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  • Aug 15, 2016

    The Terraform team at @hashicorp should really close _just one_ issue: https://t.co/o4L9WFgB95

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  • Aug 15, 2016

    I am just epically bad at mornings. Giant blundering disaster. It’s time for me to give up.

  • Aug 12, 2016

    “@googledocs Drawings does not support lossless export, so despite its excellent usability & collaboration features, it is not recommended.”

  • Aug 12, 2016

    Oh wow the upcoming @OmniGraffle 7 looks fantastic!

    Includes some huge features I’ve wanted for a long time!

    😎💪

    omnigroup.com/omnigraffle/pr…

  • Aug 12, 2016

    Just posted a photo instagram.com/p/BJAj7ImDJ-D/

  • Aug 11, 2016

    Loving the high energy excited vibe of @Werner at #AWSSummit NYC!

  • Aug 11, 2016

    I’m at #AWSSummit NYC and @Werner just announced a new load balancer service: ALB, Application Load Balancers, for fine-grained balancing. 😎

  • Aug 10, 2016

    Just wrote my first Node.js code with ES6 features. Not bad!

  • Aug 9, 2016

    twitter.com/benjancewicz/s…

    Dammit, we need to fix *elections* in the US before we can fix anything else!

  • Aug 8, 2016

    There are not enough facepalm emojis in the world for a day wherein I need to work with Google APIs.

  • Aug 4, 2016

    I’m feeling _really_ good about the toolset we’re using in engineering at @ParkAssist these days! (PT we’re hiring!) https://t.co/36wpJONpR1

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  • Aug 4, 2016

    Nothing puts a smile on my face quite like driving a sporty convertible on back roads on a beautiful sunny day.

  • Aug 3, 2016

    New post: Code Review Rant

    aviflax.com/post/code-revi…

  • Aug 3, 2016

    Code Review Rant

    I originally posted this rant on our internal message board at Park Assist as a response to one of my coworker’s comments. They were concerned that using “Pull Requests” to facilitate, encourage, and propagate code review as a practice would yield a rigid, costly, contentious, and costly process.

    …more…
  • Jul 25, 2016

    Hey, I’ve contributed something (minor) to @apachekafka!

    github.com/apache/kafka/c…

  • Jul 22, 2016

    I’ve been thinking about migrating my (insignificant) blog to a platform that doesn’t support comments, but just now got a useful comment. 🤔

  • Jul 20, 2016

    “US air strike in Syria kills nearly 60 civilians ‘mistaken for Isil fighters’”

    telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/07/1…

    Fucking horrible. Fuck. Fuck!

  • Jul 20, 2016

    Notes from the First Kafka Summit

    I learned a lot at the first Kafka Summit, organized by Confluent, and I’d love to try to share some of what I learned. This is a repost from the internal tech blog at Park Assist, and it’s a bit out of date as the conference was in April, but I figure it might have some value to someone stumbling across it.

    …more…
  • Jul 13, 2016

    Just discovered a new favorite Dewey Decimal classification: 303.483. And 303.484! What a shelf.

  • Jul 7, 2016

    Seriously, “architecting” is not a word. The verb is “design”.

  • Jul 7, 2016

    I’m deeply disturbed by the killings of Alton Sterling and Philando Castile by the police offices who were charged with protecting them.

  • Jun 30, 2016

    Goofballs instagram.com/p/BHR-PJHjQmA/

  • Jun 30, 2016

    This was totally unintentional! instagram.com/p/BHR926-jfGv/

  • Jun 30, 2016

    I’m no expert, but when the media reports on financial anxiety, doesn’t that amplify the anxiety?

    Related: npr.org/sections/money…

  • Jun 28, 2016

    WIRED: What’s your SpaceX then?

    Sanghvi: ”I don’t know yet, if I did I would be doing it.”

    ❤️💪🤘

    wired.com/2014/12/ruchi-…

  • Jun 28, 2016

    Only Human: I Thought the Truth Would Be Enough

    Illuminating and inspiring!

    overcast.fm/+FN4a8doRE

  • Jun 24, 2016

    Appalling email from the vultures at @QuickenLoans:

    “Turmoil in Europe means opportunity in America” https://t.co/RaqpN2xas4

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  • Jun 24, 2016

    Wow, I was so corny 3 years ago. https://t.co/8oXXQub8wA

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  • Jun 24, 2016

    My kingdom for some emotional intelligence!

  • Jun 23, 2016

    My favorite screen in Instagram. ❤️😍❤️😍❤️ instagram.com/p/BHAMr18MCdn/

  • Jun 23, 2016

    Greenwich! @ Greenwich, Connecticut instagram.com/p/BHAMkFRsCdJ/

  • Jun 23, 2016

    Greenwich! @ Greenwich, Connecticut instagram.com/p/BHAMguHsCc8/

  • Jun 23, 2016

    Greenwich! @ Greenwich, Connecticut instagram.com/p/BHAJqyjsCWY/

  • Jun 20, 2016

    All the ACs were turned off at the office today. My brain shut down due to thermal overload. FML.

  • Jun 20, 2016

    Just heard “Come Down” by Anderson Paak for the 1st time, then some frenzied Googling turned this up:

    republicordeath.wordpress.com/tag/jewish-mus…

    WTF, Monday?

  • Jun 20, 2016

    TIL: emoji-driven development is pretty 💩

  • Jun 16, 2016

    🤓 CSP in the small, CSP in the large? 🤔

  • Jun 8, 2016

    Sweet! Just bought a ticket to @strangeloop_stl!

  • May 26, 2016

    Folks at @ServerlessConf keep presenting the benefits of #serverless — great, but let’s discuss the trade offs as well!

  • May 24, 2016

    Please help me fund The Small Silver Speedster: A Father/Daughter/Car Story — only 7 days left! kck.st/1TpOpmi

  • May 20, 2016

    Koenigsegg camless engine! Super cool!

    gtspeed.us/2016/01/09/the…

    /via @octothorpe

  • May 18, 2016

    Amazing statue of Kafka!

    thisiscolossal.com/2016/05/a-rota…

  • May 18, 2016

    Great news: US overtime pay rules are being adjusted for inflation, finally!

    news.google.com/news/m/more?nc…

  • May 17, 2016

    TIL:

    “The WHATWG recommends just using the term URL instead of URI.”

    FTW!

    news.ycombinator.com/item?id=117153…

  • May 16, 2016

    Dammit, I really need to learn how to type. Maybe before I hit 40… 22 months to go.

  • May 15, 2016

    Conked out. @ Forest Hills, New York instagram.com/p/BFcdY87MCWP/

  • May 10, 2016

    JQ is really nice for working with ElasticSearch:

    $ curl -s localhost:9200/indx/type/_search jq -r ‘.hits.hits map(._id) join(“n”)’

  • May 5, 2016

    Why the hell does Outlook for Mac have its own custom windowing system? What were they thinking?

  • May 5, 2016

    BTW, I’ve been maintaining a reading list on stream data transport and processing:

    gist.github.com/aviflax/7f453a…

    (Warning: Kafka-centric. TODO!)

  • May 4, 2016

    I just backed The Small Silver Speedster: A Father/Daughter/Car Story on @kickstarter kck.st/1WCpdOK

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