Ken Mugrage

Generally speaking, when I post advice about something in technology, it's when I believe that someone doing the opposite is perfectly reasonable. Your world is different than mine. Advice that everyone will agree with isn't advice, it's an observation.

@quantumfiber So I guess that's a yes that it is down? Any ETA for issues south of Seattle?

The radar is filled with pieces of importance to every individual. Here are some key themes from this volume of #TWTechRadar. What themes do you wish to see in the next edition? Catch the podcast where @kmugrage and Neal Ford discuss the key themes: ter.li/8qq1wt

What does it mean to be a technology leader? On the latest episode of the Technology Podcast, new CTO for the Americas @squeot speaks all things tech leadership (and more) with @kmugrage: ter.li/h23ctx #TechLeadership #Tech #Podcast

Coming to #devopsdays #seattle tomorrow? A few of us will be giving traditional talks, but the best part is the attendee driven conversations. Suggest a topic, share with and learn from peers! devopsdays.org/open-space-for…

@ChrisShort @phrawzty @botchagalupe @lnxchk @nathenharvey @DevOpsDaysSEA Oh no! Hope it gets worked out quickly!

Pretty excited about speaking at #devopsdays Seattle next week. Looking forward to seeing old friends like @ChrisShort, @phrawzty, @botchagalupe, @lnxchk, @nathenharvey who are also speaking there, as well as meeting new ones! Join us @DevOpsDaysSEA ! devopsdays.org/events/2024-se…

@jbaruch @DivineOps Perfect gif detected. The pop tarts might be why I resemble him! 😂

@kmugrage @DivineOps

What healthy snacks do you have at your desk? I usually have raw nuts, but I am bored to death with most of them atm…

@MikeRosTX @editingemily Yes!! Bought a Chevelle that had one of those, replaced it with a tape deck and one of those cheesy adapters that let you insert a fake tape that was connected to a portable CD player's headphone jack. Stylin!

@editingemily WOW‼️ I must be really old 😜. My TOTAL is 26 points. Because I had one of these in my car. 26. Had and used an 8 track player.

I would like everyone to know that I never owned a pager.

@editingemily I was super proud of my pager that could send and receive actual text messages. I did not know at the time that it was a sign of impending doom.

@AaronErickson Feels a bit like a level of abstraction... the debt won't be gone, it will be moved to whatever is generating the code and disguised as model drift.

Fully autonomous AI written code is going to be written once, used once, and disposed. Once this is achieved, the whole notion of tech debt as we know it utterly goes away.

Happy to say I'm returning to public speaking after a covid / role change created hiatus. First stop, #devopsdays Seattle on 14/15 May. Looking forward to actual in person interactions with actual humans! @DevOpsDaysSEA devopsdays.org/events/2024-se…

@mattstratton @nathenharvey @littleidea @DivineOps @editingemily @Dixie3Flatline @carriemott6 @jpaulreed @allspaw @bridgetkromhout @trevorghess @kevinreedy @wiredferret @gitbisect @yvov That’s incredibly flattering Matty, and right back at ya.

@damovisa I'm down to one. Yes, it's a 49" curved that I use two inputs on to fool the computer into thinking it's two so I can share on video chats, but it's still one ;) One the down side, working on my laptop when not in my office feels like working on a smartphone.

This is a totally normal and reasonable number of monitors to have. (not shown is the laptop off to the side)

There are plenty of recordings of my voice online, so I get to call of my less technical friends and family and let them know I won't be calling them asking for money. I'm not normally an advocate of more laws. But maybe voice cloning services should be liable for damages

Not that I needed proof that #GenAI is used for fraud. Just had a CC compromised. 3 subscriptions to @ChatGPTapp 1 subscription to @wellsaidlabs for generating fake voices 1 subscription to @elevenlabs for cloning voices 1 subsciption to @bypass_GPT to hide their work

Why is it important that we don’t ignore complexity in software or see it as something that can be fixed? This #TWInsights blog explores how we can manage complexity. Read on: thght.works/3txO140 @kmugrage @techreview

If the stores would rather lose the sale than the data, you know there is something very wrong.

How bad do companies want your personal data? Went into a @dsw_us store in Vegas and declined to give them a phone number or email. The person at the register called her manager and said, with me standing there, “there’s a stubborn guy refusing to give me contact info.

@kmugrage They are….acceptable

Since I rarely tweet and did just a fairly negative thread, something positive (except to @aspleenic who may never speak to me again). Ikea meatballs are pretty damn good.