wtf
I do #BlackLivesMatter
https://www.gofundme.com/f/i-run-with-maud
RT @kstewart: De-militarize the police. Prosecute and indict cops that break the law.
That’s the tweet.
RT @baratunde: We needed some good news. This is some good news.
“I don’t know who decided that being professional was loosely defined as being divorced of total humanity, but whoever did they’ve aided, unintentionally maybe, in a unique form of suffocation.”
Black Professionals Are Going Through A Lot | Medium https://medium.com/@shenequagolding/maintaining-professionalism-in-the-age-of-black-death-is-a-lot-5eaec5e17585
RT @aneel: Who can introduce me to black founded/run startups in security or digital identity?
RT @philswib: Listening to @deray talk about police reform and what policies actually work in reducing violence against black people based…
RT @jilljubs: If you have people report to you at work (manager, director, etc, etc) has your leadership guided you on how to manage your t…
Do you though? It doesn’t seem like you do. https://twitter.com/JBennet/status/1268328283646521344
Replying to @mweagle
Engagement metrics weren’t the reason freedom of the press was something Jefferson was pretty keen on.
Replying to @benkershner
The drive to normalization is apparently unstoppable.
Replying to @benkershner
Just read Mattis’ statement. Tom Cotton needs to step aside.
Replying to @robotterror, @benkershner, @nytimes and @jayrosen_nyu
on point:
https://twitter.com/jayrosen_nyu/status/1268374706421456901?s=21 https://twitter.com/jayrosen_nyu/status/1268374706421456901
RT @jayrosen_nyu: Would it pass a fact check by the news staff is a good question to ask about the provocative op-ed you are planning to pu…
Replying to @nytdavidbrooks
Has it caused you to rethink this?
“I’ve come to think the structural barriers he emphasizes are less important than the informal social barriers that segregate the lower 80 percent.”
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/07/11/opinion/how-we-are-ruining-america.html
I want to explain why I canceled my @nytimes subscription after nearly 7 years.
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/03/opinion/tom-cotton-protests-military.html
RT @taraw: Equality and Equity...“How much more time must we wait?” #JamesBaldwin #BLM
Replying to @KevinGoldsmith and @nytimes
I read that there was an internal staff memo and individuals protesting the View From Nowhere policy.
AFAIU according to https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/opinion/editorialboard.html, the official take is at https://twitter.com/JBennet/status/1268328278730866689?s=20
/cc @brianleroux https://twitter.com/jbminn/status/1268608030284763137
Replying to @kstewart
Perhaps she could ask @SenatorCollins to send her a performatively worded email to help her bring inaction to this difficult decision.
RT @KingJames: If you still haven’t figured out why the protesting is going on. Why we’re acting as we are is because we are simply F-N tir…
🤦♂️ “James Bennet, the editor in charge of the opinion section, said in a meeting with staff members late in the day that he had not read the essay before it was published.” https://twitter.com/mweagle/status/1268420478017826816
Replying to @mweagle
Ref: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/04/business/new-york-times-op-ed-cotton.html
Replying to @whiskersedge
Something that caused David Brooks to think and me to cancel.
https://twitter.com/nytdavidbrooks/status/1268357524178325505?s=21 https://twitter.com/nytdavidbrooks/status/1268357524178325505
Thx @littleidea for https://www.slideshare.net/littleidea/we-must-always-take-sides
Screenshots for conference organizers looking for awesomeness and #BlackExcellence
Replying to @HeyTaiZen, @tweetmonster999, @brian_armstrong and @coinbase
You’ve successfully exhibited some epic level racism, bigotry, and poor judgement. Well done.
Excellent use of Caps Lock https://twitter.com/MurielBowser/status/1268916115809488896
Replying to @dathanvp and @xaprb
Possible that @deray or members of #8cantwait have unlocked some of those sources.
Replying to @mattomata
Testify
Heads up if you’re looking for a new role:
“Attention men and women of diversity & inclusion, who are seeking employment during these hard times!”
https://www.linkedin.com/posts/activity-6674333453405818880-_2_f
Coincidentally this was about the time I canceled my Atlantic subscription.
“During his tenure, The Atlantic dramatically increased web traffic, and in 2010, the magazine had its first profitable year in a decade.”
James Bennet https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Bennet_(journalist)
Replying to @mweagle
There was a story about how Geithner and crew were the financial crash “saviors”, with zero mention of Geithner’s role pre-2008 at the Fed bank in NYC.
