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@sogrady

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helped found @redmonk . if you see someone at a tech conference wearing a Red Sox hat, that's probably me. wrote @newkingmakers . married to @girltuesday . eph.

the great state of maine
Joined December 2006
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i don’t know who needs to hear this, but if you put your silverware into the dishwasher in the exact same sequence as they are arranged in the drawer, unloading goes a lot faster
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what sorcery is this?
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steve o'grady
3 years
action shot of @blairbraverman writing up her response to this question
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When a woman's solo backpacking drove a wedge in her relationship with her boyfriend, she reached out to our Tough Love columnist @blairbraverman for advice. Braverman didn't mince words.
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8 years
as true today as it was when @GreatDismal wrote it:
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5 years
if you really want to celebrate the irish today, how about making sure that your app can handle the apostrophe in my last name?
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steve o'grady
5 years
i don't even care if the analogy works, this animation must be shared
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Jared Palmer
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Modern web development
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4 years
so i’m willing to go along with the the AWS preference for “ah-mee” over “A-M-I” *if* AWS is now prounced as “ah-wiss.” other newly corrected pronounciations: * AKS: ack-sss * RDS: arrrd-sss * EC2: eck-two * ECS: eck-sss * ML: mull * QLDB: quill-dub * VPC: vee-pick
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steve o'grady
3 years
was helping a friend with a resume last night. his was in great shape, fortunately, and didn't need much from me, but i gave him the same spiel i give to everyone i help work on them anyway. thought it might worth sharing here, so it's 🧵time. /1
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steve o'grady
5 years
i, for one, welcome our new educated raccoon overlords
@ArkansasOnline
AR Democrat-Gazette
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VIDEO: Multiple raccoons take over the library at Arkansas State »
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3 years
my dad died on monday morning. these are some of the lessons he taught me that i've been thinking about this week.
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steve o'grady
5 years
The Cloud and Open Source Powder Keg
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11 months
wondering whether you've open sourced your project? this flow chart's for you.
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1 year
i've had some non-tech folks asking me about mastodon recently and whether they should sign up. many of you might be in the same boat tomorrow during thanksgiving. my answer to them is no, i wouldn't sign up. not right now anyway. quick 🧵on why.
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steve o'grady
3 years
@abbyfuller the idea that someone harrassing you should have any expectations of privacy whatsoever is baffling to me
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steve o'grady
3 years
the hardest thing for most engineers to grapple with is the idea that not only doesn't the best tech win every time, it doesn't win most of the time
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@sogrady This is maybe THE hardest thing to get across to the entrepreneurial engineers at @106miles . They always think "If you build it they will come".
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steve o'grady
6 years
i will not get sucked in to an OSS licensing debate while on vacation i will not get sucked in to an OSS licensing debate while on vacation i will not get sucked in to an OSS licensing debate while on vacation
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steve o'grady
1 year
related question if you work from home: is it going to be ok if my cat performatively, loudly and vociferously vomits directly behind me while i’m filming a video segment with a customer?
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Before adopting a cat, ask yourself: do I need more vomit in my life? Am I satisfied with my current level of effluvia?
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steve o'grady
3 years
if people helped you coming up, pay it forward. if no one reached out a hand to help, remember how that felt and be the person you wish had been there for you. either way, if you've made it up, you have one obligation: send the elevator back down.
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Corey Quinn
3 years
It wasn’t just luck alone; it was also people doing me favors when they absolutely had no reason to do so. You can’t ever repay debts like that, you can only pay them forward.
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steve o'grady
6 years
37 year old rockets 13 billion miles away controlled by software written in assembler that no one had looked at in decades
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Hilary Mason
6 years
This is amazing engineering work. Voyager 1 Fires Up Thrusters After 37 Years:
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steve o'grady
3 years
to the young people who’ve been told to work weekends: just a heads up that it’s a lot easier to spend weekends with friends when you’re young than when you’re older and people have more responsibilities, move away and so on. you won’t get that time back or that chance again.
