Me analyzing your IAM policies

I saw an ad that read: “TV for sale, $1, volume stuck on full.” I thought to myself, "I can't turn that down!"

The students won't cheat in exams if they value their learning more than we value their grades. 🧠

me and my west coast friends checking in on each other in these historical, unprecedented times

Visualization of Facebook withdrawing its ASN, made with bgplay.massimocandela.com and Yakety Sax.

The top 5 things every remote worker should have (but most don't) ⬇

Technical debt. Everything looks fine above water… but why are we so slow?!?

did you deploy something to Netlify in the last month? we’re 31 sites away from maxing out the $100K donation to charity! go submit any site you’ve deployed to Netlify to dusty.domains to add $500 for charity! (plz RT? let’s max out the goal!)

1/Welp, I spent last night continuing my research into the #blizzard2022 #hoax. Thankfully, @Twitter and Facebook have helpful algorithms that pointed me in the direction of *real* experts who helped me round out my thinking.

Early in my time managing the Data team at Stripe, Jeff Balogh built a tool called Hubble with massive impact. Here's what it did: - there was a big textarea to type a SQL query into - it showed results in a table - it cached the results, and gave the query + results a permalink

insight that still holds: "A remote team may be less productive than that same team if it were co-located, but may still be more productive than the best co-located team you can form." by Martin Fowler bit.ly/revscolo #agile #culture #devops

6 year old: "what does space smell like?" ✅ Level 11 Curiosity unlocked.

🎉 It’s happeninggg!!! Engineering Management for the Rest of Us is now on sale! I’m so excited to finally release this after so much went into it. 50% of all of my profits will go to She Code Africa! She Code Africa amazon.com/Engineering-Ma…

(Thread) In the first What If? book, I answered a question about cooking a steak by dropping it from space. At one point, I commented—jokingly!—that if anyone put a steak in a hypersonic wind tunnel to gather better data, I’d love to see the video. Well, I have good news.

I wrote about my c-section: blog.cassidoo.co/post/c-section/

This is weird to say out loud, but I actually am kinda an expert in rate limiting, so I'm gonna explain some stuff. About half of incidents in large-scale production systems involve having more requests than you can serve. There are two categories of this kind of incident:

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