How much you’re paid dictates how much bullshit is reasonable for you to put up with.
If you’re going to pick a fight, do it intentionally.
Think about the job beyond the next one. It keeps you moving.
One of the most powerful things you can say is “I was wrong. I’m sorry.” Yet somehow nobody seems to say it. Bonus: it costs you nothing and gains you much.
Don’t be afraid of the big, bold ask.
If you wouldn't take advice from someone, their criticism doesn't matter either.
Some people are going to hate you no matter what you say or do, so be authentic. You may as well be hated for who and what you are.
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Some might think your pace is glacial
Because you work in geospatial
Your tweets are good and you’ll go far
You know *exactly* where you are. #fortefeedback
The four tiers of @awscloud infrastructure management are: 1. Using the console 2. Using CloudFormation or Terraform 3. Using the CDK (to which I'm starting to warm) 4. Using the console and lying about it.
Let's talk about the fourth stage: ClickOps.
I want to be excruciatingly clear here: this is for once not a shitpost. I have a longer form article available: lastweekinaws.com/blog/clickops/
To say "I got some feedback in my email inbox" is understating it significantly. It generally distills down to two schools of thought:
a) "Oh my god I thought it was just me, this suddenly makes sense."
b) Gatekeeping jackassery.
In Plato's Republic he gives us the allegory of the cave. In it, people watch shadows projected on the wall from objects passing in front of a fire behind them.
In this thread, I will explain why this is a superior way to deliver a presentation than via @awscloud Chime.
So you want to give a presentation. Great! First, your camera is likely a widescreen resolution.
Scram, kid. We're standard resolution which just arbitrarily chops off the sides of your display.
Want to record the video from your camera as well?
Get bent, hoser. Chime doesn't support that AT ALL.
Jeez, if Amazon stock tanks much further I won’t be able to make fun of AWS anymore without punching down.
Forgive my saltiness here; I’ve been looked at askance by more than a few tech friends over the past decade for daring to suggest that any outcome is possible other than “stonks go up.”
And somehow from what I can tell it isn’t just tech workers that had no contingency plan for this, but also Amazon itself when it comes to compensating its staff.
Microsoft met or beat expectations, so of course they're down 5% in after hours trading. Let's see what @satyanadella has to say on the earnings call...
Talks about Azure providing a "distributed computing fabric" in the context that that's something every company is going to need. That rings true. I don't know as any cloud provider has realized a vision of that that resonates yet.
Talking about @LinkedIn in a few contexts, none of them highlighting that they're the only non-ad driven social network.