Anyone have recommendations for a good Hawaiian shave ice place around Seattle? Or within 50 miles?
RT @mweagle: Anyone have recommendations for a good Hawaiian shave ice place around Seattle? Or within 50 miles?
100 miles?
Shave ice is better than ice cream. True or yes? https://twitter.com/mweagle/status/1289619407409356800
Replying to @alexbdebrie
DM me your GoFundMe. ServerlessNE sounds excellent.
Replying to @joshroppo
Good news on both fronts. ✊
Replying to @jodyrodgers
Thx! Closes at 6pm today. 🙇
Replying to @jodyrodgers
Southcenter doesn’t sell shave ice. 😞
New laptop, new stickers.
MRNP trails were really busy today, most people wore masks. Huge variety of wildflowers in peak bloom (except bear grass which looks to be done).
RT @ben11kehoe: AWS #CommunityBuilders is a exciting program. It’s an accelerator for people who have been contributing to the AWS communit…
Why does this keep happening?
Replying to @tekmaven and @benkershner
Same. I’m listening to recordings from 1971 which significantly increases my Time to Diagnose this “feature”.
RT @projectinclude: So many problems in tech are related to mismanagement. Train your managers. Make sure inclusion and anti-racism are par…
“I’ve tried to summarize my thoughts on the company, team and individual levels.”(via @Pocket) https://nemethgergely.com/engineering-productivity
“With a microservice architecture one trades a single monolithic code base for black boxes whose functionality can change at any time and easily cause unexpected behavior.” (via @Pocket) #longreads https://eng.uber.com/microservice-architecture/
Replying to @mweagle
Related: https://twitter.com/samnewman/status/1288072774083383297?s=21 https://twitter.com/samnewman/status/1288072774083383297
“What happens if we organize our independent teams by problem statement rather than function?”
Independence, autonomy, and too many small teams(via @Pocket) #longreads https://pocket.co/xh9K2y
RT @kstewart: White privilege at its finest.
Any questions? #StillADouchebag https://twitter.com/Jason/status/1290052534451580928
srsly, don’t. https://twitter.com/fintanr/status/1290666170824220679
I really don’t need SMS “Vote for Me” notifications. k thx.
Reminder: “A good litmus test has been that if you need to SSH into a server or an instance, you still have more to automate.”
https://www.allthingsdistributed.com/2016/03/10-lessons-from-10-years-of-aws.html
MFW I read “human error” was the cause of an outage
Replying to @benkershner
Lambda makes it pretty challenging to SSH, so it had a bit of a head start on this one.
“The problem is that we are applying agile principles only in narrow pockets instead of applying them end-to-end.” (via @Pocket) #longreads https://pocket.co/xhf8KS
Replying to @salman_paracha
This was prompted by an external post.
Thanks 😀 I’m coming up to speed on COEs and the ones I’ve looked at steadfastly avoid fundamental attribution. They are great sources of organizational learning. 👍
Replying to @h3techdev and @Pocket
I can imagine 😀.
You’ve probably already watched it, but you might enjoy the Agile take in
https://www.mindtheproduct.com/video-the-root-causes-of-product-failure-by-marty-cagan/
RT @suzanbond: Leadership is tougher than ever these days. To understand what leaders are experiencing I’m doing a survey on state of leade…
It should be fine, it worked on my machine. https://twitter.com/RealKaylaJames/status/1290143233612214272
Is there an email client that supports deep URLs with a custom scheme that is locally resolvable? Specifically, I want to take a “mailThread://” and paste it into a doc. Then click on the link and open the email thread in the client.
Confirmed: https://www.hyrumslaw.com/
Replying to @robbyrussell and @SparkMailApp
Thank you! I’ll TAL.
Replying to @ben11kehoe
Yep. I’ve found even when it’s documented as “implementation specific” or “undefined” or “opaque”, somewhere out there a hard dependency exists.
