Welcome to May’s Interesting Links! This month saw the Current conference in London with the usual 5k run, lots of familiar faces and friendly conversations—and plenty of excellent breakout sessions too. It seems live-tweeting conferences isn’t a thing any more, with only myself and Thomas Cooper seeming to post anything, but if you want you can go review the hashtag feed on BlueSky for some highlights of the conference.
I got my first Hacker News front page hit with AI Slop is Killing Online Communities (51k views and climbing!), and a nice little halo boost for another rant from earlier this year, AI will fsck you up if you’re not on board.
Oh, and I got involved in some thought leadering over on LinkedIn (which a non-zero number of people thought was serious) with my shitposting about fried breakfasts.
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Kafka and Event Streaming
