
@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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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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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"...
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'
Today I made the healthy choice of walking home... then immediately rewarded myself by eating an entire pizza along the way. Still counts?
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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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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
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!
Kevin James retweeted
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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A possible solution to the Fermi Paradox is that any sufficiently advanced civilization is dedicating all its resources to bitcoin mining.
To be clear, the change in the circleci CLI script would be pastebin.com/hpT4P5rK gated behind whatever flag you want.
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?
Hey @circleci, why is using native git in CircleCI-2.0 a failure on tag pushes but not normal pushes? bit.ly/2wyPGE1














