Alex Smith
@alexjs
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Merry Christmas. Over the last month I published a daily video advent calendar for nerds - 24 Days of Cloud Ready. It's my first YouTube project, and webdev in ~10 years. Thanks to @kaihendry and many others for feedback on the videos.
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Due to a December-flu I'm still catching up - but videos 1 through 18 are done, and 19 through 24 are in edit. I'll publish them to YouTube so if you subscribe you'll be notified -
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Building and presenting content is one of the best parts of my role. I've put together some notes on how to effectively present and avoid pitfalls common with technical content:
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Recently I’ve had many conversations with colleagues about how to be more effective when presenting technical content. There’s no magic, but here are a few tips I learned in my time pre…
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LOCKDOWN ALCOHOLICS: replace "too hungover for breakfast or lunch" with "intermittent fasting" to pretend to have your life together and lord it over banana bread baking quarantine triathletes (@TwopTwips).
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Trying to find the right (retrofit) smart lock for my new home reminds me why I hate home automation and want everything to be manual. (But an actual key lock will undoubtedly result in me spending more on locksmiths, so. ).
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For those wondering, I have never been threatened with a form of torture that violates the Geneva Convention during a conference call. (Desperately blinks 'help' in morse code, cc @HanyAzzam).
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Theory: Wow, waterproof Bluetooth earbuds! I can listen to music in the shower!.Reality: Apologising to colleagues as you accidentally answer a call in the shower and it sounds like you're being waterboarded. sorry.
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Me watching latest ST Disco Episode: "Ah, I knew it'd be evil AI all along!".Also me: "Hey Cortana, please take over everything related to my calendar forever". (Ps, if anyone wants to skip the waitlist, DM me.).
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Singapore specific tumblr idea: pictures of expats in business suits looking frustrated as they try to overtake a crowd of people, while riding on an e-scooter or unicycle.
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Hi. Looking at you, @Valentine.
Stop it. No more 'my new years resolution is 1024x768'. No more 'loading 2012 99.9%'. No. Bad.
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Feeling personally attacked that Spotify’s “Guilty Pleasures” playlist I subscribed to today almost perfectly mirrors my “2018 Most Played” playlist. .
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Nothing like post production outage adrenaline to make sure you definitely can’t sleep until gone 0300.
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The old question of team level calendar sharing, and whether I should mark events as private for pride reasons.
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In my first week at Microsoft, my manager taught me something. After 7pm the stairwell doors are locked (from the stairwell side). This weekend I have learned it is 7pm Friday until 7am Monday. And that our office has a lot of stairs between the 21st floor and the 1st floor.
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Is a day really a day if you don’t get into a fight about whether the Isle of Man is a country? Albeit this time it was with the guy from Nas Daily so I tend to trust him more than me.
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Actually, I suppose if we'd argued the 'cake' angle, we could've been hit by /
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A Conservative MP who was famously tricked into condemning a made up drug called “Cake” has been put in charge of the Committee which will debate the Government’s new proposed drugs policy.
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A Christmas parcel from my parents has been rejected at customs because it contained illicit substances. In this case: "biscuits". We tried to argue that Jaffa Cakes are not biscuits, but I feel this was not an argument the importation authority was interested in.
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