Senior Principal Engineer @ Skyscanner. Opinions are my own and not the views of my employer
Dunfermline, UK
Joined February 2009
- Tweets1.5K
- Following1.2K
- Followers226
- Likes3.5K
Paul Gillespie retweeted
If tea spread to your country by sea you call it tea, if it spread by land you call it chai. This is because the ports of Fujian and Taiwan use the coastal pronunciation "te", whereas Mandarin uses "chá"
Paul Gillespie retweeted
Many executives fail to understand why tech companies are bloated. They are bloated because everything is held together with duck tape and "task force" teams. And it's due to gross lack of funding when it comes to removing complexity and technical debt.
Paul Gillespie retweeted
Somehow I missed that when Biden announced a pardon for everyone in prison for federal marijuana possession…
That pardon applies to literally no one?
Readers added context they thought people might want to know
The pardon applied to anyone with a federal simple possession conviction, regardless of whether they were currently serving a sentence. While it didn't result in anyone being immediately released from prison it impacted about 6500 people total.
wgbh.org/news/news/2022…
@ScotRail why do you keep running a 2 carriage train at peak times? The 7:59 from Dunfermline Queen Margaret to Edinburgh is consistently reduced in size.
Hey @ScotRail another 2 carriage train on the peak time 7:59 from Dunfermline QM to Edinburgh. Going to be standing room only as we leave Dunfermline Town again.
Hey @ScotRail 2 carriages again on the 7:59 from Dunfermline but now upping the ante by cancelling the 8:21.
Paul Gillespie retweeted
If the taxes I pay in Scotland help put food in hungry kids' mouths, give NHS workers a decent pay rise and heat pensioners' houses this winter, then I'm happy with that.
Paul Gillespie retweeted
Ever wondered how a QR code works?
No, me neither but it's low-key fascinating.
(Warning, there is some extremely nerdy shit here.👇 )
Paul Gillespie retweeted
Last talk of the day: @spedge & @GJTempleton from @Skyscanner sharing their outage experiences! @KubeCon_ #KubeCon #KubeConEU
Paul Gillespie retweeted
“Seriously I can just come out and say it? Call him a liar?” asks @JonathanPieNews, a fictional broadcast reporter created and performed by comedian Tom Walker, in a satirical video about Britain’s Prime Minister.
“God bless America.” nyti.ms/3306M3q
Paul Gillespie retweeted
Wrote some notes summarizing my first impressions of web3: moxie.org/2022/01/07/web3-fi…
Paul Gillespie retweeted
🚨"Who exactly does the @MetPoliceUK work for ma'am? Our citizens, or Boris Johnson?" 🚨
(Location: New Scotland Yard. Sound on)
Would you like to lead a team of experts working on a large and complex AWS environment? If the answer is yes check out this awesome role at @SkyscannerEng skyscanner.net/jobs/job/3288… #aws #scale
Problems they don't tell you about adopting #microservices architecture #127. Amazing tooling by @whichrich!
Turbolift — a tool for refactoring at scale by @SkyscannerEng link.medium.com/uZPKaFnuSfb
Paul Gillespie retweeted
We have just had another week when the media has obsessed about what they call the UK’s national debt. There has been wringing of hands. The handcart in which we will all go to hell has been oiled. And none of this is necessary. So this is a thread on what you really need to know
