Seth Goings

Lead yourself first.

@gabemonroy Get a grip, people.

Please stop with the “innovation” on car door handles. 🤦🏻‍♂️

Here’s the thing folks. I’ve been coding 32 years. When something like this happens it’s an organizational failure. Yes, some human wrote a bad line. Someone can “git blame” and point to a human and it’s awful. But it’s the testing, the Cl/CD, the A/B testing, the metered rollouts, an oh shit button to roll it back, the code coverage, the static analysis tools, the code reviews, the organizational health, and on and on. It’s always one line of code but it’s NEVER one person. Implying inclusion policies caused a bug is simplistic, reductive, and racist. Engineering is a team sport. Inclusion makes for good teams. Good engineering practices makes for good software. Engineering practices failed to find a bug multiple times, regardless of the seniority of the human who checked that code in. Solving the larger system thinking SDLC matters more than the null pointer check. This isn’t a “git gud C++ is hard” issue and it damn well isn’t an DEI one.

The management control plane you would normally use to respond to an outage is down because of the outage

Nearly all customers are reaching out simultaneously after your product has triggered an outage.

@ralph_squillace @arschles

@boulderpolice Probably gonna need new suspension, tires, brakes and an alignment from Barnsley.

Just as the sun was setting last night Officers Castro and Ray were called to 30th and Valmont for a report of a vehicle that had crashed and was hanging precariously on a retaining wall.   As they ran up to the car, they also learned that a 4-year-old child was in the back seat.   Thankfully, with the assistance of @boulder_fire , officers were able to get both the child and driver safely out of the car.   The driver was charged with careless driving, reckless endangerment and child abuse due to the circumstances. Officers are investigating the possibility that the driver had a medical event. As in every criminal case, these charges are an accusation, and the defendant is presumed innocent unless or until proven guilty.   We’d like to note that Officer Ray’s comments about our firefighter friends are completely………true #boulder #bouldercolorado

24. The Never-Ending Now: We're forever chasing what's new, ignoring anything older than 24 hrs, such as the accumulated wisdom of human history. We think the best info is the most recent, but often it's the oldest, because this has withstood the test of time. h/t: @david_perell

@LachlanEvenson for a second I thought you were talking about the Altman/Brockman bamboozlery

Thanks Satya! What a game and what a contest. It was thrilling until the very end. I cannot believe that we pulled it off.

Your out of office reply should maybe be a sentence or two. Or maybe don't even set one at all. But definitely don't write a 500 word essay.

@xoxodeadbeef Mmmm tasty

Tonight’s dinner is circuitously brought to you (me) by @sethgoings Thanks for introducing me to the gospel of meat church. Saw the carnitas episode and couldn’t resist

You can tell how long someone has worked in tech by how likely they are to respond with "it depends"

@QuinnyPig gotta drive that cloud revenue

You okay over there, Microsoft?

@QuinnyPig BlueJeans' landing page, yikes:

Imagine buying a video conferencing app just in time for the pandemic and making such a pig's breakfast out of things that you never bothered to tell the market that it existed in any meaningful sense. But they still handled it better than WebEx did.

"What is urgent is seldom important; what is important is seldom urgent." Wonder to what magnitude generative AI will disrupt our notification/interrupt load and make us chase the "urgent."

"maybe our dev tools just get much smarter - maybe debugging becomes “this is doing X, please figure out why that is”, telemetry becomes “tell me what users don’t like” etc." sundaylettersfromsam.substack.com/p/whats-the-ne…

@danpdc Can I use Entra ID on Intranet without exposing my Intranet servers on Internet for SSO in Internet facing applications used in Intranet by internal users having no access to Internet without using Internet Proxy hosted in Intranet?

@michelledhanani turning fashion upside down?

the fashion coming from australia is fire 🔥 the fit, material, finish, designs. i mean like WOW

Company: "We're agile." 5 minutes later... Company: "It's time for quarterly PI planning, so all teams need to agree on what they'll do in the next 3 months."

The cost of microservices: - more repos - more releases - more deploys - more orchestration - more config - more operations - more compute - more network traffic - more emergent behavior - more failure modes - more debugging - more architecture/design - more docs - more silos

@timothysc How do you know that venting on Twitter has changed about 0 people in the history of Twitter? 😉