Social distancing achievement unlocked: dead car battery 🤦♂️
Replying to @chrismunns and @jbminn
About 2 weeks I think.
Replying to @cmeik
felt
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YtKFbU-vuq4
Now playing: Shade
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=305qGA2XBLE
Guidance is to use “soap” for disinfection. Product lists “Sodium Methyl 2-Sulfolaurate” as ingredient.
MFW my prior team continues to work together and hits a major milestone in the midst of everything going on. ✊
Replying to @kstewart and @bryanl
I look forward to this being discussed at length in your inaugural podcast.
Phish The Stone Roses Eric B and Rakim Radiohead Elbow Greensky Bluegrass
@lindydonna @ben11kehoe @vllry @edyesed @Jowanza @shidoshi
Replying to @edyesed
Let the memories flow.
Replying to @shidoshi and @kstewart
Freed up from solving that pesky Middle East peace problem I see.
Deep Gif
Using AWS Athena from go is extremely awkward.
Replying to @ben11kehoe and @lifadev
🙌 - this is how I’ve done infra in go and would not like to do it any other way.
Replying to @IamStan
I have a bunch of objects with nested JSON in S3. Is it possible to query via Athena to return a shape-preserving subset of that data as JSON? The CSV unmarshalling in go is painful.
Replying to @astre_io
Lots of interface{}:
https://twitter.com/mweagle/status/1246239297520275457?s=21 https://twitter.com/mweagle/status/1246239297520275457
Yes. https://overcast.fm/+GnKZNg2Ic
RT @KevinGoldsmith: @aprilwensel Many folks feeling secure may find they aren’t as secure as they thought. I felt that way in 2000 and lear…
Replying to @lhochstein
Dinosaur systems?
“Who could have foreseen this COBOL problem?”
https://thenewstack.io/cobol-everywhere-will-maintain/
Replying to @mweagle
Mood: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KkGTB8ESMCM
Replying to @mweagle
“No one ever imagined this would happen.”
https://increment.com/programming-languages/cobol-all-the-way-down/
Replying to @lindydonna
INCONCEIVABLE!
The Boeing software engineering culture seems like it needs an intervention.
https://www.theregister.co.uk/2020/04/02/boeing_787_power_cycle_51_days_stale_data/
Replying to @mweagle
“It’s something we could not predict.”
https://www.itworldcanada.com/article/older-technologies-not-yet-obsolete/24663
Replying to @tmclaughbos
🙏
Replying to @mweagle
“Everything runs on NodeJS”
https://www.computerworld.com/article/2504568/the-cobol-brain-drain.html
Replying to @IamStan
Unleash your superpower: https://github.com/toricls/cobolambda
Replying to @IamStan
Needs more bananas.
Replying to @kstewart and @harvest
Great news! Congratulations 👏
RT @kstewart: Ready for my first day as Head of Engineering @harvest!
On Medium, but well-done @rbranson
https://medium.com/@rbranson/why-you-shouldnt-count-production-incidents-38616d8e6329
Replying to @robotterror and @benkershner
Never a good sign when branding thinks “Rocket Mortgage” is a good name. I thought we had problems when mortgages happened too quickly and without safeguards. 🤷♂️
Replying to @robotterror and @benkershner
Download the app now for that one-click systemic risk collapse.
RT @skamille: Boy tweets like this make me (and I’m guessing anyone else who did services before the “microservices” trend) feel old https:…
+💯Pushing coordination dirt around the cloud rather than cleaning up. https://twitter.com/skamille/status/1247562361734664193
Achievement unlocked
Usability 2020
Me: sort table X: no Me: I’ll manually drag and drop rows X: hah Me: Add column then, I’ll scan and do the work. X: buzz off
“After you create an ML model, you face another problem: serving predictions at scale cost-effectively.”
Deploying machine learning models as serverless APIs | AWS Machine Learning Blog https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/machine-learning/deploying-machine-learning-models-as-serverless-apis/
“Using the AWS CloudFormation language is painful.”
Introducing InGraph | http://lifa.dev https://lifa.dev/blog/2020/03/31/introducing-ingraph/
“There just isn’t a lot of diversity in design.”
Illustrations of Black People for Your Next Digital Project https://www.blackillustrations.com/?ref=producthunt
“The toolkit enables you to publish your state machine directly to your AWS account without leaving VS Code.” (via @Pocket) https://pocket.co/xd3SLV
Vanity system metrics are more harmful than no metrics at all.
