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Ian Smith: ♿🧏, dwarf, queer, tech, puns, SRE, pronoun: they/them

 Oakland, CA
Joined May 2014
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This is Heather’s best friend E. I don’t know how else to say this, but H passed away earlier this morning. More to come from me eventually.
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Tor Books@torbooks29 Jan 2025
Let’s get cozy with a COVER REVEAL! Feast your eyes on the stunning art for #BrigandsandBreadknives by #1 @nytimes bestseller @TravisBaldree 🥐🔪 Return to the cozy fantasy world of the #LegendsandLattes series with a new adventure featuring fan-favorite, foul-mouthed bookseller Fern. Pre-order your copy today and add it to your shelves in hardcover, e-book, or audiobook on 11/11/25! Cover 🎨: Carson Lowmiller bit.ly/brigandsandbreadknive…
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Travis Baldree
@TravisBaldree22 Jan 2025
Bookshops & Bonedust is a finalist for both the Fantasy and Author Narration in the 2025 Audie Awards. I'm very grateful to be in such wonderful company. Huge congratulations to all the other finalists!
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Gonna give bluesk- another shot. I've got the same username there that I do here, and I should be in the deafies starter pack soon. bsky.app/starter-pack/foundi…
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New blog post: surfingcomplexity.blog/2024/…

The carefulness knob

A play in one act Dramatis personae EM, an engineering manager TL, the tech lead for the team X, an engineering manager from a different team Scene 1: A meeting room in an office. The walls are ado…

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sophie
@netcapgirl21 Oct 2024
i lied i don’t have netflix take off your shoes, we’re gonna build dashboards that give executives deeper insight into critical business functions
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Kellie Peterson@kellie12 Oct 2024
Do you understand how bad your actions have to be to make @dhh look good? #automattic #wordpress #wpdrama
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OCaml is insane because it appears to be one of the most legitimately pragmatic languages with the potential to gigafry your brain but is exclusively pushed by literally some of the friendliest developers who unironically want to like "write better software" and basically get oneshotted by it literally the most cracked people in existence having their brains rearranged by some programming language 6D demon who makes them zone out during their boring day job, use algebraic effects, and become an OCaml framework author or whatever
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Daniel
@growing_daniel7 Oct 2024
Marc Andreesen panicking over ayahuasca awakening his b2b saas founders to the meaninglessness of their path is all the proof you need that it’s good
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rekdt
@rekdt4 Oct 2024
PCI Auditor: Now I need to see the output from the Pentest Me: I was told there'd be no fact checking
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Sam Whyte@samwhyte30 Sep 2024
"Nothing beats in-person interaction". Yeah, with someone I know and love, not Denise from finance.
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zack
@zack_overflow30 Sep 2024
YC has got it totally wrong with backing all these AI code editors What the people really want are code editors with gratuitous explosions and particle effects
zack
@zack_overflow25 Sep 2023
Added gratuitous explosions and particle effects to the code editor I'm building
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same reason why I still call this site twitter: I refuse to accept its colonial name
panken - tumblr: /pankendev@pankendev30 Sep 2024
"if you hate elon so much then why are you still here" BECAUSE I WAS HERE FIRST. WHY SHOULD I LEAVE. HE'S THE ONE WHO SUCKS
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Robyn Powell@RobynMPowell29 Sep 2024
As a disabled law professor who has benefited from accommodations, I vehemently reject this article's claims. The rise in accommodations isn't fraud—it's progress. It means more disabled students are accessing higher education. This is cause for celebration, not suspicion. (1/5)
Alan Levinovitz
@AlanLevinovitz25 Sep 2024
My latest about disability accommodations in higher ed for @chronicle @ChronicleReview. It's a very controversial topic, to say the least, and inspires strong opinions. I hope this will help shift the conversation in a productive direction: chronicle.com/article/do-col…

Are Colleges Getting Disability Accommodations All Wrong?

Higher ed’s maximally inclusive approach hurts those it attempts to help.

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Why I don’t like discussing action items during incident reviews

I’m not a fan of talking about action items during incident reviews. Judging from the incident review meetings I’ve attended throughout my career, this is a minority view, and I wanted …

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Corey Quinn
@QuinnyPig27 Sep 2024
Today I discovered I'm beefing with the AWS HPC team.
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Recovering from incidents, doing migrations, and learning are the three critical team/organizational skills.
@norootcause.surfingcomplexity.com on Bluesky@norootcause24 Sep 2024
Reminder about the importance of getting good at recovering from incidents: 1. You can’t prevent all incidents from occurring. 2. You must recover from all of the incidents that occur.
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ok this tweet has left the enclosure so as we begin the ableism accusations, as the proud owner of a unnecessarily comedic disability depicted primarily in sitcom punchlines and novelty gift cards, I want you to know that I am immune to damage from all B-tier and below cripples
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TIML I was unable to quit vim. ... because I'd accidentally switched input modes to Кириллица. ... TIL that Ctrl-space switches input modes on OS X.
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