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steve o'grady
4 years
on this date in 1969, IBM accidentally created the commercial software industry
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steve o'grady
2 years
if your believe in crypto survives this piece you may be in a cult
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brendandburns
2 years
This is an important read wrt crypto and web3: cc @kelseyhightower h/t @markrussinovich for the pointer
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steve o'grady
6 years
there’s no SRE job more stressful than infrastructure outages at home when you’re traveling but the family’s at home trying to watch movies
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steve o'grady
5 years
The Cyclical Theory of Open Source
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5 years
best explanation i've seen
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steve o'grady
3 years
Hilary is a lot kinder than i am, and this is the charitable interpretation. another is that if you’ve convinced yourself that engineering, say, is the only thing that matters and marketing is useless you don’t actually understand how things work but haven’t realized that yet.
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Hilary Mason
3 years
Gave this advice today and wanted to repeat it here. If you think an entire job function (marketing, HR, engineering managers, etc.) is useless, you've most likely never seen it done well. The company you work at now is not what good looks like. Go out and find excellence.
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steve o'grady
6 years
The RedMonk Programming Language Rankings: January 2018
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steve o'grady
6 years
OH from our local tech slack after telling someone that @jessfraz runs Fi on an iPhone: “look just because a literal wizard can do it doesn’t mean I’m about to try”
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steve o'grady
4 years
this is exemplary corporate behavior. well done, microsoft.
@Carnage4Life
Dare Obasanjo🐀
4 years
This is a thoughtful move on Microsoft's part and I hope every major tech company in the Seattle area that's asking employees to work from home also takes into account the hourly employees who could be impacted (e.g. cafeteria workers) & makes them whole.
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many years ago on this day - more than @monkchips or i are willing to admit - @redmonk was incorporated. we’re grateful to still be a thing, for our team and for all of the incredible, humbling support we get from our community. we wouldn’t be here without you all. thank you.
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if you can't trust your people to work from home, either you hired the wrong people or the problem is you
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. @wsj wants to make sure nobody is having too much fun working from home
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maine: where we only have one area code and the local paper welcomes you home
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Portland Press Herald
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@sogrady Welcome home!
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steve o'grady
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really appreciate everyone checking in tonight, and i can report that my family and friends are safe. my heart breaks for lewiston. it's fog of war right now and very little has been confirmed, but all early indications suggest that this shooting is beyond horrific.
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steve o'grady
3 years
my fall plans. the delta variant.
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steve o'grady
10 years
this is inarguably the best olympics gif ever: http://t.co/hYeDFYCwFK
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steve o'grady
2 years
sorry everyone, it's been real. good luck with the software and cloud and licenses and everything. i'm off to meet my destiny.
@danprimack
Dan Primack
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Job posting of the day: Green Monster Scoreboard Operator - Boston Red Sox (BOSTON · MA)
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Hi, I’m an industry analyst. You may know me from….actually, you know what? You almost certainly don’t know me. I've been doing this for over twenty years, and my own parents don’t know what I do.
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steve o'grady
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DataStax CEO: who increasingly has the most influence over database selection? Analyst sitting next to me: CIOs CEO: developers
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steve o'grady
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never met @dakami , but based on all of the stories being told, i really wish i had. he did work that literally saved the internet, yet all that people who knew him want to talk about is how kind he was. can't think of a better model for how to conduct yourself professionally.
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steve o'grady
2 years
WHAT YOU SAY: "i'm so sorry to have to cancel this call at the last minute, please accept my sincere apologies." WHAT I HEAR: "good news! i come bearing the greatest gift there is: free time back in your schedule."
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steve o'grady
9 months
everyone i know who has worked on calendaring apps eventually became sad they worked on calendaring apps
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Calendaring app. Bless y'all who make them, but I think I'd rather work at In N Out.
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steve o'grady
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was hoping Bruce Schneier would pen the definitive piece on why the TSA's approach is pointless. he didn't disappoint: http://nyti.ms/h1H0vO
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steve o'grady
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for anyone out there that is beginning to lose hope in the ongoing avalanche of bad, worse and worst news, i get it. the situation is bad, not going to get better soon, and will get worse.
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ok, as promised and at long last, it's time for the @monktoberfest talk drops to commence. first out of the chute is a talk that, speaking candidly, i was surprised and pleased that our speaker agreed to give.
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the term "open source" matters and is worth defending
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What is one opinion you will defend like this?
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steve o'grady
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today is a stain on the United States of America that can never be removed, and one of the darkest days of my lifetime
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October is now BGP Awareness Month.
