Consultant CTO, YOW! Technical Director (@yow_conf). Software Developer, Architect, Trainer
Brisbane, Australia
Joined February 2007
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I've deleted all my old tweets. My bags a packed and waiting for the ceiling to collapse at Twitter. I'm hanging out at mastodon.social/@damianm
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Spent a lot of time working with a sociopathic narcissist who said things like this. He worshipped Elno too.
musk spent Thursday in meetings across different divisions of Twitter, making personal appeals to the *many* employees attempting to resign.
His pitch, paraphrased:
“I know how to win. If you want to win, stay and work for me.”
w/@RMac18
nytimes.com/2022/11/17/techn…
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telling a senior engineer with total comp $200-800k who can get pretty much any job in their field of expertise: ahaha that's what you egt for badmouthing the boss!! better luck at McDonald's snowflake!!!!
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Telstra Ventures is among the Australian losers from the dramatic collapse of global crypto exchange FTX, as local industry insiders described the calamitous failure of the world’s third-largest exchange, in a matter of days, as “heartbreaking.” afr.com/technology/telstra-s…
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Moral of the story? You're always making significant decisions when designing software ... some consciously, and some unconsciously.
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Something else despicable about the toxic work before the @Twitter layoff that I just realized: he knew he was going to do this, and still set it up so people would pitch and scramble on all their ideas for profitability in an attempt to keep their jobs.
Just gross.
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"I’m not onboard with cynicism and nihilism. It’s never been appealing. The universe is just too wonderful."
My latest essay...
fernandogros.com/mission-cri…
Somewhat related, this week I subscribed to @CaseyNewton’s @platformer, and I feel like I have a front row seat on the whole mess. This feels like what journalism should be.
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@rahulpnath is sharing lots of great tips on his @YouTube channel around @dotnet @dotnetonAWS
#aws #dotnet #Subscribe
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"Woke" is African-American vernacular English (AAVE). It refers to people (usually not yp) that are critically conscious of socio-political contexts of colonisation, racism, racial discrimination & Whiteness. In more recent times, it's been co-opted and weaponised by white people
