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Founding Engineer at @GradientLabsAI 🤖 (but opinions mine) Ex-HashiCorp, Ex-Monzo he/him/his Find me on https://xitter.cf/t.co/7EOVB2i72O 🐘

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Joined June 2010
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Twitter's gone a bit horrible now (thanks, Elon) Find me on the 🐘 app instead: @boxofrad@hachyderm.io
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#MarcellusWilliams faces execution on 9/24 for a crime that DNA proves he didn’t commit. Join me, @innocence, and @the_mip in taking action to prevent this irreversible injustice. #SaveMarcellus shorturl.at/elnIN
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How Matthew Perry wanted to be remembered. I think we can honour his wishes today.
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In 2020 Figma started hitting growing pains with their single managed Postgres database. That means they managed to grow to a $2B company on a single mged instance. I bet at they hired engineers around this time who grumbled about not picking a more ‘scalable’ tech. – at Islington, London
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As someone who has had the "you need to speak up more" piece of feedback since school, here is some advice on how to handle meetings... It's no good trying to change how often you speak - it just leads to further anxiety and overthinking. Instead - this is what I do:
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Oooof 😬 "Water intrusion in a data center in europe-west9 has caused a multi-cluster failure and has led to a shutdown of multiple zones" status.cloud.google.com/inci…
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Not receiving the test emergency notification like
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So they're shutting down Amazon Smile to focus on "philanthropic efforts with greater impact" rather than, say, making it the default (and actually giving it a chance to work) instead of sticking it on some janky subdomain you have to remember to go 🤔
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Introverts be like: 11:00 am - anything is possible 2:00 pm - but not today
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“Alex”@mangopdf16 Oct 2022
mum said it's my turn with the mutex
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<Father Jack Voice> Award! 🏆😊
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you did not just layoff almost all of infra and then make some sassy remark about how we do batching like did you bother to even learn how graphql works
Elon Musk
@elonmusk13 Nov 2022
Btw, I’d like to apologize for Twitter being super slow in many countries. App is doing >1000 poorly batched RPCs just to render a home timeline!
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Me when someone puts on the big light in the living room
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New music from the 1975, blink, and it’s world egg day?! Friday is here friends.
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So much dope stuff announced at #HashiConf this year! Particularly proud to show off what my team has been working on: hashicorp.com/blog/consul-1-…

Consul 1.14 Beta: Announcing Simplified Service Mesh Deployments

HashiCorp Consul 1.14 enhances traffic management and failover, and adds a new deployment method: Consul dataplane. AWS Lambda updates and beta Windows VM support were also added.

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Why would I pay for a haunted house when I can wake up to my kid silently standing by my bed at 3 AM.
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Why is Disney remaking its old cartoons as live-action movies when it could be remaking them as Muppet movies? – at St Paul, MN
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Like 90% of adult life is not being able to find that important piece of paper I put “somewhere safe” 3 years ago
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Is it peak tech worker when you wear <current employer> branded t-shirts on work days and <previous employer> branded t-shirts on your day off?
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