Tools nerd, protanopian, greenie, motorcyclist, slight hypocrite. Born circa 350ppm (now 420ppm). Opinions are my own, hair may be a wig.
Brisbane, Australia
Joined September 2015
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Went back to the old employer's office today, in part to catch up with people, and I met the new infra guy. Introduced myself, his eyes lit up, and he went "You're dal!! Your documentation has helped me so much".
😍 That's the nicest thing you could ever say.
let's all be rational here, talk through it together and then I'm sure we'll arrive at [the opinion I currently hold]
Never underestimate the motivational power of a glossy auto-testing tool with a big red "fail" result and guidance on how to fix it. Stuff like SSL Labs' Server Test or the HSTS Preload eligibility checker.
Brisbanites will say “bloody hell it’s cold”, leave the blinds open all night, put another coat on the dog and say they couldn’t live any further south.
I think Bluetooth likes to work only 99.9% of the time so that, every so often, you're reminded that it exists and how miraculous it is.
heck all the music nerds dumping on Pachelbel's Canon, it's quality music and acts as a scaffold to encourage a ton of variation
I like requests phrased as "Hi, someone can't do something. They think it's a security issue" when the problem is that we're blocking it. We have too *much* security. Normally that phrasing means we don't have *enough* 🔀
Is your tech company a stodgy establishment who uses headers like "Summary", or a cool fresh startup who uses headers like "tl;dr"?
The extent to which Microsoft will leverage one product to cross-promote the rest is just... unique. This showed up while trying to try out their new chatbot.