Replying to @SeanWebflow
👋 - here to help. Serverless, EM/leadership, DevOps, ML and whatever else anyone wants to talk about. HMU.
In the midst of these long overdue transformational times I’d like to share some personal news...
I’m tremendously excited to be joining the @awscloud #awslambda team as an EM later this month.
Replying to @mweagle
I’d like to thank everyone who reached out to me following the @lyft RIF. The opportunity to meet new people and reconnect with many of you all over the past few weeks is something I’ll always remember. You all know who you are and 👊.
🙏
Replying to @mweagle
I’m looking forward to building upon AWS Lambda’s momentum and helping to make #serverless on @awscloud even more reliable, powerful, and accessible.
Replying to @niallmullensays and @awscloud
Appreciate the opportunity and looking forward to working with you!
Replying to @ajaynairthinks and @awscloud
Word.
Replying to @kstewart and @awscloud
Those are some strong dance moves. 👊
Replying to @rchrdbyd and @awscloud
Strong GIF game.
Replying to @vllry and @awscloud
Thanks!
I’m looking forward to hearing who will be lucky enough to have you join their team.
Replying to @QuinnyPig, @ajaynairthinks and @awscloud
Thanks Corey.
Replying to @techandautism and @awscloud
Thanks Jes. 🙏
Replying to @VladAIonescu and @awscloud
Thx Vlad - I’ll be keeping tabs on whats going on at @EarthlyTech as well 😀
Replying to @perrito666 and @awscloud
Thanks Horacio!
Replying to @PreetamJinka and @awscloud
Thanks Preetam!
Replying to @edyesed
Thanks Ed. 🙏
Replying to @skpodila and @awscloud
Thanks Swarna! 🙏
Replying to @txase and @awscloud
Appreciate it Chase! Looking forward to seeing what you all at @stackeryio come up with next.
“I hope you walk away knowing that ongoing acts of racism against me personally and police brutality incidents in the news inform my choices and habits.”
How Racism Shapes My Habits https://www.jowanza.com/blog/2020/6/1/how-racism-shapes-my-habits
“Today I tried to help a friend who is a great computer scientist, but not a JS person use a JS module he found on Github.”
Today’s Javascript, from an outsider’s perspective – Lea Verou http://lea.verou.me/2020/05/todays-javascript-from-an-outsiders-perspective/
“First the considerations: the information that we need to measure the four key metrics is not in a single place. It’s scattered all over different systems...”
Four Key Metrics and team performance - DEV https://dev.to/kmruiz/four-key-metrics-and-team-performance-2p4f
“I’ve picked the first 10 I would recommend to a new manager.”
I’m new to Engineering Management, what books should I read? – Herding Programmers https://stevebennett.co/2020/04/22/im-new-to-engineering-management-what-books-should-i-read/
“A common question I get asked by managers is how to best guide and give input to team members depending on their level of experience or expertise.”
Managing through the WHY, WHAT and HOW - Lawrence Ripsher - Medium https://medium.com/@ripsher/managing-through-the-why-what-and-how-a5dd657a49b0
RT @MrHighArt: love this hashtag 😊 sup y’all, name’s Monde i’m an illustrator and love #drawingwhileblack
// 🙏🏿✨🖤🌊
RT @kwuchu: After talking to a few black peers in the tech industry, it’s infuriating that some of them have white managers who haven’t eve…
I’ve read/listened to multiple stories from black men recalling “the conversation” with their fathers about how to behave when (not if) they’re pulled over by the cops. All use similar language and consequences.
Let’s end that story.
https://link.medium.com/1Uy49uZU66
Replying to @paulg, @chesaboudin and @stefan_arrr
What three digit number should I call to request a mediator/social worker/mental health expert?
“Make the hire. Send the wire.”
https://marker.medium.com/its-time-we-dealt-with-white-supremacy-in-tech-8f7816fe809
“So what can tech companies do to support the black community and advocate for racial equity?” (via @Pocket) https://pocket.co/xhQ9G6
“Why did I come here to begin with?”
And scene...
https://twitter.com/jayrosen_nyu/status/1269724541019918344?s=21 https://twitter.com/mweagle/status/1268998569899388928
RT @rts_rob: Joe nails it. Putting in the effort yourself is hard. It’s also extremely valuable. As a leader, you are by definition *suppos…
“Police officers were built to police the poor, no matter who they were.” https://overcast.fm/+Ys-ujFfvU
RT @jamieelisea: Action matters. Not arguing with flat-earthers on the internet. I’m proposing mechanisms inside my company to get BIPOC to…
What is a “Charmed Distribution of Kubernetes”?
