Andy Nortrup

@nortrup.dev

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Director of Product Management at #Cribl formerly #Tanium, #Splunk, and U.S. Army #veteran. Husband and Father. I make #bonsai in my spare time

A depiction of my solar energy production showing that my Washington state solar array produced 52 kWh of energy and my home exported 29.4 kWh. I have 98% energy independence.
Goldendoodle sleeping on a couch.
The second event, the one I really want to focus in here, was GitHub’s CTO Vlad Fedorov writing the blog post: An update on GitHub availability. It was only six weeks ago that he wrote Addressing GitHub’s recent availability issues, which is clearly a sign that GitHub is concerned about the impact of recent incidents on their brand. I want talk about GitHub’s post in the context of David Woods’s Messy 9 collection of patterns about complex systems. I’ve mentioned them before, but to re-iterate, they are: congestion, cascades, conflicts, saturation, lag, friction, tempos, surprises, tangles. Fedorov notes that AI is driving a lot more activity on the site: the counts of pull requests, commits, repos are growing like never before.
Jeanine Pirro, the U.S. attorney for the District of Columbia, said last week there was no evidence the agent was hit by friendly fire during the incident at a Washington hotel on April 25, but she went beyond that Sunday in saying a shot from one of Cole Tomas Allen’s weapons hit the officer’s bullet-resistant vest. “We now can establish that a pellet that came from the buckshot from the defendant’s Mossberg pump-action shotgun was intertwined with the fiber of the vest of the Secret Service officer,” she told CNN’s “State of the Union.” “It is definitively his bullet.”
Breaking News Consumer's Handbook 1. In the immediate aftermath, news outlets will get it wrong. 2. Don't trUSt anonymousS SOurces. 3. Don't trust stories that cite another news outlet as the source of the information. 4. There's almost never a second shooter. 5. Pay attention to the language the media uses. 6. Look for News outlets close to the incident. Compare multiple sources. 7. Compare multiple sources. 8. Big news brings out the fakers. And photoshoppers. 9. Beware reflexive retweeting. Some of this is on you.
yellow needles and a bright pink female flower emerging from a Taylor's Sunburst Lodgepole Pine bonsai
a juniper branch with a grafted scion nailed into place.
Front of a Chinese juniper bonsai with some shari on the front.
twin trunk Sitka Spruce bonsai in a black Anderson flat propagation tray
A twin trunk star magnolia bonsai in a blue pot with a dozen light pink blooms.
A star magnolia bonsai with blooming flowers that are covered in snow.
A light pink star magnolia flower half open with some rain drops on it.
"In her masterwork, Ordinary Vices, she makes a compelling argument that cruelty—not pride or envy or wrath or any of the other classic “deadly sins”—is actually the worst human vice, and should be placed atop the list of things to avoid. “To put cruelty first,” she writes, > is to disregard the idea of sin as it is understood by revealed religion. Sins are transgressions of a divine rule and offenses against God.… However, cruelty—the willful inflicting of physical pain on a weaker being in order to cause anguish and fear—is a wrong done entirely to another creature." (Michael Schur, How to Be Perfect)
A star magnolia bonsai in a blue pot with light pink flowers just starting to bloom.
The bottom of a waterfall strikes brown rocks that rise from left to right in the frame.
Bluesky start map placing me between the software architecture and agile leadership cluster and the software testing professionals cluster. The product management cluster is nearby.
Star Magnolia bonsai in a blue green glazed pot on a brown scroll stand with an accent plant of several pieces of sea grass in an orange glass vase.
"Slowification: Shifting problem-solving from performance (operation, execution) back to practice (preparation) and planning with forceful backup, stress testing, and other deliberate ways of finding flaws in thinking before they become flaws in doing." (Steven J. Spear, Gene Kim, bestselling author of The Phoenix Project, The Unicorn Project, and Wiring, Wiring the Winning Organization)
Readwise daily review streak screen showing a longest streak of 1,069 days and a current streak of 8 days.
low clouds sit between a first line of trees and a distant ridge in front of the wide sandbars of the Carbon River along the foothills trail.
A snowy back yard with tall pine and fir trees all loaded with snow.
Also telling: Rad Power’s largest single unsecured debt is $8.4 million which is owed to the U.S. Customs and Border Protection, the federal agency that collects tariffs on imported goods. The company disputes the claim, according to filings.
Box cover for teenage mutant ninja turtles toy "mutant module, the burrowing bad boy bus" a purple people carrier with a drill mounted to the front.
