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Twitter broke the client I use on my phone, so I've mostly stopped using it. I'm enjoying Mastodon, I'm at @kmorris@toot.Thoughtworks for now.

@QuinnyPig Didn't they build AWS from Bezos' girlfriend's Pez dispenser collection?

I'm shocked, simply shocked that The World's Smartest Man™️ fell for the "AWS came from Amazon's unused capacity" myth.

Okay, since @sogrady is a pal, here are my thoughts on IBM buying Hashicorp. First - congratulations to all my Hashicorp people - it's an incredible accomplishment to have built a company like that, and a crazy thing to have someone value what you built at $4B+. Congratulations.

@adamhjk @sogrady @PulumiCorp Also note that all of @OpenTofuOrg's backers have business models that assume a free IaC tool, to the point that they're willing to pool investment with competitors to make sure they have one.

@adamhjk @sogrady Re: an IaC tool being a loss leader, see also everything @PulumiCorp is doing to find a compelling offering on top of their core (OSS) tool. I'm rooting for them.

@dberkholz @emeshbi @winglangio @cfgmgmtcamp @adamhjk @stack72 @nickstinemates Yeah, totally. Give me a shout next time you're in London

@emeshbi @winglangio @cfgmgmtcamp @adamhjk @stack72 @kief @nickstinemates Great to run into you again!

lots fun sharing the @winglangio story at @cfgmgmtcamp and geek out with good people @adamhjk @stack72 @kief @nickstinemates really great to discover this awesome community ❤️

Summarizing a first day of #cfgmgmtcamp with @jfclere @MickeNimell @marcoscavazzon @kraaakan

DevOpsDays Ghent 15th anniversary this year 🎉🎉🎉 #devopsdays #CfgMgmtCamp

Here’s what I love about #CfgMgmtCamp, and what makes me hopeful for the future of the infrastructure world. We can make new things, they can be wildly cool, and we can help and support each other. We don’t have to reinvent the competitive camps we made in the past.

Gotta love James Nugent referencing an xkcd comic by number, and knowing the audience gets it #CfgMgmtCamp

Kief’s talk at #cfgmgmtcamp shows why you shouldn’t be scared of visual composition in infrastructure. It’s already the way we think about it, just not how we express it

Ok I’m impressed by @winglangio - seeing @emeshbi demo this and understanding the issues he’s trying to solve makes me really get what they are doing with it! #CfgMgmtCamp

hi all weaveworks is winding down :-( I wrote a statement here Weaveworks is the best team I ever worked with and will have a longer impact than perhaps we expected at the start linkedin.com/posts/richards…

Awesome talk by @adamhjk about technology as art #cfgmgmtcamp, and how it inspired @thesysteminit. I was too busy listening so I didn't have a chance to take any pics. Definitely watch it later!

Patrick’s talk on AI should be watched by everyone in devops. #cfgmgmtcamp can go deeper than most conferences can.

I'm also bemused by people who talk about having people go back to THE office. These days so many teams are globally distributed, so "going back to the office" means team members joining video calls from different (noisy) offices.

Thought sparked by people commenting on how it's harder to get work done in the office because of all the noise and interruptions. Video calls from a noisy open plan office are painful.

In 1987 the authors of the book Peopleware said that giving knowledge workers private offices with doors that close increases productivity. Fast forward 35 years and we're accidentally implementing this through working from our home offices.

Ah, ok, "report as spam" it is then.

@AaronErickson @girdley Someone in a suit these days is probably the building security staff or a junior sales person

@girdley Usually someone coming in with a suit meant we're either getting sued or bought out by a private equity company from the flyover.

The huge shift in “business” attire is fascinating. Just two generations ago, formal dress was required to be taken seriously. Now, wear a suit to work and there’s a 50/50 chance people mistake you for a waiter.