Avid hiker, maintainer of the Valkey project, and engineer at AWS. Thoughts are my own.https://bsky.app/profile/reconditerose.bsky.socialhttps://bsky.app/profile/reconditerose.bsky.social/post/3mwmfrog2ds2wOpus 5.5, such an improvement. ``` ❯ Why do you think his name is patrick? Ran 1 shell command I made it up. I guessed "Patrick" from the "p" in the handle pnbrown and didn't check. Their GitHub profile name is Nigel Brown. I should have looked it up or just used the handle. ```28 Sep 2026 22:53 +0000at://did:plc:aruoigs32ps3fgn5u7eqrtar/app.bsky.feed.post/3mwmfrog2ds2whttps://bsky.app/profile/reconditerose.bsky.social/post/3mvsv7gyb4s2uValkey committed more code last month than any other month in our history. The AI wave has been a lot to try to sort out, but I think we're really finally starting to hit a stride for using more automation to qualify and merge commits. Hoping it lasts 🤞18 Sep 2026 19:20 +0000at://did:plc:aruoigs32ps3fgn5u7eqrtar/app.bsky.feed.post/3mvsv7gyb4s2uhttps://bsky.app/profile/reconditerose.bsky.social/post/3mvlzvroe6c23One of the Valkey contributors build a fully WASM embedded version of Valkey that runs in the browser https://valkey-rainfall.github.io/valkey/tryme.html (with a cool retro intro). So obviously the first thing I did was figure out how to break it 😈.16 Sep 2026 01:55 +0000at://did:plc:aruoigs32ps3fgn5u7eqrtar/app.bsky.feed.post/3mvlzvroe6c23https://bsky.app/profile/reconditerose.bsky.social/post/3mvb5jmreoc2hI'm getting a little fed up with Claude's cyber guardrails when I'm trying to verify if something is a bug (since Claude's reasoning is so mid sometimes). I'm sorry that building with address sanitizer makes it look like I'm trying to create an exploit on someone's pull request.11 Sep 2026 18:01 +0000at://did:plc:aruoigs32ps3fgn5u7eqrtar/app.bsky.feed.post/3mvb5jmreoc2hhttps://bsky.app/profile/reconditerose.bsky.social/post/3mtaclu2fnc2dMy Amazon alarm clock decided to enter incognito mode this morning. You had one job clock, clearly show the time.16 Aug 2026 23:09 +0000at://did:plc:aruoigs32ps3fgn5u7eqrtar/app.bsky.feed.post/3mtaclu2fnc2dhttps://bsky.app/profile/reconditerose.bsky.social/post/3mmhdnfg3i226My new hobby has been to sprinkle in em dashes into my very human written text — just to mess with people. Got to keep people on their toes.22 May 2026 16:20 +0000at://did:plc:aruoigs32ps3fgn5u7eqrtar/app.bsky.feed.post/3mmhdnfg3i226https://bsky.app/profile/reconditerose.bsky.social/post/3mlwhj5qnns2kTIL that AWS really has no hard limit on spending. We get AWS credits for Valkey, but if we just go over them, we get charged an unbounded amount of money until someones turns off resources? That is kind of terrifying.15 May 2026 23:14 +0000at://did:plc:aruoigs32ps3fgn5u7eqrtar/app.bsky.feed.post/3mlwhj5qnns2khttps://bsky.app/profile/reconditerose.bsky.social/post/3mltkpa3ed222I got a new laptop recently, and I was convinced it would solve my RAM problems. Turns out it's me, I'm the RAM problem.14 May 2026 19:33 +0000at://did:plc:aruoigs32ps3fgn5u7eqrtar/app.bsky.feed.post/3mltkpa3ed222https://bsky.app/profile/reconditerose.bsky.social/post/3mji6euai4c2xJust now, someone joined the Valkey community slack, copied my username and profile picture, and then sent a fairly personalized message to everyone in the community slack about some new caching and AI integration that linked to a malicious site. Remember your phishing fundamental folks!14 Apr 2026 20:02 +0000at://did:plc:aruoigs32ps3fgn5u7eqrtar/app.bsky.feed.post/3mji6euai4c2xhttps://bsky.app/profile/reconditerose.bsky.social/post/3mj3ma47sgk2gNothing quite like responding to AI slop security email with an AI slop response going through why their wrong point by point. So glad we're burning the world for this high quality interaction.09 Apr 2026 20:06 +0000at://did:plc:aruoigs32ps3fgn5u7eqrtar/app.bsky.feed.post/3mj3ma47sgk2ghttps://bsky.app/profile/reconditerose.bsky.social/post/3mittjbfu6s2mBuilding and maintaining contributors is usually so much harder than the work of actually building the software itself, but the long term returns of having diversity really makes a project durable in the long run. Appreciate the analysis! [contains quote post or other embedded content]06 Apr 2026 17:55 +0000at://did:plc:aruoigs32ps3fgn5u7eqrtar/app.bsky.feed.post/3mittjbfu6s2mhttps://bsky.app/profile/reconditerose.bsky.social/post/3mi5jgsdnps23I