Bret Fisher

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Bret Fisher@bretfisher· Jun 16

🎙️Podcast drop: Manage #Kubernetes agent-first with OpenChoreo, a new CNCF project that wants to make K8s “AI-native.” Watch the video podcast: youtu.be/AqGWjxEfj2g Listen to the audio podcast: podcast.bretfisher.com/episodes/k8s...

Bret Fisher@bretfisher· Mar 26

Which is more active and more authentic at #kubecon, X or Bluesky? I asked Claude for analysis of last two days. Across both, 2/3rd of posts are corporate accounts or humans promoting, with 1/3rd being genuine experiences and shared learnings. X has more posts, but Bluesky has more "real humans"

Stats of posts and people posting them on X and Bluesky for KubeCone, with this summary text underneath the stats: Verdict: X Has More Volume, but Bluesky Has More Authentic Voices
X has more raw posts (~260 vs ~190), driven heavily by corporate and bot accounts. The percentages are actually similar across both platforms — about 64–67% of posts on both are some form of marketing or corporate presence.
However the unique human voices in Category 3 tell a starker story: Bluesky had ~54 distinct humans just sharing their experience, while X had only ~32. Bluesky's Category 3 is qualitatively richer — more humor, personal observations, reactions to talks, community moments. X's Category 3 is thinner and more diluted by news-summarizer accounts and amplification bots.
One notable X-specific pattern: about 14+ near-identical tweets from different human-looking accounts all sharing the exact same Broadcom press release within hours of each other — coordinated PR amplification that has no real equivalent on the Bluesky feed.
So yes — your hypothesis holds on X too. But the ratio of authentic-to-promotional is actually slightly better on Bluesky, and the humans posting there are doing so with noticeably more personality.

Bret Fisher@bretfisher· Dec 16

My bank can't keep statements after a year, but Amazon still remembers what I purchased in 2000, including this banger. Only 1.8 stars? They must have hated the ending.

A Screenshot of amazon.com showing a book I purchased in 2000 named "Windows 2000 Complete, First Edition"

Bret Fisher@bretfisher· Nov 25

If you saw my video introducing "Cool Bret" for #KubeCon ( watch it first, below), you might not realize how many takes are needed during recording...

Bret Fisher@bretfisher· Nov 12

My fav part of #kubecon is meeting students and podcast guests IRL!

Bret Fisher@bretfisher· Nov 10

I'm Stoked! Tuesday. #KubeCon. 6:40pm during KubeCrawl. Come On Down to the CVE Price Is Right at the @chainguard.dev booth with me and @adrianmouat.com, seeing who can guess the closest (but not over!) the CVE count of popular open source project images for prizes #DevOps #DevSecOps #Sponsored

Bret Fisher@bretfisher· Nov 7

My #kubecon people. I'm running a full 20-minute game show about CVEs from the @chainguard.bsky.social booth during KubeCrawl with @adrianmouat.com and the help of Ville Aikas, Courtney Bennett, and @bethfish.bsky.social. I'm so excited I haven't slept much in weeks. You have to come see it.

Bret Fisher@bretfisher· Nov 6

We've had fun building this for weeks. Last count was over 15 prizes including leftover Halloween costume accessories, chia pets, and legos

Bret Fisher@bretfisher· Oct 21

Getting my dog Obi in shots usually takes 200% longer to shoot, and twice the takes, but HE'S JUST SO CUTE! We've been working for weeks on a modern, advanced, container-image-autobuild demo. Join us Wednesday to get the yamls y'all. learn.bretfisher.com/chainguard-e...

Bret Fisher@bretfisher· Oct 10

What's your wildcard localhost domain for dev? I use *.bret.lol and you're welcome to use it too. I've used many over the decades for localhost DNS resolution (without editing /etc/hosts) but many have shutdown so I made my own years ago and it costs $20/yr at cloudflare. Here's how you set one up:

Bret Fisher@bretfisher· Sep 24

I am a loot hoarder in games. It's a problem. Found some time to play Borderlands 4, and it only took an hour for this to happen

Bret Fisher@bretfisher· Aug 26

Workshopping some late-night marketing ideas for my next course. WDYT?

