@thoean

Director of Technology @Cimpress / @Vistaprint, focus on eCommerce

 Zurich, Switzerland
thoean.com
Joined July 2008
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Operations Teams vs. Engineering Teams Or: How to use incentives to stop constant escalations thoean.com/operations-teams-… #Engineering #Incentives #Recognition
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Candidate: I've experience using jQuery. Me: I'm sorry.
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Am I wonderful or excellent, @Grammarly?
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Empowered product teams
Carl Vellotti 🥞
@carlvellotti11 Aug 2023
Say yes, they said. It'll be fun, they said.
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Business cards and flyers for most web-to-print businesses despite so many fancy choices of drinkware, garments, merchandizing and hey, it's 2023, physical business cards, really?
Jon Erlichman
@JonErlichman27 Jul 2023
Walmart sells millions of products. But one item is easily its best seller. Bananas. It sells more than a billion each year. Here are the top selling items at some other big businesses…
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X - The everything app #TwitterX
Microsoft Excel Logo

ALT Microsoft Excel Logo

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Having a production outage at the same time when your source control system has an outage turns a one-click rollback into an unexpectedly large challenge.
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Curiosity is the beginning of knowledge. Action is the beginning of change. - @JamesClear
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Navigating SAP is full of easter eggs.
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Amazing internet speed on @Amtrak. Started npm install in NYC and it completed just before BOS.
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The RDS team at @awscloud is trying really hard to sell new features. I might actually end up clicking the yellow button just to make the announcement box go away.
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Can't wait for AI to review code written by AI.
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Nice move. Bard is a Google Cloud Function proxying ChatGPT.
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Will ChatGPT ever be capable to choose the right emoji response on Slack messages?
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Assuming Azure is built on top of AWS... ...is ChatGPT built on top of Amazon Mechanical Turk?
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Eventually tried out @midjourney. Matching Twitter trend: #BankingCrisis
Credit Suisse and banks generally going down in #BankingCrisis.

ALT Credit Suisse and banks generally going down in #BankingCrisis.

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Using GPT-4 to talk to customer support that's powered by GPT-4.
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Great advice by @SahilBloom. The Simplicity Audit examines four key environments of your life: Physical Environment Digital Environment Mental Environment Social Environment For each item in each environment, ask two questions: Is this necessary? Is this energy creating?
Sahil Bloom
@SahilBloom15 Mar 2023
The fastest way to improve your life is to simplify it: • Clean your digital environment • Automate repeatable tasks • Remove unnecessary “stuff” • Cut out toxic people Addition through subtraction.
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Started a few hundred short-lived tasks on AWS ECS. AWS ECS: Costs you $0.06. AWS Config: Surprise! $3. 💰
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Return-to-office calls mixed with desk sharing won't make hybrid work enjoyable. Remote-work will win here, and I'd argue even "office-first" might have an edge here.
Jennifer E.@jenn_elias23 Feb 2023
Starting next quarter, Google will be asking its cloud employees and partners to share their desks and alternate days with their desk mates, citing “real estate efficiency,” CNBC has learned. cnb.cx/3IhdS48

Google asks some employees to share desks amid office downsizing

Some cloud employees will be asked to alternate days at their desks.

cnbc.com
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Excellent (but long) article on how ChatGPT is trained and "generally works" - written for everyone. And ChatGPT continues to contain a few secrets the author couldn't find out or speculates about. Set 30min aside, it's worth your time.
Stephen Wolfram
@stephen_wolfram14 Feb 2023
What is ChatGPT doing ... and why does it work? From the lore of neural nets to what Aristotle didn't get to ... here's my version of the story: writings.stephenwolfram.com/…
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