Joe Pettersson

tired: eventually consistent status pages wired: strongly consistent status pages

In this week’s Tech Leaders’ Intel 🎙, we speak with @Joe8Bit, CTO of @wearebanked, who unveils the secrets of being a good #leader, and most importantly, a good #mentor, despite all odds and self-doubt. #fintech #payment #platform #technology #cto bit.ly/3q4zbjY

“we have Mads Mikkelson lined up to play Santa” I’m IN

In the lounge at Heathrow sitting next to two movie producers and they’ve discussing a new movie one of them is making “A band of mecnaries take a wealthy family hostage without realising who the father is, who’ll stop at nothing to get them back… Santa Claus”

Chekhov’s Pun: a pun no one understands until you explain it later on through a call back joke

it should be socially acceptable to retweet your own tweets that you thought were under appreciated in their time

an app for horsegirls where they swipe up watching never ending short videos of horses, called Clip Clop

is this the prelude to a terribly predictable romcom where, joined by naught but a surname and an email we fall in love before splitting up bitterly over the configuration of mx records? less "you've got mail" and more "it took you 10 fucking years to respond to that mail?!"

"the domain is not for sale" and so our decade long dance moves into an exciting, new and yet enigmatic phase.

one of my life’s great disappointments is not being able to come up with a sufficiently good tweet based on the idea of “a telltale blart” a goth horror sequel to paul blart mall cop

@Superhuman please chill with the video backgrounds at inbox zero, they're SUPER distracting. at least give me a way of turning them off

for like the twentieth time in my career an api call, two cli commands and some awk saved me from needing to spend $10k+ on a saas product

so given the stadia news today, i think i was broadly wrong about stadia and it's importance to google, but i think i was on the money in the thread about why they did it and why it failed

“i could murder a brew” but you’re in Canary Wharf: ✅ little science beakers ✅ loose leaf “artisanal” tea ✅ a piece of dry ice in the strainer to make it smoke for literally no reason whatsoever ✅ £9.50 lmao

@jesslynnrose @RealCliveBarker You might know this one already but the Murderbot Diaries are great!

globally normalising compensation is like putting on the hiring infinity gauntlet. massively juicing your ability to hire great people quickly is worth orders of magnitude more than the extra few weeks of runway

i mean, i get it, capitalism is gonna capitalism and we all get our solid gold toilets by exploiting the labour of the proletariat, but my argument is that it's not even the best Way To Do Capitalism™

paying global remote engineers doing the same job differently based on local salary levels is a sign you see technology primarily as a cost centre and not a value creator, which is indicative of a bad culture and people should be wary of working for you send tweet