Replying to @mweagle
ah...
“Charmed Kubernetes frees your developers and infrastructure teams to focus on what matters most, your business workloads and not infrastructure problems.”
https://assets.ubuntu.com/v1/b5f9ae49-Enterprise_Kubernetes_Datasheet.pdf
Replying to @vllry
That...ideally wouldn’t be a differentiator.
“Canonical makes it secure and easy to deploy, operate and upgrade.”
“Kata Containers bridges the gap between traditional VM security and the lightweight benefits of traditional Linux* containers.”
Why Kata Containers doesn’t replace Kubernetes: - Kata Containers - Medium https://medium.com/kata-containers/why-kata-containers-doesnt-replace-kubernetes-75e484679727
Replying to @jhscott and @vllry
When I read “Charmed k8s” that series was the GIF stream I looked in, but couldn’t find an appropriate one.
But as I read more of the docs, I found one...
“That is precisely why I still think that Go is underrated. Despite all my criticism, I believe it got many things right.”
The Go compiler needs to be smarter – Daniel Lemire’s blog https://lemire.me/blog/2020/06/04/the-go-compiler-needs-to-be-smarter/
RT @marcusjcarey: @ancerj I read the post and it is terrible.
It’s hard to stop myself from doomscrolling, but trying to make a go at Rust.
It’s...very different than go.
Replying to @edyesed
Any chance the File Icon theme changed? AFAIU https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=qinjia.seti-icons uses the gopher icon.
Replying to @edyesed
Can repro loss of beloved gopher after @code update/restart cycle. Set https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=be5invis.vscode-icontheme-nomo-dark has the old school icon.
Replying to @edyesed and @code
Replying to @benkershner
Replying to @dparzych
Couple more: * https://www.blackillustrations.com/?ref=producthunt * https://peopleofcolorintech.com/articles/where-to-find-free-stock-photos-with-people-of-color/
“If that happens, it will be the first time such tastes have been publicly available in at least 1,000 years...” https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/what-was-native-american-food-like-before-europeans
Replying to @DreeTV and @rubenharris
Maybe @jwatkinsky ?
RT @ernestmueller: Well, today’s my last day at @PrAutonomy. Monday I start a new gig at chaos engineering startup @verica_io leading an e…
That’s...an interesting choice. https://twitter.com/kore_sar/status/1271631969558749184
Replying to @jhscott and @shidoshi
Perhaps it’s ok?
https://twitter.com/rakyll/status/1271868768671551488?s=21 https://twitter.com/rakyll/status/1271868768671551488
Replying to @tomkrazit
Both & more in depth analysis at https://jepsen.io/analyses/mongodb-4.2.6
Replying to @jhscott and @shidoshi
I was a bit concerned independent of the domain.
🎶 To the right, to the right... https://twitter.com/fatbellybella/status/1271096946615365640
RT @nicolefv: All these tech peeps brag about how quickly they pick up new programming languages and frameworks... then also insist it’s to…
RT @anjuan: There’s not a lot of role models for what I do. There are fewer role models for where I want to go with my career. In a lot of…
RT @MtRainierWatch: STICKER PRE-ORDER! 🎉
Rainier Watch is donating 100% of the proceeds from these stickers to organizations that support…
Rust has some nice features. The checker for memory and thread safety is 👍.. I did read a “>>>” in a code example which was a bit of a switch from `go`.
The syntax for mixing type and lifetime restrictions for generic declarations is...interesting.
“Streamlit is aimed at people who don’t necessarily know or care much about application development: Data scientists.”
https://www.zdnet.com/article/streamlit-wants-to-revolutionize-building-machine-learning-and-data-science-applications-scores-21-million-series-a-funding/
RT @ianfoo: Lamentably, I joined the ranks of the laid off yesterday. Covid’s economic hit is affecting everyone.
If my network knows of o…
Replying to @hichaelmart
I see you.