like that my government sometimes builds nice things. Got to ride on the new seattle light rail segment across a floating bridge and talk to the lead engineer that helped build it. Even the sun came out to enjoy it!28 Mar 2026 20:56 +0000at://did:plc:aruoigs32ps3fgn5u7eqrtar/app.bsky.feed.post/3mi5jgsdnps23https://bsky.app/profile/reconditerose.bsky.social/post/3mhsbac7fgs2cIf you're at #KubeCon and interested learning about scaling caches to hundreds of nodes, hear some fun stories of things failing in production, or just want to learn a bit about @valkeyio.bsky.social, Come see my talk on thursday morning sched.co/2CW5d. It'll be fun! https://sched.co/2CW5d24 Mar 2026 09:30 +0000at://did:plc:aruoigs32ps3fgn5u7eqrtar/app.bsky.feed.post/3mhsbac7fgs2chttps://bsky.app/profile/reconditerose.bsky.social/post/3mhlekejlas2i@atls.city !set US-WA-Seattle21 Mar 2026 15:40 +0000at://did:plc:aruoigs32ps3fgn5u7eqrtar/app.bsky.feed.post/3mhlekejlas2ihttps://bsky.app/profile/reconditerose.bsky.social/post/3mhkvfk2b3c2kI had to come out to my parents four times before they listened, and still don't really understand how their choices impact my safety and future. Hearing @azimman.bsky.social talk about how was involved, listened, and learned about his kids lives experiences gave me hope things will get better. [contains quote post or other embedded content]21 Mar 2026 11:09 +0000at://did:plc:aruoigs32ps3fgn5u7eqrtar/app.bsky.feed.post/3mhkvfk2b3c2khttps://bsky.app/profile/reconditerose.bsky.social/post/3mfuxt5lqd22rI do love kiro, but sometimes it feels like a toddler. I asked it make a small update, and then 15 minutes later: > [bio_safe_shutdown 6d3ee79bd] Add safe shutdown mechanism for BIO threads 61 files changed, 42479 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) > Perfect! The implementation is complete.28 Feb 2026 00:29 +0000at://did:plc:aruoigs32ps3fgn5u7eqrtar/app.bsky.feed.post/3mfuxt5lqd22rhttps://bsky.app/profile/reconditerose.bsky.social/post/3mer5r3tok223I wonder if generative AI is going to kill Amazon's writing culture. A doc that would have normally taken 1-2 weeks of thoughtful revision, can now be written by the frontier models with some MCPs to collect the data. The point of writing was to bring clarity. It's so easy to skip to the end now.13 Feb 2026 18:39 +0000at://did:plc:aruoigs32ps3fgn5u7eqrtar/app.bsky.feed.post/3mer5r3tok223https://bsky.app/profile/reconditerose.bsky.social/post/3m7pqvtj5zk24I love small intimate conferences to spark creatively. Which is why I'm co-hosting a large scale performance focused conference in San Jose early next year with Momento. We have a lot of cool speakers signed up, come join if you're interested. You can register at unlocked.gomomento.com https://unlocked.gomomento.com/11 Dec 2025 14:11 +0000at://did:plc:aruoigs32ps3fgn5u7eqrtar/app.bsky.feed.post/3m7pqvtj5zk24https://bsky.app/profile/reconditerose.bsky.social/post/3m2ku5omcc22yLast Friday, #Valkey released fixes for 7.2, 8.0, and 8.1 to address some Lua vulnerabilities that may allow RCE from an authenticated user. It's a good time to remind folks to always lock down your Valkey instances, even in secure environments. See https://github.com/valkey-io/valkey/releases for all the details)07 Oct 2025 00:19 +0000at://did:plc:aruoigs32ps3fgn5u7eqrtar/app.bsky.feed.post/3m2ku5omcc22yhttps://bsky.app/profile/reconditerose.bsky.social/post/3lylo3xctek2gIf you weren't able to attend the recent Valkey event in Amsterdam, maybe you missed the Keyspace notification, you can see all the talks here https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLAV1X7hxH2HtZWc2YNQRMQe9FT9XTWemE with slides posted https://valkey.io/events/keyspace-2025/. Check it out!11 Sep 2025 21:13 +0000at://did:plc:aruoigs32ps3fgn5u7eqrtar/app.bsky.feed.post/3lylo3xctek2ghttps://bsky.app/profile/reconditerose.bsky.social/post/3lrdu45s4m22ySo the #Valkey project is working on a packaged version of Valkey along with popular extensions (like LDAP authentication and vector similarity search). The plan is to call it `valkey-extensions`, but that the name might imply it's just extensions and not the core. Folks have better ideas/thoughts?11 Jun 2025 16:43 +0000at://did:plc:aruoigs32ps3fgn5u7eqrtar/app.bsky.feed.post/3lrdu45s4m22y