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Joined February 2020
I'm getting closer and closer to abandoning this site except maybe for occasional tech-related news. Please find me on Mastodon @fuzzykb@hachyderm.io if you miss my shitposts!
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I am looking for a new position! Me: * years and years of site reliability work * building startup SRE teams from scratch * deep experience building compute and network infrastructure on AWS and GCP * Kubernetes! I want to help create reliable and maintainable teams!
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I am looking for a new position! Me: * years and years of site reliability work * building startup SRE teams from scratch * deep experience building compute and network infrastructure on AWS and GCP * Kubernetes! I want to help create reliable and maintainable teams!
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I really have a hard time believing there's anything Kelsey *can't* do
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Karen Bruner (parity) retweeted
I find it interesting how Twitter has disproportionately fired (not just laid off) ICs+managers who were considered to be the most respected and most effective at the company I suspect it's not on purpose and that there's a confounding variable, but it's still an odd thing to do
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I'm on Twitter much less but noticing way more glitches, not sure how many are Android client side or server side
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Elon wouldn’t know that the shirts were created by a Black Employee Resource Group at Twitter called Blackbirds in 2016. ERGS was one of the first things he got rid of with. Blackbirds sold these shirts to fundraiser to create safe spaces for Black ppl on the internet and in tech
Found in closet at Twitter HQ fr 🤣🤣
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This is what Elbo is mocking now, from the Black ERG he dismantled
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Karen Bruner (parity) retweeted
seems, uh, bad if true
An advertiser explains why they’re pausing their Twitter ads campaigns:
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Karen Bruner (parity) retweeted
Excellent research-backed thread. Not only do those who stay have no choice, they will also eventually burn out.
This is a common tactic/belief. The problem? It backfires more often than succeeds. I researched it & covered it in my book. More often: It's not the tough ones that stick around; it's the ones who have no other options. Let's look at some history and research:
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This is now officially worse than the worst universe in that Dr Strange movie sfstandard.com/business/ener…
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For the record, I am not shedding any tears for Elizabeth Holmes I feel for her kids, but mostly because their parents both seem to embody many of the worst traits of Silicon Valley founders/execs
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Even if you still have advertisers, you don't make any money if no one actually sees the ads
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I requested my archive a full 5 days ago. What are the odds I ever see it?
8%Great!
92%Not so great
12 votes • Final results
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Apparently Nero is now creating polls about whether he should throw gasoline on Rome while Rome is burning
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"I finally fixed all those YAML indentation errors"
I’m reading this email and the part where he goes, “please email me a bullet point summary of what your code commits have achieved in the past ~6 months, along with up to 10 screenshots of the most salient lines of code” … like WHAT
Would you get on the airplane of an airline whose entire maintenance staff had been laid off or had quit? How long do you think that plane is air-worthy without someone qualified regularly checking not just the "big" systems but every critical bolt and wire?
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Karen Bruner (parity) retweeted
9 to 5 (Elon edition)
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Anyone know how much, if any, direct production access that product devs have at Twitter? If that changes quickly, if people who have never done vaguely operations-like work, well, I've seen that before at smaller scales, and... 🗑️🔥
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