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8 Jun, 4 tweets, 1 min read
Ooh the Internet just melted.
#hugops to Fastly, who has a clear gift for disaster understatement.
“Flight slightly delayed.”
Fear not, the cleaner has unplugged their vacuum and plugged m the server UPS back in.

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7 Jun
And now a thread on how I'd implement this.

If you do all of these, please talk to @mike_julian and me; we will become your first customers.
1. Pretend that we're exactly what we are: folks who have a mostly-straightforward business, a semi-complex personal tax situation, and (and this is key!) not a lot of time to become accountants ourselves, or fill out forms.
There are pages and pages and pages of intake forms most firms send out. Don't do that! Ask to see my return from last year and autofill most of it.
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2 Jun
So it's time for me to thread my thoughts on @techgirl1908's truly excellent observation on shitposting as a career limiter.
As she later states, there's a lack of understanding around what "shitposting" means. It's not "calling out injustice" or "being shitty to individuals." Do the former, avoid the latter. If you disagree on this point we're done here.
To me, shitposting is about making fun of giant companies in a constructive manner. It's about engaging people with humor to make a broader point. If people feel crappy because of a shitpost, it's something else entirely.
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2 Jun
Ooh, Amazon Location Service is now GA from @awscloud! I can't wait to use it.

What will I be using it for, you ask? A thread!
Not to scrape anything, or to use it to attempt to avoid using Amazon Location Service, apparently. Uh... okay? Image
Nor for an in-vehicle infotainment system, because of reasons, apparently. Image
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31 May
So let's do a dive into Amazon's ill-advised "Amazon Sidewalk" network. As you might gather, I'm not a fan.
However, I am a fan of Apple's "Find My" network. What's the difference? On a consumer level (ignore AWS), Apple has Earned Trust whereas Amazon has significantly eroded it.

(Seriously, do you trust the results for any search on Amazon.com? Of course not!)
Find My spells out exactly what the network is used for (finding lost devices and Air Tags), whereas Amazon is vague ("helping devices function better.")
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28 May
And now, reply to this tweet (or DM me) with your career questions, and I will advise you in the form of a shitpost.
I'd take a look at what salaries in this industry have done over the past 18 months and seriously question whether you've maxed the salary, or merely maxed it at your company.
Never. Your answer to "why am I looking to leave" is "I'm not sure that I am." Make them sell you. If they can't, don't jump.
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27 May
I don't think more people have pinged me on something on Twitter since my "how AWS Compensation works" blog post.

I suppose I should read this thing and do a thread.
Before I start, this is my specific industry niche. It's nuanced, incredibly complex, and it's a near certainty that any issues I take with the report aren't criticisms of @martin_casado or @sarahdingwang at all.

Similarly, any VC criticisms I make are broad, not @a16z specific!
We start with this graph. Clearly something momentous happened in 2020 on a global scale: you forgot to turn your EC2 instances off.
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