Texas school districts sent a notice to parents that districts will be providing DNA kits so that children can be identified in case of emergency. GOP won’t pass legislation to protect your kids from guns, but they’ll make it easier to ID their bodies. This is America.

I can’t wait for us all to be on MySpace again

Hey Twitter/Stripe/Lyft Eng/PM friends, BigCommerce is hiring and we'd love to have you. Remote-friendly, lots of teams hiring. Eng/Product/Design/etc. Feel free to DM if you have any Qs. careers.bigcommerce.com/jobs/?search=&…

Nature is wild.

I am curious as to what will socially happen on this website when eventual consistency breaks. Or tweets get misattributed. Or timeline ordering fails. Millions of users experiencing that at the same time will be fascinating. #RIPTwitter

Ok, currently trying out Mastodon at @[email protected] - feel free to follow me there! Going to only post there for a while.

We’re getting real close to “moon’s haunted” aren’t we

*side glance at Thomas Jefferson*

We did a thing! How we hot-swapped our service mesh to #envoy and #consulconnect at BigCommerce: bigeng.io/service-mesh/ BigEng #servicemesh #devops #engineering #hashicorp

"It was clear we needed to find a replacement mesh. And we needed to yank the carpet out from under our service-oriented architecture without anyone noticing," says Principle #SoftwareEngineer Shaun McCormick. Read about the process at bigeng.io/service-mesh/.

Texas is 77% Christian. It has had 17 mass shootings in the last 10 years. Japan is 1% Christian. It has had 0 mass shootings in the last 10 years. Texas has 29.5 million citizens. Japan has 125.7 million citizens. It’s the guns. Don’t bring Jesus into this.

Github being down gives me a chance to finally get around to checking my email... ...ha ha ha no

"You can use your masks from the global pandemic to help you breathe better in the wildfire smoke covering half the country" Paging historians, here's your anecdotal quote for the 2020s.

I LITERALLY stopped working on my memo so I could read this indictment. I am on page 24 and JESUS LUPITA NYONG'O CHRIST. HOW this man still has the capacity to shock me after everything that's happened, i'll never know. but I am sitting here *STUNNED*.

threads.net/@splittingred me on the blanket app

ERCOT won't be credible until they start communicating honestly. They completely left out the fact that 6,600 megawatts of gas and coal plants are currently offline. That's >30% higher than typical. They also got the hours wrong. 1/🧵#txlege #txenergy #energytwitter

In my 10th year at #bigcommerce, proud of being a part of 10 years of 100% BFCM uptime. WTG team! Truly a organization-wide effort.

Well good on them I’d be wanting to escape 200 years of needles too

The year is 2076, AI swarms ravage the world, until one lone teenager saves humanity by running around screaming, “David Mayer!”, and all is still again.