Bret Fisher@bretfisher· Jun 28

The dopest Hey Dude's in existence

A picture of my very-hip corduroy Hey Dude shoes in front of my dog Obi, sitting like a good boy for the camera. Obi is a 15 pound ruby Cavalier King Charles.

Bret Fisher@bretfisher· Jun 17

With so much AI fan fiction showing up, I have a friend who keeps taking the bait, so I'm thinking of starting a campaign to convince him that Obi-Wan had a son and that Disney bought Mattel

An AI image of Ryan Gosling portraying a fictional Star Wars Ken Kenobi in a fabulous pink robe and pink saber.

Bret Fisher@bretfisher· May 27

To ensure my place with the #AI Overlords, I've been committed to this color palette for at least 5 years:

Bret Fisher@bretfisher· May 27

TIL that AI prefers blue, purple, and pink, which I'm fine with since they are my favorite colors. @bethfish.bsky.social pointed out recently that when you search Canva for AI templates, they are mostly the same colors... across hundreds of designs!

Bret Fisher@bretfisher· May 14

Thanks for the suggestion Instagram ads. Someday I'll have the emotional confidence to wear a furry tenderheart bear hat

Bret Fisher@bretfisher· May 9

I miss my winamp + skins. Remember how good, I mean bad, Windows Media Player skins were in win98? dt7v1i9vyp3mf.cloudfront.net/styles/news_...

Bret Fisher@bretfisher· Apr 22

I'd like to thank the Academy....

Bret Fisher@bretfisher· Apr 18

This AI benchmark chart reminds me of Goodhart’s Law: “When a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure.” ysymyth.github.io/The-Second-H...

Bret Fisher@bretfisher· Mar 31

What's up my #kubecon friends! Let's goooooooo

Bret Fisher@bretfisher· Mar 30

The ExCeL venue for #kubecon looks easy to navigate. We snuck in tonight and it's one looooong hallway. It was so empty it felt post zombie apocalypse

Bret Fisher@bretfisher· Mar 13

Good thing it has "delete file protection" or it would have kept going when I wasn't looking

Bret Fisher@bretfisher· Mar 13

Tried using Cursor to build a swift macOS app tonight (with only xcode cli tools installed) and it gave up after many failed builds and blamed my mac. Then tried to update system and prompted me to sudo rm system tools. Maybe enabling the YOLO setting to let it do things w/o approval was a bad idea

screenshot of Cursor IDE trying to run system package update commands on macOS, and then trying to remove system components with a sudo command because it couldn't figure out how to build a Swift app.

Bret Fisher@bretfisher· Mar 5

Check in with @mehtaverse-hq.bsky.social and me tomorrow (6th) for a cloud native Q&A at 1:00pm US EST. www.youtube.com/watch?v=zujr...

Bret Fisher@bretfisher· Mar 2

Sunday couch coding with Obi

My caviler King Charles dog and my laptop on my lap

My dog Obi being a good boy and sitting on his mat

Bret Fisher@bretfisher· Feb 27

We had the best ⛄️snow⛄️ in a decade last week here in Virginia Beach! Still, I’m ready for the 🔥HEAT🔥! While hibernating, we launched over an hour of new videos in Docker Mastery, and we’re working on the next video refresh, so, TIME FOR A SALE? bret.courses coupon code DOCKER_REFRESH

Bret Fisher@bretfisher· Feb 24

New videos just dropped in my #Docker Mastery course on Udemy! I dig deep into how ENTRYPOINT works in Dockerfiles, and how it works with both CMD and SHELL statements for making custom CLI tools and advanced container startup scripts. Here are coupons to buy any of my courses: bret.courses

Bret Fisher@bretfisher· Feb 20

If you were in a course, taking a quiz, would you click on the weird/silly answers just to see why they exist? I would. I try not to disappoint.

Bret Fisher@bretfisher· Jan 21

What's next for tech in 2025? What was important in 2024? What are the trends? Our latest podcast is super informative and full of information. Too much to list here. Enjoy! Video: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Is28... Audio: podcast.bretfisher.com/episodes/bes... #DevOps #Kubernetes #Docker #cloudnative