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don't join an incident if you arent sober. there is only one exception: the company will not exist tomorrow, and you disclose your intoxication when contacted. dont argue bac or number of drinks or grams of weed. this is common sense. #devops #duh

fantastic user engagement! the timer is imposing; the action the user takes is clearly rewarded. together, everyone feels an accomplishment. everyone is pulled closer to the community, or into it for the 1st! you can make engagement transactional and rewarding without begging for it! #ux #dev

The Kubernetes v1.34 Shadow Application is now open! Apply here to work with me and help release one of the largest open source projects in the world: forms.gle/ESb6983wA7Nq... You have until midnight anywhere 18 May to throw your hat into the ring! 🦇

harvard should tap higher education institutions across the country to drum up the largest collective working movement the US has ever seen.

What are things you really like about Windsurf? And what do you dislike / stuff that could be better? And how has it changed how you code / build software? (Asking as I'd like to get a more well-rounded view: will be later talking with the Windsurf team. Feel free to DM also)

I’ll just be asking my dog the most unanswerable existential questions all day long like “are you the best boy?” and “how did you get so scruffy?” and “what are these little teefies for?” and then wonder why he needs to sleep 17 hours a day

they call me 007 0 lines of code 0 commits 7 open issues

serverless? buddy I’m paying you for a server

New: DOGE's spending has been secret. No longer. My colleagues have uncovered it. www.propublica.org/article/doge...

Nicole Forsgren (@nicolefv.bsky.social) is the brains behind DORA, lead author SPACE, and the co-author of Accelerate. Hardly a better person to share how to think about, measure and improve developer productivity! Stream the full episode: • YouTube: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wufj... (cont'd)

we devs are really just employed addicts. disagree? ok, when's the last time you wrote a (failing and wholly inadequate while simultaneously over complicated) custom job scheduler? even though there's plenty of perfect options? uh huhhhhh sure, but you don't have a problem.

I just wrote a piece called "In Praise of 'Normal' Engineers". (partly paywalled) When people talk about world-class engineering orgs, they usually have in mind orgs that are top-heavy with the most experienced and pedigured talent. This gets it exactly backwards. refactoring.fm/p/in-praise-...

I can’t keep track of all these new Pokémon.

if you think monitoring your own code is "for the devops team" and logging is the first tool in your own prod debugging toolbag... you probably also believe "its qa's job to test." listen: you are the problem. work harder, or go do something else. please. you are not an engineer. #devops #dev

anyone try this out yet? curious how it stacks up to goose. #software #devops #dev

The most important thing I can tell everyone that I've learned from being a YouTuber who explains how stuff works is that each and every time I thought "this is common knowledge and doesn't need to be explained" I was wrong.

Excellent news! If you do nothing different, your AWS bill will be 10% lower for February than January. No need to thank me, it’s what I do.

i am sorry but the use of the word "czar" for everything that i see everywhere now especially in politics talk just cracks me up i am going to debloat my windows 11 installation i am going to become the bloatware czar

💡Keeping transactions consistent in microservices is tough. The saga pattern solves this by handling failures and ensuring workflows are completed reliably. 🚀Learn how it works and how companies simplify their workflows with Temporal. Read more! 👉 temporal.io/blog/masteri...

endianness is a scam to sell more bswaps

i wish sagan were still here. in a way though, maybe he still is, and maybe we just need to remember what he was telling us. “If it can be destroyed by the truth, it deserves to be destroyed by the truth.” #carlsagan

thoughtworks ace as always www.thoughtworks.com/insights/blo... #deepseek #software #thoughtworks

If I ever write an SRE book, it’ll either be called "Reboot Fixed It" or "The Power of No" #srelife

this is how it feels to reach 30 MILLION users!!!

we've just released terraform-provider-cloudflare v5 ⭐ 🚀 just like the libraries and API documentation, the provider is now automatically generated using the OpenAPI schemas as the source of truth. 🧵

can deepseek launch a cheaper egg next?

warning: if you are working on genAI integration and you didn't work with and talk about #deepseek today, you might be working with ✨ and not novelty. #software #disrupt

I'm not rooting for a nation state. I'm rooting for open source.

already seeing a focus on the saas and qwen model content restrictions, absent the fact that the llama distilled model has no such restrictions. #disruption

bad UX while using a modern piece of software: inexcusable, horrid, I want a refund bad UX of trying to set up a multiplayer session for a 25 year old abandonware game: immaculate, joyous, full of soul

kafka doesn't get enough hate for exploiting our psychology. where a normal queue let's us forget the past, kafka makes us remember it for a while. reprocess it maybe. regret the disk space it takes up. and keep copies of it in a few places. it's like a resilient way of trauma dumping events.

“Website accessibility is a pain in the ass and almost always addressed later.“ The irony of all those words, in that order, written by someone… arguing against web accessibility? 😅

spending lots of time designing your api, only to find day 1 a user does something novel, brilliant, unexpected, and production crashing. (the user is in the right! look how delighted this pooch is!)

lots of talk about boycotting certain cloud providers. it's nearly impossible to find services that dont use the bigger ones, but consider the opposite: make the use of the cloud provider too expensive. open tabs. add things to lists. rate all sorts of stuff. if it goes slower, cha ching. #finops

Amazing @mipsytipsy.bsky.social 🦄 - I loved the fire round at the end: "The way how you binrg out greatness in people is supporting, empowering and giving them agency. Also be in the details to create alignment, but don't take away their agency!" And also: "Thought leader term makes me nauseous." 💯

Can Large Language Models Understand Preferences in Personalized Recommendation? Introduces a benchmark that evaluates LLMs' ability to understand personalized preferences by disassociating user rating bias and item quality. 📝 arxiv.org/abs/2501.13391 👨🏽‍💻 github.com/TamSiuhin/Pe...

it's kind of incredible what you're able to do with the free services that cloudflare provides tbh. you can't quite do full stack apps without some sort of external server or backend as a service, but pages and workers seem plenty capable for small scale projects

i am a dumb cow and that's why i am thankful for Docker

Wow — there are now more than 29 MILLION users on Bluesky! Spread the word!! 💙🦋 bsky-users.theo.io

authenticating to multiple accounts in the aws console is great... but no way to quickly visually distinguish what you are in? i think its more risky than convenient at the moment. what do you think? #aws #oopsalloutage