Platform Engineer - he/him

Earth, Milky Way
Joined October 2019
being on the hiring side of an interview is wild
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imagine if the UK government brought in a law saying postal companies had to review every letter before delivering them that's what they're proposing for online messaging with the ironically named 'Online Safety Bill'
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embarrassed by the fact our major political parties have so little tech literacy and so much contempt for the public that they can openly say they want to 'ban VPNs' to 'protect the children' with a straight face, not knowing what VPNs are or what they're actually used for
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Did an ITIL cert and passed? maybe I can do exams
my PC boots too fast for me to get into the bios menu 💀
Tom retweeted
UK government inaction over monkeypox - like the reluctance to provide PrEP - proves that queers are only tolerated in ways that render us 'productive' and gloss the state. any demand for support shatters this veneer and marks us out as parasitic. tolerance is fragile.
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friendly reminder, as Azure SQL Server is unavailable for its fifth hour, that an SLA of 99.995% means an annual downtime of less than 26mins 17seconds per YEAR
Azure down in North & West Europe? Seeing thousands of 5XX errors but the status page is all green?
the hardest part of my job is working with people who are not just non-technical but catagorically technically illiterate
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and I do not have sympathy for them - you've worked at this SOFTWARE company longer than I've been alive and chose not to learn anything 💀
learning is such hard work
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installing updates is definitely my favourite part of the work week
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cloud costs don't half spiral...
finally reached the stage of tech employment where you go "who did this" only to find out it was you
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“Impartial on LGBTQ lives” is so blackly sinister I don’t know whether to laugh or to scream.
Exclusive: The BBC is expected to quit Stonewall’s LGBTQ diversity programme. LGBTQ staff at the BBC told me they are “super scared” by the implications of the decision, and they hope managers will change their minds… vice.com/en/article/akgxm5/b…
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every day is an F5
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if Azure Portal doesn't hurry up I'm migrating the whole company to AWS 😡😡
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spending my day trying to phish my colleagues ✌🏻😌
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could really do with hiring someone full-time to continue my side projects when I forget about them
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