💥 Day 1 - The Myths and the Magic in My Search for Acquiring Software Engineering Skills | By: Annie Hedgpeth buff.ly/3EdwYET #CareerPlanning #LearningMyths

An HTTP walks into a bar... Bartender says wanna GET a drink? HTTP says I'll GET /a?drink=beer&type=IPA&locale=en_US Bartender: 200 Cheers!

Just made donations to some worthy causes... 📻 kexp 🧠 Wikipedia ⚖️ ACLU 🔐 Internet Security Research Group / Let's Encrypt

$ cp /dev/null 2021 $ dd if=/dev/newyear of=2022

It's interesting that Intuit Intuit TurboTax requires captcha AND sms 2fa every time you login from a Linux system. Doesn't happen on Mac. Are Linux users considered hackers by default? Lots of people use Chromebooks and other non-windows/mac platforms.

Great article on the problems with interviewing in our industry. I'll add that having DevOps/SRE/SysEng folks solve complicated CS-level coding problems is absurd. Even moreso when it's on a whiteboard. Let's cut that out.

It's time for a change and I'm looking for a new remote engineering leadership role in the devops tooling space. If you know of a great team looking to grow that would benefit from my background, let me know. linkedin.com/in/bryanmclell…

The new Amazon Web Services status page is nice except for one big thing: you can't filter by the commonly used short name. You shouldn't have to type in Simple Storage Service to see the S3 status.

When you're building a new system or getting to know an unfamiliar one, spend some time reading its logs and metrics. Knowing the normal rhythms will help you spot when things aren't running as they should.

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The max EFS provisioned throughput you can enter in the AWS pricing calculator is 100000000000000000000 MB/s. The cost? $600,000,000,000,000,000,000.00. A month. I don't even know what that number is.

If an alert falls in a slack channel nobody pays attention to did it even happen?

When you have to make phone calls outside and it's 1977.

If your site runs on Ubuntu 10.04, PHP5, and WordPress from 10 years ago, it might be time to update. Just sayin'

Today AWS announced the real version of a fake service I came up with 7 years ago. aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/now-…

737 MAX 8 8340 for Southwest Airlines. #AvGeek Jon Ostrower

Yosemite National Park. Time Series Art

Sketching out a Grafana dashboard before creating it. A rare use for pen and paper.