Tim Burks

@timburks

Shoegaze coder and KEXP superfan. Skating, making (@agent.io), expanding my world with music, and happy to be with my many intelligent and thoughtful friends who are now on Bluesky. He/him and 📡 timburks.99

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Tim Burks@timburks· 28d

State Street Soccer!

A crowd is gathered to watch France v Spain at State Street Market in Los Altos

Tim Burks@timburks· Jul 12

There are way too many drops and pauses in our YouTubeTV coverage of these matches

Tim Burks@timburks· Jul 10

I have a speaking slot at gRPConf '26

Session description:

A lightweight gRPC-compatible implementation for sidecars

gRPC is more than just a protocol: it's an opinionated set of tools and recommended ways to build servers and clients of networked APIs. But what if you have different opinions? Not all of us work in Google-scale contexts with monorepos containing thousands of services, strict controls over those implementations, and a fleet of engineers to keep them all up-to-date.

Sidecar is a Go library that supports gRPC wire protocols in the most minimal way possible: using the Go standard library and virtually no external dependencies. Originally created to communicate with sidecar proxies over Linux abstract sockets, Sidecar builds on Go generics, concurrency primitives, and native HTTP2 support to make gRPC clear, simple, and maintainable.

Sidecar grew out of IO, a new Envoy controller that was created to bring the powers of service meshes to individual developers. We'll talk about how IO and Sidecar work together to create a new class of secure and maintainable applications.

Tim Burks@timburks· Jul 2

Who's jamming with Cheryl and me today?

52 Girls by the B-52s is playing in the KEXP app

Tim Burks@timburks· Jun 27

Wow so much chud

My britmonkey test results. 6% chud! Nobody's perfect?

Tim Burks@timburks· Jun 25

This is amazing... I knew this post was garbage and now I have quantification www.solo.io/blog/what-is...

Tim Burks@timburks· Jun 25

I had my hopes up for a second da doo doo doo da dah dah dah

A sign in the window of a pizza shop saying "Pizza with the Police"

Tim Burks@timburks· Jun 23

Between us, I really wanted to just say "FUCK YOU, SLOW DOWN" but this was my first time posting on Nextdoor in a while.

A local post:

Guys… I am honestly done with e-bikes. I just had 2 e-bikes flip the cars off on middle of street and it’s really starting to bother me. Please get more police in for this type of behavior. I don’t want any more of this behavior and these guys have really been a struggle to handle them. Please look out and stay safe ❤️

My reply:

I walk a lot in Los Altos and wish we were this worked up about speeding and reckless drivers. When I do drive, I'm frequently tailgated by impatient people who want to exceed the speed limit or race past pedestrians. I wonder if we are really worried about the safety of those kids doing wheelies or if we just want them out of our way.

Tim Burks@timburks· Jun 22

idk i just google things 🙃

Tim Burks@timburks· Jun 22

Oh wow

Don't Touch That Dial by Django Django now playing on KEXP

Tim Burks@timburks· Jun 22

This is fantastic! But did Troy really pronounce Mangetout as "man get out"? I guess I've been getting that wrong from the start.

The KEXP app showing that it's playing Conditions of Love (Boys Shorts Remix) right after an Air Break and a remix of Mangetout

Tim Burks@timburks· Jun 18

So you think *your* local In-n-Out drive through is slow

A headline saying that a California man who fell asleep drunk is in an in n out drive through serving prison time... I think

Tim Burks@timburks· Jun 18

Wow these kids have classic good taste, which I guess you would expect since their parents took them to KEXP this morning *strikes cowbell*

The last two kids have requested songs by Prince and Blue Öyster Cult

Tim Burks@timburks· Jun 18

It's like Yoda and Miss Piggy had a baby or was that DJ Morgan on the Morning Show with @djjohnrichards.bsky.social this morning?

It's take your kids to the DJ booth day today and they're playing requests from the kids in the booth.

Tim Burks@timburks· Jun 16

PSA for Android users (and look, Google AI didn't even protest)

Tim Burks@timburks· Jun 15

This is silly, and by anthropomorphizing Gemini, some Google product manager is pretending that "it" is lying and not them.

Tim Burks@timburks· May 30

It's just repulsive (YMMV) to read someone commenting authoritatively from an obviously shallow understanding. Give me your hot takes, but don't act like you're Moses when you do.