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@nigelkersten
immigrant in tech and devotee of the justified ancients of mu-mu - he/him @[email protected]
London, EnglandJoined November 2007
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so after a couple of weeks, I'm finding myself missing this site a lot, and other networks aren't filling the gap. hmmmm.
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As fond as I am of all of the folks I follow and who follow me, I'm really not digging this site anymore. Going to do what I did with Facebook, stop using it for a reasonable chunk of time, and then decide whether to delete. I'm on LinkedIn and mastodon.me.uk/@etwoy
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Jack Bernhardt
@jackbern23
As someone who really likes trains, Trainspotting (1996) was a real disappointment. How would YOU like it if I took you to see a film called "Scottish Men Taking Lots Of Drugs" and it was just real time footage of the 15.28 from Didcot Parkway
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Toli 💻🧘⛹️
@apostolis09
Platform team type in the Team Topologies model is probably the hardest to implement. 👏
@nigelkersten
Most important things: 1️⃣ Focus on the interactions between teams 2️⃣ The platform product owner having a focus on the customer needs (other teams)
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InfoQ
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Platform Engineering Needs a Prescriptive Roadmap: A Conversation with Nigel Kersten bit.ly/3hq3v4A authored by @nigelkersten, reviewed by @BeardedCoder
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Incredibly important government appointment I have to make this morning, and I’m disrupted by the hangover from the bloody rail strikes! So incredibly annoyed at the rail bosses and the government for disrupting my life like this.
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How did I only just find out this ear worm from my childhood was performed by the Pointer Sisters?!?!?
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Nother Brother Ent.
@NotherBrother
In 1976, THE POINTER SISTERS were asked to record "Pinball Number Count" for @SesameStreet, which was a series of educational cartoons teaching kids how to count. It made its debut in 1977 and was a feature on the show for many years.
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As fond as I am of all of the folks I follow and who follow me, I'm really not digging this site anymore. Going to do what I did with Facebook, stop using it for a reasonable chunk of time, and then decide whether to delete. I'm on LinkedIn and
mastodon.me.uk
nigel kersten (@[email protected])
65 Posts, 693 Following, 428 Followers · Australian immigrant to the USA and now the UK. I like making tech work for people. Field CTO at Puppet. Ex Google SRE. Long standing State of DevOps Report...
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Rats love dancing to 120-140 bpm music. But how do they feel about jungle and gabber?????
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Mixmag
@Mixmag
The more you know? mixmag.net/read/study-rat
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Are more footballers slipping over at this World Cup or does it just keep happening at dramatic moments?
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Whitney Merrill
@wbm312
I want to recount what I believe to be the best theory on the Max Headroom Broadcast Signal Intrusion that happened 35 years ago. It was shared with me recently, & I believe it to be the most probable account of what happened. I have no idea if this story is already out there.
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This misconception is so pervasive throughout our industry. Low performance in eng is almost always due to failures of product and/or leadership imho.
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Cindy Sridharan
@copyconstruct
The most ill-conceived idea that seems to have ossified among certain group of people is that Twitter was failing because the engineering culture wasn’t high-performing enough The problem with Twitter was product and leadership, and not engineering not executing well enough.
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Wtf
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The Markup
@themarkup
NEW: Major tax filing companies, like H&R Block and TaxAct, have been sending your information to Facebook as you file your taxes online. The penalties for disclosing data without consent could be steep. themarkup.org/pixel-hunt/202
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Laura Bassett
@LEBassett
At the Toulouse airport, just watched a woman try to order oat milk in English for her coffee. Barista kept hearing “hot milk.” Emotions escalated to the point where I had to intervene and explain what oat milk was, and this French man was absolutely pissed to learn it exists
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Matthew Rozsa 🇺🇦🏳️‍🌈
@MatthewRozsa
My
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@xriskology
does the homework, to say the least. It is terrifying that powerful people like
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@SBF_FTX
and other world leaders believe in longtermism. It is not, however, surprising. A four-part thread follows. (1/4)
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What the Sam Bankman-Fried debacle can teach us about "longtermism"
I'm not surprised that longtermism led to fraud, corruption and disaster. I'm mostly surprised it wasn't worse
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Roxi Horror 💀🌸
@roxiqt
The earth is the largest rock that any of us will ever stand on. So I've never understood rock climbers. By standing on the earth, you have stood on the biggest rock. You are done. You have peaked. You don't have to keep climbing rocks. Unnecessary.
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