Patrick Steger

If I follow you and you're going through something tough and you want to talk it out or need my help in some way, get in touch. I don't care if we're only Twitter friends or if I've known you since childhood. This goes double for men because we're taught to hold onto things. ✌️♥️

@atmoio Imagine if HVAC technicians or plumbers had emotional attachment to the act of doing their work vs the end product. Believe me, If an electrician could just shove a panel in a wall, and the connections would connect themselves, they'd be giddy! End result > the road.

@atmoio There is so much to digest here... I think my sense of "worth" in developing has always been actually shipping the product, features, bug fixes, etc. How I get there is largely irrelevant. But emotional attachment to code? That's a flaw that some people expect in this industry.

I was a 10x engineer. Now I'm useless.

@mikewazar Can I get it for him? For real...

@TstoKid want a free week of Pro to actually try it?

@br_betting Paging @WhiteBballPains

High Point has won the Big South, which means we'll get to bet on this legend in the tournament 🤩 Hasn't made a 2-point FG attempt this season (0-4)... But he's 64-132 from three 😂

Everyone: Hey, these iPads have really powerful M series CPUs in them, could we get MacOS on there? Apple: Here's a MacBook Neo with an iPhone CPU running MacOS! ROFLCOPTER! Everyone: 😒

@kjonasj @QuinnyPig @awscloud You just gotta make 1 giant key-value pair with all your keys and values pipe delimited! #CostSavings

@QuinnyPig @awscloud I started putting all my API keys on it for organization and ease of access before realizing that they charge a dollar per API key per month

“kms” is gen-z shorthand for “kill myself”, and should not be confused with @awscloud KMS which makes me want to kill myself.

Yall get a new chief and just start testing in prod eh? #Xbox

@artee_49 @QuinnyPig @awscloud I bet that engineer's name is Claude

@QuinnyPig @awscloud amazon fired all the tech doc writers, you’re now seeing engineers writing docs 😭😅

If you want to use Anthropic's Claude with Amazon Bedrock, you have to give Anthropic information. Okay fine. But what the blue hell kind of busted-ass @awscloud guardrail is "don't mention the word 'Claude' or it'll be detected as PII?!"

@JomboyMedia I can still feel my boxing coach popping my head with a pool noodle every time I didn't defend with my non-punching arm. 0 defense there... I felt this coming a mile away!

Here it is. The best boxing highlight you’ll see all year

@mischavdburg Wild take from the guy who posted this video... youtube.com/watch?v=fvz2Cx…

Microsoft runs Bing, Copilot, Teams, and Xbox on Kubernetes. But Twitter user with 47 followers says it's unnecessary. Tough choice.

I've been a fan of Go Fiber, but I think I'm switching to Gin. There are just too many drawbacks to Fiber (or fasthttp in general) these days.

@it_unprofession I’ve been saying this for years, and it gets worse every year. Talked to a Lead Cloud Engineer who graduated in 2019 and got a blank stare. Do you know anything besides Kubernetes? A few VPSs behind a load balancer handle 90% of the same use cases with far less mental load.

Our intern just asked me why we don't use Kubernetes. I said because we don't need Kubernetes. He said everyone uses Kubernetes. I said everyone TALKS about using Kubernetes. Most companies are running Docker containers on three servers and calling it a day. We have 40 employees. Our entire infrastructure runs on AWS with auto-scaling groups. It works fine. Kubernetes is designed for companies running thousands of services across hundreds of servers. We have twelve services. But he read that Kubernetes is "industry standard" so now he thinks we're behind. This is what happens when people learn from tech Twitter instead of actual experience. They think every company is Google-scale and needs Google-scale solutions. We don't need Kubernetes. We need our MySQL database to stop running out of connections because someone wrote a query that doesn't close properly. But that's not exciting. Nobody writes blog posts about "I fixed a connection leak." They write about "How we migrated to Kubernetes and saved millions" even though the migration cost more than they saved. I told the intern he should learn why tools exist before learning the tools themselves. He looked disappointed. He wanted to put Kubernetes on his resume.

@BryanChasko @brankopetric00 Also to be fair, HR can't tell the difference between ECs and whatever the heck that kubernet thing is...

@brankopetric00 to be fair, 90% of hr departments are looking for kubernetes not ecs

ECS is actually better than Kubernetes for 90% of you, but you won't use it because it doesn't look cool on your resume. Enjoy managing your etcd clusters.

The number of people out here just storing API keys in environment variables... 🤦‍♂️

@QuinnyPig @chrishemsworth This feels like when Lenovo hired Ashton Kutcher to be a Product Engineer in 2013.

I have Opinions about Amazon hiring @chrishemsworth as an L9. lastweekinaws.com/blog/chris-hem…

@chrismunns The number of people I personally know and respect that worked at AWS pre-2022 and still work there is almost non-existent. I'd have to check LinkedIn but I'm almost certain that number is on 1 hand... For fun, I checked. The number is 3. 😐

In 2022 I sat in a conference room with peers when early news of tech layoffs coming started making the rounds. A much older industry veteran peer said "will never happen here" and I with my 10ish years of Amazon experience laughed and said "just you wait". Never did I picture what would come after. From initial hiring freezes to all sorts of rumors, and then finally the first big round of layoffs in the company's history. It was handled terribly. Leadership was told to say nothing. Rumor mill again went wild. it took weeks to figure out who was impacted through the grapevine. We're now basically 3 years into them figuring this out. There's been countless re-orgs and reshuffles. *Most* of the people I respected the most are gone, long gone. The brain drain is wild to think about. Today i've gotten word of some incredibly talented people being let go. It's mind boggling to me that some economists/strategists in some gilded tower in SEA came up with this plan that includes dropping tons of senior tenured folks, but alas. But sure AI will take care of nuanced technical conversations with legacy heavy enterprises? You can absolutely throw junior generalists in on hard rapidly scaling startup problems. right?.. right? If 3 years of re-orgs and layoff cycles isn't Day 2... man Day 2 would scare the shit out of me.

@chrismunns Whats sad is that this is considered a very hot take for some people. The vast majority of "enterprise" apps could be run in my basement homelab where no single machine has cost more than $1k

My 12+ years at AWS talking with people at companies of all shapes and sizes give me a hot take on this: Most people just never *need* their app to be performant. Nor to scale well. The average enterprise app is a toy. The broad majority of startup software never truly reaches scale. Perf isn’t even measured. The majority of the industry could still sit on a 3-tier app stack forever w/ n+1 redundancy where n=1.

That feeling when you start to upgrade your network and you're missing 1 SFP+ Ethernet adapter that would double the Wi-Fi speed... 😕

@mistressdivy xyzzy. Nothing happens.

Prove to me you’re an old gamer in one sentence. I’ll drop a like if I’m convinced.

NixOS was born from someone getting REALLY high and wondering what would happen if you built an operating system around Git