Thread by @QuinnyPig

In this thread I temporarily turn my attention away from poking fun at cloud computing and instead towards people I know on Twitter.

Did you know @thevowel works at @box? It's true! He's ex-@xbox, the two negatives cancel out. Boom, math.

@thevowel @Box @Xbox Once, @mattstratton sold his soul to the devil to become famous. And he is, albeit in certain bizarre circles, which is why reading contracts carefully is so important.

@thevowel @Box @Xbox @mattstratton "DevOps for Dummies" is a terrible name for the genius work that is @editingemily's book.

It's like "Kubernetes Made Simple."

@thevowel @Box @Xbox @mattstratton @editingemily When she took the COO job at GitHub, @ericabrescia had no idea how much of her job would involve "incorrecting my pronunciation of GitHub."

If @nuclearanthro drinks every time he encounters "EMP" in his research, we can't ever let him meet @dbsmasher, human EMP.

Or he will die.

One of the rarest creatures of them all is @killedbygoogle: something with "google" in its name that @google can't turn off. Until they remember that they have lawyers.

If you smash empathy and technical prowess together in a supercollider, @lizthegrey emerges from the resulting explosion and fixes your now-broken supercollider.

@lizthegrey There are lots of fun things to see at the Computer Science History Museum, but @GeorgeWHerbert remains my favorite exhibit.

@lizthegrey @GeorgeWHerbert I'd agree with you that @mipsytipsy doesn't comprehend observability, but then we'd *both* be wrong.

@lizthegrey @GeorgeWHerbert @mipsytipsy Someone once accused me of trying to be the @chloecondon of cloud. No, @chloecondon is the @chloecondon of cloud.

Tickets go on sale this Thursday.

@lizthegrey @GeorgeWHerbert @mipsytipsy @ChloeCondon The day I got married and changed my last name was the darkest day in @coreyquinn's life.

@lizthegrey @GeorgeWHerbert @mipsytipsy @ChloeCondon @coreyquinn It's a tie between @twittersupport and @awssupport over which employee group is going to snap first and respond to some of the insipid nonsense they have to deal with Hard Truths.

I look forward to that glorious day.

"Assume all women are technical and capable of breathing fire" is a great shirt and all, but Google VP @nicolefv can actually freaking do it.

Do NOT test her!

@nicolefv It's easy to mistakenly assume that @jeffbarr builds the all of the various AWS services by himself just because he writes the @awscloud blog, but no; he stopped doing that in 2014.

@nicolefv @jeffbarr @awscloud Feel free to demonstrate your bravery by being condescending to @acvisneski; they still haven't found the body of the last person who tried it.

@nicolefv @jeffbarr @awscloud @acvisneski One of the best things about @iancoldwater is all of the goose references. The worst thing about @iancoldwater is their profile icon uses the goose image and thus has given me something to smile about that includes Kubernetes.

@nicolefv @jeffbarr @awscloud @acvisneski @IanColdwater One of the data points in my conspiracy theory that Chef exposure gives people superpowers is @nellshamrell.

@nicolefv @jeffbarr @awscloud @acvisneski @IanColdwater @nellshamrell I once did a two part tweet about marrying @amye to @bitintegrity last year and I *still* get people thinking that she's my wife.

@nicolefv @jeffbarr @awscloud @acvisneski @IanColdwater @nellshamrell @amye @BitIntegrity One of the best in the world at remembering people's names is @chipadeedoodah, which is a hard requirement for working at @auth0.

@nicolefv @jeffbarr @awscloud @acvisneski @IanColdwater @nellshamrell @amye @BitIntegrity @chipadeedoodah @auth0 The only successful cloud migration I've ever seen was @taraw going from @awscloud employee to @azure employee. The rest just gave up and called multi-cloud a victory.

@nicolefv @jeffbarr @awscloud @acvisneski @IanColdwater @nellshamrell @amye @BitIntegrity @chipadeedoodah @auth0 @taraw @Azure While usually very quick to pick up new concepts, @ben11kehoe drastically misunderstood the Traveling Salesman problem and now has sold a disturbing number of us Roombas.

