
❤️er of Platform Engineering, SRE, K8s, Golang, Observability. Aussie living in the Netherlands. SRE at @StackOverflow
Schiedam, Nederland
Joined March 2009
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Have Claude with memories on?
Try:
“If you were a life coach and had a session with me to improve my life, in any way or method, what would be your 3 recommendations for what I should do. Use your knowledge about me and our chat history. Be direct”
Enjoy your reality check😬
A guide for parents on using @home_assistant to build a dynamic dashboard that gamifies the school morning routine, turning chores into a fun race to unlock a daily fact (and giving you some peace in the morning ☕)
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Why "big-reveal" architecture pitches stall—and how Staff+ engineers can apply the Japanese practice of Nemawashi to quietly build consensus and ship transformational change.
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Argo Workflows - Proven Patterns from Production
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Proven patterns and best practices for implementing Argo Workflows in production. Covers some pitfalls, lessons learned, and actionable tips for folks running or designing workflows. @argoproj #blog
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Today we officially launch the next stage of community and AI here at @StackOverflow: OverflowAI! Just shared the exciting news on the @WeAreDevs keynote stage. If you missed it, watch highlights of our announcements and visit stackoverflow.co/labs/?utm_s….
If you have a @The_Pi_Hole / @AdGuard or other DNS based ad-blocker, and you are unable to use Spotify Connect or ChromeCast correctly, check that "dealer.spotify.com" is not being blocked. Thanks to @SpotifyCares for helping get to the bottom of the issue 👍💪
1/ In an effort to reduce power usage, I added a smart plug on my entertainment center which was turning my OLED tv off in the night. I found out that this is a big no-no! Shadow marks started appearing on the TV screen 😱.
2/ OLEDs run a pixel refresh when in standby, and when you turn them off this prevents this from happening. I have a Sony, but here’s a video warning against it with an LG OLED: youtu.be/dHwB1IDVzZU After leaving it on stand by over night everything was back to normal!
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Companies and regions that pay for oncall, versus ones that don't.
Seeing any interesting patterns so far?
(Feel free to share oncall compensation details over DMs - I'll publish all aggregated results & rates)
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Why do large companies do planning once, max twice a year?
Because doing a proper and non-rushed top-down-meets-bottoms-up planning typically takes 2.5 months from the start, in an company with several organizations, each orgs having many teams:
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How hot is the market for software engineers? Hotter than I've ever seen. Here's proof.
Dozens of companies have taken an extreme measure: increasing compensation out-of-cycle, during the year, because they see *so* much attrition.
Data on this (thanks for everyone sharing 🙌)
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Once again Barbados PM Mia Mottley has been the one who has delivered the speech the world needed. May she be heard, may we rise. Take 8 minutes to listen to the whole thing. Share the lines that grabbed you most. #COP26
Isn't having multiple regions meant to stop this type of outage? #azure
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1/3 Docker's license changes are perfectly reasonable. However it is disingenuous that they repeat the $5/month price over and over in connection to "professional use in larger companies". $5/month requires each dev to purchase it on their own credit card which is
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When you ask "Why did Company build 7 of the same products that all failed?", it always starts with the current solution struggling. This is an opportunity. Not to fix - which doesn't get you promoted - but to start anew.
An all too real story about Promotion Driven Development:
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New government rules say if you mute yourself and then speak during a video call after working from home for 17 months I get to yell “BARNT” and leave the meeting.
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Who set the Terror Police on friendlyjordies?
youtu.be/uk4XR6lsQ3o
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This is the best show I’ve seen in years. Brilliant! #MrInbetween #fx
📰I have news! I'm joining @StackOverflow as a Site Reliability Engineer 🎉 Really excited to start in July after some time off for house renovations.