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what you get your wife for her birthday when she's not a big fan of beards. and before someone asks, no, i got her actual presents as well. much as it usually appears otherwise, i'm not a total idiot.
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steve o'grady
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this is what we should be hearing from current Republican elected officials, but at least a past one is willing to stand and be counted. thank you, @schwarzenegger .
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Arnold
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My message to my fellow Americans and friends around the world following this week's attack on the Capitol.
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steve o'grady
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“daddy, i don’t want you to go away.” “i know little bear, i don’t want me to go either.” “will you take tiana with you?” “yes.” “and take pictures of her adventures?” “yes. i will.”
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steve o'grady
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still waiting on an explanation for why every conference isn't in vancouver
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steve o'grady
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TODDLER: i love you daddy ME: aw, thanks bear TODDLER: you are not pretty or gorgeous or lovely ME: i am not, that's true TODDLER: no, you are old and beat up ME: i, uh...thanks? TODDLER: you're welcome
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steve o'grady
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three years ago as of 8:33 this morning, my life changed when this fierce little creature arrived
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steve o'grady
4 years
if you were wondering what a Han dynasty Chinese general and the June 23, 1969 unbundling of IBM software and hardware have to do with competing with AWS, this piece is for you
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steve o'grady
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the bad news is that i had to leave duckbill / redmonk beers woefully early. the good news is that i’m on my way home for the seven year old’s birthday. thanks everyone for coming out tonight.
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steve o'grady
3 years
NARRATOR: the engineers were successful
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steve o'grady
1 year
i've been saying this for a long time, but was told last week that it qualifies as a hot take. for whatever it's worth, though, i don't believe it's possible to be a legitimate full stack engineer for applications of even moderate complexity in 2023.
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steve o'grady
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in case anyone missed it, the new programming language rankings are up. java folks will be excited; dart too. julia fans, not so much. go/kotlin/rust/typescript people will be more like "meh." anyway, enjoy.
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steve o'grady
3 years
in the interest of not burying the lede, it is my sad duty to report that as of this morning, @redmonk has officially cancelled the 2021 @monktoberfest .
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steve o'grady
3 years
i'm mad at the unvaccinated generally, but particularly pissed today
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steve o'grady
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pretty much:
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steve o'grady
9 years
new post | “The Software Paradox - Available Now”: http://t.co/MhE64KDtCm
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steve o'grady
4 years
so if you maintain an OSS project, are thinking about maintaining a project or if you rely on OSS projects and need to understand the challenges of running them (most of you, in other words) watch @hadleywickham talk about his letter to a young maintainer
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steve o'grady
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you may not be able to do what someone else can do, but that’s not what’s important. what’s important is what you can do that they can’t. too many people obsess over the former when they should be focused on the latter.
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steve o'grady
3 years
we don't say this all that often at @redmonk , but we're hiring. if you think you're a fit for an entry level analyst role, we'd love to hear from you. RT's welcome! spread the word far and wide.
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steve o'grady
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apis were almost copyrightable
@MorningBrew
Morning Brew ☕️
3 years
Write a horror story for your industry using just four words
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steve o'grady
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merry christmas
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how it started how it's going
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steve o'grady
4 years
as promised, the @redmonk Q1 Programming Language Rankings are now live. check them out below. in the meantime, please go thank the good folks at @mongodb for sponsoring these. we can't do what we do without help.
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steve o'grady
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without IVF, i have no daughter. alabama can fuck off.
@LaurenBerson
Lauren Berson Sugarman
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the suspension of IVF in Alabama rn should be highly concerning to anyone who plans to have a baby in the future in America. we are really in dangerous territory. 1 in 5 need fertility treatment like IVF...without it...
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steve o'grady
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ME: where are your pants? FIVE YEAR OLD: do you like wearing pants? ME: touché 5YO: what’s touché? ME: it’s a term from sword fighting 5YO: GREAT I’LL GO GET MY SWORD [runs off] ME: that’s not what i- 5YO: AND I’M GOING TO WIN WITH NO PANTS
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steve o'grady
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my mom got her second dose of the pfizer vaccine today. thank you to every scientist and researcher who worked around the clock for a year to make this possible. thank you for protecting my mom and so many others.
