Many of the big tech companies are forcing staff to go back to the office. I think this is shortsighted; you should make the company beg you to go back to working remote. A thread of advice from some of the worst colleagues I ever had:
Cherry MX blue switches in keyboards are noisy, but buckling springs are louder. You'll get used to them more quickly if you hum along to the sound of your keystrokes.
What's for lunch today? Your leftover fish from last night's dinner. Throw it in the microwave and reheat it. Ten minutes oughta do it.
Just as "be yourself!" is terrible social advice to people whose genuine selves kinda suck, "treat company money like it's your own" is a recipe for corporate disaster. A thread.
Everyone's relationship with money is different. At various points in my life, my personal travel has been "first class is the only thing I book" as well as "hahaha who can afford to fly, we're driving to California. From Maine."
When a manager says "spend company money like it's your own," what they're really saying is "spend company money like I spend my own." And it's impossible to judge as a third party just what that looks like.
I’m seeing several instances lately of @awscloud just handing customer information over to third parties without consent or notification.
Folks are asking for examples. First up, both my CFO and business partner received this last week.
Next, a program I'm involved in with AWS passed out a "benefit" to all participants from a third party. We were opted in to *all* of their marketing communications. I'm partial to the Italian option myself.
Amazon has a program where if you've got low-five-figures in cash and a decent credit score, they'll help you "bootstrap your delivery business." Details are at logistics.amazon.com
They'll get you set up with their technology, processes, and delivery fleet all branded with Amazon logos.
Let's stop and think for a second about how that might constrain your ability to uh... take on a second customer that isn't Amazon?
Wednesday's issue of lastweekinaws.com answers the question "starting from zero in a 'free' tier @awscloud account, how much spend can I incur in month 1 without buying RIs / SPs?"
There's some wiggle room, but ~$750m or so. Call it "only" $500m to be safe.
This of course presupposes that there aren't any lurking limits that'll get in my way. It's hard to say the way that I went about it, and I'm not bold enough to test it in *my* account.
I'm going to hope and trust that there are some internal alarms that would go off at @awscloud if a brand new account started tracking towards being their single largest customer in a matter of days, and would result in either a hard shutoff or at least a series of phone calls...
I have pushed a set of API credentials to a public repository. Oh no! Specifically at Mon Jun 21 23:08:12 UTC 2021.
I immediately received an email from @github after the push--to tell me that the authentication token for Github that I was using is out of date and should be updated. (This was called via their old "hub" CLI).
And at 17 past the hour I get my first call from a remote IP in the UK. It's a ListBuckets call.