“AWS Lambda will automatically mount the file system and provide a local path to read and write data at low latency.” 🙌👍🎉 https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2020/06/aws-lambda-support-for-amazon-elastic-file-system-now-generally-/
Replying to @elchefe
Anyone you lose wasn’t worth your time. 👊 && 💜
“Test selection sparks joy in my life. I wish that I can bring the same joy to you.” (via @Pocket) #longreads https://pocket.co/xh8TfF
“In a post-internet world where write availability is key the real world looks more like weak consistency + delayed exceptions + compensation rather than a mistake free world of perfect communication and transactions.” (via @Pocket) https://pocket.co/sh8Taj
“Enterprises can increasingly look at the JAMstack and conclude that it could easily have a role, and potentially a significant one, in its application delivery portfolio.” (via @Pocket) #longreads https://redmonk.com/sogrady/2020/06/10/convergent-evolution-cdns-cloud/
RT @marcusjcarey: A lot of people ask me what language they should learn.
>> Golang (Go)!!
100% the best language out to learn & build st…
“Black Tech Pipeline is a service based platform focused on bringing exposure, resources and opportunity to Black technologists, and our allies.”(via @Pocket) https://blacktechpipeline.substack.com/p/were-launching-black-tech-pipeline
What is this 🥦 🍕 abomination? https://twitter.com/thedailymeal/status/1273230086528008193
My thoughts on direct buried line
The blowback from leaving Tupac off a top 10 list is tremendous. https://overcast.fm/+BQMXQuCnw
RT @jbesw: @ianfoo @mweagle So sry to hear that - but we are hiring! http://Amazon.jobs
Cedric the Legislator 👏 https://twitter.com/JessiTurnure/status/1273395564005261312
“In sum, D&I needs to be an ethos that permeates the entire organization, championed not just by the HR department but by everyone, and especially managers, so that its importance is clear. "
Toward a Racially Just Workplace https://hbr.org/cover-story/2019/11/toward-a-racially-just-workplace
Recommended podcast https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/08/14/magazine/1619-america-slavery.html
RT @TheUndefeated: A cop told Bradley Beal, “I can f-up your Monday headline on ESPN by arresting you right now.” 🤦🏾♂️ https://t.co/ABgt4M…
Excited to be starting my Day One day one journey today with the #awslambda @awscloud team!
Replying to @kstewart and @awscloud
Jake Hoyt has no good GIFs.
“It is highly uncommon to encounter large static datasets. In most cases, data keeps being generated constantly, which is often addressed with an unwelcome trade-off between training cost and accuracy.”
https://ssc.io/pdf/modin711s.pdf(via @Pocket) https://pocket.co/xhID49
“In the last few years, we have embraced practicing “pipelines as code” as a way to more easily and consistently configure safe, up-to-date pipelines by modeling this configuration in code.” https://aws.amazon.com/builders-library/automating-safe-hands-off-deployments/
“My wishlist falls into three broad thematic buckets...” (via @Pocket) #longreads https://pocket.co/xhIDv5
Replying to @turgon
I have email!
Current status:
Replying to @lindydonna and @awscloud
Thanks! 🙇♂️
“A coach helps their coachees discover what they want, why they want it, and what they’re going to do about it.”
The Difference Between Coaching And Mentoring(via @Pocket) https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/difference-between-coaching-mentoring-dani-rukin-cpcc-pcc
“Yet, the adage mo’ types, mo’ binary holds true for the majority of Go programs.” (via @Pocket) https://pocket.co/xhdQiv
This seems wildly accurate.
From https://www.amazon.com/Essential-Deming-Leadership-Principles-Quality/dp/0071790225
Replying to @mweagle
Deming has no time for vanity metrics:
“Zero defects is not quality. Quality is much more complex than zero defects.”
Thank you @mrvincecarter15
https://youtu.be/XMrPjl-927Q
Homeowner truth: there’s no such thing as too many tape measures.
Replying to @portilaj
I also have a laser measure. Send help 😀
Replying to @Joshreeter
Especially those interchangeable ratchet screwdriver bits.
Replying to @milesward
Replying to @kwuchu
TIL jollof and I need to try it.
Replying to @kwuchu
I’m open to international flights 😀
Replying to @kwuchu
Friday night status: I’m now browsing restaurants in Houston to put in @Pocket .
Winter is coming.
https://www.history.com/shows/alone
RT @regev_ran: Great @cppcast with @taraw. I could listen to her 5 more hours without a pause. So much enthusiasm. And yes, tnank you for h…
I have completed five Day Ones. 🙌
A color to consider for your next home project.
Spoiler: Not enough https://overcast.fm/+Bv9synrG4
Updated status
Replying to @calehoopes
NULL = mattalloc(♾)