URLs as Strings 👀
Replying to @jimcalliu
Something Verily Gory
RT @kstewart: With respect to the whole degree discussion, 2 things can simultaneously be true:
1. You DON’T need a CS degree to be gainfu…
“The rest of the justices are White men.”
Of course they are. https://twitter.com/CNN/status/1291454004019499010
Started reading this @dberkholz recommendation. Refreshingly straightforward.
Good Strategy Bad Strategy: The Difference and Why It Matters https://www.amazon.com/dp/0307886239/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_i_kzllFbHY0EKKF
“The increased load on the database was due to a rollout of a configuration change, which triggered a longstanding performance bug.”
A Terrible, Horrible, No-Good, Very Bad Day at Slack | by Laura Nolan | Jun, 2020 | Several People Are Coding https://slack.engineering/a-terrible-horrible-no-good-very-bad-day-at-slack-dfe05b485f82
RT @UberGeekGirl: “The broken monitoring hadn’t been noticed partly because this system ‘just worked’ for a long time, and didn’t require a…
“Being curious about what someone else thinks is the foundation of asking good questions.” (via @Pocket) #longreads https://pocket.co/xhfJd
Replying to @davecheney
Generic replacements installed FTW. Thanks for the tip.
All text editing “native apps” that attempt to support Markdown and use embedded WebViews are irredeemably broken.
don’t @me
Replying to @Bigwilliestyle and @dberkholz
If nothing else, “Mistaking goals for strategy” as a hallmark of bad strategy is enough to recommend the book.
Will try and share something more helpful as I go along 😀
TIL there’s a local die cut sticker company.
https://www.diecutstickers.com/
Replying to @SoSplush
Frustration
RT @kstewart: Why is This Idiot Running My Engineering Org? | by Marianne Bellotti | Aug, 2020 | Medium https://medium.com/@bellmar/why-is-this-idiot-running-my-engineering-org-c6e815790cdb
“what is tech brain? there are lots of things to point to, but if i had to come up with a thesis it would be that tech brain is a sort of constant willful reductionism...” (via @Pocket) https://pycnocline.substack.com/p/tech-brain
Replying to @kstewart
This is an interesting way to think about strategy.
Spectacular wildflowers this year at Mt Rainier.
Replying to @mweagle
Not sure whats going on here. Saw a couple of trees that had bark stripped and indentations, but they didn’t look like claw marks. 🐻 🤷♂️
Replying to @dberkholz
The ability to access some Rainer trailheads in ~2hrs is still hard for me to believe.
Replying to @KevinGoldsmith
Absolutely not.
Replying to @KevinGoldsmith
Sunrise entry was ~40m wait around 9, fryingpan creek to summerland was already full by then.
We saw around 40 people on the trail, but there were stretches of solitude and 90%+ had masks.
I imagine Paradise was overflowing.
Please unroll @threadreaderapp https://twitter.com/mattklein123/status/1291899271885623296
Replying to @rogueleaderr
It’s from: Good Strategy Bad Strategy: The Difference and Why It Matters https://www.amazon.com/dp/0307886239/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_i_biJmFb51A552Z
/cc @seanjtaylor @RbrtColeman https://twitter.com/jrhunt/status/1293210008293797889
RT @ben11kehoe: this is a bug; CloudFormation is Truth
What is the sound of one gopher digging?
https://dave.cheney.net/2020/02/23/the-zen-of-go
Polls now open
“If you want to build truly performant software, you need to at least keep performance in mind as you make early design and architectural decisions, lest you paint yourself into awkward corners later on.” https://blog.nelhage.com/post/reflections-on-performance/
“So the next time you have something to say think about the three questions to understand how best to deliver what you want to say; how, when and who?” https://www.benjibanjo.com/posts/managingupdownleftright/
Tests with a 99%+ false positive rate aren’t particularly informative.
Replying to @StegerPatrick
I suppose that’s technically a test, but ...
