Colonel Panic @TopherIsSwell

Administering Systems... And loving it. He/Him. Cisgendered. Trans-ally Joined August 2015

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Colonel Panic @TopherIsSwell

2 years ago

ADHD: you should start another book.

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2 years ago

You know that dream where they allow you to spend your unvested equity on food stamps eligible food? Surely, that's not just me.

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2 years ago

It only takes 6 months of drive-by PRs by part-time developer ponyboy69 to match all of the contributions Amazon has made in ten years to all of the open source products it sells.

Nick Eberts @nicholaseberts

2 years ago

It only takes 6 months of drive-by PRs by part-time developer ponyboy69 to match all of the contributions Amazon has made in ten years to all of the open source products it sells.

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Colonel Panic @TopherIsSwell

2 years ago

"No feature deployment survives first contact with users" -- Sun Tzu

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Yes, AWS status page reports everything is fine. No, everything is not fine with AWS. Putting this here so that other people having to deal with AWS's piss poor communication will have some visibility. I'm unable to access the console and Amazon Connect in us-east-1

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Colonel Panic @TopherIsSwell

2 years ago

The more abstraction layers the better. I'm much more comfortable when I don't fully understand the fragile nature of all the things that everything important is built on.

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2 years ago

Alert the media! @scrumtuous is radicalizing America's youth by promoting Java supremist propaganda and training Java sympathists! youtube.com/watch?v=J4j4x5…

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2 years ago

"We are a divided country struggling with innumerable sociopolitical and geopolitical crises, we the people put our trust in you as a governor to protect the life, liberty, and pursuit of happiness of Americans" "Nah, Imma legislate how y'all use toilets."

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2 years ago

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Colonel Panic @TopherIsSwell

2 years ago

I don't actually know anything about computers. I just like the sounds that they make so I pretend to work in IT so I can look at the blinkenlichten.

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Colonel Panic @TopherIsSwell

2 years ago

Yes, I've been weirdly excited about DNF5 for a while. Stoked that it's landed in #Fedora38

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2 years ago

I think I found a way to increase developer efficiency, I call it "Deploy Once, Maintain Never, Switch Jobs Often"

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Colonel Panic @TopherIsSwell

2 years ago

Little known fact. @seananmcguire's character Nancy's door actually leads to Ursula K. Le Guin's Tembreabrezi setting. This is confirmed on the cover. #TheMoreYouKnow

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Colonel Panic @TopherIsSwell

3 years ago

Don't worry about being likeable. Focus on being honest, kind, and brave.

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Colonel Panic @TopherIsSwell

3 years ago

Yes, I realize my house is on fire and I should call 911 and evacuate, but my executive dysfunction is really bad right now, so I'm going to circle back to dealing with this after I self regulate for an hour or two. #ADHD