I HAVE HARDWOOD FLOORS AND STILL BOUGHT ONE!

@nicolefv @jeffbarr @awscloud @acvisneski @IanColdwater @nellshamrell @amye @BitIntegrity @chipadeedoodah @auth0 @taraw @Azure @ben11kehoe I secretly suspect the only reason @z1g1 agreed to give a talk with me at reInvent last year was so that someone from AWS Security could keep an eye on me.

@nicolefv @jeffbarr @awscloud @acvisneski @IanColdwater @nellshamrell @amye @BitIntegrity @chipadeedoodah @auth0 @taraw @Azure @ben11kehoe @z1g1 I was once tagged in a thread about AWS with @shortxstack. The next 48 hours were spent with my mentions completely full of man-explaining. She has the patience of a goddamned saint and none of us deserve her.

@nicolefv @jeffbarr @awscloud @acvisneski @IanColdwater @nellshamrell @amye @BitIntegrity @chipadeedoodah @auth0 @taraw @Azure @ben11kehoe @z1g1 @shortxstack I've learned more about tea, kernel nuances, organizational nuances, social media, and Deep Space 9 from @alicegoldfuss than most people will in a lifetime.

@nicolefv @jeffbarr @awscloud @acvisneski @IanColdwater @nellshamrell @amye @BitIntegrity @chipadeedoodah @auth0 @taraw @Azure @ben11kehoe @z1g1 @shortxstack @alicegoldfuss I'm about 70% confident that after a slide I once put into a talk @jenntejada had to spend the next month and a half explaining to people that no, @pagerduty's real slogan did not have profanity in it.

@nicolefv @jeffbarr @awscloud @acvisneski @IanColdwater @nellshamrell @amye @BitIntegrity @chipadeedoodah @auth0 @taraw @Azure @ben11kehoe @z1g1 @shortxstack @alicegoldfuss @jenntejada @pagerduty One of the most fascinating explorations of data transfer billing considerations once came out of a conversation I had with @IamPaigeJ. Layers within layers!

@nicolefv @jeffbarr @awscloud @acvisneski @IanColdwater @nellshamrell @amye @BitIntegrity @chipadeedoodah @auth0 @taraw @Azure @ben11kehoe @z1g1 @shortxstack @alicegoldfuss @jenntejada @pagerduty @IamPaigeJ Like it says on the bio / tin, @polotek is pretty much the best guy I know. When he's tweeting, I'm learning.

@nicolefv @jeffbarr @awscloud @acvisneski @IanColdwater @nellshamrell @amye @BitIntegrity @chipadeedoodah @auth0 @taraw @Azure @ben11kehoe @z1g1 @shortxstack @alicegoldfuss @jenntejada @pagerduty @IamPaigeJ @polotek Back when the .dev domains first came out, one Nathan bought the Nathan variant, @nathankpeck was sad, and I pointed out there was a Nathan Pecking Order.

I'm still proud of that one.

@nicolefv @jeffbarr @awscloud @acvisneski @IanColdwater @nellshamrell @amye @BitIntegrity @chipadeedoodah @auth0 @taraw @Azure @ben11kehoe @z1g1 @shortxstack @alicegoldfuss @jenntejada @pagerduty @IamPaigeJ @polotek @nathankpeck On good weeks, @blatanterror is the best thing in Denver.

On bad weeks, he escapes to bother the rest of us.

@nicolefv @jeffbarr @awscloud @acvisneski @IanColdwater @nellshamrell @amye @BitIntegrity @chipadeedoodah @auth0 @taraw @Azure @ben11kehoe @z1g1 @shortxstack @alicegoldfuss @jenntejada @pagerduty @IamPaigeJ @polotek @nathankpeck @blatanterror One of the best examples of "use privilege to raise others up" is @monkchips. Combined with @sogrady, you get a masterclass in Life As A Decent Human.

