Steve Astels

Wow, the wait time to pay respects to the Queen is almost as long as the wait time for emergency medical care in Ontario! youtu.be/cJxDwDzAwEs

@AntoineAugusti @CalvinR Only for the SRE folks.

@CalvinR Is it interesting enough now to make it to hiring questions?

Had a doors vs wheels thread at work today and we got into the topic of what is considered a door or wheel, and the topic of biological wheels came up. Which prompts me to ask the question here. "Are buttholes doors to your body?"

Spending Friday night the way the cool kids do, making candied citrus peel for a batch of stollen.

@megberetta @yaelberger (Redirects Notify’s smoke test emails to the two of you)

@yaelberger I believe in us!!!

First time trying inbox zero in my new job. Will it work? Am I fooling myself?

@peripherlvision I had to go to the university library to look up the UWaterloo mailing address in a book so I could mail my grad school application. 😔

Yesterday I ended up telling a couple of much younger colleagues about what university was like before email, bring forms to profs for signing and waiting in line to sign up. (Email did exist but the university hadn’t really adopted it yet.) So I’m feeling super old now.

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This is a really great product to be working on, and a big part of that is due to the attitude and abilities of the RCMP staff on the team.

@timarney @thenextmusk We’ve been fairly happy with it so far. Still a bit of work to do to get a11y right of course (I’m looking at you, checkbox groups)

@thenextmusk @sastels Being used in beta Github: github.com/cds-snc/report… Demo: report-a-scam.cds-snc.ca

@quidampepin @CDS_GC Handling ProtB data requires putting in place security controls and procedures, and accrediting the cloud provider appropriately. There’s ongoing work to do this for GoC with Microsoft Azure and Amazon AWS.

@quidampepin For the first, there’s quite a few online guidelines on how to build and test, including @CDS_GC ’s Accessibility Handbook digital.canada.ca/a11y/ Some work in development at @CDS_GC includes github.com/cds-snc/cppd-m… github.com/cds-snc/report…

Hey #GCDigital, anyone managed to build accessible online forms (not PDF), that can handle Protected B information? The guidance on forms for #CanadaDotCa is not as good as it should, and I don't think we have anything about dealing with confidential info.

@Actinolite @CBSAllAccess I watched the first ep on the “CTV Sci-Fi Channel” app. Probably the rest won’t be available, mind you.

@Actinolite @CBSAllAccess I think it’s all about licensing unfortunately. Presumably it’ll at least be on iTunes at some point soon, as Star Trek Discovery is.

@DaveToeg Really sorry Dave.

@anatolep youtu.be/cnhCghc4wHU

I love how fast we can iterate on our ideas. Finding out quickly what works with people and what doesn't keeps us on track to deliver a service that will meet our users' needs.

Me: run my code, I promise it works JavaScript: you had me at “run” Rust: lol no #AdventOfCode

Inclusion and accessibility are at the heart of building services.