Replying to @mpchlets
Exactly.
Replying to @dpp
I like that analogy as well. If the decision isn’t easily reversible we *really* need to make sure we think it’s the “right” one.
RT @jbesw: Learn about how to use Amazon MSK as an event source for Lambda: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/compute/using-amazon-msk-as-an-event-source-for-aws-lambda/ #aws #serverless #kafka
Velocity includes a directional component. There’s no point rapidly going the wrong way.
Replying to @PaulDJohnston
True.
In related news, it’s late summer here in the PNW and velocity on trails is something we’re thinking about more and more.
Replying to @ben11kehoe
It’s most appreciated. Not everyone is as considerate as you though. #BeLikeBen
I have seen James Baldwin references several times in recent weeks. I’ve appreciated each one.
I’m taking this as a sign to learn more about James Baldwin.
Replying to @mweagle
Yep. This is a great book, plus there’s a shout out to the 3dfx.
Replying to @Bigwilliestyle and @dberkholz
I recommend it. It’s a bit of OODA, consistently applying critical thinking, and actively looking to challenge the cognitive shortcuts we all make.
If strategy isn’t based in pragmatism and anticipation, and it doesn’t specify *how* to achieve the goal, it’s just...
It was nearly 80 degrees up there today. I tried sunscreen, but it has no chance against my heat regulation system. 😓
Replying to @mweagle
Me in the morning: crossing this glacier fed stream is fun.
Me in the afternoon: how did we cross this? It’s a raging river.
I wish RDF, SPARQL and the like had broken out of the Semantic Web community a bit more.
Replying to @kstewart
I’m afraid to ask.
Catching up on my AIs...
It’s come to my attention that there are still good things in store for 2020. https://twitter.com/mweagle/status/1233595522570539008
Replying to @cloud_opinion
dc:contested
Replying to @kstewart
There was a moment where I thought things were going to take a turn for the worse.
Itis is 👍
Replying to @kstewart
Pour out three. 🥃
“Recently, one of my dear colleagues was discovered. I mean not in the movie star way, but at work.”(via @Pocket) https://pocket.co/xhaENC
“In this post I go into the background of the serverless computing space, and how we got to where we are today.” (via @Pocket) #longreads https://pocket.co/xhaEX7
Confirmed: a possum visits our backyard at night.
“Further, we’ve found that software delivery performance predicts organizational performance” https://medium.com/google-cloud/taking-the-next-step-on-your-devops-journey-e4ceae1c6f8c
Replying to @mweagle
Update: 2 opossums and a family of 5 🦝s
Outlook for Mac is not an ideal experience.
Replying to @mweagle
So much rich text, so impoverished my cross-application experience.
We’re hiring another EM for the AWS Lambda Team! Are you interested in helping customers, growing teams and people, and solving high-scale problems? Are `go` and `Rust` technologies you’d like to work with? #serverless
https://www.amazon.jobs/en/jobs/991173/software-development-manager-aws-lambda
Replying to @techandautism
I’m hoping it did too. Compared to the raccoons, the opossums were very casual about the camera. The raccoons were much more skeptical and one gave it a very long and intimidating stare.
Replying to @richburroughs and @ReosRibs
How far north do they deliver?
Replying to @mpchlets
Server side dependencies 😞
Replying to @benkershner
RT @tmclaughbos: I’m really honored by this. And I think it’s a great time to talk about how I got here.
Some folks may have noticed I dis…
Replying to @tmclaughbos
Very well deserved & happy for you.
Embedded webviews, markup, and keyboard shortcuts are the worst Friday cocktail.
Replying to @joshroppo
😂 One more reason I love Australians.
Status: “brb...doing a keyboardey”
Do other people run into the situation where same-brand clothing sizes are different depending on where they’re made?
Like, the “same” shirt in two fabrics from two different locations have radically different measurements?
Replying to @tmclaughbos and @IamStan
Add Columbia and Carhartt from my side.