehearsal S2E3 is maybe some of the greatest television I’ve ever experienced. Nathan Fielder is a genius and a madman

24.05.2025 15:06 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Rory McIlroy on the verge of winning his first Masters… the season premiere of The Last Of Us 2… shaping up to be a huge Sunday for People Doing Things With A Golf Club They Have Waited A Very Long Time To Do

12.04.2025 22:23 👍 326 🔁 15 💬 16 📌 4

We can disagree about what Dems should do. But I bet we can agree that none of us should be giving them a dime of our money until they do something to earn it.

13.03.2025 23:09 👍 122 🔁 15 💬 2 📌 0

@schumer.senate.gov If you vote for cloture you are a stain on this country’s history that will never go away. You are willingly passing power to a tyrant in waiting, and you are a disgrace to every oath of office any senator has ever sworn. Your legacy will be one of cowardice and contempt.

13.03.2025 22:36 👍 25101 🔁 6478 💬 919 📌 486

What the fuck is even the point of Congress at this point?

14.03.2025 01:26 👍 5 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0

I think some in the Senate have convinced themselves that the backlash to folding will be limited to “the left” and therefore ignorable.

Those people are deeply and profoundly misreading the moment and the stakes.

Virtually every swing district House Dem walked the plank to vote NO for a reason.

14.03.2025 02:46 👍 131851 🔁 24413 💬 4966 📌 1463
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Being able to drop a quarterly US GDP prediction by 5.1% from +2.3% to -2.8% in a single week is one of the most impressive economic developments in the history of the world.

04.03.2025 09:02 👍 18315 🔁 5854 💬 639 📌 701

What's the point of being rich if you can't afford to do the right thing.

13.01.2025 16:29 👍 27437 🔁 4139 💬 734 📌 239

Nothing like getting sick and being relegated to the guest bedroom for a few days & nights 🤧 🛌

09.01.2025 03:50 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Trying to be productive at work after the holidays or a multi-week vacation is so hard. You’re telling me I have to participate in this capitalistic slog again?

I just want to sit by a fire & look at snow forever. 🔥 ❄️

07.01.2025 18:57 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Nothing feels as primally satisfying as starting & maintaining a good indoor wood fire 🔥

01.01.2025 17:07 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Nothing feels as primally satisfying as starting & maintaining a good indoor wood fire 🔥

01.01.2025 17:07 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I loved my ski trip, but why did I end it on the busiest travel day; right before Christmas?!

Plane’s delayed, flights changed, airport is chaos…holy hell

21.12.2024 17:44 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Score Update:
BUF 48 - 42 DET
Final

That's Scorigami!! It's the 1090th unique final score in NFL history.

15.12.2024 21:55 👍 2991 🔁 721 💬 55 📌 117
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15.12.2024 14:12 👍 12060 🔁 8686 💬 172 📌 1015
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State Champions 🏆

BetMGM | #FlyEaglesFly

16.12.2024 00:33 👍 1543 🔁 241 💬 29 📌 44

Final:
Bills 48
Lions 42

16.12.2024 00:54 👍 100 🔁 8 💬 7 📌 2

So excited! Did they say what year it might actually release? Hopefully it’s a little more polished than what Cyberpunk 2077 was at launch

13.12.2024 14:04 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

I’m building a new computer with a 9900x and 4070ti Super just so my wife & I can play Minecraft and Left 4 Dead 2 together.

This absolutely isn’t overkill at all, I don’t know what you’re talking about.

10.12.2024 14:47 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Record-breaking game just for us to end up losing 🥲

09.12.2024 13:46 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Severance — Season 2 Official Trailer | Apple TV+
Severance — Season 2 Official Trailer | Apple TV+ YouTube video by Apple TV

OK, this looks like it lives up to the first season. www.youtube.com/watch?v=_UXK...

08.12.2024 01:58 👍 14 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 1