Jeremy Thurgood

Read how our site reliability engineering team helps builds out systems users can trust: bit.ly/srefires @smn @miltonmad #ict4d

@Nedbank I need to report a security problem with your internet banking and your call centre can't help me. Who do I contact?

@smn @Appfactory Technical debt makes me sad. :-(

@TelkomZA I have 330ms latency through the exchange on my DSL connection. The online fault reporting tool doesn't have a category for it.

@alex_gaynor We have friendly conversations over coffee. Hearing someone talk enthusiastically about a cool thing they did is enlightening.

Whenever I start playing @BionicDues I have to listen to the theme music all the way through before loading my game. @ArcenMusic is awesome.

Best Q&A from @fijall's talk: "So you wrote a high-performance PHP VM to prove that someone on the internet was wrong?" "... yes." #pyconza

@ArcenGames Ah yes, @ArcenMusic. I couldn't recall the inimitable Mister Vega's twitter handle while I was sitting in traffic this morning.

I bought the latest AI War expansion this weekend. It's worth twice what I paid just for the music. Keep up the great work, @arcengames!

@dreid WAT. Is there another tool that does that!?

@dreid I see you've had to deal with "nose" recently.

Friends don't let friends use rvm. Of course, stopping them is easier if they tell you about it before they start.

@hodgestar I'd be happy to help you drink it. :-)

@pkeike Sell them tinfoil hats.

@smn This is me figuring out that our hack broke between 2.5 (in prod) and 3.0 (on my machine) and all the exceptions are silently eaten.

My previous tweet is brought to you by murderous rage, exhaustion, and a wasted afternoon. At least we're using less of that crap now.

For the love of all that is good in the world, don't write software that silently swallows exceptions.

@miriamthurgood @michellecoetsee I'd love to, but I'm about to get on a 12 hour flight. Maybe later.

Ask a programmer to review 10 lines of code, he'll find 10 issues. Ask him to do 500 lines and he'll say it looks good.