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180

Account age

3 yrs

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Known for

🚀 Platform Engineering Monthly #29 is out!
💸 $18k Google Cloud bill despite a $7 budget. Leaked API key, 60k attacker requests, spending caps ignored
🎯 Coordinated supply chain blitz hits npm, PyPI & Docker Hub in 48 hours supply chain attackers are not slowing down
🎤 I gave a lightning talk at KubeCon EU on taming non-determinism in AI-augmented platforms — link inside!
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1 views 🚀 Platform Engineering Monthly #29 is out! 💸 $18k Google Cloud bill despite a $7 budget. Leaked API key, 60k attacker requests, spending caps ignored 🎯 Coordinated supply chain blitz hits npm, PyPI & Docker Hub in 48 hours supply chain attackers are not slowing down 🎤 I gave a lightning talk at KubeCon EU on taming non-determinism in AI-augmented platforms — link inside! https://pemonthly.com/p/pl

📊 Post engagement

📊 Activity & format

Posting cadence

0.33 / week

A lower-frequency account — each post lands with more weight.

Content mix

Mostly text

Recent: 10 text · 2 image · 0 video.

Follower / following

0.9×

Follows 190 back. A more reciprocal / networked account.

Recent posts

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🔥 Top post 🚀 Platform Engineering Monthly May 2026 is out! 🔐 CISA leaked their own AWS GovCloud keys 🔌 3,800 repos breached via VSCode extension 🚂 Railway cut off by Google Cloud overnight 📖 Read & subscribe → pemonthly.com/p/platform-engineering-monthly-may-c7e #PlatformEngineering #DevOp… ★ 2

I have moved to @randoming — please follow me there. This account will no longer be posting. 🚀 Platform Engineering Monthly July 2026 is out! ✈️ Airbus walks away from AWS 🎯 Codecov, Cordyceps — CI/CD keeps being the attack surface 💸 An AWS billing alert for $140B (yes, really) 🌍 Data sovereignty is now an architecture constraint,… ★ 1 🚀 Platform Engineering Monthly June 2026 is out! 🔑 Google API key revocation is broken 🪱 npm worm spreads via stolen tokens 🤖 MCP tools are your attack surface ☁️ AWS and GCP now share networks 📖 Read & subscribe → pemonthly.com/p/platform… ★ 1

🚀 Platform Engineering Monthly #29 is out! 💸 $18k Google Cloud bill despite a $7 budget. Leaked API key, 60k attacker requests, spending caps ignored 🎯 Coordinated supply chain blitz hits npm, PyPI & Docker Hub in 48 hours supply chain att… ★ 1 🗞️ Platform Engineering Monthly #28 is out now! 🔐 Opt out of GitHub Copilot training before Apr 24th ⚠️ Trivy supply chain attack — CI/CD security is in a bad place ☁️ AWS UAE incident reminds us DR still matters 🔧 One Kubernetes config ch… 📰 February’s Platform Engineering Monthly is live. ⚙️ CI pain at scale 🤖 AI contribution overload ☁️ cloud misconfig risks ... and where I’ll be speaking! 👉 https://pemonthly.com/p/platform-engineering-monthly-february-204 ★ 1 📰 January’s Platform Engineering Monthly is live! 🤖 AI-driven PRs, 🛠️ platform ownership creep, ☁️ sovereign cloud, and 📅 events 👉 https://pemonthly.com/p/platform-engineering-monthly-january-1ff ★ 2 RE: https://social.lansky.name/@hn100/115961227539557528 Sliding quickly down the slippery slope of normalised surveillance. Platform Engineering Monthly – December 2025! 🎄 💸 GitHub’s self-hosted runner tax—rolled back after backlash! 🧟 Zombie GitHub Actions: Secrets exposed, code running wild 💰 Save $$$ with In-Place Pod Resizing & Zone-Aware Routing 🛠️ DIY Te… ★ 1

Building open-source for Android is such a rewarding experience. Pleased to finally get my first Android app published! It's a pretty basic webview wrapper for Mistrals Le chat, but I find it useful. 😬 https://f-droid.org/packages/org.shano.assistral/ Source is here: https://github.com/shano/assistral

🐘 Community & instance

Home server

social.lol

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✅ Link-verified

Verified link

Proved ownership of a website linked on their profile — Mastodon's green-check verification, a real identity signal rather than a paid badge.

On Mastodon since

Jan 2023

Joined in the Twitter-exodus wave of late 2022 — part of the migration that made Mastodon a real destination.

💡 Facts

🗓️Joined Mastodon in 2023 — 3 years ago.

👁️Averages 1 views per post.

📤Posts about 0.3× per week.

🕵️ Fake follower check

Estimated

52/100

Fair Credibility score

76%

Mixed Real audience

Medium Fake-follower risk

High Data confidence

Est. 76% real, active audience · Medium fake-follower risk.
Low engagement (~0.6% of followers engage each post) — a sign of an inflated or inactive audience.
Verified account.
Established account (3+ years old).

Heuristic estimate from engagement, follower ratios, account age & growth — a screening signal, not a guarantee.

About

I have moved to @randoming — follow me there. An Irish living on the UK seaside. Posts about open source, platform engineering and other random stuff. One of the hosts of Hybrid Cloud Show (https://hybridcloudshow.com/) which is a part of the @LateNightLinux family of pods. I also publish a monthly Platform Engineering newsletter at https://pemonthly.com.

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