Replying to @rts_rob
😂
I think it’s time to upgrade everything to @ubnt
Replying to @seclectech and @ubnt
I’m using an Orbi mesh + @ubnt AP. The Orbi was good for a spell.
Replying to @tmclaughbos
Yep
https://int10h.org/oldschool-pc-fonts/readme/
Replying to @tmclaughbos
Get those creative juices going
Lunch @ Home challenge: how much butter can I put on this bowl of vegetables?
Replying to @edyesed
Word.
#ambrosiaIsSideSalad
Sorry to miss it, but West is Best ;)
TIL Slack has a new UI.
Related: Slack removes human system slack.
Goal: “I don’t know; I don’t want to know.” https://www.infoq.com/presentations/Simple-Made-Easy/
ML notebooks are seductively appealing until they’re not. And it doesn’t take very long to reach that point.
https://towardsdatascience.com/why-we-do-machine-learning-engineering-with-yaml-not-notebooks-a2a97f5e04f8
Replying to @mweagle
Putting ML into production from a notebook has a learning cliff that’s a bit like other types of containers.
RT @rts_rob: “Just” do it in containers, they said. ^^^^^^ most dangerous word in software. https://twitter.com/mweagle/status/1248644824221118470
RT @IanColdwater: famous last words in computing:
“a user would never do that”
1,6,7 https://twitter.com/Hardy_SXM/status/1248708985588514816
Replying to @f00by
That first step is a doozy.
Time to disconnect the car battery.
Spring snowstorm in the PNW.
Replying to @edyesed
There are a lot of big cedars around us.
Replying to @edyesed
I’m not sure. We can see it blowing down the street in the sunlight.
Timely & recommended.
https://www.audible.com/pd?asin=B07GNTNXQW&source_code=ASSORAP0511160006
I’ve tried three email clients today and so far none of them can consistently show message bodies or properly accept clipboard data or keyboard shortcuts.
:this_is_fine:
Almost done https://twitter.com/kelseyhightower/status/1249906545917186054
RT @landongn: Huh, that’s weird.
Day unknown of self-quarantine. I fear what the future holds...
2020 has been a heck of a decade.
“...at least until 2022”
https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/transportation/west-seattle-bridge-will-stay-closed-through-2020-and-2021/
Keep reading for the answer...
“This is the space we create for the only truthful answer to any question about management:” (via @Pocket) https://pocket.co/xdWM4v
“Starting from empty component functions and using only basic mathematical operations, we evolved linear regressors, neural networks, gradient descent, multiplicative interactions, weight averaging, normalized gradients, etc”
AutoML-Zero https://pocket.co/xdWMqU
“However, there are few open-source software projects that link the individual tools together, which is essential for the reproducibility of models.”
1810.04570.pdf(via @Pocket) https://pocket.co/xdWMbx
Confirmed: you can mismanage what you mismeasure. https://www.splunk.com/en_us/blog/leadership/introducing-splunk-remote-work-insights-our-solution-for-the-new-work-from-home-reality.html
“One especially challenging part of evolving a complex system is keeping it going while it’s being changed.” (via @Pocket) #longreads https://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=3390746
“Poor design renders ChatOps nearly useless as a tool for sensemaking as people come into an evolving and increasingly pressured situation.”
Managing the Hidden Costs of Coordination(via @Pocket) #longreads https://pocket.co/xdWQxl
“Design docs are written in Markdown”
Design Docs, Markdown, and Git | CaitieM https://caitiem.com/2020/03/29/design-docs-markdown-and-git/
Easy choice. There are at most two pizzas pictured: 4 and 6. https://twitter.com/11amAirRaid/status/1250202675075002368
RT @VladAIonescu: Twitterverse, today is my birthday 🎂! On this occasion I’m launching Earthly, a build automation tool for the container e…
Replying to @VladAIonescu
Happy Birthday !
Replying to @mpchlets
Fair - I’m willing to make NJ Style my third choice.
Replying to @perrito666
You do have a really cool oven, so I can see that.
Can we agree that the deconstructed casserole in box 8 is out of place? 😉
Replying to @shidoshi
Yeah, not so much.
Same - although I did wear my @stackeryio t-shirt today in solidarity.
I was told that using the term “DSL” nowadays is a giveaway.
Replying to @mweagle
Wondering how I can get XSLT back into use.
Replying to @kstewart
Moment of weakness.
How I’ll remember Medium
Replying to @tmclaughbos
Functions are a red herring.
Replying to @tmclaughbos
Yeah - maybe later in the summer when 5:30 is basically daylight around here :)
While I would like to eliminate the ever present 🔴 badge, this seems like a high price to pay.
