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“The reward for a job not fucked up is another job.”—Charles Stross

Happy Friday everyone!

Whenever someone pitches a new framework for a project:

When you’ve just learned how to drive, switching cars can be overwhelming. It takes a long time to get used to a different car. But, when you’ve been driving for years, getting familiar with a different car takes a couple of hours. Same rule applies for programming languages.

The team lead assigning a css ticket to a backend engineer:

My AWS swag has arrived 🙂 #awscommunitybuilders

Best way to motivate software developers:

Python impersonating a frontend language irresistibly reminds me of Michael Jordan impersonating a baseball player.

I forgot to turn off my AWS Elasticache Redis instance, and I got a handsome bill in return. It was literally a cashe hit.

Pro tip - Before you share your screen in a video call, make sure you have at least 20 browser tabs open so everyone in the meeting thinks you are working your ass off.

CSS has the same effect on a web page as 5 tequilas have on the physical appearance of your blind date. …except the 5 tequilas are much less painful to consume.

If a company has some of it’s servers on premise, and some deployed in the cloud, would it be accurate to call it “partly cloudy”?

When I see the code I wrote 6 months ago:

How do you call a developer that writes flawed sql queries? - Bugsy Sequel

Mongodb should create a professional level certification. When you pass you receive the title - King of the Mongo

When your team is about to do a simple tech migration

A cloud engineer friend of mine wrote his autobiography. He titled it “I, Cloudius”

Scariest things I saw this halloween: - My AWS bill💀 - $META market cap🥴 - The PagerDuty notification I got at 3am 😱

Elon Musk spent 44 billion on something that, even he admits, may go bankrupt. But, at least he seems to be having a good time: