John Contad ᜉᜎ᜔o
@JohnContad
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the car is on fire and there is no driver at the wheel
Australia
Joined October 2012
I wrote about our year of running Kubernetes as a product and policy driver, on starting principles of empathy, mentorship, and a belief that we can drive change. https://t.co/kXo43NZsBd
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Update: A Threat Actor claims to have completely compromised Uber - they have posted screenshots of their AWS instance, HackerOne administration panel, and more. They are openly taunting and mocking @Uber.
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Come hang with us in @infracoders Melbourne in Aug 9! I'll be talking about using Github as a mechanism to argue about software well. Or having an existential crisis. Probably both. https://t.co/p69Jo0MSw4
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Quick questions about Nut Bush City Limits: - Why does Australia have a specific dance for it? - How does everybody know how to dance to it???
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💥 Hi! we have an exciting announcement to share!💥 We are Rebranding! Over the next few days, we will be relaunching as DevOps Represent. We will become a community for all marginalised genders in technology (not just women). Read our blog about it: https://t.co/TIm6PXqzyP
devopsrepresent.medium.com
DevOps Girls started 5 years ago with a small group of people seeking to teach skills to women in technology who sought it out. We have had…
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LAPSUS$ extortion group claims to have breached @Okta. They have released 8 photos as proof. The photos we are sharing has been edited so no sensitive information or user identities are displayed. Image 1 - 4 attached below.
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Oh man, if this it what it looks (Okta got popped)… Blue Team everywhere is gonna be crazy busy.
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badly implemented #SRE is basically like hey homes, we have this set of life-intrusive, health-adverse, psychologically exhausting work that we want only a few of us to do buuuut it pays more and we just kind of accept it
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Cisco is offering Splunk $20 billion... Unclear if they're trying to buy the company, or just renew their subscription for another year.
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"How's life going?" Me: ⬛🟨🟨🟨🟨 ⬛🟨🟨🟨🟨 🟨🟨🟨🟨🟨 🟨🟨🟨🟨🟨 🟨🟨🟨🟨🟨 🟨🟨🟨🟨🟩
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because it's immutable and all it should be called Web 3.0: You Can (Not) Redo
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In this talk #LCA2022 talk, I'm either unpacking practical examples of community gardening in tech and creating simple comms/decision pathways in software orgs. OR channeling existential angst. You, uh, decide.
#lca2022 @JohnContad Engineering Kindness
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Mad props to the organizers of #LCA2022 - one of the best experiences I've had as a speaker. Everybody was thorough, kind, and considerate throughout the whole thing. Like a well-oiled, supportive machine. <3
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if you go to @linuxconfau , you'll get to watch me try to unpack community gardening in tech, or have an existential crisis on camera (more likely, happened lots of times before) here's the references card if you're curious on what the content might be
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I find Ubiquitous Language workshops to be highly important in software, but damn if it doesn't leave me in a state of arguing afterwards. like what are "chores" really and are they time-bound
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when our 10-year shell-only sysadmin finally commits some typescript after a month of giving him the space, books, and shape of work to get him started yo it's pretty hype
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We loved this write up from @WomensAgenda on the courage of #whistleblower and now #ethics advocate, Erika Cheung. https://t.co/XJzezDCfHX
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it's either i'm down with the youth or i'm the lamest dang engineering manager ever i'm guessing it's the latter
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