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steve o'grady
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@abbyfuller i can't believe you're still dealing with this. your patience is as inexplicable as it is legendary.
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steve o'grady
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we’ve been telling open source projects that were commercial or had ambitions to be that they needed to have a managed service implementation for a while now. they used to tell us, in so many words, that it was too hard, they’d get to it later. no one says that anymore.
@kelseyhightower
Kelsey Hightower
3 years
In the future open source projects will launch with managed services in addition to source code and instruction manuals. @letsencrypt set the bar.
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steve o'grady
4 years
whatever else you had on your plate, your number one task today is to go wish @monkchips a happy birthday
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steve o'grady
4 years
i was a college student once, and so i feel qualified to say that this is not going to end well
@PressHerald
Portland Press Herald
4 years
U.S. colleges are requiring promises from students to help contain the coronavirus – no keg parties, no long road trips and no outside guests on campus.
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steve o'grady
2 years
anyone have suggestions on how to get through a eulogy for a loved one without breaking down?
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steve o'grady
4 years
i don't hate clocks going back. i don't hate clocks going forward. i hate clocks going, period. just pick one and be done with it. i don't care which as long as we never change it again.
@yashar
Yashar Ali 🐘
4 years
So many people get this mixed up. If you hate that clocks are going back one hour tonight that means you don’t want daylight saving time to end. It means you love daylight saving time and hate standard time which is what we’re switching to.
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steve o'grady
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i have thoughts
@kelseyhightower
Kelsey Hightower
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It's official. HashiCorp joins IBM.
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steve o'grady
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open source was more convenient than proprietary software because you could just download it. cloud is more convenient than on prem open source because there’s nothing to download. this is why we’ve been pushing OSS vendors to offer managed services for well over a decade.
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@[email protected] 🐍🦀🐪💎☕️🐧🐘🌲
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For me, the details of "packaging" and "convenience" when it comes to software have changed radically over the past 20 years. It was packaging software digitally, moulding plastic data discs, putting those in cardboard boxes for shelves at bookstores...
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steve o'grady
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i've been saying for a while - both publicly and privately - that one of the inevitable consequences of the drift away from pure OSS licenses and models would be a fork from a sufficiently interested party. not if, when. well, when just became today.
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steve o'grady
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@bridgetkromhout @abbyfuller @rakyll i don't use it that much, but when i have @ftrain 's polite person's trick is remarkably effective
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steve o'grady
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ME: ok, how’s that for a Mother’s Day plan? FIVE YEAR OLD: sounds great! she’ll love it! now when is Children’s Day? ME: uh, Children’s Day? 5YO: yeah, you know, a day to celebrate the Children? why do parents gets days but not kids? ME: i. um. well. 5YO: i’m waiting.
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steve o'grady
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i really feel like it should be illegal to offer this for sale two miles from our house and right on the way to daycare dropoff. i mean really, i'm supposed to drive by this every day and *not* buy it?
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steve o'grady
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as we’ve told the 100+ @redmonk clients that have been acquired by larger companies over the years, the product is important, but sales comp plans will be what determines your success or failure in the new org.
@Carnage4Life
Dare Obasanjo🐀
3 years
Slack joins Apple on the list of companies that took out a newspaper ad to sarcastically welcome an incumbent into their market only to lose to them. Unfortunately when it comes to enterprise, sales teams beat good user experience 9 times out of 10.
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steve o'grady
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old office building got sold, so @redmonk 's now subletting space from a local startup. location's decent.
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steve o'grady
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this is insane. the level of athleticism and training that goes into something like this is incomprehensible.
@bubbaprog
Timothy Burke
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Simone Biles, in extreme slow motion.
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steve o'grady
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best manager i ever had sent me home early on a friday to watch a @redsox afternoon playoff game. in return for that 3 or 4 hours off she probably got something like fifty from me in late nights and early mornings.
@kellabyte
Kelly Sommers
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You know how to get the most production? Reduce stress levels. Best manager I ever had in my career established strong trust with me in both directions. He deflected stress even when company around us laid off count 90% (yes 90%). He was my shield. I coded my ass off for him.
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steve o'grady
3 years
as if today wasn’t positive enough comes word that my parents are scheduled for the vaccine a week from today
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steve o'grady
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The RedMonk Programming Language Rankings: January 2020
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