@nicolefv @jeffbarr @awscloud @acvisneski @IanColdwater @nellshamrell @amye @BitIntegrity @chipadeedoodah @auth0 @taraw @Azure @ben11kehoe @z1g1 @shortxstack @alicegoldfuss @jenntejada @pagerduty @IamPaigeJ @polotek @nathankpeck @blatanterror @monkchips @sogrady I once had a meeting with @mike_julian and @WillGregorian that I titled "Calendar Fight." Somehow I was the only person who found this hysterical.

@nicolefv @jeffbarr @awscloud @acvisneski @IanColdwater @nellshamrell @amye @BitIntegrity @chipadeedoodah @auth0 @taraw @Azure @ben11kehoe @z1g1 @shortxstack @alicegoldfuss @jenntejada @pagerduty @IamPaigeJ @polotek @nathankpeck @blatanterror @monkchips @sogrady @mike_julian @WillGregorian If you're hiring in the DevRel space, you could do worse than @richburroughs. Good freaking luck doing better.

@nicolefv @jeffbarr @awscloud @acvisneski @IanColdwater @nellshamrell @amye @BitIntegrity @chipadeedoodah @auth0 @taraw @Azure @ben11kehoe @z1g1 @shortxstack @alicegoldfuss @jenntejada @pagerduty @IamPaigeJ @polotek @nathankpeck @blatanterror @monkchips @sogrady @mike_julian @WillGregorian @richburroughs Last week I ran into @MissAmyTobey twice, despite never having met her before. This week my days are comparatively long and boring, with all the colors somehow duller.

@nicolefv @jeffbarr @awscloud @acvisneski @IanColdwater @nellshamrell @amye @BitIntegrity @chipadeedoodah @auth0 @taraw @Azure @ben11kehoe @z1g1 @shortxstack @alicegoldfuss @jenntejada @pagerduty @IamPaigeJ @polotek @nathankpeck @blatanterror @monkchips @sogrady @mike_julian @WillGregorian @richburroughs @MissAmyTobey When I found out the title of @DarkAndNerdy's book I was filled with envy that I hadn't written it first. I drove the envy out by filling myself with potato chips instead.

@nicolefv @jeffbarr @awscloud @acvisneski @IanColdwater @nellshamrell @amye @BitIntegrity @chipadeedoodah @auth0 @taraw @Azure @ben11kehoe @z1g1 @shortxstack @alicegoldfuss @jenntejada @pagerduty @IamPaigeJ @polotek @nathankpeck @blatanterror @monkchips @sogrady @mike_julian @WillGregorian @richburroughs @MissAmyTobey @DarkAndNerdy Many years ago I went to school with @pchandrasekar. This serves as a lesson as to why actually doing your homework is important.

@nicolefv @jeffbarr @awscloud @acvisneski @IanColdwater @nellshamrell @amye @BitIntegrity @chipadeedoodah @auth0 @taraw @Azure @ben11kehoe @z1g1 @shortxstack @alicegoldfuss @jenntejada @pagerduty @IamPaigeJ @polotek @nathankpeck @blatanterror @monkchips @sogrady @mike_julian @WillGregorian @richburroughs @MissAmyTobey @DarkAndNerdy @pchandrasekar If you think I'm up to speed on AWS changes and releases, you've clearly never met @jt7d. She's otherworldly.

@nicolefv @jeffbarr @awscloud @acvisneski @IanColdwater @nellshamrell @amye @BitIntegrity @chipadeedoodah @auth0 @taraw @Azure @ben11kehoe @z1g1 @shortxstack @alicegoldfuss @jenntejada @pagerduty @IamPaigeJ @polotek @nathankpeck @blatanterror @monkchips @sogrady @mike_julian @WillGregorian @richburroughs @MissAmyTobey @DarkAndNerdy @pchandrasekar @jt7d And with that, I end this thread and retreat to @beerhallsf. If you're in San Francisco, come on by from 8-10 this evening and let me buy you a round.