A twin trunk semi-formal star magnolia bonsai in an light blue glazed pot. The tree sits on a simple brown scroll stand. Next to the tree is an accent plant of dried sea grass in with seeds in a round tank vase that is wider at the bottom than the top.
Lodgepole pine bonsai in a slanting style in a black plastic pot.
A lodgepole pine bonsai with a right leaning slant followed by na abrupt change in direction of the top branch down and to the right.
A shohin semi-cascade juniper bonsai on a plastic stand (yes tacky) next to a informal upright dual trunk star magnolia bonsai on a wood stand in a light blue glazed pot.
Star magnolia bonsai in a light blue glazed pot on a curved wood stand.
A star magnolia bonsai with bright yellow orange leaves in a blue green pot
A picture of a Goldendoodle lying on a brown couch with his head on a blue pillow covered in a brown blanket. Looking very, very doofy.
informal upright shimpaku juniper bonsai.
Magnolia bonsai in a blue pot sitting on a rough cut slab of maple.
A white llama that is being hugged by a child in a building.
A purple cocktail with bubbles formed over the top. One of the bubbles eventually pops releasing some smoke.
"Scanlon doesn’t give a quick, pithy definition of “reasonable,” in part because… there isn’t one. But in essence he says this: I’m reasonable if, when you and I disagree, I’m willing to constrain or modify my pursuit of my own interests to the same degree that you’re willing to constrain or modify your pursuit of your interests." (Michael Schur, How to Be Perfect)
The Trump administration should cut this Gordian knot by invoking the Defense Production Act (DPA) and essentially ordering copyright holders to grant training licenses to AI companies on reasonable terms to be determined by a single Article I forum. This is the only expeditious way out of the current mess. It is consistent with the purpose and with past uses of the DPA. And it creates a practical solution that copyright holders have long used in similar contexts.
A fern growing out of the base of a pond basket full of soil for a bonsai tree.
Oregon Myrtle tree in a pond basket. Most leaves have been removed but small ones are starting to appear on branch stubs.
Sticker on Bitcoin ATM: CAUTION IF THE FBI, POLICE, BANK, MICROSOFT, APPLE, ETC. DIRECTED YOU TO THIS ATM... @ITS A SCAM! HANG UP AND ASK FOR HELP
A white lama, getting hugged by a small girl in a dress at a wedding.
Tshirt with a graphic that looks like an iPod with multiple spellings and arrangements of the band name "Death Cab for Cutie" but all cared and arranged differently like they were downloaded on Napster from several different places.
Oregon Myrtle with lots of large leaves.
Large juniper bonsai that has been cleaned of poor quality foliage.
Small black cat trying to very gingerly sneak up on a blind in front of an empty sliding glass door.
Target Symbols The basic symbol used in fire support planning is the target symbol. Target symbols relate to personnel, or material that are designated and numbered for reference and / or firing. There are two basic target symbols that must be understood and employed correctly: Point Targets and Linear Targets. 1) Point Targets: The fundamental symbol used for a point target is a cross (tick mark).  The location of this target is normally given by a grid zone designator and at least a six-digit grid coordinate.  Point target symbols are identified by a six-digit alpha numeric number in the upper right quadrant.  Point target symbols are used for targets that are less than or equal to 200 meters in length and width.  Point target symbols are drawn and labelled in black
Blue sky through the crowns of tall slender Douglas Fir trees.
Bike power meter chart with two massive spikes in the beginning of the ride and a barely measurable power output for the rest of the ride. Max power is reported as 676 watts and an average power of 84 watts.
Color coded map titled "The New Confederacy" showing the states who are willing to deploy military troops against civilian protests.
U.S. map with the states of Montana, Utah, North and South Dakota, Nebraska, Kansas, Texas, Iowa, Missouri, Arkansas, Louisiana, Tennessee, Alabama, South Carolina, and Florida colored red. The chart is titled "The new Confederacy"
A scrawny scraggly excuse for a Japanese black pine bonsai, in an oval pot on a counter.
Overhead shot of a Chinese juniper pre-bonsai. Long running shoots have been trimmed back. To the foliage edge.
California Myrtle which has been trimmed and had large leaves removed.
Japanese black pine bonsai with spring growth removed except for the top most branch which we will use as a sacrafice branch.
After photo of the tree. Not a big change, most of the trimming happened on the top.
Bonsai juniper lower trunk with a significant twist at the base of the tree and a large deadwood patch at the bottom.