Replying to @trodemaster
Thanks & GTK. I don’t do any cli builds, but lots of video meetings :)
Replying to @lindydonna
It’s not too late...
“This work proposes Cirrus, a distributed ML training framework that addresses these challenges by leveraging serverless computing.”
https://people.eecs.berkeley.edu/~joao/p13-Carreira.pdf(via @Pocket) https://pocket.co/xdWgrH
Dear Tall People of Twitter: I need a new home office chair. I like chairs that have mesh backs. Any recommendations?
“Context is King.” https://overcast.fm/+SZZigRIeE
Replying to @mistwire, @franciscoed and @calvinhp
My back is currently ok, but definitely sitting 8+ isn’t great. Do you have a B or C model?
Replying to @chrislea
Thx. Over the long term agree it’s a good investment.
RT @digitaljami: “Alien is a movie where nobody listens to the smart woman, and then they all die except for the smart woman and her cat. F…
Is Aeron the people’s choice? https://twitter.com/mweagle/status/1251905354281050112
🙌 https://twitter.com/b0rk/status/1251968117347155986
In silent failures, no one can hear you scream.
Replying to @JoeEmison
I used a standing desk once.
For exactly one day.
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Makefile Mind
Everytime I need to write a Makefile pattern rule it feels like I’m fighting a box of knives.
Replying to @mweagle
Using Makefile to invoke Graphviz.
The Future is Now.
Replying to @mweagle
I did run it in a container though.
Replying to @seclectech
Tabs are beyond my vimabities.
Brilliant.
Kansas City Is Now Home to a BBQ Vending Machine - Gastro Obscura https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/where-can-i-buy-bbq-late-in-kansas-city
Replying to @ShawnRMclean
I wanted to create a state machine diagram from text via a CLI. One way to do this is with https://www.graphviz.org/. To automate it, I wrote a Makefile which is the original task automation tool. The `make` targets run graphviz against the input (.dot) in Docker to generate a .png
Replying to @joshroppo
Excellent! 👏
Replying to @ShawnRMclean
Update - switched to SVG :)
TIL who invented bear spray. https://overcast.fm/+REQchKjmI
Who called it fatigue and not “Zoom Gloom”?
https://www.axios.com/zoom-fatigue-coronavirus-teleconferencing-f5c0ce17-483f-4c71-9a7d-f023d7e7a45b.html
Replying to @robotterror and @dalmaer
Wow - will try this tomorrow.
“[Y]ou will see us add hundreds more as the service develops.”
New – Announcing Amazon AppFlow | AWS News Blog https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/new-announcing-amazon-appflow/
“One way to simplify the model deployment process is to use a model server, i.e. an off-the-shelf web application specially designed to serve machine learning predictions in production.” Announcing TorchServe, An Open Source Model Server for PyTorch https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/announcing-torchserve-an-open-source-model-server-for-pytorch/
Replying to @robotterror and @dalmaer
I’ve always wondered what that task was.
Any suggestions for cross-cultural online party games? Pop culture/language games can be exclusionary.
Still looking... https://twitter.com/mweagle/status/1253158648701833217
Replying to @kstewart and @davecheney
Mister Woe
Seems reasonable.
Ad: “Portable, data rich applications.” Me:
RT @jilljubs: UPDATE - I’m looking for a job ❤️
If you know or are a company looking for a remote People/Culture/Talent leader, I might be…
Getting to that stage of self-quarantine
https://open.spotify.com/track/4HepPeERTDXLP81lCN5KEg?si=KPDBMSGxRimSBXwkqmsucw
I picked the wrong decade to eat fewer carbs.
Replying to @thegautam
Great - thanks. Will download.
You’re alone in a terminal with a service...
“Each canary run is implemented using a Lambda function.”
https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/new-use-cloudwatch-synthetics-to-monitor-sites-api-endpoints-web-workflows-and-more/
RT @soledadobrien: I know I yell about terrible media framing every day, but it never occurred to me that this is how the @nytimes would fr…
Good use of Slack: created a team #recipes channel and learned about Kasba dish.
Friday Soundtrack
https://open.spotify.com/album/1KvZT4NZm69EkOym8rLqW1?si=fU5xCs3QQm-HPtfuJssb3A
“What’s HAPPENING?”
https://wizardzines.com/zines/containers/
<speak voice=“ShiaLaBeouf”>Do it!</speak>
https://pages.awscloud.com/GLOBAL-event-OE-serverless-first-function-2020-reg-event.html
More discursively, this is a virtual #serverless conference with some *very* well-known speakers taking on some thorny topics. https://twitter.com/mweagle/status/1253813391958749184
RT @jbminn: @kstewart @mweagle same. love the format. near-perfect /cc @b0rk
Replying to @jbminn, @kstewart and @b0rk
Same all around.
