@DialpadHQ (Vi, formerly @Talk_IQ) staff engineer and tech lead, @uWaterloo Software Engineer, musician, mixologist, writer

Joined October 2012
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Help your friends. Something crazy might happen #buildwithyou #buildinpublic vtv.show/videos/video-zqfva-… @rickmizu
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Kevin James retweeted
on testvoice.ai/ I have enough users that I ran out of phone minutes and no bugs detected in the last 5 days ! I just emailed them all and extended the free trial for 30 days so exciting this is the first time I shipped a thing people use !
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Kevin James retweeted
Google's iOS apps release cycle before & after Apple asks to disclose privacy labels. Thie pattern is probably just a coincidence. We all know "transparency forms the bedrock of [their] commitment to users"...
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Collaborated on a new blog series with @ameer00 on k8s multi-cluster lifecycle management, check it out here: bit.ly/gke-multicluster-life…
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This is the way the Zoom ends This is the way the Zoom ends This is the way the Zoom ends Not with a 'bye' but 'where's the button'
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Today I made the healthy choice of walking home... then immediately rewarded myself by eating an entire pizza along the way. Still counts?
folks, I've solved it
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When interviewing at a company, can I ask to look at some of their code? I wanna check for like ancient versions of libraries (angular 1, python 2) // nonexistent infrastructure (no tests, no ci) // code that's clearly a garbage fire (you know it when you see it)
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Mathematician 1: My favourite number is pi, as it explains the circle Mathematician 2: My favourite number is e, as it explains the exponential function Engineer: Yeah my favourite number is also 3
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Kevin James retweeted
We've been acquired! 🎉 Thank you to everyone for your support and make sure to follow us over at our new home, @DialpadHQ! Learn more about the acquisition details from Dialpad CEO, @cwalker123 here: blog.dialpad.com/blog/2018/5… … #futureofwork
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One of the dirtiest secrets in systems engineering is just how many outages are never really fully explained or understood. Or how many *can't* actually be explained or understood, given existing telemetry. – at San Francisco, CA
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Your original DevOps person left two years ago. IT finally got around to terminating their credentials this morning. Roll 2d6 for how many production services just started throwing errors.
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I don't like to use double quotes for strings because it makes me read the string sarcastically
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TIL: `security find-generic-password -wa MyWifiNetwork`
Happy New Year everyone! Remember to `find ~/my_badly_written_scripts -type f -exec sed -i "s/2017/2018/g" {} \;` before the end of the night!
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Typically a bar wants you doing shots after few drinks - shots tend to be more expensive and you are too drunk to know. I just explained serverless pricing to you in terms you can understand.
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Kevin James retweeted
A possible solution to the Fermi Paradox is that any sufficiently advanced civilization is dedicating all its resources to bitcoin mining.
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Yo @circleci, building a pre-commit.com hook for config validate. Any chance we can get a --no-tty flag which removes the last -it?
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Hey @circleci, why is using native git in CircleCI-2.0 a failure on tag pushes but not normal pushes? bit.ly/2wyPGE1
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