🙇♂️ @b0rk
Something for your next meeting @kstewart
https://www.marvel.com/articles/culture-lifestyle/video-call-backgrounds
Hoping to wrap this up over the weekend.
Related: Using Markdown for config was, um, an “interesting” choice. #hindsight
💯 “[A]cademics studying organization theories have found timeless truths about what humans need to be successful in a collective... Spotify in 2012 had not figured out how to maintain the speed and nimbleness of a small team in a large organization”
https://www.jeremiahlee.com/posts/failed-squad-goals/
I’m late to the sticker game, but think I can make up a lot of ground with: https://www.etsy.com/shop/LanternPressArtwork?ref=simple-shop-header-name&listing_id=790518895§ion_id=27229116&page=1#items
RT @rakyll: The goal was to abstract away the infrastructure. We instead converted every application developer into an infrastructure devel…
As a self described “angry typist”, I’m very curious to hear if this is going to be family or work friendly.
https://www.keychron.com/products/keychron-k2-wireless-mechanical-keyboard
Managed Services: the libraries of the cloud.
Replying to @jbminn
ClouDLLs
I miss RSS.
MFW my prior team releases their multi-quarter deliverable and it’s on point.
Prediction: representing #serverless workflows in SQL.
Well, today took quite a turn.
Replying to @jilljubs
tyvm - I need them.
You should hire @vllry 👇 https://twitter.com/isthelaststop/status/1255558720315985920
RT @vllry: I got the news this morning that I’m being laid off. I’m now looking for work.
I specialize in Kubernetes (I’m an upstream cont…
I had the privilege of working with @vllry while at @lyft.
She is tremendous...and again, you should hire her. https://twitter.com/isthelaststop/status/1255558720315985920
This is a tough day.
Is 4pm too early for Lagavulin?
Replying to @juliaferraioli
Strongly agree.
Replying to @juliaferraioli
Replying to @brianleroux
tyvm & 🥃
Replying to @RbrtColeman
Most appreciated. 🙏
Replying to @johnkinmonth
🤗
RT @kelseyhightower: If you’re looking for strong engineering talent with Kubernetes expertise you’re in luck. https://twitter.com/isthelaststop/status/1255558720315985920
Replying to @dmmiller
Appreciate it 🙇♂️
Replying to @peterfriese
Related: it’s currently after 4pm in Germany.
Trying to make #serverless lemonade out of insomnia.
Replying to @mweagle
I like meetings to end before their scheduled time if the previously communicated agenda is covered early, and
Replying to @mweagle
I think that teams and systems create resiliency rather than individuals introduce errors, and
It’s been a little more than 24 hours since I was let go from @lyft. The last day was completely chaotic & I’m going to miss everyone I worked with there. 🤗
I’m trying to get back on track and I’m looking for a new role. As an EM+ some of the things I might ramble about:
Replying to @mweagle
#serverless, ML, Spark, Streaming, the Strangler Pattern, and generally Cloud-first things are pretty interesting, and
Replying to @mweagle
I’m a believer that Servant Leader, alignment, mentorship, Accelerate, Start with Why, and customer focus, technical excellence, and organizational execution reinforce once another, and
Replying to @mweagle
I like puppy GIFs...
I’d like to say “Hi”. HMU & thank you. DMs open. 🙏
Replying to @sapessi and @lyft
Great opportunity & I like Vancouver (YVR food is 👌), but looking to stay in SEA or fully distributed for now.
Replying to @bitspace, @sapessi, @lyft and @LibertyMutual
Thanks for reaching out. I know that https://twitter.com/tmclaughbos has been instrumental in helping to make that happen. 👍
I would like to thank everyone who took time to help and talk to me today.
While I started the day feeling pretty down and I’m still out of sorts, I really appreciate all your kind words and support.
I needed it.
Thank you. 🙇♂️
Replying to @Jowanza
Yep 🤗...I don’t know how they make that cool layout, but I hope to find out 😉 I’m using https://js.cytoscape.org/ for the other one.
But, hidden in the Step Function is...
A polling lambda... 👀
Replying to @perrito666
Mos def.
Is that the look of “Hey, I think you have my cheese”?